Metroid Prime

I picked Metroid Prime up months ago for $10, figuring almost any game is worth $10, and I'd heard good things about this one. I love Metroid Prime. Sometimess you're a guy (or rather a chick in a space suit) walking around shooting stuff, sometimes you're a little ball rolling around blowing stuff up. It's got a good mix of puzzles and fighting, different environments - snow, water, forest, sand; an easy to use interface to pick different weapons, visors; a storyline you can read or not; generally just a whole lot of fun. The puzzles and enemies are sometimes difficult but not so impossible as to be frustrating. But then I reached the Omega Pirate, most powerful of all the Elite Pirates. I can't kill him. I've tried till my hand hurts (note to Nintendo - can you please make controllers for adult sized hands!). I can take him down to about half strength and once or twice down to the point where just one more good blast would get him, but in the end I'm no match for the Omega Pirate. I can reach him with full strength, I have 200 missles, I understand his vulnerablities though I can't always exploit them. But in the end every time the Omega Pirate and his minions are just too much for me. I get surrounded by his servants which each take a different type of gun to kill, he overpowers me deflecting my missles and with one last swipe of his massive hand I'm done. I've read walkthroughs all over the internet. There's a few suggestions I still have to try so I'll give it another go once my hands rest. On the other hand there's the unopened Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory on my shelf.

P.S. Update - I got him!!!