AWKWARD ZOMBIE

YOU'RE not canon.

sir compared to me you are fanfiction

see, this makes sense, I don't get why it's so hard for most people I've seen talk about it (which is just /v/ so that probably explains it) to understand that.


As for the game itself, I dunno I want to play it but I don't own a wii and I have little to no plan of buying one any time soon so eh.

[spoiler]But then WHY would they put a flashback of young Samus? It makes no sense. If it was the effect they were reaching for, they should have put flashbacks of previous Ridley fights! Or even stuff like "Why's he still alive?". Not child Samus crying and Samus being a pansy! She faced things that were way worse and never broke down. And it's not the only time stupid shit happens in the game either. Sorry, but this is character derailment. Samus is a strong, independent and vengeful woman, not a pansy that needs men to tell her what she needs do. Seriously, going in a volcano without activating the Varia Suit because Adam didn't tell her to do so? And she needs Anthony to save her booty? Bullshit, bull, freaking, shit. Samus was a good character, now she's just a weak-willed woman. The rest of the game is fine, but the way it pictures Samus is DIARRHOEA.[/spoiler]

Sakamoto said it was, afaik.

ridley isn't canon

OOOH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Release day is upon us. Those of you that now have the game and have played it, share your thoughts. I don't want to be the only one on this forum that thought it was good.

I played it on my bro's Wii and finished it (just after watching the Ridley cutscene actually, I wanted to know if it was the only thing that was booty). It's good. Not the best of the series, but it's good. The gameplay is fine, the graphics are good, the music isn't half bad and, well, it's Metroid. The scenario is... Well, it's not bad but not good either. You know where you go and why you go there. The overall plot is correct too. The character development sucks, sucks, sucks. The way you unlock your items is dumb as shit. Being able to reload your ammos and life almost whenever you want for no cost is stupid.

Overall, yeah, it's a good game. Just play it as a Metroid game, don't expect to be blown away by the storytelling or anything.

Just picked the game up, and got the pre-order bonus (which is a set of art cards wrapped up in a nice package, I don't want to take it apart to look at).

Got the game, and I am stuck. Dont know what to do. Im in the east half of Sector 1 and I just beat those big worm things and got the diffusion beam. Anyone know what to do now?

EDIT: never mind i figured it out

Alrighty, friend got this the other day and I played about an hour and a half's worth of it down his house.
This is what I got out of it.

Very early spoilers?
The story, hurts it way way way more than I thought it was going to, frankly they ruined samus, it makes no sense that a rogue bounty hunter would be listening to a commander she isn't under, the dialogue, for the most part is totally pointless and half the time ends up cracking me up.
"It says here in this computer file they're making bioweapons! "Are they making bioweapons?!" after fighting 5 robo space pirates, "I think they might be making bioweapons." Gee Samus, you think?

Secondly, team ninja.
I am really disappointed in them, i was expecting bad writing but not bad action. I think what's throwing them off is the whole ranged aspect of Metroid, instead of running around with awesome ninja crap, you have a gun, there isn't much combowise you can do with a gun. Most of the time I'm either running through an empty hallway, or mashing 1, running through a hallway. It got me pretty bored.

On the ridley thing, it's bull to say that she feels hopeless in killing him when he just comes back, because why would she freak out the 4th time it's happened. You kill him every time, why would the 4th time be any different? Sure it's surprising he keeps coming back, but I think the first time he comes back to life would be a lot more unexpected than the 4th time. He also looks really silly in this, as do a lot of the enemies that aren't just hallway fodder.

Did you pay attention to any of the story? They explain right at the start why she bothers to do what the commander says. Most of it's due to the fact that, if she didn't do what he said, she's be forced to leave the area.

Thats because you are fighting weak enemies. I'd like to see your "Just mash 1" strategy against the electric enemies later, or the beetles in the after game.


This game doesn't take place at the end of the series. I don't have the timeline memorized exactly, but where this game is, I'm fairly sure that this is the first time he came back.

Nope, started playing around the end of sector 1, however, that still doesn't make sense to me, if you are going into a potentially dangerous area, wouldn't you want the person helping you to be at the best they can be, not hindering them for no reason.
Not only that he lets you use your stuff slowly but surely one at a time so it's totally pointless.

True, I'm sure it gets harder, however, I got up to some weird lava boss I'm guessing I'm maybe a third or so through the game and nothing short of a few bosses have been a challenge at all.


No one seems to know for sure, but for the timelines I've seen most put other M at the end, before fusion. Which is what I'm basing that on. If I'm wrong, maybe its the second fight, I still don't think it changes that she's been up against bigger and stronger and just seems to freak out for no reason.
Especially if this IS towards the end of the timeline.

Nintendo Power and Sakamoto both say that Other M is (for now) the penultimate game in the series chronologically.

Other M takes place after Super Metroid. The only game after that is Metroid Fusion. She has saved the galaxy seven times and fought/killed Ridley six times by this point (the Prime Trilogy is cannon, only Hunters and Pinball are not).

They also should have found a better way to have Samus unlock power-ups. While she doesn't have an official rank, she has no real reason to follow their orders. Sure, they could have tried to throw her out. She could have easily wiped the floor with all of them. She hasn't blown up planets and annihilated entire species for nothing.

Why they decided to make a game intended to show how Samus developed into who she is and put it at the end... I have no idea.