Nintedno refuses to acknowledge Other M, hinting at it being non-canon

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >if I dont acknowledge it it doesnt exist!
    Autism

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >if I dont ACK!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        rent free

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Your image implies anyone other than you was talking about it, which isn't the case and you're a moron

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              it would apply even if the image had just 1 person laughing at them

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It wouldn't because in reality the troony isn't there at all, you're hallucinating it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      rent free

      Your image implies anyone other than you was talking about it, which isn't the case and you're a moron

      YWNBAW

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thanks for proving my point

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      According to the Persona games, that is exactly how it works

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      With fiction yes. Since it's all made up anyway, if the current fiction doesn't acknowledge it, then it never happened in regards to that work

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What if Disney erases the OT?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Kathleen Kennedy managed to erase the EU at least. Letting Jar Jar Abrams and Rian Johnson completely shit on the OT was the best they could do.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Then that means it didn't happen in regards to whatever new stuff they put out

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Well, yes. What "existing" means in this case is that Nintendo will acknowledge its existence in future games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is true even in reality. Many things can be memory holed and effectively erased from having any impact on existence. We all live through stories anyway.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >>if I dont acknowledge it it doesnt exist!
      indeed
      there are only 2 genders, boys have a penis, girls have a vegana

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Dread acknowledged it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It was acknowledged multiple times in Dread through rewards. One being a title-card reward for each mainline entry of the series which includes Other M, showing how much they regard it, and the other is the completion reward that shows off Adam with his Other M design. Additionally, the official timeline for Samus Returns included Other M but left aside the Prime games.

      Correct.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        SR and Dread are basically a matured and non moronic implementation of Other M's playstyle, of course they recognize it

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          SR and Dread are standard 2D Metroid games with the addition of 360 degree aim; the playstyle preceded Other M by a longshot, which was meant to be a new take on the classic design separate from the conventional 2D format. The acknowledgement of Other M is more a matter of narrative relevance being that it's a numbered Metroid entry (3.5).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >originally it was Metroid 1 - Metroid 2 - Prime 1-3 - Super - Fusion
        >Sakamoto had a metldown because Prime was regarded as just as good as Super and the best Metroid games right there with it
        >Made Other M
        >Further cemented his shit legacy
        >Proceeds to have hissy fits about Prime to this day in Dread (which is sheer luck it was so good)

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Proceeds to have hissy fits
          I don't doubt you do.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I still don't get the Prime retcon. It literally doesn't hurt the series in any way whatsoever other than fixing the issue with Mother Brain and Space Pirates being hiveminded morons.

          Prime actually fixes a lot of the moronic shit about the lore. No reason to say it isn't canon, and the only one who has ever said it is Sakamoto. I get its his baby at the end of the day, and those are the ones he didn't make, but it really does just seem petty of him.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Jap has a hissy fit because non-jap made a better game in the series than they did
          kek, this happened with Miyamoto and DKC too, why else do you think the Donkey Kong design in the movie is closer to the arcade design?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Sakamoto had a metldown because Prime was regarded as just as good as Super and the best Metroid games right there with it
          Why do people think this when his games bring back mechanics and upgrades from the Prime series? If he hated them like everyone thinks he does then he wouldn't do that.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        These are barely any acknowledgement then. These may exist because the game exists but its story can be denied over how bad it was.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I may have missed it, remind me

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      All Dread acknowledged was Adam's character design from Other M. And even then it barely looks like him.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dreadm's timeline literally just says "yeah Other M happened".

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Oh you mean that fricking game where you talk to fake robot Adam for the entire fricking thing? Yeah....real epic...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Adam in Other M was moronic. And Samus was even more moronic than him for following his orders.

      The "Adam" in Metroid Fusion was closer to the original Adam, if you ever bothered to read the manga he came from.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        adam basically has no character to speak of in the manga, he's just there.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          To be fair, a lot of people seem to think the fact that the original games didn't explore Samus's personality actually meant she was a stoic, no-nonsense badass, so similar 'nothing means something' conclusions are to be expected.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Other M was good, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Keep pretending, because it never was good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Apparently you're not tired at all

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Dobson won't let this stand, he will put Nintendo in their place

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      When the world needed him most, he vanished.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Is he still ding dong bannu from the internet after he ruined his brother's job prospect after the employer found Son of Dob while they were digging his bro's info online?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Son of Dob
          I'm a bit out of the loop. What is this?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes.

          >Son of Dob
          I'm a bit out of the loop. What is this?

          Exactly what he said, apparently ol' Dobson got his brother passed over for a promotion due to being Dob, and all the stuff that comes with that. Grain of salt, of course, but he hasn't really been heard from since.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes.
          [...]
          Exactly what he said, apparently ol' Dobson got his brother passed over for a promotion due to being Dob, and all the stuff that comes with that. Grain of salt, of course, but he hasn't really been heard from since.

          I genuinely do not believe this, they don't even give a shit about your social media presence when you apply for clearance, the only two things they actually give a shit about are "do you have any outstanding debts" and "do you have a criminal record," and even on the debt thing as long as you're honest and state that you can or have paid it off they still don't care. It's purely about whether you can be exploited by a third party, nothing more. I can't believe any dumb shit Dobson said on Twitter would matter at all

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            What I heard it wasn’t about Dobson being a security risk or anything, it was because Dobbro was applying for a marketing position where he would also be the face of the company (like a Reggie or Flo or whatever) and he lost the position because having your company’s face related to the internet’s favorite punching bag would kind of defeat the purpose. Personally, I think that’s bullshit too. What I believe ACTUALLY happened was just him being mind broken over his muslim-lesbian-vampire-ski-lodge-twitter comic getting leaked and mocked so he bailed from the internet for a couple of months, realized he actually felt better not screaming his shitty opinions into the void, and came to the wise decision to stay off permanently

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ridley's baby stage is canon

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >OP gets instantly BTFO
      >No replies
      >Rest of the thread is negative IQ brainworm gurgling noises like

      >if I dont ACK!


      Geemer "entertainment", everyone.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    MOVIEBOB’S GONNA FREAK and Dobson too I guess but he’s dead so who cares

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've noticed that the most autistic celebs (Bob, Dobson, Brentalfloss, Arin) follow of pattern of disliking Ocarina of Time but licking Other M
      Why is that?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Because normal people have different tastes and preferences. It's the obscene hivemind that is the Metroid community that refuses variation and rages at differing opinions.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >MovieBob
          >Nomal person.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Bob, Dobson, Brentalfloss, Arin
          >Normal people

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Moviebob
          >normal
          Did you not skim through that autobiography he wrote?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Bob, Dobson, Arin
        Because these three dickheads are massive contrarians who want to feel like they’re the smartest guy in the room and one of the easiest ways to do that is to find an unpopular work that everyone sits on constantly and go
        >No no you guys just don’t GET it, this thing everyone hates is actually WAY deeper than you think
        because that suggests you know something that everyone else doesn’t because you’re just so damn smart

        >Brentalfloss
        Is he still around? I don’t remember shit about him other than his Dr Mario parody which WILL NOT leave my head every-goddamn-time I hear Fever frick I hate him so much, that webcomic he had drawn by Dobson of all people, and his Tetris parody where he claimed that only girls like Tetris, so I dunno, it’s probably because he’s a contrarian too

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        rampant contrarianism, which usually comes from being bullied too much as a kid, and needing to adopt a mentality of always going against the crowd, because that's how you cope.

        Alternately, autistic resistance to change, meaning you always prefer things that superficially resemble your childhood, even if they fricking suck. Metroid Other M, at least superficially better resembles Super Metroid, because it's a sidescroller, and it uses enemy designs straight out of the old manuals, even if they're rendered in a way that looks shitty. This is how these people's minds work.

        I should also add that first person shooters are bad, because they're "jock" games, and no I wont elaborate, or budge at all on how childish this mindset is.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >and Dobson too I guess but he’s dead
      wait what

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just finished watching a playthrough of this though I haven't finished watching to 100% items, but before I say my piece, I would like to know other anons' perspectives. So I'll ask: What went wrong with Other M?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      A man set out to tell a story. He did not have the skill to execute such.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sakamoto went on a ego trip and had no one high up enough to tell him when he's being moronic.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I can’t find it now but before the game came out, I remember an interview where one of the guys from Team Ninja says they really wanted to give the player the option to use the Wii Classic Controller or Nunchuck so the player could use a stick to navigate the 3D environments easier only for Sakamoto to say something like
        >The game HAS to be controlled with the Wiimote mode on its side because that way it’s most like the Famicom original so no sticks!
        and everyone at Team Ninja just had to go along with it because he was the boss despite the fact they all knew it was a bad idea. He made a bunch of bizarre decisions like that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You've got it backwards.

          >IGN: You also mentioned that Metroid Other M was originally to be an on-rails design. How far into the design did that change to what we're playing now?
          >Sakamoto: I want to clarify, I've seen lots of news stories out there that misinterpreted what I said about the on-rails part and may have gotten the wrong idea. What I meant, in the original concept, Samus could move back and forth but only on a fixed path, not that it was automatic movement forward constantly like in rail shooters...
          >IGN: Oh, I knew what you meant when you said it. I pictured in my mind something similar to, say, Klonoa, where you're on a fixed path and the 3D environment moves around you…
          >Sakamoto: Ah, yes, Klonoa! Right. You got it. (laughs) I wanted to stick with the D-pad control scheme, and it was Team Ninja that found an interesting way to manage D-pad only movement in a 3D environment, and we were able to move away from that early design concept. This happened very early on, a very early stage in development.

          The traditional style control scheme was a thing from the beginning. The 3D play came later because Team Ninja figured out a design that worked with that core constraint.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ah, I see. Well it’s good to know it wasn’t entirely his fault.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He also kept asking why the suit was purple with the gravity upgrade to the point they had to leave all upgrades with the default colors and only changed the shape of the shoulders.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            No, it was that the Purple color was visually jarring to him in more serious moments late in the game, so he asked that they come up with a different implementation to imply that she had that power up instead. The purple glow was chosen instead for that variation.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Having to stand completely still to shoot missiles in an action game, for a start.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      forcing the control scheme to be wiimote only in an action-heavy 3D game was a stupid idea. I don't even give a shit about the story, that was moronic and someone should have been kicked in the dick for it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Unironically killed Samus' image by making her into the ideal coomer/weeb/jap waifu instead of the powerful protag she's been in every other game. Also random PTSD over Ridley's rebirth despite past games is moronic.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ridley only ever truly died in the entry prior to Other M. Seeing him come back despite being definitively killed would have been a shock.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It might have been a shock if it hadn't already been well established that various Zebes lifeforms had been cloned on the facility. Her reaction should have been, "oh, of fricking COURSE they cloned him too", not a panic attack

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      A focus on a story that didn't need to be told, horrible controls, the level design change of exploration into strict linearity with virtually no decision making along with your fricking powers not being stolen but Samus is too moronic to activate them on her own, the monotonous and frankly boring "combat" which is just dodge, press shoot button. Absolute disrespect for previous Metroid titles by flat out ignoring some of them "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I WAS ON A JOINT MISSION!"

      Other M is bottom of the barrel not because it's a mediocre action game, but because of the level of disrespect it shows to Metroid fans by going "Frick you"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      basically everything. my favorite bad part of the story that no one mentions is that she does the escape run from the self-destructing ship in only the zero suit for literally no reason. she deactivates the power suit in a cutscene and then just doesn't turn it back on. it's the perfect cherry on top of a truly awful story.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The control scheme was horrendous, the charge beam was really overpowered for what it was and trivialized a lot of the combat, it turned Samus into a complete moron who needs Adam to authorize not burning to death, your upgrades are just arbitrarily locked because Adam tells you to, Remembuh Me is the only good character, Adam is terrible, it spends time on a story you do not care about, and it is so linear it hurts.

      I gotta go back and try 100%ing it one of these days but what an awful game.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Don't forget it made Samus suddenly have PTSD over Ridley (despite knowing he's been cloned and rebuilt before), and that Ridley is also a weird chicken lizard thing.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          To be fair, I kinda liked Ridley's chicken pokemon form. Was kind of a neat idea.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            To each their own, but I despised it personally. I get its sort of a reverse dinosaur->bird thing, (with the dinosaur being more of a dragon and its a space alien), but I'd have preferred if it was just more lizard like the entire way, without all the feathers/fur shit it has going on.

            Besides, personally, I don't think we ever really needed to see a baby/adolescent Ridley. We didn't even need Ridley there in the first place honestly.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            just as a design in a vacuum, separate from its role in the story, i kinda like the middle lizard-like form. seeing its molted husk was a neat visual. the furby one was just goofy but the part where samus calls it a 'disgusting creature' out of nowhere made me laugh with how unexpected it was
            i want to frick madeline

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Baby Ridley being a little chicken thing was pretty silly but I did like the design of adolescent Ridley where it has the tail but hasn’t grown wings yet.
            Also the Federation cloning a random sample of dna not knowing it’s Ridley is both ridiculous and very in character.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ridley never died until Super, which this takes place after, so of course it'd be unexpected considering she finally took him down proper just a while ago.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I mean even then.

            >She assumes he's dead after Metroid
            >She sees him rebuilt in Prime and assumes he's dead after that
            >She sees him not only survive that but also Phazon Induced and explodes
            >See's him again in Super, either its his original body that has been regrafted together, or just another Clone (I believe canonically its his real body and somehow he survived exploding into tiny phazon bits)
            >Still not surprised at all by this
            >See's him in Fusion (which granted is canonically after Other M but came first)
            >Still not surprised
            >Other M she is extremely flabbergasted and has a PTSD meltdown over her parents (which you'd think would have happened in the first game since its her first meeting with him since the incident)

            And I get it, Prime technically isn't canon, and the 2D games have very minimalistic dialogue, to practically none at all outside of A.D.A.M. and Elevators in Fusion and Intros. But come on, it was silly to even attempt to include that in Other M no matter how you look at it.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Prime technically isn't canon
              it's canon straight from the guy responsible for other M

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              it doesn't make any sense because it's just sakamoto replicating a scene from the manga without context.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              How do you know she assumes he's dead in those other mainline circumstances? They only went out of their way to explore Samus's personality in a manner to make it a baseline moving forward with Other M. Her lack of reaction and the unexplored aftermaths don't actually indicate a perspective on her end, and Ridley's not generally been the primary goal or adversary. You can attribute the meltdown to her parents, or you can attribute it to Ridley himself, with her history being an exacerbating factor during a vulnerable time where she no longer regarded him as a threat or a part of her life anymore.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I mean you can argue the reverse, why would she assume he isn't dead when he keeps coming back? Why would she even assume its Ridley himself, assumedly he has a whole ass species of his race out there. You can argue a lot of things, its just a stupid moment.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Because she explicitly says it in the damn game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No she doesn't. She barely even interacts with Ridley proper and the only time is her mostly realizing little birdie and the adolescent form were Ridley's younger forms in the first place. Besides if we're going off the assumption that Samus can deduce things fairly well, which we know she can, its safe for her to assume that she knows this Ridley is actually a clone by the GF, as is most things on the Bottle Ship.

                There is no reason for her to have a meltdown, there really isn't. I have no idea why anyone would even argue this point with how many times she's fought Ridley. She doesn't even act this way in Super. Also she herself straight up says Ridley is her nemesis, she's fully aware of him living through extreme methods and him being a constant battle for her that she needs to finally put to rest.

                If they wanted her to freak the frick out over Ridley they would have. She gets completely immobilized by MB in Super after all after getting her ass kicked, the same thing happens if you lose to Ridley at the start of the game, but there is no effort to make her freeze the frick up when she encounters Ridley at any point. MoM is the only game in the series, the only game where she reacts in any way to this. Hell she even comments on the Brain AIs the GF is modeling after Mother Brain in Prime 3 for frick's sake too. She doesn't have a meltdown over Kraid, or anything else, doesn't freak out over Chozo being killed, used, or trying to kill her in Dread.

                Its the same shit as defending her accepting that she's a civilian and would face charges. She doesn't act that way in Fusion when threatened with the same action, hell they allowed her to train in her power suit and were generally light-hearted over the whole ordeal. She doesn't have a meltdown with Adam over a single differing decision in the past. She doesn't have meltdowns over all the other Hunters corruption in Prime 3 or any of her actions.

                Hell the point of the manga was her overcoming trauma.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >No she doesn't
                "And the explosion that followed destroyed planet Zebes, along with the remains of Mother Brain, the Space Pirates, and my long-standing nemesis, Ridley."

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Not him, but she could have easily said the same thing after Metroid 1.

                >"And the explosion that ended Mother Brain, the Space Pirate Facility, and even the lava that ended Ridley."
                She could have thought any number of things. Don't have one of the most iconic female characters in video game history reduced to a sniveling fricking baby. She was based on fricking Ellen Ripley for god's sake.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >could have easily
                irrelevant. She explicitly makes her statement in Other M -at the start of the game no less. Anon's position is moot. I don't care about the rest of your comment .

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                And why would she assume a planet blowing up killed him? He literally disintegrates in front of her eyes in Prime 3.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >my long-standing nemesis, Ridley.
                I fricking hate that the game never once goes into detail about that. For as much of a big deal is made about Samus' conflict with Ridley, it's never actually explained why she considers the dragon guy her "long standing nemesis".

                Then again, the game was advertised as being an exploration of Samus' backstory (past is prologue), but never do they bring up K-2L, or even the goddamn CHOZO. How the hell do you have a character piece without mentioning that fact she was raised by aliens? Frick this game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nope, you can't go over her being raised by the Chozo. Adam is the closest thing she had to a father remember?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Adam is the closest thing she had to a father remember?
                Frick that line so much. I will not tolerate bird dad erasure!

                Her childhood is the perfect set up for a stranger in a strange land type story, but we just get her military service.

                And honestly, we don't even see much of that. Just that insipid thumbs down thing. And younger Samus is portrayed as brash and full of herself. A result of living among highly advanced warrior monks who make everyone else look like primitives perhaps? Who knows.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Her childhood is the perfect set up for a stranger in a strange land type story, but we just get her military service.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's weird that Zero Emissions references the manga and Samus' caretakers Old Bird and whatshisname but not Ridley's apparent relationship with Samus. He opens one of the two lifeforce doors when he dies and that's all the game ever says about him. They didn;t even imply his survival which is really odd because he canonically survived to Super even before Prime.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Don't forget it made Samus suddenly have PTSD over Ridley (despite knowing he's been cloned and rebuilt before), and that Ridley is also a weird chicken lizard thing.

        Only good thing about Other M is the flashback shit, that shows Samus was a teenager who hadn't learned yet and made brash decisions, but still cared about her little boy crush and people at the end of the day. Also Samus in civilian clothes at the end that isn't just a picture.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Silver lining is that it's braindead easy to 100% since it marks everything on the map post-game.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You know that this image features those words more than Samus mentions them across the entirety of the game. 9 times. Only 9. 6 were in the opening and the tutorial, and there would be no mention again until once about half way through the game and twice more in separate instances later.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Only Nine? Damn… meme magic is real.
          But stil, the fact she said 6 times in the opening was ridiculous

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It's not even that ridiculous, The Baby just seems to be a thing in Japan going by the old Super Metroid mangas

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              people just fixate on it rather than other equally shitty things in the story because it's front-loaded and it's a simple, easy way to mock the game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They fixate on it almost certainly by way of being secondaries parroting a popular sentiment and take an uneven handed mockery that can only be levied against the start of the game and play it as a sincere assumption about the broader package.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                holy esl

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                "The baby" moronation IS representative of the broader package. Every bit of the story is just as bad. Samus is stupid, useless, and a coward. Adam is a fricking shithead and a moron. The setting is just metroid fusion but worse. Adam kills himself to destroy the metroids but he doesn't destroy all the metroids and you blow the space station up at the end anyway. Adam also dies during the mission and his body is totally destroyed, meaning that the AI Adam is a copy of an Adam that Samus never reconciled with, retroactively making that part of Fusion weird and fricked up. The GF apparently were able to clone and miniaturize mother brain, how the frick did they do that, she was state of the art chozo tech, and why did they think it could end in any way other than disaster? Half the plot is about an assassin among your ranks and the game just fricking forgets to reveal who it was. It's an utter disaster of a script, one of the worst in videogames.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >the game forgets to unveil the assassin
                Its in the data files after you beat the game. While I agree the story is a mess, its still the best controlling 3d metroid. And I also don't give a frick about a videgame's story, as they're all pretty much always shit.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >While I agree the story is a mess, its still the best controlling 3d metroid.
                It's a character action game that uses a D-pad and has no melee attack. Sometimes you need to shoot missiles which requires turning the controller in your hand at the screen, which is about as smooth and intuitive as juggling cinder blocks in the dark with your wiener, and you can't even move in that first person view. It fricking sucks ass, it's one of the worst controlling first party nintendo games ever made.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            3 in the opening movie and 3 times just after the tutorial.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      moronic story, moronic way to unlock powers, boring music, the gameplay is actually fine.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing of Value is lost if Other M is made noncanon

    >but you don't learn more about Adam
    Don't need to

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Im sad about Other M because I really would have loved a 3rd person metroid that was an actual metroidvania and not some linear movie marathon

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Nooo, that doesn't really exist
    dogshit behavior, soon companies will pretend that something doesn't exist just because it's not suitable for "modern audiences" oops, it already happens
    also, unironically WHO the frick cares about the metroid lore? It's bad with or without Other M being canonical

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The "Samus" in Other M was an experimental clone made by the GF from DNA taken from her after Super. The clone was conditioned to be more obedient to GF orders and more easy to manipulate, with the downside of being overall more emotional and prone to mental breakdowns.
    You cannot convince me otherwise.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So that's what pic related was about then...

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Made for remodeling

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          w-what?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            HE SAID HE IS GONNA REMODEL HER butthole

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lol Samus having emotions triggering c**ts on the internet will never not be funny

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Other M haters be like "is that a womanm..being emotional??!?! Help me Adam I'm going iiinnnsssaaannnee!"
        Lmao

        But Samus got pretty emotional at the end of dread and people loved it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Rage at Raven Beak for trying to kill her is different then all of Other M.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Some people still complained, anon. Also, the people talking shit are inconsistent and rationalize their disdain to suit the moment, not dictate their standards overall/going forward.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        kys tumblerina

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        1. People don't play Metroid games for the story or for character introspection. So making a Metroid game dedicated to those things was always going to be an uphill battle.
        2. The game handles Samus having "emotions" pretty damn poorly. It doesn't feel like a humanization of the character, it feels like she is an entirely different, and altogether weaker person.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I'm not sure what personality Super/Fusion exuded in terms of characterization because I probably have aspergers but "Durr Samus is teh Silent badass" was a Prime invention and I hate how it got to the point where half of Samus lines in Dread were just her screeching

          Her turning into a literal babby in Other M was uncalled for though. Even forgetting Prime that's still 3 Ridley fight and a Robot Replica under her belt (Two were retcons but still).

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >was a Prime invention
            was it? or was it a fandom thing where they latch onto one idea and exaggerate past the point of taste.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            In terms dialogue, she has none in Super outside of the intro, very similary to Dread's. There really isn't any characterization to speak of in it. If you really want to stretch things, you could say that the fact that she spared the infant metroid and her seeming excited about the benefit research into it could provide points to her being a good person, but that's just about it.
            In Fusion, you really just get her saying that AI (ADAM) she is paired with reminds her of her former CO (Adam) along with a bit of commentary of her current situation until the end IIRC. Then at the end you get the monologue about how the galaxy will be doomed the moment the Feds come to capture samples from the BSL station and that she can't allow that happen basically. Again, not much characterization to go off of, pretty much just a snippet of her past and an additional affirmation of her being a heroic person I guess.
            So I can see why Prime had her be silent. Hell, you can argue that Prime gives you more to work with than Super; the logs are her commentary on the various things you scan afterall.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Other M haters be like "is that a womanm..being emotional??!?! Help me Adam I'm going iiinnnsssaaannnee!"
    Lmao

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lol Samus having emotions triggering c**ts on the internet will never not be funny

      I like how people go to that strawman for why Other M is hated

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Lot of subjective nitpicks. Most of which aren't regarded upon complaint of Other M, ironically making THEM the strawmen.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Lot of subjective nitpicks
          I didn't realize facts are "nitpicks"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >REGARDLESS OF THE STORY
        >mentions the story

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >soundtrack is so bland, it could be the background music for an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
        hey frick you buddy

        zoomers will never know kino

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Honestly its not even that difficult just say the most major plot points happened "Samus uncovers Federation bioweapons experiments on Metroids, Adam sacrifices himself to destroy the project, Samus discovers a conspiracy within the Federation that could be just as dangerous as the Space Pirates" and just don't bring up any individual parts of moronation that was in the game.
    Then again I do kinda find it funny how hard they dropped the possibility that they are now on the Federation's shitlist in Dread, as they're right back to working as freelance troubleshooters for them. Though I suppose if the conspiracy had a brain they would pick and choose their battles of getting rid of Samus very carefully.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why isn't Fusion properly followed up on if they went to so much trouble to make references to it in Dread?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because Other M scared them off from any evil Feds story so we just gotta assume A.I Adam testified against the people he was working with and they got arrested.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because Other M scared them off from any evil Feds story so we just gotta assume A.I Adam testified against the people he was working with and they got arrested.

      The translation of Fusion loses the nuance that the aspects of the Federation that engaged in the corruption were actually a fringe group and not the GF themselves as an entity. Samus isn't on bad terms with the GF, nor was she a fugitive.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'll allow it, but it's really kind of a shame, a Fugitive Samus and Adam story could have been fricking amazing

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's A direction that could have come about, yeah. It's interesting on its face as a development, but the reality is that it'd kind of conflict a bit with the focus of Samus's nature as far as Nintendo has established internally (even prior to Other M). She's regarded as a more altruistic person who has a motherly regard for the Galaxy, protecting it from threats more out of the goodness of her heart than interest in the bounty. Even if she were a fugitive, she'd probably be looking into the next major existential threat as opposed to dealing with a galactic bureaucracy.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I just figured a Galactic Federation acting as Umbrella Corporation making potentially weaponized Metroids and SA-X abominations for nefarious reasons were kind of an existential threat, I figured it would end the same way in that the people behind it would be exposed and shut down, just that we'd get to play it as it happened . Still, Dread is pretty good and I like the idea of Raven Beak just severely underestimating the shit out of what Metroid-Samus is capable of

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The main plot points that Fusion gave us going forwards are "Samus is part Metroid", "Samus has a computer buddy who is based off a guy she once knew", and "Samus fricked up the Federation’s secret Metroid breeding plans and is now on their shitlist". The first one is easy to follow up on by just continuing to show the effects that had on her body (which Dread did). The second one is also easy because you just need to keep the computer buddy around (which Dread did). The third one is problematic though, because while you might think there’s a ton of cool and simple directions to take that (Samus has to fight Federation soldiers, or they send other bounty hunters after her, or she actively destroy the corrupt parts of Federation, etc) those are all directions Nintendo doesn’t actually to take Samus in. Remember Samus is not actually supposed to hunt bounties, she’s just supposed to be a cool person who hears that there’s a problem and then goes to fix it, she’s just called a "bounty hunter" because it sounds cool. Nintendo doesn’t want her to fight against regular sentient people who are just doing their jobs (space pirates don’t count because they’re evil and fugly) so they only thing they can do with it right now is to just push it off the side until they work out some monster designs for the corrupt Federation members to have that look evil enough to kill but aren’t SO monstrous to make players ask "how did these monstermen get to be in the top levels of the space government?"

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So much for “remember me?”

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I miss Higgs.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Me too, it’s been fun memeing him regardless of the outcome

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >They didn't have him say remember me again when he shows up in the ending cutscene
      Dropped the ball bigtime.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They dropped the ball on the whole game if you think about it

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    good

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I made that post literally over a decade ago
      >Every time it's reposted all I can see is that I typed Kraig instead of Kraid

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I was in that thread, anon. I remember.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >only Metroid II and Other M are canon
      Sounds good to me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I made that post literally over a decade ago
      >Every time it's reposted all I can see is that I typed Kraig instead of Kraid

      Damn. Time flies.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Didn't power bomb it
        Rookie mistake. Power bomb everything, everywhere.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ageed. The comic would work great if it was the tube

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Red doors
          Wait, was this supposed to be colored?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            nah, just a joke about the game

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              That's fine. Still love those comics, wish Nintendo did something like that for most of their series and not just only Fire Emblem

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >MFW Dread wasnt about samus fighting the federation and its corrupted leaders they even hinted in the shithead that was other M.
          Frickin hell man if they could just WORLD BUILD a little more better.
          >Samus gets fricking captured because "wtf why am I under arrest"
          >Some bullshit hangmans trial
          >sentenced by execution/experimentation ect..
          >Frickin stripped of all your shit again but this time it makes fricking sense
          >Whole game takes place on a prison planet with harsh conditions.
          >9 circles of hells references everywhere
          >feddies are all using botched/rigged versions of your weapons
          >these homies are making unspeakable human made horrors with your Metroid infused DNA
          >whole game is you just trying to fricking escape shithead planet and killing/revealing the fricking homosexual who put you in there.
          Dont get me wrong Iam glad with what we got but damn the word dread is kinda more severe then Nintendo thinks.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I assume the GF got dumped so Mercury Steam could insert their OC donut steel chozo into the mix (Remember Dread DS was only confirmed to have EMMIs). On the other hand I like how the game just dumps the bittersweet ending of Fusion (I wish they'd explained how it happened though)

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I was hoping they would let ol ravenbeak cook a lil bit I felt like he coulda been a more longterm enemy that would actually send chozo and beasts at you because he wants to test you more ect.,. also the fact that we got robbed of a proper X ravenbeak boss battle is shit that should've been not okay.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            jesus that sounds like the last thing metroid needs
            >9 circles of hells references everywhere
            seriously?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I always read that success with Melee's announcer voice

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Surprised ACgay isn’t mentally breaking down right now

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe sleeping.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Breaking down? If anything, I love this. It's about time Other M gets shat on, after years of coomers praising it as the best thing since sliced bread.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I despised Other M, but whether it's canon or not doesn't really affect anything. Dread already walked back Samus' awful characterization and retconned the Federation members in the whole Bottle Ship conspiracy as some fringe splinter group. Nothing of any real importance happened in Other M that wasn't already established in Fusion (Adam's death).

    I mean, that was one of the big problems with Other M's story anyway. If in the future, Samus references a time when she had to destroy a Federation space station that was secretly being used to raise Metroids as bioweapons, it's not going to be clear whether she's talking about the events of Other M or Fusion, and it won't matter anyway.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's because Other M was Fusion but worse in the first place.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The fringe thing wasn't a retcon. It was a thing since the original Japanese release of Fusion. It also didn't walk back Samus's characterization, much of which was delivered through internal monologues in Other M. Indeed, that game is the closest representation of how Samus engages in combat as seen in Dread. She was utterly brutal in Other M.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Third time's the charm.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah. I didn't want to just add an asterisk, but I didn't actually make the correction on the second one.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe we should give Pirate Boss a chance.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    [...]

    The fringe thing wasn't a retcon. It was a thing since the original Japanese release of Fusion. It also didn't walk back Samus's characterization, much of which was delivered through internal monologues in Other M. Indeed, that game is the closest representation of how Samus engages in combat as seen in Dread. She was utterly brutal in Other M.

    ...Anon?

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Nintendo of Europe
    >Reddit
    What they say doesn't matter. What matters is what Japan says and they still acknowledge Other M.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do you guys think they'll port Prime to Switch?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I highly doubt it. Switch can't run gamecube games smoothly.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why? I thought Switch was stronger

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Nintendo can't do gamecube emulators. It's one thing to port the game, which would make it in line with the switch hardware, but trying to replicate another system and just plop its games in there is a lot harder. Nintendo hasn't even made a commercial gamecube emulator up until 3D All Stars, the Wii and Wii U could play them natively.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      On the Dane project, maybe.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >look it up
        >new Switch pro
        >have had my Switch since 2019 and only played Fortnite and Apex

        Okay, what are the best Switch games?

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Other M thread
    >no one's posted the manga of Ridley stripping a panicking Samus and raping her

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >no one's posted the manga of Ridley stripping a panicking Samus and raping her
      He did? Because i don’t remember that part? Or was it another manga?
      I remember when he talked and kept teasing Samus about eating her alive though

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      All I saw was that fan comic someone drew of ridley and Samus where for some reason Samus was a futa and ridley graphically ripped samosas balls off and fed it to her. All Samus says during all that was "my balls"

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Other M is the DMC of Metroid

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's honestly unfair to DmC.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There was a long media campaign defending Other M.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >There was a long media campaign defending Other M.

        there was? I know there was one for DmC

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I mean that there wasn't.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cope, Prime is the only thing Nintendo ignores and keeps locked away as a what if at best.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >ignores prime
      >is making a sequel for it
      ??????

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      nintendo has prime in house while shooing 2D away to spaniards

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Prime 4 was initially outsourced to a Bandai Namco team, allegedly.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Bandai Singapore which is why they had to scrap the whole fricking thing and start from scratch.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          most reputable current "source" states that retro's design team was on it from the start, they just had to have art done by someone else because retro's art guys were on prime remaster

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >In a video released online in early 2019, Nintendo EPD general manager Shinya Takahashi announced that development on Metroid Prime 4 had restarted under Retro Studios with Tanabe. Takahashi said that development under the previous studio had not met Nintendo's standards and that the decision to restart the project was not taken lightly.
            The most reputable current source is Nintendo, who say that the game was restarted and put in the hands of Retro after that.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        not only that but mercurysteam's initial pitch for metroid was a metroid prime game but nintendo told them off lol

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          it was for a fusion remake, and they were told to remake metroid2 instead to see if they were "capable"

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Other M is canon

    Prime is not

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >franchise no one cares about
    >muh canon
    can't wait for this uninspired trash to die. the games haven't been good since super. combat devolved to "monster is weak to X, us X to hurt monster" with no aim required. what a joke.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >with no aim required
      >Greatest aim-focus in series history with the last two mainline entries.
      It's the fans that are a joke. Particularly (you) attempting to keep the thread alive with flamebait.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Shut the frick up ACgay, Prime 1-3, Dread, Fusion, SR, and ZM are all great games. The only stain on the franchise is fricking MoM. Hell even Pinball and Hunters are fine games.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anybody defending Other M needs to leave this site for good.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Where do you even go with the story now that every threat is gone? and before you bring up anything Prime related remember that's a completely separate universe

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Prime isn't a separate universe, they flip flop on it constantly. Even Sakamoto has confirmed its not a separate universe.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      New threat and decanonize Other M too while they're at it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      just make up some new thing, metroid doesn't need deep interconnected lore to justify a game

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The X aren't necessarily gone. A ship escapes prior to the end. There's a cloaked Chozo in one of the art pieces in the background.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The Mawkin ship at the end of Dread took off by the time Samus escaped ZDR
      There ya go. We also don't know for sure if those are Mawkin or more X. Though it would get fatiguing to have the X as the antagonist three games in a row

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      just make up some new thing, metroid doesn't need deep interconnected lore to justify a game

      The X aren't necessarily gone. A ship escapes prior to the end. There's a cloaked Chozo in one of the art pieces in the background.

      >The Mawkin ship at the end of Dread took off by the time Samus escaped ZDR
      There ya go. We also don't know for sure if those are Mawkin or more X. Though it would get fatiguing to have the X as the antagonist three games in a row

      Even then, regardless of what they think of Prime, other Bounty Hunters still exist, and its easy to just make up new aliens and shit.

      If Metroids are Xenomorphs, X-Parasites are Predators, Chozo are Engineers, then why can't we do Blade Runner Metroid? It is in the same universe as Alien after all.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I just remembered Sylux and Weavel. These might be the only loose ends left.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Well Sylux is likely gonna be in Prime 4. Weavel, who knows. Plus we still have other High Command in the Space Pirates after all, Sakamoto's dumbass hivemind moron Pirates are an abomination.

          Hell even in 2D we still have rogue Chozos in places, the GF, other Hunters seemingly, other aliens, Blade Runner esque shit, Androids/Robots, etc.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        like, robots/clones? X already kinda does the doppelganger thing and I'm not sure what a blade runner inspired enemy would be like outside of a social context

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dread introduced the Exelion corporation, who are clearly dabbling in some dangerous AI tech. A robot uprising on some Fed colony could be a good way to flesh out Exelion and the Federation. She's already fought Xenomorphs and The Thing, so why not the Borg as well?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Combine Kid Icarus and Metroid and have Samus fight the Arum

      Also I will eternally be mad that federation force was a shit game, its almost like it was designed to monkey paw me as hard as possible because that setting is everything I've ever wanted but the execution killed the idea forever.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Combine Kid Icarus and Metroid and have Samus fight the Arum

      Also I will eternally be mad that federation force was a shit game, its almost like it was designed to monkey paw me as hard as possible because that setting is everything I've ever wanted but the execution killed the idea forever.

      >Samus gets sent to investigate the disappearance of a whole Federation outpost
      >a merc company reported that all traces of metal and tech had disappeared from the site before contact with them also ceased
      >while combing through a nearby cave system Samus experiences temporary system blackouts of her more advanced weapons
      >after discovering an odd meteorite in the deepest part, Adam calls her back to the ship
      >pic related has entered the system and is on a direct course to her location
      >in a mad dash back to the surface, Samus continues to lose powers as the Aurum brain comes closer
      >after escaping, her ship gets captured and Samus ends up alone on the Aurum Brain Fortress, queue regular Metroid game
      >upgrades now consist of discarded weapons and powerups from Pits battles
      >large focus on melee
      >AI Adam continues to help her from the inside but ends up as the final boss

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Im going to give all of you a little tidbit of knowledge. Canon is whatever you want it to be. The sanctity of a fictional universe is subject to a change in management. Star wars got bought out and 90% of the fictional universe was labelled "non canon" and discarded so they could do what they want with it. This doesnt matter. What you like of something is what you like of if, not what some moron tells you to like or accept. Its literally fiction, fake, a fabricated world. So its as simple as just accepting only what you like

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Here is my perspective on Other M, it is both not as bad as what I assumed it would be, yet worse at the same time. I will mainly be talking about the story since I watched the game instead of playing it and Other M is pretty narrative focused anyways.
    I'll start off with "The Baby" since it's the first real crock of shit that the game introduces you to. My first point is that The Baby is just such a weird name for Samus to refer to the infant Metroid as. And I'm not just talking about how it sounds either, though it's weird to hear her say it. In the very first moments of the game, Samus refers to the infant Metroid as The Baby, in a recreation of its self sacrifice. What's wrong with that is this cutscene isn't her having a flashback, it's straight up supposed to be the end of Super Metroid. Samus' only interactions with the infant Metroid prior to this moment are: the Metroid imprinting on her on SR388, her handing it to the GF (which she is implied to have immediately done after Metroid 2), and it attacking her then sparing her in Tourian. So why is Samus calling it "The Baby" at this point in time? She has had virtually no time to gain a sentimental attachment to the creature, much less to the point of nicknaming it with such an infantializing term as "The Baby". Keep in mind she called it that BEFORE it sacrificed itself btw. A minor complaint attached to this, but the Federation distress beacon being dubbed "Baby's Cry" is especially corny as well as the reason why it is named that (in the lore). And the only reason why it was named that IRL was so that Samus could have this weird ass maternal moment of her saying that the alarm was like The Baby calling out to her.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Next point is Adam. I can try to see what they were going for with his character, a father figure to Samus whose guidance she trusts due to his tenure as her CO. But boy does Other M do a bad job of this. I actually don't mind that Adam is initially cold to Samus upon her arrival, he didn't request her aid and she quit the army to pursue independent bounty hunting, so it makes sense that he would initially be surprised by and unwelcoming towards her presence. What I don't like is how the game depicts Samus' response to this. Now I was going to say that she should have brought up the distress signal when Adam tells her "That information [the reason why his squad is there] is not for an outsider." My main complaint was that it makes Samus seem incredibly passive instead of having her do the sensible thing and tell Adam why the hell she showed up. But the game does explain that she told him this. Still, the choice to not have Samus actually tell him this through dialogue is odd. And having her say that those words "pierced her heart" makes her come off as a lot more thin skinned and wimpy than she should (going by her previous characterization throughout the series).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Even more annoying though is how shortly after this point you get an exposition dump about his past with Samus. I won't go into detail about it, but my main problem with this (and you can apply this to other points in the story, such as The Baby, as well) is how the story TELLS you the information here instead of SHOWING you it. Samus TELLS you that Adam is like a father to her and he is, without a doubt, the person who understands her the most. But you are not shown this, she just exposits this to you, so it comes off as her just sucking off Adam rather than a legitimate bond. Instead of the game showing you how their bond grew, Samus just tells you that Adam is the greatest and she rebelled against him like a bratty child. Hell, to go back to The Baby, the game doesn't show you why Samus got attached to it before it dies (keep in mind she called it The Baby before it saved her butt); it just exposits about her being sad over it after the fact. It stinks.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          And the authorization system, good lord. I get that they wanted Samus to have all of her upgrades, this story takes place right after Super afterall. But they needed to have an excuse for why Samus doesn't have her full suite of upgrades. But what they came up with makes Samus seem pathetic and Adam seem like an incompetent, power-tripping jackass. Sure, I get why you might want to restrict Samus from using Power Bombs, but frankly Samus shouldn't need to be told why her Power Bombs are so dangerous and expressly forbidden from using them, she (prior to this story at least) has been shown to be competent enough for Adam to trust her to not vaporize her allies. And he has worked with the woman enough to know this. Barring that, the Power Bombs are the only bit of Samus' kit that the game treats as being capable of causing enough collateral to restrict their use, so why the frick couldn't she use her beam and missle upgrades from the start? Why does Samus need Adam's permission to use the ice beam, freezing opponents would be a very useful ability to have from the beginning. Why does Samus have to wait until Anthony is about to bite it to be able to use a glorified grappling hook? Why does Samus have to wait until enemies are shooting at her from behind walls to finally use Wave Beam? Why does she have to wait until Ridley shows up to use plasma? And don't give me the excuse about collateral: 1. Samus uses her full suite of upgrades (excluding Power Bombs) in a room full of Fed Troops at the end of the game without hurting them just fine. 2. She's not even around the other members of Adam's squad most of the time, so wall banging someone with the wave beam isn't even a concern anyways.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I can understand Adam authorizing the use of plasma and ice for the other members of his squad since ammo might be (and is confirmed to be in the case of plasma) limited. But Samus has unlimited ammo; she can even regen missiles in this game by just standing still for a moment. And again, Samus should then be competent enough to not kill her allies with her weapons. I haven't been in the military or anything, but I'm pretty sure with the exception of stuff with limited ammo (like the squad's ice or Anthony's) plasma, this would be a weapons hot scenario, not one where Adam needs to give Samus license to use her tools. Overall, only one moment managed to sell Adam to me as a character, and nothing sold him to me as a CO.
            As for the Varia suit moment, I've been told that the reason why Samus didn't use Varia wasn't because she would dare use it with Adam's permission, but out of spite. So the game decided to take Samus, a character that (if anything could be said about her before this point) is a very competent and professional person when it comes to her job, and made her a bratty child throwing a tantrum for daddy's attention. A tantrum that results in her burning alive in her suit. Either explanation for the Varia Suit incident is character assassination, simple as.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              And now for the worst part of this game imo, Samus' encounter with Ridley. Despite what I've said about Adam and The Baby, those elements of the story weren't as bad as I had originally expected them to be (I'll get into some praise for the story later). But this hunk of shit was genuinely worse than I had been prepared for. So upon seeing Ridley, a monster Samus has killed a minimum of 2 times before if you don't Prime and a maximum of 4 times before if you do, Samus immediately freezes and has a PTSD meltdown. This meltdown is so bad that: Ridley is able to casually walk up to Samus and scoop her up in his claws, Samus loses the will to maintain her Power Suit, and Anthony has to save Samus's ass and seemingly get killed in the process. So Samus chokes so hard from seeing an butthole she has obliterated on numerous occasions that she almost gets herself and her friend killed. Fricking pathetic, way to make Samus into a little b***h. At this point, Samus should react to this asswipe with mild annoyance. The Metroid Manga does this plot beat infinitely better by having her breakdown occur the first time she encounters Ridley after he killed her parents, at 14 years old no less. A child breaking down upon seeing the monster that roasted her mother in front of her for the first time since he made her an orphan makes a hell of a lot more sense than a veteran warrior breakdown upon seeing a monster she has curb stomped multiple times before.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Now time for the less negative segment of this "review" of Other M. There will still be some complaints going forward, but I've covered everything that I found to be atrocious, and I have some genuine praise for the game.
                I'll start by saying that I like MB. Are the feds moronic for trying to create a clone of Mother Brain to weaponize Metroids? Yes. Was it stupid to not anticipate that a robot caretaker might develop emotions? Yes. But all things considered, I like her story, on paper at least. Her being a tragic figure due to the Feds desire to control her is kinda cool, and I like her relationship with Madeline. I do think that, like with every story beat in Other M, there is far too much telling instead of showing, and her story beat definitely suffers from it.. But it just didn't hurt her character as much as it did Adam's. I also like the theme of motherhood involving her story, and it is a cool parallel to the relationship between Samus and The Baby. On paper. In practice, Other M fails when trying to apply the motherhood theme to Samus for reasons I've already covered.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Next is Adam's sacrifice. I'll start this off with a bit of negativity and then work my way to my praises for this scene. First a bit of context; the scene where Adam makes the call to separate from the drive core and leave his brother to die was fine. Samus showing emotion here doesn't seem pathetic, unlike other moments in the game, it's pretty understandable that she wants to save Ian and is distressed at having to watch him die. I also like the lack of emotion from Adam here; I don't interpret this as him being an emotionless piece of shit but him distancing himself from his emotions so that he can make a tough, but necessary call. This is undercut by two things though. 1. Again, show don't tell; Samus's exposition at the end of the scene wasn't necessary. They should have restrained themselves a bit on that. 2. I feel like this is supposed to sell me on how good of a CO Adam is. While it was a tough call, frankly it doesn't justify why Samus dickrides Adam so much. But the scene does a good enough job setting up Adam's own sacrifice. So I'll skip recapping and tell you guys what I like about this scene. I like that Adam shot Samus, frankly it was the only way he could have made sure that she didn't follow him to wipe out the Metroids. I also SOMEWHAT like that he reassures her that wiping out the Metroids was a necessary call. And this moment actually shows that he trusts Samus. While she pleads with him to let her take out the Metroids so that he won't die, telling him to trust her; he actually entrusts to prevent the attack against the Federation, kill Ridley, and rescue any survivors. That's touching in a way that almost sells me on him. And he caps it off with the one cool use of the term "Lady" in the entire game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Here's what I don't like about this scene. 1. Why did Adam shoot Samus before the Metroid was dealt with? Notice how I didn't say "before shooting the Metroid", I'm pretty sure Adam needed to get the jump on Samus in order to disable her. But he could have just waited until she killed the Metroid to do so, instead of putting her at risk of being killed. He would have felt pretty stupid if those metroids were immune to ice in their larval stage. 2. The ice immunity is just a hunch. This in of itself actually isn't a huge shot against Adam, he pretty much all admits that it's a hunch himself. It's more so that the story failed to sell me on his intuition really, to the point where I wonder if he could have just asked Samus to confirm if they were immune to ice or something before retreating (though that might have gotten her swarmed). Again, not the strongest point against him here, but it is worth pointing out that Adam has not proved his competence at this point. 3. The dickriding. Frankly Samus's exposition at the end of this scene damn near ruined it for me. FFS Sakamoto couldn't just let the emotional moment hang, no Samus had to bring up that Adam was the person who understood her best and, get this, the closest thing to a father she had. Grey Voice is rolling in his grave man. I'm not against her grieving him, but man could she have refrained from slobbing on his nob while doing so? 4. The thumbs down, didn't address properly early, but it is fricking cringy. 5. Most importantly, the scene is undermined by how unlikeable Adam is as a character before this moment. The only time I felt somewhat sad watching this scene is when I looked it up on youtube, by itself and divorced from the rest of the game. Like watching a scene from an anime that you haven't watched. When I watched this in a playthrough, I wasn't sad at all. I said "This might have made me sad if Adam wasn't such a douche. But as it stands, I'm kinda glad he is dead."

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Now time for my last couple of points. Is Other M complete shit? No, I think that it has some good concepts, it just fails miserably in execution. Character butchery aside, Other M's biggest failure is that it exposits to you rather than showing you things, and that really makes it fail to sell some of its core concepts. Hell, the exposition actively undermines some of its core themes. But a more important question is: Did a story like this need to be made for Metroid? I'm of mixed opinion on this. The story is blatantly trying to be movieshit, and that is pretty contradictory to the other games in the series. I don't think that many people were curious about Samus as a character, and simply liked her as an avatar for the player to experience the games through. Hell, I've said that the game needed to show and not tell its story more, which frankly would have required even more cutscenes and time. In a game that already feels like a drag, ESPECIALLY for a Metroid game. Though I do think the story had some good things that make me believe that concept itself isn't without merit. Ultimately, it matters little; the execution of this story has all but guaranteed that this will never be tried with Metroid again. And that's probably for the best.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                And as for gameplay, I didn't play this myself, so I have few thoughts on it. The combat looks cool enough, though I've heard that the control scheme makes it a pain to actually play. Speedbooster looks like shit in this game; you run at the same speed as you do normally and you need a country mile to initiate it. Even worse, there are tons of little speed bumps that prevent you from using it in certain areas. The wave beam moment made the authorization system seem like a pain to deal with gameplay wise, you literally run down a couple of hallways and do a puzzle maze only to not have the clearance to use the upgrade you need to use to advance at the end of it. Then you go back down the hallways to get trapped behind glass and get authorization to use wave beam. Then you turn right back around and do the same thing all over again now that you are able to use an upgrade that you had the entire time. This seems like it would rob the feeling of discovery that you get from other metroid games, but I would have to play it to make certain of that. What I can say for certain is that other Metroid games do back tracking a lot better than that. Usually when you run into something that requires an upgrade you don't have yet, you have to explore an area you haven't already, and you find other shit on the way there. You don't just go down a hallway, only to immediately turn back around, only to back down the same hallway. I think there was at least one other moment like this but I'm not sure. And I'll probably never play this game to find out.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Don't know where else to put this, but Anthony is a real bro. Genuinely the best character in the story. And amazingly, the story does a good job at SHOWING his relationship with Samus instead of TELLING us it.
                Princess = Flirting
                Lady = Sexual Harassment

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >The only time I felt somewhat sad watching this scene is when I looked it up on youtube, by itself and divorced from the rest of the game.
                goes to show how effective music and presentation, mostly music, are at creating emotion even when the viewer's conscious engagement is trying to work against it. it's almost involuntary.

                which makes the post-credits scene where they awkwardly suddenly cut the sad swelling music to play the self-destruct alert even funnier

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                FRICK forgot something in this post. The thing I don't like about Adam reassuring Samus that wiping out the Metroids was the right call is that Samus has never had any hang ups about doing that. Obviously she didn't in the other games, but even in Other M she doesn't seem to regret killing them at all (not saying that she should because holy frick that would be cringe worthy). She's just seems to be hung up on The Baby sacrificing itself for her. Hell, she was about to waste the metroid larva that she had encountered in Sector 0 before Adam showed up.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                MB is fricking moronic. It is not possible that the galactic federation could have made, in a matter of months, a miniaturized version of a biotech wonder created by the Chozo at their peak. It is also fricking stupid that the justification for them doing so required Sakamoto to lobotomize the space pirates and turn them into a hive mind when that was clearly not how they were presented before and also contrary to their FRICKING NAME.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                they even show an artificial brain-in-a-tube style thing being built during madeline's giant infodump so i assumed that was the actual MB and the body was just a method to make interacting with the human staff more natural, but nope MB is just the whole AI walking around fully contained in an android girl

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Frick, forgot about the space pirates being hivemind. Yea, that's pretty goddamn dumb. And my brain just kinda skipped over the time frame of events when writing that point.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Dread included original Other M artwork

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >in the context of mainline entries no less

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Remember m*ack*

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Posting a screencap for a half and year old trailer
    For what purpose? And while I hate Other M, Dread ackowledges its existence, even if isn't relevant at all

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Other M is better than metroid prime.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >you just hated Samus had emotions
    No, we hated her emotions were only
    1. THE BABY
    2. I wish Adam-sempai would look at me uwu
    It also didn't help that the voice actress was evidently sedated during recording.
    As evidenced by Mega Man series, if you can't have your characters talk and do it well, maybe just don't.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if only they'd announce that haloid trilogy wasn't canon.

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Other M was more of a Metroid game than the first person shooters were.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Prime is reddit

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that primegays are trannies.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've never played Other M or the Prime games and somehow I never felt like there was anything missing from the story. Prime and Other M are like non-canon spin-offs to me tbh

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I liked other m

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    SAMUS, YOU MUSTN'T CHALLENGE RAVEN BEAK. HIS INORESSIVE ALIEN BIRD PHYSIQUE WILL SURELY SUBDUE YOU, NOT TO MENTION HIS IMPRESSIVE BIRD wiener. THERE IS NO HOPE.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Okay, but how would the real Adam handle this?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I believe he would say the same but offer more suggestions on what to do next. After the X release stage fake-Adam was way too obvious.
        I just found Adam posting funny and it gave me lots of laughs on release month while trying to get hard mode under 4 hours.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Tbh, I was talking about Other M Adam, but I appreciate the answer.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            He wouldn't tell her shit.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Cuz he's dead?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                'Cause he doesn't tell her shit in the game until he absolutely has to, the genetically modified metroids, the conspiracy that he suspects long before she starts piecing it together. He compartmentalizes information to a fault, which could be interesting characterization if it was intentional, a rigorous tactical mind being one of his weaknesses as well as his strengths, but it's clearly not supposed to be taken that way.

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    But Dread acknowledge it ? In fact there is the dispersion beam ?

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >assuming a consistent timeline exists for any Nintendo franchise anymore

    Woweee, let's pretend any of this matters.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Metroid only has 5 main games though. Prime is a little inconsistent (cough space pirate designs cough) but otherwise consistent with it's own lore at least.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Metroid Prime the creature itself is a bit of a clusterfrick with all the regional retcons and the husk on Phaaze.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Again, let's not really pretend it matters.

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Dread but without EMMI segments
    Your score on a game like this?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Still way too linear with practically no secrets.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    geez Miss Aran, how come the federation let's you have FIVE bird dads?!

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Most of Other M's canon just uses that silly web-manga that came out around Fusion anyway, I don't there's any significant departures from the timeline. Barely matters.

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >tfw fan of all 3 series
      sad kek

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        2/3 at least partially recovered, nobody expected that.
        Dreads divisive, but it's no Other M.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I still can't forgive what Tabata did to Parasite Eve

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Other M had no footage shown because of the ties to Team Ninja.
    Sakamoto wanted Other M to be his way, but Team Ninja wanted it to be different.
    He talks a lot about how they didn't make the game the way he wanted because they thought his way was unreasonable.
    Maybe Team Ninja was in the right for wanting the game more 3Dish orientated than a mix of both 2D and 3D, but in the end it pissed off Sakamoto enough for him to sink that relationship.
    Pretty sure it'll probably get a Remake at some point in the future in his ideal "image" by Mercury Steam.
    Especially since it's constantly referenced throughout Dread and was crucial to bridging Super and Fusion despite it's less than stellar writing.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The storytelling, and the fact that the game is so opposed to letting you do any Metroid exploration is what people take issue with anyway.
      >crucial to bridging Super and Fusion
      Eh, not really. It actually creates more plot holes. Nightmare dies twice now.
      It was perfectly fine, just knowing Adam as a guy from Samus' past. He didn't need to be elaborated on at all, and there was a manga for that anyway.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >It actually creates more plot holes. Nightmare dies twice now.
        It in fact does not.
        - Ridley's body was wiped out in Super since he never made it off the planet. Other M answers why his "body" was in storage during Fusion.
        - Samus remarks the Galactic Federation went through a huge shift in management in Fusion due to shady happenings. We never got any indication that the Galactic Federation was up to no good until Other M.
        >It was perfectly fine, just knowing Adam as a guy from Samus' past. He didn't need to be elaborated on at all, and there was a manga for that anyway.
        - Raven Beak throws a huge wrench into the manga's canonicity by just existing since Samus childhood is covered thoroughly in it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >He talks a lot about how they didn't make the game the way he wanted because they thought his way was unreasonable.
      Boy were they fricking right.
      Every bit of Sakamoto talking behind the scenes makes him sounds like he was off his rocker for the entire production.
      He can try and act as much like a shunned auteur in retrospect as much as he likes, he still handed off the entire story cutscene/VA casting to some other studio and didn't communicate with them once.

      Sakamoto's ideas suck, anyway, all that crappy writing and retcons were on paper long before Other M.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Team Ninja was done dirty as was Metroid by Sakamoto.
        It sucks that we'll never get what Team Ninja had in mind by the end of it all since they usually pump out pretty good games.
        I just hope that when the day comes that Sakamoto wants Mercury Steam to take a crack at it he doesn't b***h and groan about his image.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      A remake that fixes every problem would essentially be a different game, even down to the designs, tone, and writing, I'd be interested in seeing that attempted.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        We could always get Sakamoto claiming that the minimal style of Dread was his intention with Other M which would lead only for him throwing Team Ninja under the bus a second time after the first outing.
        I am not opposed to seeing them at least give the less than stellar attempt a second shot, but one that's memorable for a good reason.

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My favorite "haha funny in hindsight" Other M thing is in the lead up to the game, there's a magazine cover with suitless Samus's face filling the whole thing and the tag line "Samus as you've never seen her before"

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No you see, its a split timeline
    What do you mean metroid don't have time travel?

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Other M has the best supporting cast. You can't convince me otherwise.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Anthony is loved by even Other M haters.
      Man is just so happy to be a bro Samus can rely on.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Anthony is based enough he more than makes up for the rest of the literal whos in his squad but he's still just one character, I'd say Prime 3 has the strongest supporting cast overall thanks to the other hunters.

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if they're willing to memoryhole other m then they should start pretending that almost every mario rpg released in the last decade starting with sticker star never happened. sadly we can't have nice things 🙁

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Other M is still canon you moronic troony

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hopefully during the Switch's clearly dragged out life span, Mercury Steam remakes Zero Mission, Super and Fusion in the style of Dread while remastering Samus Returns with QoL improvements from Dread.
    Shouldn't be too hard now that they have a boat load of assets to work with.

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Best route for Dread?

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