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If there’s one thing in anyMetroidgame that has the most impact on whether you’ll survive to the end, it’s the number of Energy Tanks you collect. There are always a few softballs, but finding every single one takes a bit of sleuthing. Some require puzzles, and some require backtracking, destroying objects, ordiscovering secrets.
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InMetroid Prime Remastered, there are 14 Energy Tanks in total. This is fewer than the usual 20, but still enough to make collecting them challenging. Here’s the location of every Energy Tank in the game and how to get them, in order of appearance.
Chozo Ruins: Transport Access North
Abilities needed: None (Miniboss Reward)
Immediately after defeating theHive Totemto get the missile launcher,continue through the door into a small roomwith the first energy tank in the game, chilling over a pit of weeds.
Chozo Ruins: Furnace
Abilities Needed: Morph Ball Bomb
First, you have to solve theenergy core puzzleusing bombs. Detonate bombsin each bomb slot near thethreeterminals in this area before time runs out.
Once all the platforms are in place,wipe out the shriekbats and continue through the upper door.
Roll into theball tunnel to the right, then to the end of the tunnel floor, andbomb-jump up one levelto reach a hole in the wall. It’ll lead you to a small cavern with an energy tank floating in the middle.
Chozo Ruins: Main Plaza
Abilities Needed: Any
This one will taunt you from the start, but there’s nothing special to it. Themiddle doorout of the Magmoor Caverns North elevator roomwill lead youthrough The Vault.
Continuethrough the next tunnelon the other side, and you’ll open a door, walk right into the Energy Tank and fall out into the main plaza.
Magmoor Caverns: Transport Tunnel A
Abilities Needed: Morph Ball, Bomb
This is the ball corridor in Magmoor, between the Monitoring Station and the main elevator to Phendrana. On the first metal box you see,time your bombs just right to reach the surfaceup above. Move further along and repeat the process, then do it a third time to reach the Energy Tank.
Drop thefirstbomb, then anotherjust before the first goes off.Thenat thetop of the jump, drop yourthird. Do it right, and thesecond and third bombs will kick you into the air.
If you slide off the corner when you try to roll onto the next level, you may be jumping the gun.
Try not to touch the walls and only lean left when you’re at or near the top.
If you know immediately that your timing is off,roll away before the second bomb goes offso you don’t fall through.
There are a couple ofspots in this area to practice; use them to get your timing right.
Finally, if you’re losing too much health from hitting the lava, remember thatone elevator and two rooms away is the first Save Station in Phendrana.
Phendrana Drifts: Ruined Courtyard
Abilities Needed: Boost Ball, Bomb, Wave Beam
A support structure oneither end of the Ruined Courtyardhas a spinner.Each one also has a Spinner on it. Get into each one as a ball, and thenboost in the spinneruntil itcloses all the way.
A cutscene shows anoverhead spoutbeing uncovered. Go to the other side of the room andrepeat this with the other spinner, and another spout will open.
Jump up thesnowy columnsto themiddle-height platform with an active ball slot.If you can’t reach the ball slot, ensure the one you’re looking at is blue. The other side just has a hole with a yellow ring around it- that comes later.
Detonate a bomb in the ball slot, andwater will pour infrom the spouts above.
The smaller platforms will float.Use these to get across the room andinto the ball tunnel on the other side.
It is timed, and flickerbats are circling the areathat can hurt you or even knock you into the water.
Phendrana Drifts: Research Lab Aether
Abilities Needed: Missile, Wave Beam
When you reach the bottom level ofResearch Lab Aether,One of the capsules builthalfway into the wallcontains an Energy Tank.
It’s on theopposite sideof the roomfrom the mini-elevator,near the cluster of control panels.Hit it with a missile. Smash and grab.
Magmoor Caverns: Magmoor Workstation
Abilities Needed: Wave beam, Thermal Visor, Morph Ball
There arethree doorsaround this room’s ground floor- one has an Energy Tank in it, but they’re all locked, and there’slava flowing under them.There’s a big,cylindrical machineas well. Scan that; it’ll tell you it’s not receiving any power, but there arethree conduitsin the room.
Switch on your thermal visorand find the three conduits - they’reall next to the doors.
Once the machine is powered on, one of the doors will rise, and thelava in the tunnel connected to it will cool,meaning you can traverse it as a morph ball.
Jump into theoctagonal openingthat leads under the metal grate anddodge the triclops to get to the newly-cooled tunnel.Roll into the small room, stand up, andscan the screen on the far wall.
Anotherpath to another door will cool.Leave this room as a ball and dodge the triclops again toget to the second path.
Get there, and you’ll findanother room with another screen.Scan that, andthe path to the Energy Tank cools,giving you access to it.
Leave androll out to the third and last pathway,under the security door, and hop onto the platform to grab the Energy Tank.
Chozo Ruins: Hall Of The Elders
Abilities Needed: Ice Beam
Above the Chozo statue on the back wall arethree morph ball slotsprotected bythe same beam-specific shield as the doors—one for the wave beam, one for the ice beam, and one for the plasma beam.
Use the ice beam on the white one in the middle,thendetonate a bomb in itto activate it.
The ancientmorph ball contraption will rotateso that the outcome is different.
Get into the Chozo’s handsand turn into a ball so he canbowl you through the tubesand send you into anunderground chamber containing an Energy Tank.
Tallon Overworld: Reactor Access
Abilities Needed: Missiles, Wave Beam, Gravity Suit (Recommended)
First, if you can get the gravity suit first, you should; otherwise, you’ll have to turn back after accessing the Energy Tank. Using the thermal visor and wave beam,find and power up the three conduitsto power up the door.
One conduit isimmediately left of the door; oneison the level below, and to the rightof where the door is. If you’relooking out from the door,the last one will bedown and to the right on the far wall.
With those open, you can access a Save Station and another door needing power. Switch on the thermal visor.They’re just above and to either side of the door.
Open it, and straight ahead will be a large metal box witha circular metal grate, like a window.Blast it with a missileand grab the Energy Tank inside.
Tallon Overworld: Hydro Access Tunnel
Abilities Needed: Bomb Ball, Gravity Suit
You’ll go through another ball tunnel as you leave the crashed frigate. Notice how you jump and fall slower, because of the water.There’s an Energy Tankup the first shaft, to the left.
At the bottom, bomb-jump.As you go up,drop another bomba ball-length or sobelow the top of that jump.If you get the rhythm right,each successive bombexplodes andsends you higher right as you drift back into it.
Do that a few times,then lean to the left at the topto grab the Energy Tank.
Phazon Mines: Ventilation Shaft
Abilities Needed: Power Bomb
Scan the large fan nearest the floor-level exit. When you scan, it’ll say it needs power, but don’t go looking for a conduit. Instead,drop a power bomb in the spot directly in front of the fan,and a ball corridor will open up.
Roll through it and pop outthe other end, and you’ll find yourself behind the fan, facing ascannable control panel.
Scan it, and a cutscene will play;the fan turns on, the gas dissipates,and the gassy enemiescrash through the ventilation grate on the other side,exposing another Energy Tank.
Chozo Ruins: Training Chamber
Abilities Needed: Boost Ball, Grapple Beam
The first time you reach this room, after defeating Chozo Ghosts,two morph ball slots will open upalong the center of each side of the half-pipe. One opens up the slot under a Chozo beak statue -that’s your exit,but don’t leave yet.
Boost over to the opposite side of the half-pipe and detonate a bomb in the other slot.A magnetic rail appears, along with a pistonthat will take you up to it.
Roll onto the piston before time runs outandspider-crawl along the railto reach a hideaway containing an Energy Tank.
Phendrana Drifts: Transport Access
Abilities Needed: Plasma Gun
This one has probably been taunting you for a while, as you’ll pass it several times before you’re able to break it out of the ice.Once you have theplasma beam, insta-thaw that icewith a hot blast of plasma andgrab the Energy Tank.
Phazon Mines Level 3: Processing Center Access
Abilities Needed: Any (Boss Reward)
Immediately after defeating the Omega Pirate,a small elevator takes you up to thecircular scaffolding above you.Past the red door at the end of the room on that level is an Energy Tank you may have seen if you tried to enter from Phazon Processing on the other side. Grab it andscan the console to complete the loopand reachthe end of the Phazon Mines area.
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