I also think the pirate staff should summon tiny space pirates. One from Talon IV (or in other words the metroid prime space pirates) as ridley doesn't really fir that weapon as well as it would something like the imp staff, as in most metroid games where he appears he uses ranged breath attacks more than he does melee attacks.

I feel like you shouldn't have the same creatures for the pets AND minions pack, and there are other worms in the metroid series. at least turn one of the Serris (minion or pet idc) into the almost-dead serris (a deep brown instead of blue) and the metroid could be changed to an alpha metroid from return of samus. if you wanted to get spicy you could make it a phazon metroid)

Perhaps an interesting idea would actually be the Optic Staff, as you could actually model two X-cores for it. The melee minion for the staff could be one of the "melee" oriented X-cores which hold standard upgrades, and then the Laser minion could be the Beam Core X. I think it would be a fun little nod to the X-cores.

Mini kraid as one of the stationary summons?

I feel like the cell Staff firs the metroid better while the sphere is better for the X, but I think they can both work well

X-Parasite almost HAS to be the Stardust Cell staff but if not I think the Deadly Sphere Staff or Sanguine Staff are good candidates as well

Maybe an enemies pack? like Ice Golem could be Rundas from prime hunters? or the spider staff could make mini Yakuza (spider boss from Metroid Fusion or Ings from prime 2

x-parasite could be stardust cell staff

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hey this looks very cool!