Metroid: Other M

I'm with Kevin James on this one. This game just looks... Misguided. Of course I've been wrong on literally every Metroid game after Super so who knows.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

I'm with Kevin James on this one. This game just looks... Misguided. Of course I've been wrong on literally every Metroid game after Super so who knows.

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http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1281896526

I have to agree with Chux. I was really excited when I first saw this, but as they've shown more, I've become wary. I hope it rocks, but I'm definitely "wait and see" with it.

It looks like it's gonna be a solid game that deviates too far from what (used to, anyway) makes Metroid the jam.

Jack of all trades, master of none imo.

I'm still going to gamble, given that Amazon is giving a $20 gift card with it. I'll use that gift card for Castlevania no matter what, and I know I can get $30+ back for Metroid, even if it sucks.

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Originally Posted by Vasteel

It looks like it's gonna be a solid game that deviates too far from what (used to, anyway) makes Metroid the jam.

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It's funny you say that, because the designers' aim was to make it more like the NES games by rigidly sticking to a 2 button + d-pad control scheme. Their whole thing was to fuse original Metroid with contextual Ninja Gaiden-style movement.

I'm all for Team Ninja giving me a kick ass action game with a Metroid theme, instead of a new traditional Metroid game that Team Ninja just happened to develop. On that note, I haven't looked at any videos or screen shots beyond what was shown at E3 press conferences, but, like Yoshi, I'm ordering from Amazon and know I can flip this easily if it does blow. I'm willing to take that chance.

It's worth noting that this project was overseen by Yoshio Sakamoto from Nintendo R&D, it's not a straight Team Ninja product. This talk with the developers is really interesting:

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What Sakamoto-san had in mind, however, was to make the controls as simple as those of a NES game. When I asked Sakamoto-san 'So it's 'a NES game with the latest technology', right?' he replied 'That's exactly what it is'.

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http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/metroid...vol1_page1.jsp

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

I'm still going to gamble, given that Amazon is giving a $20 gift card with it. I'll use that gift card for Castlevania no matter what, and I know I can get $30+ back for Metroid, even if it sucks.

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Dibs.