Manshu

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Rundas is the boss that comes on planet Bryyo in Metroid Prime 3 Corruption and killing him can sometimes become a little long drawn and annoying.

After trying a few times I finally stumbled upon the easiest way to kill Rundas off. If you are going to read any further be warned that this will spill the beans and will rob you off of the satisfaction you will get by killing Rundas the hard way.

For those of you who decided to read on…here it goes. Just before you encounter Rundas a couple of ships enter the area and drop off a few bad guys who are fast and shoot at you with their guns. This will tempt you to use your Phazon gun, but don’t!

You will probably get hit and drained off 100 health points if you decide not to use Phazon but that is well worth it. Save your Phazon for later and it will really help when fighting with Rundas.

When Rundas appears remember that he is not vulnerable to rocket attacks when he is on land. Only when he climbs up the icicles he is vulnerable to rockets. So don’t waste your rockets right away.

First hit him with your regular gun and keep shooting him with your gun. After a while you will see that Rundas is in kind of a daze. You can see yellowish stars revolving around his head. At this time Rundas is vulnerable to grapple attack. You can grapple him now and rip off his armor.

After the armor is ripped off, Rundas looks weak and you will be tempted to grapple him again, but this works only once so just use your regular gun and keep attacking.

After you get a hang of shooting Rundas accurately, it is time to use your Phazon. Take your fuel injection and start attacking Rundas. This will really drain off his energy which you can see on the top center part of your TV.

The key is to not let your Phazon drain off completely during the attack. In Bryyo you would have received some weird messages earlier saying that Phazon levels are too high or something and what that means is that as you keep shooting your Phazon, it keeps getting increased automatically. But if you drain it completely it will not get replenished.

So as you use your Phazon, spare a little and allow it to replenish automatically. After 25 seconds it will drain off automatically, which you can’t help anyway.

If you use the Phazon like this twice, Rundas can be killed in about two minutes fairly easily.

Another interesting thing here is that when Rundas climbs up the icicles, and hurls those ice cubes at you, you can shoot those ice cubes, all four of them and you will get rockets and energy when the last one of each lot is destroyed. This happens most times but not always.

Hope you find this useful and enjoy kicking the heck out of Rundas!

The Beijing Olympics will be remembered for at least two things. Michael Phelps and the arrival of China on the world scene and that too in great style.

China has sparkled in every respect, be it scale or precision. The games have been organized wonderfully well and even the usually critical western media has been profuse in their praise.

China has finally arrived, and it has carved out a space for itself, one that will not be only associated with mass manufacturing, cheap exports, regulated markets and opaque financial reporting, but rather be associated with an image of a proud nation which is an emerging super-power.

China has created a category for itself and only China is in that category. In the days to come, people in the media will not be saying China and India in one breath, like they are used to.

With these Olympics China will be able to shred a lot of stereotypes associated with it and a new image of the country will be formed in the minds of people globally.

There is a GE ad that features rural India with a doctor traveling miles on trains and broken roads finally reaching a scanty one room medical facility and treats an old patient with GE equipment. Then he proceeds out and hands over gifts to the local children. Everything about the ad has ‘rural’ stamped all over it. And the tag-line says something like GE is reaching out to rural India.

There is another ad where a beautiful young Chinese girl is walking and a young guy is following her through a fruits and vegetables market and both are exchanging smiles and glances, till ultimately the guy trips over and breaks some bones (much like real life).

The next scene cuts to a spacious room with the earlier beautiful girl now wearing a doctor’s coat and getting ready to treat the young man. And the punchline is GE helping out love in rural China.

Only thing is that there is really nothing rural about the whole setting of the ad. Apart from maybe the fruits and vegetables market.

If you ever get to see the two ads you will know what I mean, one is a more glamorous rural setting and the other a more dilapidated rural one.

This ad probably marks how China will be viewed in the future, especially by the West. A flamboyant, hopeful, prosperous nation which is no longer an emerging economy but a rising superpower.

Manshu Verma