Portal Access is a room in the Dark Agon Wastes on Dark Aether. It appears in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

Description

A larger open room than its Light Aether counterpart. A tall wall above a small pit in the middle of the hallway divides the room into two sections. Naturally, this wall cannot be passed without the Space Jump Boots. The only occupants are a Lightflyer, which flies above the central wall, and a group of Bladepods on the sides of the small pit. There are no Light Crystals or Light Beacons, but the Lightflyer can be destroyed to create a Safe Zone on the central wall. It does not last very long, but another Lightflyer will respawn. Using this Safe Zone is critical, as during Samus Aran's first visit to this room, she only has the Varia Suit, which cannot protect her from the air of Dark Aether.

The Aether equivalent of Portal Access is Portal Access A.

Connecting rooms

• Judgment Pit (via Blue Door)
• Portal Site (via Blue Door)

Inhabitants

1 Lightflyer

"Mechansim: Lightflyer
Light-generating flyer.
Target mechanoid is quite durable. It can fire bursts of energy in combat."

Scans

Bladepod

"Morphology: Bladepod
Living storage units of the Ing Horde.
These Ing morph their bodies around useful items to protect them. They rely on larger Ing for protection."

Trivia

• It is possible to use a nearby Bladepod to stand on and gain barely enough height to reach atop the middle wall. Doing so can allow Samus to obtain the Space Jump Boots much sooner, skipping a scripted first encounter with the Ing.
  • In the GameCube version, this provides an easy method for reaching and damaging the Jump Guardian early before the battle begins, resulting in an easy kill on the creature.^[1]

Gallery

Dark Aetherian Rooms in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Dark Agon Wastes	Portal Site • Crossroads • Save Station 2 • Duelling Range • Ing Cache 4 • Junction Site • Judgment Pit Save Station 1 • Portal Access • Dark Agon Temple Access • Dark Agon Temple • Trial Tunnel Dark Controller Access • Dark Agon Energy Controller • Trial Grounds • Dark Transit Station Doomed Entry • Oasis Access • Dark Oasis • Ing Cache 3 • Hall of Stairs • Save Station 3 Bitter Well • Phazon Site • Ing Cache 2 • Watering Hole • Feeding Pit Ing Cache 1 • Feeding Pit Access • Double Path • Battleground • Warrior's Walk
Dark Torvus Bog	Gloom Vista • Polluted Mire • Dark Falls • Dark Forgotten Bridge • Dark Arena Tunnel Dark Torvus Arena • Brooding Ground • Putrid Alcove • Poisoned Bog • Cache A Portal Chamber • Venomous Pond • Save Station 1 • Dark Torvus Temple Access • Dark Torvus Temple Dark Controller Access • Dark Torvus Energy Controller • Cache B • Ammo Station Crypt • Crypt Tunnel • Undertransit One • Sacrificial Chamber • Sacrificial Chamber Tunnel Undertransit Two • Dungeon • Undertemple Shaft • Save Station 2 • Undertemple Access • Undertemple
Ing Hive	Culling Chamber • Hazing Cliff • Central Hive East Transport • Unseen Way • Hive Reactor Hive Save Station 1 • Hive Cache 1 • Hive Reactor Access • Entrance Defense Hall • Hive Entrance Hive Portal Chamber • Staging Area • Central Hive West Transport Hive Dynamo Works • Hive Cache 2/3 • Hive Dynamo Access • Hive Gyro Chamber Hive Save Station 2 • Hive Gyro Access • Hive Ammo Station • Hive Temple Access • Hive Temple Hive Controller Access • Hive Energy Controller • Temple Security Access • Aerial Training Site Judgment Drop • Vault Attack Portal Hive Summit
Sky Temple Grounds	Profane Path • Phazon Pit • Phazon Grounds • Reliquary Access • Reliquary Grounds Ing Reliquary • Ing Windchamber Plain of Dark Worship • Lake Access • Accursed Lake Abandoned Base • Base Access • War Ritual Grounds • Shrine Access • Defiled Shrine Gateway Access • Sky Temple Gateway Portal Site
Sky Temple	Sky Temple Energy Controller • Sanctum Access • Sanctum
See also the List of rooms in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.