User blog comment:AdmiralSakai/Metroid: Other M Hall Of Shame/@comment-6008104-20111016002923/@comment-1901106-20111016012528

Wait, you can go into morph ball in the avelanche????!!!!!!!

And while the suit most certainly does compensate for its own weight (otherwise it would be unusable) I always thought it was nice to emphasize the "heavy machinery" aspect of the thing and reinforce that it's very large and powerful. As I touched on tangentially, it's the aesthetics of it, not the engineering. With their level of gadgetry, the Chozo could do pretty much anything they darn well pleased.

The Unmasked theme.

And I liked having to go kill minor enemies to keep my health up. Maybe by "farming" you thought I meant the sit-in-front-of-an-air-hole-and-hold-down-B kind. I meant a more active hunting style.

Concentration is occasionally possible, yes. But while the amount of energy replenished can be increased slightly, I'm pretty sure you can only replenish energy when below 20 units.