Phazon Mines

Metroid Prime guide · Breaching heavily fortified pirate processing facilities to secure powerful munitions and retrieve the Phazon Suit ✓ Checked against sources

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Samus infiltrates an industrial complex where Space Pirates mine and refine mutagenic Phazon to breed bioweapons. You must bypass fortified security grids, power dynamos, and lab facilities while engaging specialized pirate units to secure heavy armaments. Delving into the lowest subterranean levels yields upgrades required to survive lethal toxic concentrations and clear the path to the crater.

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Secrets

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Missile Expansion in Security Access A | Detonate a Power Bomb against the cracked Bendezium wall segment to open a concealed chamber.

Key fights

Cloaked Drone

Enemies: Cloaked Drone

Threats: Rapid-fire automatic cannons, high mobility, and stealth camouflage that disrupts visor lock-on

Weaknesses and resistances: Wave Beam, Wavebuster, Super Missile

Tactics: Track its position via the muzzle flare of its weapons, maneuver to dodge incoming projectiles, and sweep the air with unguided Wave Beam fire or the auto-aiming Wavebuster

Rewards: Unlocks the Central Dynamo Morph Ball maze to claim the Power Bomb

Omega Pirate

Enemies: Omega Pirate, assorted Beam Troopers

Threats: Ground-slam seismic waves, absorption field that negates beam projectiles, Phazon mortar artillery, and cloaked self-repair

Weaknesses and resistances: Missiles and Super Missiles against armor plates; Super Missiles or Power Bombs against unarmored body

Tactics: Jump over expanding shock rings, blast the four glowing leg and shoulder plates with Super Missiles, eradicate the summoned Troopers, and switch to the X-Ray Visor to strike the invisible pirate as it attempts to siphon Phazon

Rewards: Phazon Suit

Enemies

Mega Turret

Weak to Super Missile

Upgraded pirate defense installation with thick armor that rapid-fires concentrated energy bolts.

Shadow Pirate

Weak to Thermal Visor

Melee-oriented infiltrator fitted with active-camo cloaking and arm scythes.

Wave Trooper

Weak to Wave Beam

Pirate combat trooper equipped with custom shielding completely invulnerable to all weapons except electrical frequencies.

Ice Trooper

Weak to Ice Beam

Elite infantry unit wrapped in thermal protection gear that can only be pierced by freezing temperatures.

Plasma Trooper

Weak to Plasma Beam

Heavily armed raider insulated against cold and electricity, destructible solely by high heat.

Elite Pirate

Weak to Super Missile

Massive mutant brute created through Phazon infusing that deploys energy absorbers and ground shockwaves.

Phazon Elite

Weak to Super Missile

Unusually lethal prototype Elite Pirate housed inside a research stasis cylinder.

Tips

Use the Thermal Visor to immediately spot cloaked Shadow Pirates before entering narrow rooms, and deploy Power Bombs as a panic button to wipe out groups of mixed Beam Troopers at once.

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