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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 I've observed) who are bawwing about WORST GAME OF THE YEAR, METROID IS RUINED FOREVER, THE FRANCHISE WILL NEVER RECOVER, COMPLETE AND THOROUGH BETRAYAL OF THE ENTIRE SERIES and other such ludicrous nonsense, there is only one very simple thing that I have to say:
Ess Tee Eff You.
No, really. You are being utterly ridiculous. This isn't even open for debate here.
Is Other M the best Metroid game ever? No, I don't think so, since I think that honor still belongs to Super Metroid for the SNES. I'd say it's at least on par with the Prime games, though. Is Other M the WROST GAEM EVAR that has dealt a crippling death blow from which the Metroid series will never, ever recover? Of course not, don't be completely asinine.
Man, seriously, Samus opens her mouth and actually talks in this game (OH CRAP!), revealing that she is not, in fact, just Jason Voorhees with boobs or whatever it is that everyone seems to have built her up as. And people simply can't handle the fact that their preconceived notions were shattered, apparently, and they get their undies all twisted over it. She is still, by far, one of the most badass characters in the entirety of video game history. This game did absolutely nothing to change that.
I'll touch on the part that seems to get people the most bent out of shape: the Ridley encounter. Ridley appears and Samus freezes for a moment, giving Ridley the chance to get the drop on her.
Okay, this is NOT Samus going, "OMG IT'S RIDLEY I'M SO SCARED HELP ME I'M A LITTLE GIRL WHO NEEDS RESCUING!" This is Samus going, "WTF?! I killed you already! Multiple times! I blew up the frickin' planet that you were on! How are you here?!" It was a momentary Heroic BSOD, nothing more.
Also, it's made pretty clear that Samus is still torn up over the death of the baby Metroid in the SNES game (which occurred shortly before Other M took place), and as players of that game will recall, it was Ridley who stole the baby in the first place, and there was nothing Samus could do to stop it from happening. So that's another reason she might not react well to seeing Ridley just appear out of the blue, especially if she thought he was dead and gone.
And yet, right after that, she still pretty much just mops the floor with him once again, of course. Oh, but the irreparable damage had already been done: Samus had dared to show a glimmer of emotion. Totally sexist, amirite? RUINED FOREVER.
END SPOILER
Also, I would recommend that anyone playing this game also take a look at this* as well, since the game apparently draws from that, at least a little (as evidenced by the spoiler content above).
* - Second link added because the first link, contrary to what I originally thought, doesn't have nearly the whole thing.
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Also, "the game is too short" is not a valid complaint, imo. Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion can be beaten in, what, 2-4 hours if you just rush through it (and that's not even talking crazy speedruns). It took me around 10 or so hours to beat Super Metroid the first time, and it took about the same to beat this one.Well, I haven't actually finished it yet, as I'm still going through the post-credits stuff. Playtime, as of finishing the post-credits stuff: 13:02:52. Which is roughly the time it took me to collect all items in Super Metroid, if I recall correctly, give or take an hour or so.
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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 I've observed) who are bawwing about WORST GAME OF THE YEAR, METROID IS RUINED FOREVER, THE FRANCHISE WILL NEVER RECOVER, COMPLETE AND THOROUGH BETRAYAL OF THE ENTIRE SERIES and other such ludicrous nonsense, there is only one very simple thing that I have to say:
Ess Tee Eff You.
No, really. You are being utterly ridiculous. This isn't even open for debate here.
Is Other M the best Metroid game ever? No, I don't think so, since I think that honor still belongs to Super Metroid for the SNES. I'd say it's at least on par with the Prime games, though. Is Other M the WROST GAEM EVAR that has dealt a crippling death blow from which the Metroid series will never, ever recover? Of course not, don't be completely asinine.
Man, seriously, Samus opens her mouth and actually talks in this game (OH CRAP!), revealing that she is not, in fact, just Jason Voorhees with boobs or whatever it is that everyone seems to have built her up as. And people simply can't handle the fact that their preconceived notions were shattered, apparently, and they get their undies all twisted over it. She is still, by far, one of the most badass characters in the entirety of video game history. This game did absolutely nothing to change that.
I'll touch on the part that seems to get people the most bent out of shape: the Ridley encounter. Ridley appears and Samus freezes for a moment, giving Ridley the chance to get the drop on her.
Okay, this is NOT Samus going, "OMG IT'S RIDLEY I'M SO SCARED HELP ME I'M A LITTLE GIRL WHO NEEDS RESCUING!" This is Samus going, "WTF?! I killed you already! Multiple times! I blew up the frickin' planet that you were on! How are you here?!" It was a momentary Heroic BSOD, nothing more.
Also, it's made pretty clear that Samus is still torn up over the death of the baby Metroid in the SNES game (which occurred shortly before Other M took place), and as players of that game will recall, it was Ridley who stole the baby in the first place, and there was nothing Samus could do to stop it from happening. So that's another reason she might not react well to seeing Ridley just appear out of the blue, especially if she thought he was dead and gone.
And yet, right after that, she still pretty much just mops the floor with him once again, of course. Oh, but the irreparable damage had already been done: Samus had dared to show a glimmer of emotion. Totally sexist, amirite? RUINED FOREVER.
END SPOILER
Also, I would recommend that anyone playing this game also take a look at this* as well, since the game apparently draws from that, at least a little (as evidenced by the spoiler content above).
* - Second link added because the first link, contrary to what I originally thought, doesn't have nearly the whole thing.
(EDIT)
Also, "the game is too short" is not a valid complaint, imo. Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion can be beaten in, what, 2-4 hours if you just rush through it (and that's not even talking crazy speedruns). It took me around 10 or so hours to beat Super Metroid the first time, and it took about the same to beat this one.
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Date: 2010-09-12 05:12 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-09-12 06:57 am (UTC)From:Now, don't get me wrong, I normally like Spoony (http://spoonyexperiment.com/). I really do. But here? Here, I can safely and confidently say that he is almost completely full of some Jurassic Park (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JFfN5pKzFU) 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 talking about (which is fitting since he says at the start that he's not a fan of the Metroid games in general and didn't really play them that much). Some of it is him just being his typical Caustic Critic (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CausticCritic) self, accentuating the negative (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccentuateTheNegative) and all that, but some of it is him actually being factually, objectively incorrect about some of the things he's talking about. Whether he's just clueless or whether he's being intentionally obtuse, I don't know. (He even throws in a Twilight comparison (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/346762.html) completely out of left field, apropos of nothing. Basically, he says that Samus Aran is to Adam Malkovich as Bella Swan is to Edward Cullen. What.)
At any rate, this is probably the best/worst example of the kind of retarded stuff that lots of people are saying about this game and its story and its treatment of Samus. For me, it's one of those "Are we even playing the same game here? Did I get the good version of the game and they got a shitty version or something?" things.
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Date: 2010-09-12 03:53 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-09-12 05:01 pm (UTC)From:The first and third panels are true enough, however.
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Date: 2010-09-12 05:52 pm (UTC)From: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 and in many cases has already long been here, even if it may be as entirely unwarranted as it is in the case of Other M). And because I ordered it with the free shipping from Amazon, I didn't get it until a week or so after everyone else had already played it and then hastily posted their shitty opinions about how bad it is, so I went into it with not much hope. And yeah, I'm crying pretty loudly here, but it's for the exact opposite reason (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CriticalBacklash).
But yeah, other than that, the Nerf Now guy there is a bit more reasonable than the more vitriolic of the haters such as Spoony (even if the comic itself merely spews the same old shit).
Also, to go back to the Spoony rant for a bit, he mocks the people that have read the Metroid manga, saying that if you own the manga then fuck you, he doesn't give a shit what you think, you're already an uber Metroid nerd and why are you there watching his review to begin with, yadda yadda yadda bullshit bullshit bullshit. Okay, there is this link (http://www.mechadrake.com/metroidmanga.html) here that I posted in my original post above. It goes to a website that has the full Metroid manga, translated into English. It took me maybe 10 minutes to read the whole thing. You don't have to be some kind of sad sack super-Otaku to have read the fucking Metroid manga. I read through it after I finished Other M (and it has little to do with the game, aside from establishing that Ridley is the one who killed the parents of Samus when she was 3 years old). So, yeah, another reason he's full of shit.
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Date: 2010-09-12 06:59 pm (UTC)From: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?!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELImg_jnBA#t=3m50s)). 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?
You could, I suppose, also count the bits in the prequels where Boba was a kid and was just kind of..... there. He gets to shoot at Obi-wan a bit with the Slave I's blasters on Kamino, make annoying comments during the asteroid space battle, and hold Jango's helmet and look sad at the end, and that's pretty much it. But still, that would arguably make him more like Other M's Samus, wouldn't it? You know, considering it gives him some backstory and emotions and such, right? But then, people hated the Star Wars prequels too. Go figure.
(Hell, even Jango Fett did way (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiArWz5rhlk&hd=1) more (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91D5rb3U9g&hd=1) than Boba in the movies and was more of a badass than Boba was ever portrayed on screen to be, and yet, for some reason, people seem to think he kind of sucked in comparison. Well yeah, he got killed pretty easily (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzdMyqZsJ2k&hd=1) in Attack of the Clones, but he was up against Mace Windu after all, so that's to be expected.)
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Date: 2010-09-12 10:38 pm (UTC)From:I'll add this to the original post as well.