Metroid: Other M

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On the contrary; people jump to conclusions that people are exaggerating/lying/trolling and give derogatory labels when someone states dislike or disagreement with something they like or think to be contrary and jump on the defensive way too much!

Is this supposed to refer to me? It's false for the reason that I never accused anybody of lying or trolling. I just said they're exaggerating far too much. I said so because after having played the game myself [I've played it 3 times so far], I find these comments to be ridiculous. I also find complaints about the combat of the game being "frustrating" to be highly questionable [I still don't see how anybody can have that much trouble playing through this game... even playing through Hard Mode was pretty cake for me]. You need to understand that the reason why I defend the game is because I find these comments to be quite exaggerated, close to sounding untrue. I actually can see the basis for these complaints, however in my opinion they've been taken so far out of proportion for the purpose of trying to bash the game that I find it to be nonsense. If I saw these comments to be close to the truth, I wouldn't bother defending the game. That's the entire point of me posting.

You're missing the point. It's not about having a protagonist with a fleshed out personality, it's about completely taking a character out of their context that fans have developed a love for and turning it into something it never was.

Actually I'm not missing the point at all. Having played all the past Metroid games and reading the Metroid manga, I don't find her personality in this game to be contrary to what's been previously established [in fact it's closer to Metroid Fusion and especially the manga if anybody has played that/read it respectively]. That's why I have an issue with this complaint.

I will remind you that I've read that, it's not something I'm stating, nor do I personally have anything against a protagonist with a worthy back story and strong persona; in fact, it's what I prefer and want when I play a game.

Me too. But you seem awfully eager to justify opinions of something that you know little about [you explained that you hadn't even played it yet].

But if it's true, and Samus is walking around in cutscenes showing off her ass ...

Lol?

... and showing subservience to some dude (on noes, I have all my weapons at my disposal, but I'm not going to use them until he tells me it's okay!)...well, that just smurfing sucks.

This is basically a straw-man fallacy when attempting to void a lot of the context of this game. The "some dude" is a father-type figure to Samus that was mentioned in Metroid Fusion [I can't remember if it was elaborated on in the manga or not at all, I'll have to go back and re-read it], but more importantly he was her former commanding officer prior to her taking leave of the Galactic Federation Army [I think that's what it was called]. The problem is that in this game, she goes to a station that's under Federation jurisdiction to begin with, when a unit of Federation soldiers is already present. She accepts the law and follows procedure, which gives her former commanding officer [Adam] the final say-so since he is the leader of the unit and is in charge with investigating what happened at the station and rescuing survivors.

Another thing I want to add - this has less to do with the context of the game itself, but the fact is that we've already seen Samus start out with no powerups, and collect her power suit upgrades on planet Zebes in the first game. In the second game, she goes to SR388 but has [somehow] lost all of those upgrades and has to regain them. In the third game, she seems to have somehow lost all of these upgrades [yet again] and must regain them back on planet Zebes. Metroid Fusion [4] was the first game to give a good explanation as to why she had to regain her abilities again [and I thought it was their best work for this actually]. During the Metroid Prime series, her equipment gets damaged in a blast during one game, and stolen by Ing in another. My point is that the writers need to create yet another reason as to why she doesn't just start out with all her original powerups from the beginning. I thought that in this case, their explanation and context were acceptable, but barring that, it doesn't matter what the explanation is - you're going to have to "gain" the powerups in one way or another as you progress through the game. This IS a Metroid game you know.

I don't see her as being sub-servient. She is a Bounty Hunter, responding to a distress beacon where they were already on board taking care of the issue. She either had the choice to leave, or stay and work for him. If your boss tells you not to do something, or use something, you don't use it. In essence, she has a "contract" with him, and he is her "employer" at the time. It's like if you have a school project and your teacher says, build X something, but don't use glue or tape. Then after an hour of people struggling, she says, ok now tape, then an hour later, ok glue. It makes sense to me, and I think people are reading way too far into it. If it was a guy under contract with another guy, they probably wouldn't be complaining about it in nearly the same manner, if at all.

THE JACKEL

I bolded the parts that seem most important in your post for extra emphasis, and I agree completely.


I'm actually most intrigued for Wolf Kanno to play this game and give his input since I value his opinions a lot. I'd also be very interested in hearing Roogle's opinion on the game as well, though I'm not sure if he'll play it.