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· 27% game
TECHNIQUES
· Double bomb jump
· Triple bomb jump
· TBJ morph
· L-Lock the view
· L-Lock Spring Jump
SKIP ITEMS
· Thermal Visor
· Grapple Beam
· Gravity Suit
TRICKY ROOMS
· Reflecting Pool
· Elevator by Thardus
· Twin Fires Tunnel
· Ore Processing
· Phazon Processing
· Phendrana's Edge
· Metroid Quarantine B
· Fungal Hall A
· Fungal Hall B
BEFORE THARDUS
· Ice Beam
· Gravity Suit
· Plasma Beam
· Wavebuster
· Ice Spreader
· Flamethrower
· X-Ray Visor
MISCELLANIOUS
· Lifegiver > Gravity Suit
· Wave Beam early
· Space Jump early
· Skip Crashed Frigate
· Phazon > Gravity Suit
· Fight Ridley early
· Fight Flaahgra last?

SKIP THE THERMAL VISOR

(Thanks: Mayonnaise, Amasawa, etc)

When low % games were first being talked about, someone announced that the Thermal Visor isn't actually needed to beat the game. However, it seemed to be theory. Amasawa played through the game without it and the rest is history, 28% was the new low.

There's not much to skipping the Thermal Visor, you just don't get it; leave the pirate base after getting the Super Missile if you don't intend on getting the Ice Beam and Gravity Suit early. All of the power conduits in the game can be activated if you know where to shoot, and Thardus can be beaten by manual aiming (it's not really any harder).

Metroid Prime's second form can also be beaten without the visor. He eventually switches out of thermal view, although you can still damage him in it anyway, even if you can't see him.