> I've died a hand full of times now. Some of those bosses just had me ripping my
> hair out. That friggin' spider ball boss was such a shit.

It seems more difficult, but some bosses in Metroid Prime had me ripping my hair out too, like the ice monster and that thing where you have to blow off different parts of its armor and then hunt it down with a certain visor and kick its ass with a certain weapon, and do all that shit over again.

I haven't encountered anything that bad in Metroid Prime 2 yet, but I'm only as far as beating that worm thing attached to a ball of dark matter or whatever. As you can tell I don't read anything I scan.

I haven't gotten the spider ball yet, but I guess I'll see when that happens! Would you say the game is longer than the original?