Routes

The major routes listed below are general routes used to beat the game. Many sequence breaks and tricks in Metroid Prime 2 can be easily added or removed when doing a speedrun, without majorly affecting the whole overall route. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the game's map.

Grapple-less Route

The Grapple-less route is the fastest route currently used. However, it is very difficult, requiring several more series of wallcrawls and, more notably, the notorious Grand Abyss trick to get Screw Attack without Grapple Beam.

It is not recommended to start with this route.

Grapple Beam Route

The Grapple Beam Route is the most commonly used route, as it does not require the one-shot trick to cross Grand Abyss. As the name implies, it involves going to lower Torvus after obtaining light and dark beam, to get Grapple Beam and the dark torvus key down there, then going to Sanctuary to get screw attack and return the Sanctuary energy.

Temple Grounds Start

• Do Item Loss Skip.
• Go to Temple Assembly Site and get the Energy Tank behind the red door.
• Get the Early Power Bomb.
  • The power bomb is not absolutely necessary for this route. However, it significantly speeds up later parts of the game, and the trick is relatively easy compared to other wallcrawls, so this wallcrawl is highly recommended.
• Go towards GFMC Compound. Do the 101% Trick by space jumping to get the missile launcher twice.
• Go to for Great Temple, skip the alpha splinter fight by space jumping over the barrier, and get Violet Translator. Go back to Temple Grounds behind the violet translator door.
• Take the path to the elevator for Agon Wastes.

Agon Wastes

• Go to Mining Plaza.
  • If you want, you can use the Sandigger wallcrawl to get Dark Beam much more quickly than normal.
    • Make sure to get the Mining Station Access energy tank on the way out of Agon later! *** Keep in mind, doing Sandigger skips the Ammo Expansion in Central Mining Station, so you will either have to get the ammo expansion in Watch Station, or play the rest of the game with only 50 beam ammo.
    • Skip the following steps until the Dark Samus 1 fight if you are wallcrawling to Dark Samus.
• Make your way to Mining Station A. Use space jump to reach the scan post and go to Central Mining Station. Be aware of your missile count, as missiles are used very often throughout the entire of the space pirate station before obtaining Dark Beam, especially if you did not get the early power bomb expansion.
• Defeat the space pirates in Central Mining Station. Feel free to use a power bomb on the first set of pirates. Then destroy the turrets; use one charge shot then two missiles for each of the two turrets. Grab the beam ammo expansion here early by either using spider ball and a scan dash, or using a 3BSJ before the pirate fight.
• Go to Command Center, defeat the pirates here, then go to Security Station B to see Dark Samus. Enter Command Center via the missile door, then leave and go back through the previous blue door; the scan post in the alcove is intended to be scannable only from inside the alcove, but it becomes scannable from outside the moment you step inside it.
• Go around the pirate base, going through Biostorage Station then Bioenergy Production. Climb this room via the controller trick (feel free to grab the energy tank here if you so desire, but it costs a chunk of time to get). Make your way to Main Reactor.
• Fight Dark Samus in Main Reactor, and get Dark Beam.