Back to Norfair - For the Screw Attack

Defeating Ridley leads you on a path toward a new power-up: the screw attack.

A new passage reveals itself to the right. Move through and open the red door with a missile. You'll discover a crumbling Chozo statue. Hop over it to the right side of the chamber. Drop down and spot the propulsion device to the right. Continue to drop down until you reach a long tunnel moving to the left (and by the elevator). Run fast to generate a speed boost and destroy all of the pillars so you can safely reach the booster blocks at the far left side. Your boost destroys them and reveals a propulsion device.

Ride the device as far as it goes. Your destination contains a door to the left. Enter it and find a group of hovering enemies protecting a missile tank. Ignore it for now and continue toward the left side of the screen. Enter the red door and find a Chozo statue inside with a new power-up: screw attack!

Screw attack will destroy those blocks around that missile tank.

Return to the right and into the room with the missile tank. Now you can use the hovering enemies to reach that tank. Freeze them and use the enemies as platforms to reach the area around the tank. Use screw attack to destroy the blocks around the tank.

Retrace your steps back to the right. Bomb the floor on the right side and drop down. Use the save room on the right. Back in the previous room and break the right side of the floor with bombs. Drop down and spot the green door on your right. Open it with a super missile.

Traverse the small blocks across the next hallway. Bust through the narrow middle section with your bombs and exit out the far right side. The end room appears to be a dead-end. However, bomb the left side to expose a route. Drop down toward the orange liquid--it disappears. Enter the door on the left at the bottom.

Move through the room until you spot the super missile tank on the high pillar. It's possible to get this tank now but it's very hard. You must freeze an enemy that emerges from the pipe to the tank's right side. Lure the enemy out around the middle of the pillar so you can jump to the enemy and then grab the top of the pillar.

This screenshot shows a good location for the frozen enemy.

Go through this tunnel to find a missile tank.

Shoot the blocks to expose a missile tank near the ceiling.

After grabbing the missile tank, use another frozen foe to reach a tunnel on the upper left side of the room. Navigate through in morph ball form and into a hidden room that contains a missile tank.

Here's the location of another optional missile tank. Go to the far right side of the map and the fifth door above the save game room at the very bottom. This door leads to a short room containing a green locked door on the left side. You now have super missiles and can unlock that door. Return there and unlock the door with a super missile. Traverse the orange corridor (don't fall into the pool below!) and shoot the pillar of blocks near the room's center to find a missile tank.

Set a bomb on this platform then run quickly to the left to reach the super missile.

There's another item through the left door. It's a super missile tank and a tricky one to get. Hop up onto the platform on the right side of the room. The blocks are destructible and will crumble beneath your feet. In order to get the super missile tank at this point, you must bomb the blocks while on the platform. Then quickly move off to the left, run as far as you can on the exploding blocks below you, and jump to the ledge with the super missile tank.

You should be ready to return to Brinstar now. Both Kraid and Ridley have been defeated, which has opened the way into the next area. Those stone heads in Brinstar will now open and you can move on toward your encounter with Mother Brain.