28th October 2010, 10:57 PM
I've STILL yet to play it myself, but I've watched two of my friends worm their way through it and I've got a good impression.
Firstly, that subtitle is really dumb. I mocked the title of "New Super Mario Bros.", but at least that made sense. Other M? What is this, some sort of fancy French nonsense? Oh, I get it, the OTHER M is "Mother" or some pretentious nonsense right? Or, maybe it's just a codename they never got around to properly naming...
Anyway, I'll say this. The gameplay looks very fun. The combat is neat, and there is actually some pretty interesting puzzles and a little exploration going on. Not as much as a typical Metroid game, but it's not completely missing either. As a unique take, it's fine.
That said, then there's the other thing... Seeing more of the story, it's more of the same sexist stuff we've all talked about. It only gets WORSE as it goes on. Watching Samus literally freezing in place while soldiers all die around her, not because she's actually BEEN frozen, but because she's "scared", because she's having horrible nightmares about Ridley or whatever? Sheesh... This would have actually been excusable if THIS was supposed to be Zero Mission, but it's not, it's AFTER she's saved the universe 6 times already, not once showing this kind of fear. It's not like showing that she's human with a LITTLE fear of these giant things isn't called for, but it's ALL THE TIME from an experienced GALAXY SAVER.
That's the big thing to me. If this is going to be an official part of the storyline, somewhere between Fusion and Super Metroid, I have a hard time with it. Heck, her worshipping of Adam doesn't even fit the storyline set up in Fusion. There, she actually seemed to have a little respect but a lot of disagreement with him, and was only grudgingly working with Adam.
Ya know, I honestly think there's a way to save this story, and it's with a sequel where this Samus is just a clone. Yeah, that's the ticket. This one's a clone, the real one shows up about midway and explains that. It would explain EVERYTHING. Why's she acting like an insecure child with all those memories? The memories are imperfect and while she's got the details, she's got none of the emotional part, she's like an infant with a database experiencing it all for the first time. Yeah, and she's worshiping Adam because her memories were rewritten to revere a high-level official in the military for easy control. Ooh, and her weird talk about how she doesn't know how much time she spent floating around in her space ship? Yeah, that'll explain all o' dat! Sure, midway through the next game the real Samus shows up, in her Fusion suit, and one has a lot more mechanical moves, like the typical space jump and bombs, and Fusion Samus has more organic moves, like say a "sticky bomb" attached to enemies that crawl into out of the way areas to blow open passages and such. I'm a genius.
Firstly, that subtitle is really dumb. I mocked the title of "New Super Mario Bros.", but at least that made sense. Other M? What is this, some sort of fancy French nonsense? Oh, I get it, the OTHER M is "Mother" or some pretentious nonsense right? Or, maybe it's just a codename they never got around to properly naming...
Anyway, I'll say this. The gameplay looks very fun. The combat is neat, and there is actually some pretty interesting puzzles and a little exploration going on. Not as much as a typical Metroid game, but it's not completely missing either. As a unique take, it's fine.
That said, then there's the other thing... Seeing more of the story, it's more of the same sexist stuff we've all talked about. It only gets WORSE as it goes on. Watching Samus literally freezing in place while soldiers all die around her, not because she's actually BEEN frozen, but because she's "scared", because she's having horrible nightmares about Ridley or whatever? Sheesh... This would have actually been excusable if THIS was supposed to be Zero Mission, but it's not, it's AFTER she's saved the universe 6 times already, not once showing this kind of fear. It's not like showing that she's human with a LITTLE fear of these giant things isn't called for, but it's ALL THE TIME from an experienced GALAXY SAVER.
That's the big thing to me. If this is going to be an official part of the storyline, somewhere between Fusion and Super Metroid, I have a hard time with it. Heck, her worshipping of Adam doesn't even fit the storyline set up in Fusion. There, she actually seemed to have a little respect but a lot of disagreement with him, and was only grudgingly working with Adam.
Ya know, I honestly think there's a way to save this story, and it's with a sequel where this Samus is just a clone. Yeah, that's the ticket. This one's a clone, the real one shows up about midway and explains that. It would explain EVERYTHING. Why's she acting like an insecure child with all those memories? The memories are imperfect and while she's got the details, she's got none of the emotional part, she's like an infant with a database experiencing it all for the first time. Yeah, and she's worshiping Adam because her memories were rewritten to revere a high-level official in the military for easy control. Ooh, and her weird talk about how she doesn't know how much time she spent floating around in her space ship? Yeah, that'll explain all o' dat! Sure, midway through the next game the real Samus shows up, in her Fusion suit, and one has a lot more mechanical moves, like the typical space jump and bombs, and Fusion Samus has more organic moves, like say a "sticky bomb" attached to enemies that crawl into out of the way areas to blow open passages and such. I'm a genius.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)