There's nothing wrong with the 'stronger than she looks' archetype, but I don't think Samus ever was that before Other M, so it's basically a retcon that adds nothing and takes away from what came before it. The Samus in Other M looks like a little girl trying to keep up with the boys. Before Other M I thought Samus was supposed to be tall and physically imposing. The meltdowns when it released were unreal. What's weird is how passionately some people hate it. It makes sense that Other M gets criticized. I don't think many of the game's fans (myself included) disagree. They could have simply wrote a scenario where Samus' suit was damaged or interference (perhaps even MALICIOUS INTERFERENCE) prevented Samus from activating the Varia, forcing her to make her way through the Pyrosphere unprotected given the urgency of the situation and the inability for the Federation to dedicate a rescue party on her own behalf while she struggled with getting the Varia to work.

If the ideas like Samus being prohibited from using certain weapons by command of her officer, or her having a PTSD attack from facing Ridley, were incorporated into a game about a younger and less experienced Samus during her early career as a Federation Marine, I expect there would have been virtually zero backlash.Īlso, the idea of Samus not activating her Varia suit in the Pyrosphere merely due to obedience to Adam was patently absurd.īeing prohibited from using certain weapons on board a civilian space station where there may be human survivors on board isn't totally insane, but all the Varia does is protect Samus from being killed by high temperatures, civilian workers in the Pyrosphere surely would have been using similar grades of armor during their duties prior to the crisis. One good thing I'll say however, is that the fact that many people found Other M's gameplay acceptable, but gave the game poor marks based on its storytelling and writing only provide further evidence that critics of video games who insist that games be considered only in the context of electronic toys and can't be a legitimate medium for story are stuck in a mindset that was already out of date three or more decades ago. The saddest aspect of Other M to me is that it possibly may mean that we will never again see an attempt at a 3D Metroid concept aside from the Metroid Prime FPS games.

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