Acquiring new mobility skills is an integral aspect of the Metroidvania genre, prominently featured in MIO: Memories in Orbit. These abilities dictate your navigational options, influencing where you can venture and ensuring that players engage with challenges at the appropriate stage of gameplay.
In MIO: Memories in Orbit, the initial mobility skill worth unlocking is the ability to latch onto green crystals. This skill, referred to as the Hairpin, is essential for progressing through the game. Below, you’ll find a guide on how to attain this crucial hook skill.
Unlocking the Hairpin Ability (Hook Skill)
To gain access to the Hairpin ability and utilize the green crystals effectively, players must defeat Egis, an adversary in the game. Upon successfully overcoming this challenge, players will receive the Hairpin upgrade.
Following the upgrade installation by a relevant NPC, Mio will briefly fall unconscious. This transition activates a tutorial environment where players will undergo a small obstacle course designed to familiarize them with the Hairpin skill. Mastering this course is essential for moving forward in the game.
Finding Your Path to Egis
Your quest to obtain the Hairpin skill begins by taking the elevator to the top floor, known as the Apartments level. Once you arrive at the locked door leading to the Metropolis, look for a way downward and proceed along the path to the right.
As you navigate through the Spine level, you’ll come across another locked door, notably one featuring a hand trapped against it. Here, you need to unlock this door to free the robot named Rad, who, in gratitude, will present Mio with the Analyser modifier. This tool allows players to view enemy health during encounters, making combat more strategic.
Utilizing the Analyser modifier, which requires 5 slots in Mio’s module, is crucial for evaluating your combat capabilities against foes. You can modify abilities at an overseer dock, and once you free Rad, you’ll gain reaccess to the elevator leading back to the Apartments, streamlining your upgrade process.
After freeing Rad, proceed left and descend further in the pathway until you reach a large room that has an opportunity to advance downward. Follow this lower path until you find an opening to the right—be sure to avoid going down. You’ll encounter a destructible wall, which you can break to access the next area, accompanied by a Nacre Basin for healing before confronting the looming boss battle.
When you’re adequately prepared, descend once more into the boss fight arena against Egis.
Utilizing the shortcut you’ve previously unlocked can save time if your initial attempt against Egis doesn’t succeed. Fortunately, Egis presents predictable movements as a more manageable introductory boss, especially during phases of inactivity.
Upon successfully defeating Egis, continue downward and interact with the pipe in the next area. This will bestow upon Mio the Hairpin skill, enabling her to attach to the floating green crystals dispersed throughout the Ark, ultimately enhancing gameplay and mobility options.
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