Good lord. I wouldn't mind more difficulty from that game, but I think that patch would simply ruin the game for me.
I've seen the whole thing now, and SMI actually expects you to go through all of
lower Norfair as well and defeat Ridley before it'll give you the Varia Suit. Fortunately you can get a large stash of Super Missiles and Power Bombs before that, so you can use the Crystal Flash to get through. Which is good because he ends up using it three times in a row sometimes.
After that it seems the game gets a lot easier as you suddenly get all of the items it's possible to get, though it seems Mother Brain has been given a
lot more health and you get just 60 seconds to escape when the self-destruct activates.
Additionally, I think Brad hasn't watched that video, otherwise we'd have heard something about the "if you have within 5 points of this your good" bit.
