Phazon Mines- back track to save points?
Hi all, I'm close to giving up due the Phazon Mines huge difficulty spike. I tried many times and after dying for the 5th time after progressing 30-40mins and losing it all again, I abandoned the game about 1 1/2 ago.
I've come back to it now with better knowledge of how to defeat the various different enemy times relatively quickly, however, there is so little health available I'm really fed up with dying and wasting hours of my life.
So, I've made it to the cylinder morph ball maze room but health is getting pretty low. I'm wondering if I now backtrack to the save point, will I be able to return here without redoing the canon room task etc?
I know many of the enemies respawn after saving, but wonder if I could attempt to speed run past them all to return to here?
I've read there are still many difficult enemies before the next save point.
If not, I'll probably give up on the game and sell it and an otherwise 10/10 game becomes a 5/10 game.
Thanks
EDIT:
So, I've made it through to the next save point which has taken a lot of pressure off.
There is a save point almost immediately after the mini boss (elite pirate), and there is places before it to rebuild your health to full.
My advice to anyone tackling Phazon Mines:
Find out exactly how to take down each enemy type (basically match your gun colour to their highlighted colour). Use charge blasts of the correct colour.
The first part is the hardest (for me anyway). Use a guide so you know exactly what to do in each room.
Exploit item respawns as much as possible. The main one I found was around the elevator to Level 2. You can take it down and get the items in the boxes then from the box that kills the pirate, then go back up and destroy the electrons for their energy cells. You can repeat this over and over again until you have full health. You can then go in to the mini boss with full health. You can also harvest energy from the toxic mines floating in the ventilation shaft after the mini-boss.
The mini boss is actually very easy if you know what to do. Look it up before hand. There is a save pretty much right after that.