Drop Shaft

Drop Shaft is a room on Phaaze in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

Description
This room is, true to its name, one of many drop tunnels on Phaaze. However, there are several floors before the final drop.

When entered, access to the middle of the room is blocked by what may be hardened Phazon. To pass through, Samus must roll through a hole in her Morph Ball. This will lead to a chamber with a large mass of Phazon resembling a flower bloom. Several targets are nearby that Samus must destroy with her Hyper Ball, which will destroy the obstruction. However, while doing so she is attacked by Phazon Hoppers and may roll accidentally into patches of Tangle Weed.

When the obstruction is destroyed, a part of the floor will be exposed that contains another hole that the Morph Ball will fit through. This leads to the second floor. This floor is identical to the first, and serves the same purpose. The third and final floor now contains a Phazon Puffer, but features the same premise as the first two floors. Samus will then fall down a long shaft, at the bottom of which is an unnamed creature that will snare Samus until it is killed by the Hyper Ball. Samus can also avoid it by using her Boost Ball.

Connecting rooms

 * Cavern Beta (via Phaaze Door)
 * Metroid Cavern (via Phaaze Door)

Inhabitants

 * Phazon Hoppers
 * Tangle Weeds
 * Phazon Puffers
 * ULF 10

Scans

 * Phazon mass:"Phazon mass has a hardened shell. Sustained by surrounding growths. Destroying them may damage it."