Metroid: Other M

[dave is ok]

Buttroid: Other Butt

[Chux]

I'll be playing this tonight, but one Kotaku's "hated" parts of the game was...

Stubborn Remote-Only Controls: The designers of Other M have said publicly that they were determined to make a Metroid game that could be played only with a Wii Remote. Why? Because they feared more complex controllers turn people off? This is already a game for people willing to take a plunge; it's hard to imagine that the addition of a Nunchuk would have scared them away. Because the game is Remote-only, players will learn how unwise it is to try to control a Resident Evil 4-style perspective with a d-pad. They will learn how annoying it is to, in the heat of battle, point the Remote out toward the TV to go into first-person mode, only to have the Wii fail to realize you did this because you are pointing a little off the TV screen. Remote-only would have been fine as a default, but the game would have controlled better, and elicited less frustration, if it supported a second control scheme for those of us who prefer to do things like control movement in three dimensions with an analog stick.

Which sounds like what I was saying, but I'm still going to give it a shot.

[dave is ok]

Buttroid: Other Butt

[epmode]

NICE

[Shin Johnpv]

I've put about 2 hours into it. I'm digging it over all so far. I don't have any issue with switching to FP view when needed. My big complaint so far is that enemies don't drop health or missile recharge items any more. So far it feels very much like Fusion. Hopefully it doesn't close off sections the way Fusion did.

[Shin Johnpv]

Gamestrailers video review http://www.gametrailers.com/video/re...d-other/703717

[Changeling]

More impressions please !

[Dunlap]

Buttroid: Other Butt

[Chux]

Shooting in 3rd person is clumsy at best, and cumbersome in the 1st person. Holding B to be able to look around while in 1st is also a bit ridiculous. I got hit by the first boss a lot, but didn't die.

I'll still play it, but it's so clunky.

Also: You don't use your weapons because your punk ass CO from Fusion says you can't use them.

[Dyne]

And Shin was complaining that I was knocking the control scheme before even playing the game. Anybody could have seen how broken it was going to be. I just beat the first boss and truly enjoy being attacked while I'm forced to be locked in a 1st person unmovable view. Recharging missiles is also a wtf choice as well. I want to like it but I keep knowing the game is artificially harder simply because of the stupid forced control.

The chick in the commercial is pretty hot though.