GigaPepsiMan wrote:I'm not going to say anymore on Other: M because I have said it all on other forums but I will say this much.
It was a flawed experiment with a week story and 2D characters, some parts of the game completely go against the story of later games (Like Fusion). Samus character was ruined I can say thank god Team Ninja didn't sex up samus but thye did make her suit come off every few minutes like it was hald together with tape, had her suit failed like that anywhere else she would most likely die. In all they ruined her character completely when they tried to make her scared of ridly which is a bad decision if there ever was one.
Also the I already have my power ups but can't use them is just plain as day awful story telling.
Samus wasn't
scared of Ridley
per se, or she wouldn't have kept hunting him. She was shocked, and experiencing post-traumatic stress. She
should be feeling some trauma. After all, this is the creature that
murdered and ate her parents. And she
should be stunned, because she already friggin' disintegrated Ridley when she fought him in Super Metroid. Samus isn't supposed to know she's in a video game where people come back from the dead all the time, right? She'd be well within rights to have thought she had closed that chapter of her life. Imagine the murderer of your family and all your childhood friends came back from the dead to get you, and tell me you wouldn't freak out. That would be completely inhuman.
This is not a new thing, either. Here's an example from the
official Metroid manga that was released way back when Zero Mission came out.
http://metroid.retropixel.net/gallery.p ... image_id=6
http://metroid.retropixel.net/gallery.p ... image_id=7
Ridley himself doesn't make things any easier for her at that point, as he goes on to talk about how he ate several of the colonists--very possibly including Samus' parents--after a suicide attack by her father.
Zero Mission, Fusion, the manga, and Other M all tie together perfectly. This is the exact same Samus Aran we played in Fusion and Zero Mission in every respect. She just talks too much this time. That's all.
Also, it's explained way back in both the old Nintendo Power comics and again in the manga that Samus' power suit relies on her ability to focus in order to work. No focus, no power suit. It's also said to rely strongly on her danger sense (but she still has to focus). That's presumably the origin of both the "Focus" and "Sense Move" abilities in Other M.
As far as the story and characters go, this is fairly traditional and totally in line with how the story has been developing for many years now. What's veered off radically is the game play mechanics and the presentation.
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