Metroid: Other M after game impressions.

[kane_magus]

Just finished the main part of the game. Haven't gone through the after credits stuff yet. Just completed the after-credits stuff. Got 100% completion. Probably will wait a while before playing it again on the unlocked Hard difficulty.

Here's what I have to say about it. To all of those out there (and there seem to be a lot of them, from what

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[kane_magus]

Here's Spoony's take on it. Skip to around 7:55 for the part where he really starts getting into his rant about the story and the characterization of Samus. Before that he's talking about actual gameplay, which he admits is not bad, but that he just didn't like it. (But even for that, the fact that he only played the game himself for a couple of hours at most really shows through.) And then, he rants for almost 20 minutes about how bad he thinks the game portrayed Samus. He literally says that the game "raped" her. You'd probably only need to watch a couple minutes of it at most to get it, since he just keeps going on and on (and on and on, much like he claims Samus supposedly does) about how horrible Samus is in the game.

Now, don't get me wrong, I normally like Spoony. I really do. But here? Here, I can safely and confidently say that he is almost completely full of some Jurassic Park levels of shit. Maybe I'm just letting my inner Nintendo Fanboy™ get the better of me here, but I honestly think he doesn't know what he's

[owsf2000]

Ahem. *nods*

[kane_magus]

Yeah, I saw that the other day. The second panel is, of course, another example of the bullshit I'm talking about here.

The first and third panels are true enough, however.

[kane_magus]

The blog associated with that comic is a bit better, at least (if you can get past the guy's English-is-obviously-not-my-first-language grammar).

For the record, I'm not one of "the target public, many who never played a Metroid game before" that he mentions there. I've been playing Metroid games since at least 1991, when Metroid II for the Game Boy was released. It seems to be some kind of accepted truism that long-time Metroid fans will necessarily hate this game. I'm here to say that's just not the case, at least for me. Of course, I also didn't build up Samus in my mind as some sort of Boba Fett/Terminator/Jason Voorhees/Saint of Killers emotionless-force-of-nature type character that apparently everyone else did, either.

"In the end, the ones who are crying the loudest are probably the ones who had it pre-ordered..." Yeah, I pre-ordered it (I used the $20 from Amazon to pre-order Castlevania Lords of Shadow, and oh how I await the cries of RUINED FOREVER that game will bring to the CV series, because you know it's coming

[kane_magus]

Speaking of Boba Fett, I liked that comparison that Spoony made between Samus and him because it perfectly illustrates my point. People think Boba Fett is some super-badass or something. I haven't read any of the Expanded Universe stuff so maybe he is a total badass in that, I don't know (or maybe he's Dainty McDainterson or something, again I don't know).

But in the movies, Boba Fett was one thing and one thing only. He was the guy who brought Han Solo to Jabba after Darth Vader did most of the work of actually capturing him, then stood around for a while, then got launched into the Sarlacc pit (completely by accident, mind you: "Boba Fett? Boba Fett?! Where?!"). That's all he was. The dude got exactly zero characterization in the films aside from an offhand mention that he was the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy or whatever. He certainly didn't show it on screen if he was. That's the guy Spoony is comparing favorably to Samus? That is what he wants Samus to be? A faceless cipher

[kane_magus]

Oh wait, I guess that link isn't the full manga, at least according to this anyway. Oh well. Here's some more of it.

I'll add this to the original post as well.