Email: Super Metroid

The people on that forum are smoking crack.  No one who played Super Metroid remembers the final scene because of the “touching sacrifice of the last metroid.”  That is internet wankery.  Anyone who actually played that game remembers that scene because it’s when you get the HYPER BEAM!  Yeah!  Then you blast the crap out of Mother Brain, which is awesome.

If Sakamoto wants people to love Metroid other M, he should put kick ass guns and weapons like the hyper beam into it, not “womanly maternal instincts.”
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However someone wishes to experience a game is up to them. Let’s leave them alone on that.
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Sakamoto is an elder gamer maker at Nintendo. Apparently, there seems to be something where an elder game maker gets to make their own project before they go. Sakamoto has been wanting to make Other M for a while. There are interviews with him that go back eight to nine years ago where he says he wanted to make a game that blurs 2d and 3d (goes back and forth).
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Tecmo has had some very serious problems lately in their business. Other M is probably rescuing them in a sense. I think Nintendo sees itself as a type of shepherd for the rest of the gaming companies and when Tecmo was having big problems (not due to the developers but due to the upper management), you can see Nintendo stepping in. Of course, Nintendo stepping in is having Tecmo make a game for Nintendo! So it benefits both.

Other M is going to be something very different. For sure, it is going to be an ‘exploration’ of Samus Aran as a character. Let me be clear on this: if people are excited about Other M than that is fine. Good for them. With so much mediocrity in gaming today, it is good for people to be excited about something. However, when I put on my business hat and ask myself, “Is this going to resonate with the market?” The probability wheel spins and spins and when it stops it says: “Very low possibility.” I cannot think of any game that is driven entirely about exploration of a character that has succeeded in the sales.

I wonder if Sakamoto is getting ready to retire. All the other Metroid designers have retired. Sakamoto is the last one left.

His ‘maternal feelings’ of Samus in Super Metroid comes, perhaps, he knows that Other M is so radically different from previous Metroids that he is seeing previous Metroids like Super Metroid as a stepping stone to whatever he is doing with Other M today. I believe, however, he is seeing in Super Metroid what he wishes to see. If Miyamoto made Mario: The Other M, it would be as if he said that Super Mario World revealed Mario’s sensitive side (or whatever).