This may be a day late and a few bucks short, but less than 48 hours before I finally have Metroid Prime 3: Corruption in my hands… I finally beat Metroid Prime 2: Echoes! 
I do have to say I was a bit disappointed by the end bosses, though. When I made it to the end of Metroid Prime, I had a tough time beating the aptly named “Metroid Prime”. In Echoes, I got spanked by the first iteration of the Emperor Ing. Deep breath, try to figure out his pattern: I still lost a ton of health, but I did beat him. On to stage 2, where despite major undertakings of damage I managed to recoup over half of my health. Stage 3 did a number on me again, but I still survived and got my free pass on to fight Dark Samus after my Energy tanks were magically recharged. She defeated me again on my first try, but the second time against her was, for lack of a better description, a joke. And that’s it? This was the final encounter? Kind of a let-down.
I still can’t wait for Corruption though, for two reasons. One, while I was never big into Metroid growing up it is one of those titles that I have learned to love now that I’m older, and new iterations both on the home consoles and on the handhelds make me giddy. Two, it will be the first Wii game in quite some time that I am going to spend money on, and in fact is one of the reasons (as a 1st/2nd party title) that I bought the system in the first place. I can’t live without my Nintendo franchises!