Good news and bad news...

On the Up side I got several new upgrades today for Saums' suit, like the plasma cutter and speed ball, and at 31% of the items.

Down side is that the stupid phazon suit is at 25% corruption and staring to mess with Samus' head...

Near as I can tell, Dark samus didn't just zap Samus and the 3 other bounty hunters with phazon, she put part of herself in them. So the reason why the are alive despite being walking phazon factories, is because Dark samus is keeping them alive until she can full take over them. A couple times Samus went into phazon overload, and there was a cut scene of her becoming Dark samus before the game over screen. Also when the bounty hunters die a ghostly dark samus collects up all the dark phazon that's left of them.

One odd thing about the game is that it seems doors take much longer to open than in the previous games, which means the areas on the other side of the doors are loading slower. Maybe it's because the areas are more detailed or something but it just gets annoying to wait 15 seconds for a door to open. Also, the game so far seems a lot more like a linear FPS than an open world platformer like the other 2. Maybe it's due to it being broken up into many small areas and not 1 big world.