Bryyo - Cliffside Airdock region

*broken link, standby

Being inspired by Gamemaker's Toolkit's first season of its mini-series Boss Keys, which is a series that looks into the design philosophies of Zelda dungeons in terms of layout, I decided to do something similarly for the Metroid series. This idea was fueled by things like item randomizer algorithms and 100%-speedruns, because I wanted to find a way to chart out the areas of Metroid in an attempt to facilitate pathing and maybe even help Metroid fangame makers to think about design and gating in their games.

Nostalgia hits me like a ton of bricks every time I replay these games...

Anyways, Corruption deals heavily with mission-based event flags, much like Fusion does.

Here's a condensed version of the above charts, showing what the whole of Aether and Dark Aether look like in terms of item dependencies: