Metroid Other M

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

I have a copy of it!


But my wii decided not to play DL discs anymore ,_,

[fruckert]

Unfortunately, things do not look good...

Uh...ignore the broken website.

[SaiKar]

Yeah this sort of thing is EXACTLY what I was worried about

[fruckert]

GI has actually been a lot harsher than the other two reviews that I've seen, that have put it at an average at 8.5 (namely, IGN and GameTrailers...I don't really trust IGN though).
The GT review is actually rather well done.
It brings up all of the complaints with the GI review while bringing up a lot of positives, as well.
I do think I'm going to give this a look when it comes out in the states, anyways...at the very least, I'd know what I'm talking about when I'm bitching about it.

[SaiKar]

Best Samus line from the GT review: "my response was to become increasingly bitter." Cuz that's kind of how I feel now that this video tells me how much has changed. No scanning around? F' that.

Also, could they have picked a voice actress that didn't sound like she was falling asleep while reading her lines?

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Actually they picked her because of that voice she has. Something about wanting Samus to sound emotionless.

As for review, a lot of them are split, but there's been a consensus that the game lands between an 8 and 8.5.

The game is brave to try new things. I think lot's people are indeed bitter that this didn't have a lot of the prime's elements. I was reading some complaints yesterday about the game being sexist because there's too many men now and that it's stupid you can't move around in 1st Person I_I

[SaiKar]

It doesn't matter how many guys are in the game; Samus can prolly kill them all :3 The "can't move in 1st" person thing is a legitimate complaint though.

I'm still getting it for the heck of it, but it feels like Team Ninja did a bunch of really odd stuff with the series just because they could. There's a difference between being bold by trying new things and just going absolutely crazy with a game's esablished plot. Well, I guess I'll see.

[HobomasterXXX]

Team Ninja only handled the programming and modelling, direct your complaints at Nintendo, not Team Ninja.

[Legacy of Elecrusher]

I hate whoever came it with Booster puzzles in the side scroller Metroids.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

So, after tweaking my wii's laser power I got the game playing. The story I thought was very good (at least how it was handled), however, I beat it at 7 hrs. 36% (not including retries and deaths and stuff). It's a disappointment on the lengthy side (storywise, simple playthrough). With 2 hours of cinematics, that's about 5 hours that'll take you to take out the context of the game into your brain. Even prime's first playthrouoh took me a little longer. So that's my only real complain. Although, i have a feeling there's some stuff yet to discover in the game. But, nevertheless, the game is still pretty awesome. I don't know what everyone's complain is; it felt like a metroid game to me: Shoot, kill, aliens, explosions, beams, space and short.

[HobomasterXXX]

I think the complaints of the game "not being a metroid game" are more directed at the narrative driven presentation of the thing, not the gameplay.

[fruckert]

Yeah...at the moment, there's only three Metroid games with dialog.
Fusion, Prime 3, and This'n.

Also, Metroid isn't really about going around and killing **** all flashy-like.
It's more about feeling alone on a harsh planet/space station, and trying to survive...it's kind of hard to achieve that when you have a bunch of space marines that could save your life at a moment's notice (even though they don't).

I also heard that they absolutely suck Samus's character out. She comes across as kind of an idiot.
A good example is the Ridley battle.
This'd be the 6th time that she's fought him, and WILL be the 5th time that she's killed him...apparently she freezes up in fear and has to have one of the marine's come and save her.
I call bullshit on that. Maybe she's kind of shocked that "OH MY GOD, HE'S ALIVE AGAIN, HOW DID HE SURVIVE THAT PLANET EXPLODING?!", but I refuse to believe that she'd freeze up in fear at the entity that she's killed a multitude of times beforehand.
I ALSO refuse to believe that she'd kill herself due to not turning on her heat shield in a hot area out of respect and loyalty to her old commander...she's not stupid, she knows that she wouldn't be able to survive without it.

Those story elements and Nintendo getting Samus off kind of...wrongish-feeling is what I'm most worried about, the gameplay looks alright.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Right because space marines will save samus. The only moment i felt helped (or that they could help) was at beginning and at the end, and they didn't do shyte.

I don't buy this "Metroid is only about isolation and exploration" thing in order to approve of this game. And even if it is, the game makes you feel that you're on your own as the story progresses, since she starts to doubt the intentions of the GF's presence. And as of exploration, I am currently in my last item to find, and I had to literally 1st person view a whole area for an hour before I found the stupid beam switch that opens the morphball hatch to find one darn item.

I half agree on the Ridley thing. I think what most freaked her out was how he came back. I would've felt all WTF too if I had known that he [spoiler] had been stalking me the whole time, and evolved from this hatchling and that I could've killed him as a bunnychicken.[/spoiler] He was way uglier too from the previous iterations.

Your other point is meh. Samus is not an idiot to stay in a hot area long enough to die, and the commander wouldn't disallow her Varia suit if it meant her death, [spoiler]hence why he authorizes it when you really need it to clear the hot area of the game.[/spoiler] The first few sections of heat your pass through w/o the Varia suit, you ran pass those just fine with a good amount of health left.

[SaiKar]

Do they ever explain what the name means?

[HobomasterXXX]

Why would Adam disallow basic self defence functions of Samus' suit. **** does NOT MAKE SENSE