Tourian entrance shaft

The "Tourian entrance shaft" is the first room in Tourian. It appears in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission, with differences between each version. A new version appears in Super Metroid.
==Description==
In all three games, this room serves as the entrance to Tourian. It is a shaft of varying length - it is longest in Metroid, and roughly the same size in Zero Mission and Super Metroid. In the former two games, it is accessed via elevator from Brinstar, while in Super Metroid the new Tourian is accessed from Crateria.
===Metroid===
===Zero Mission===
After Samus progresses through the door and a couple of rooms, she returns here through the lower half of the shaft. This half features elongated platforms, now metallic gray instead of blue, and they are arranged almost as if they are a staircase. Two or four Metroids (depending on the difficulty mode) are found here, as is a Zebesian's brittle husk at the bottom of the shaft. This room curiously remains intact after the destruction of Tourian, despite the base's explosion covering a rather large radius (as seen on the surface of Zebes).</onlyinclude>
===Super Metroid===
==Connecting rooms==
===Metroid===
*"Transport to Tourian" (via Elevator)
*"Tourian lava passage" (via Yellow Door in Metroid, Blue Door in Zero Mission)
===Zero Mission===
*Save Station 1 (Zero Mission, via Blue Door)
*"Entrance shaft access" (Zero Mission, via Blue Door)
===Super Metroid===
*Mysterious Statue Chamber (via Elevator)
*Tourian Save Station 1 (via Blue Door)
*"Metroid passage 1" (via Blue Door)
==Inhabitants==
*Metroid larva (6 in Metroid, 2-4 in Zero Mission)
*Rinkas (Zero Mission only)
On EasyCScottyW. "Metroid: Zero Mission 9% easy in 48:59". YouTube. October 10, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2022. and Normal Mode in Zero Mission, there are two Metroids, and on Hard Mode there are four.
==Official data==
===Metroid: Zero Mission: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide===
;202 DROP AND POP (page 74):"After one meeting with a Metroid, you'll come across two more in a short shaft. Descend slowly, wait for the Metroids to appear and take them on one at a time. Freeze them and blast them."
==Trivia==
*In Metroid: Zero Mission, using debug movement cheats, it is possible to bypass the floor/ceiling to enter a normally unreachable Blue Door from one side of the room (entering the top door near the elevator from the bottom shaft for example, and vice versa. In both instances, entering an unreachable Blue Door this way will return Samus back in front of the same door she entered.
*If from the elevator side and Samus passes below the floor, only the top portion of the room is displayed, with an invisible floor blocking the rest of the room.
==Gallery==
File:Tourian entrance shaft full view Metroid.png|Full view in Metroid.
File:Tourian entrance shaft full view MZM.png|Full view in Zero Mission.
File:Tourian entrance shaft full view SM.png|Full view in Super Metroid.
File:Tourian entrance shaft Victory Techniques for Metroid pages 168-169.png|Victory Techniques for Metroid pages 168-169.
File:Tourian entrance shaft Victory Techniques for Metroid pages 170-171.png|Victory Techniques for Metroid pages 170-171.
File:Tourian entrance shaft Victory Techniques for Metroid map.png|The room on a hand-drawn map in Victory Techniques for Metroid.
==References==
Category:Rooms
Category:Tourian
Category:Elevators