Needless Fetch-Quest

A Needless Fetch-Quest is a thing that appears in many Metroid Games whenever:


 * Nintendon't or Retro Studios runs out of content
 * The particular game is getting a bit short on run-time
 * The Speedrunning community gets annoying

Fetch-Quests are never fun for anybody involved, and often make people stop playing the game and only come back years later. Nobody knows why Nintendon't puts them there in the first place, because I could then finally complete Echoes nobody cares for them.

Chozo Artifacts
Chozo Artifacts are spiritual hippie slang in holographic form scattered across Tallon IV, and somehow never show up in the hint system. They look like multi-colored gears, and must be individually collected and then placed into the "Cradle" like the Baby Toys they are, all for Ridley to show up and shit explosives all over your hard work, triggering a boss fight. They all have their own cute little names as well, being:


 * 1) Artifact of Lies
 * 2) Artifact of Weakness
 * 3) Artifact of Boomer
 * 4) Artifact of Domestication
 * 5) Artifact of Dead
 * 6) Artifact of Gamer
 * 7) Artifact of Chozo
 * 8) Artifact of Organic Food
 * 9) Artifact of Deadly Lazer
 * 10) Artifact of ZA WARUDO
 * 11) Artifact of Annoyance
 * 12) Artifact of Newborn

Temple Keys
In Echoes, it has 18 KEYS, 3 for each Temple, and NINE for the Sky Temple. What makes these even weirder, is that these Keys are all in the Dank Aether, and you can only see them using the Dank Visor, and have millions of enemies surrounding them. And, they don't even count for the item collection percentage, making them an absolute waste of time.

Energy Cells
Don't you hate when you run out of batteries for your Wii remote? That was the Idea behind Metroid Prime 3's Needless Fetch-Quest, where you have to put the bat- I mean Energy Cells back in the Galatactic Federation's toy Spaceship, as well as get ones for your controller, because you're almost certainly going to run them down trying to find these things. Another thing, there are more of them then you actually need, so sometimes you can end up spending OVER 9000 hours finding all of them and then realizing that you only needed like 10 or something.