Somehow this was only the like 5th most frustrating decision made, too

No it doesn't and that's not a joke

There's a lot wrong with the game. Granted I'm hard to please but it didn't even feel like a metroid prime game at all by the end. It could have been called robot desert adventure and had all metroid related stuff removed and it would feel like a 30 dollar indie steam game (outside of the visuals)