Talk:Tallon IV

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Can someone confirm when the Chozo came/left in relation to the Phazon meteorite in in the European release? --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 07:37, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)

Y'see the european version is kinda vague with regards to the Chozo lore entries. I've transcribed all the chozo lore entries from the european version, you can get it from http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~rory/chozo-lore-eu.txt In short the EU version doesn't really say that the Chozo left. The only real way you know they are gone is that you don't meet them in the game. :) There are references to their vigilance crumbling and the last entry says they will be in the shrine, which is AFAIK the chozo temple in tallon overworld. As for when they arrived, the Chozo themselves don't even know! "The history of the Chozo stretches back into ancient times, so far into the fog of the past that we know not where out ancenstors came from."
Facinating. Well, since you're the one who went to all the trouble of compiling the entries, care to do the honors of adding the European version of the story to the article? :) --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 20:48, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)
Done. I spent a while typing those log entries from my TV screen only to discover several other version on the web. Typical! >:( ____Ebelular 21:23, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The omitted Chozo Lore entries really do add a whole lot to the game's mood, from what I've seen of them. Certainly more intersting than the fragments which crop up in the European version; I'd like to know why so many cuts were made (unlike, say, the Pirate entries, which had a plot inconsistency in them). Sockatume 23:23, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A friend and I write fanics together, and in doing so we rip the storylines of games to itty bitty pieces and stare at them for hours. She lives in England, I live in America, so we ran into the plot changes when we started getting into Metroid. The way we eventually figured, they did it becuase of some much subtler plot holes. Twenty years, for example, is probably not enough time for Phazon, even potent as it is, to have that much effect on Tallon IV. Besides that, why would the Chozo living on Tallon IV know so much about Samus, who was raised on Zebes? Sure, the planets seem to be in the same system, but unless Samus can time travel or was, say, put in crygenic suspention, it's a little far-fetched to say that the Tallon IV colonists knew her as the Zebesian Chozo did. The American Chozo lore ones do say a lot of interesting things about the Chozo – particularly about their relationship with Samus – but the information really doesn't fit that well into the plot of Metroid Prime. At least, that's the way we figured it. We like the European version of the story from both the Chozo and Space Pirate perspective better as far as overall cohesion goes, but we also think the cut Chozo Lore entires give a better insight to the Chozo themselves, especially the Zebsian Chozo who raised Samus. --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 01:14, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
Certainly explains a great deal of the Chozo Ghost stuff better, and personally I think even though it doesn't make sense, it's groovy to have Prime ripping up pirates and stealing their gear to give it its Wave/Power/Ice/Plasma Pirate-type abilities and such. If they can avoid having to make cuts like that for Prime II it certainly bodes well for the game's plot. Sockatume 00:28, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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In my opinion, a screenshot of the planet and one each for the missing areas will be enough --De Zeurkous (zeurkous@zeurcomp.nichten.info), Thursday February 8 17:24 UTC 2007

Though the areas without screenshots are a priority, I think the Magmoor caverns isn't very representative. The Space Pirate prescence was only a few rooms if I remember correctly. A shot of one of the rooms with the rocks in the lava and you have to grapple-beam across would be more evocative of the whole area. 75.82.135.167 09:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)LFStokols