Do you think Samus tastes or feels anything when she absorbs an X Parasite?
I suspect so. She probably adjusts after a while, but it's a very unnatural thing to be doing on the regular. There's a chance the X parasites have some kind of "self-cloaking" mechanism by which they sneak into the body unnoticed, but tbh I doubt it. Given what they're like, I doubt they have any need to hide themselves. Once they're in, they're tough to remove and take over quickly.
I don't know about taste, but I definitely imagine she'd feel it through her skin. It wouldn't necessarily feel nice, at least at first- maybe after a while she starts to make the association that absorbing parasite = healing- but given how she didn't seem too distressed in the Fusion intro until it actually started killing her, I don't imagine it would be the worst feeling in the world. Maybe like a tickle, or cold/warm sensation?
