Look at it…the radar, the overhead/3rd person view, switching into first person, hanging off edges, the obvious emphasis on cutscenes and a doubtlessly ridiculous plot. I know you haven’t played Metal Gear Solid much if at all, but Sakamoto clearly has.
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Perhaps the name of Metroid Ninja Solid? What is funny is that Other M is turning out to be the nightmare that consumers thought Metroid Prime was going to become with Retro.
“That is because you cannot understand Sakamoto’s vision, Malstrom.”
Trollops! Sakamoto’s vision doesn’t matter. You know whose vision of Metroid matters? It is Malstrom’s vision. Nintendo has wondered how gamers enter the mode of disinterest. You are clearly looking at it occurring in real time. I’ve bought all the Metroid games as far back as the NES one when it came out. I am not buying Other M. And there are countless other “Metroid fans” who aren’t buying the game either.
When Other M doesn’t sell, people are going to be pointing at someone to blame. They will say, “There is too much Metroid on Wii.” They will say, “Releasing the game in the summer wasn’t a great idea.” They will say, “Tecmo is to be blamed.” But the blame belongs squarely to Sakamoto and his crazy “visions”.
There are those who will say, “Malstrom doesn’t like Metroid changing.” From my vantage point, Other M and its ‘visions’ is the most boring and generic thing I have ever seen. If Other M didn’t have the Metroid name and came out on a HD console, it would have immediately been labeled ‘generic’ and forgotten about.
Metroid is about killing metroids, not about the personality of a stereotypical ‘strong woman’ (with big breasts). At this point, I’m wondering whether the Metroid levels in Subspace Emissary in Brawl are going to be a better Metroid experience than Other M.
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