The Scenario
Greater Sci-Fi combatant
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
[B]Seeing as the head resides in hammerspace (literally the case for Kratos, as at one point, he pullls the Omphalos stone 'out of his ass'😉, it would take a minute amount of time for him to access the Head.As for the blindness, dunno. Gameplay has it at a few seconds. Cronos had been blinded for quite a while, but that was from the 360 attack that the Head has, which requires about a second (in gameplay) of charging, and it also stuns the enemy. The other attack it possesses is basically instantaneous, and causes temporary blindness.
However, the light is bright/powerful enough that it causes Kratos to stagger back, even when his eyes are more or less closed, and his head is turned away.
Meh, moot point I guess, since everyone would have to have prior knowledge of it to counter it. I still wonder what effect the mirror shield would have, though, since it's more or less passive when Link isn't attacking. Wouldn't stop the blindness, but I'd think it would reflect the light.
What kind of attacks has she taken with some of the suits?
I don't think this hypothetical armor could reduce the damage of every single attack that was made against it...i.e. a no limits fallacy, but that may be moot here, as it's possible that she would be able to withstand brute-force attacks from Team 2.
Most of it would be gameplay, but Metroid weapons in general have evidence stating their at terawatt levels of power. The games include stuff like a 136 tonner with energy charged blades, matter-antimatter cannons, and the aforementioned atomic disruption, which is basically any phazon based weapon. In cutscene you're looking at Samus getting thrown across a room or taking a scythe to the face, both without visible damage. Other than that, Samus dodges everything.
On the other hand, there's the SA-X, an X-Parasite copying Samus' DNA and stealing the Varia suit. In gameplay it's invincible; beams and missiles bounce off the thing. It takes a combination of all of Samus' beam weapons, fully charged, just to hurt it, and missiles still deal no damage. It's terrifying, and pretty accurately shows how Samus looks to her enemies. At the end of that game, Samus absorbs the SA-X, so yeah.
I also think that it would function more like layers of different armor would, i.e. each layer has its own level of damage reduction up to a certain point of effectiveness; or do the suits integrate with each other?
Again, all gameplay. Most commonly, Samus gets the Varia suit, which adds 50% damage reduction, halving damage. Later, she gets the Gravity suit, and the total reduction is then 75%.
Personally, I don't think the damage reduction is important, being gameplay, so the immunities should be used instead. Samus is stated to be immune to temperature effects like heat and cold. She can run through magma unhindered, and the SA-X is unharmed by an uncharged plasma beam. I would say anyone (in this match) using fire or ice attacks against her is more or less out of luck. She's also immune to acid, reversed/increased gravity, and dark energy, but I don't think anyone here uses those?
I'm also guessing that wearing the extra suits wouldn't hinder her movement in any way.
Nah, they're essentially upgrades to the shielding and the last one overrides the appearance of the others. While still keeping the damage reduction.
Is it expressively referred to as a time-stop, or was it just a spell that basically stopped the Sun from rising?
All I have is this:
YouTube video
0:10, "It is as if time itself is frozen." He notes the lack of morning, so it could be. Everything keeps moving as normal, but morning does not come until Link breaks the curse.
I wouldn't know what to think if Ganondorf could actually stop a star from moving/planet from rotating, so I sorta want to go with pseudo-timestop.
It could be that Time has different effects in Zelda-verse like you said, or that people in Zelda-verse are already immune to Time slowing.
It also could be that Ganon's spell and the Ocarina, do not affect other people when it comes to slowing down Time. srug
Though the clocks thing is really weird. Why would the clocks be affected, but everything else be the same?
Well, it slows down the Majora's Mask time limit. Link only has 3 days, but can slow time to get the eqivalent of six days. The day takes twice as long to pass, but everyone still moves at normal pace and the in game clock slows down. It is wierd.