Yeah, the gameplay is great, but the story is the worst smurfing thing ever. Samus is not a damsel-in-distress ever. That may be what he wanted, but she went in a totally different direction. She wasn't even that bad in Fusion - introspective, but never flat-out a wuss. The part with Ridley just made me lose all faith in the storytelling. Inner conflict and introspection is fine, I mean, Samus kinda has always had that. But they just made her so smurfing weak. She's a badass bounty hunter! It's just wrong.

That said, I like a lot of the gameplay, aside from dropping the pick-up support items. It's a genuinely fun game. The story is just atrocious.