A short personal history of Metroid:
I began playing Metroid II and Super Metroid at around late elementary school/early middle school. Metroid was the second video game series I've really gotten into, after Kirby. I thought this series was great, and I played the three currently available games over and over again. Soon I entered puberty. I still played video games, and by that time I had played a wide variety of them, including several with heroines, kinda like Samus. But I noticed that Samus is different from all of the other heroines. She didn't wear revealing clothing in combat. She didn't even expose her face until the ending sequences. Yet she was cooler than all of them combined. Samus was above sex appeal. She didn't need to jiggle her boobs, shake her hips, or even look sexy to be a great video game heroine. This made me love the games even more. From a online consensus at that time (it was the eve of the Prime and Fusion releases), it appeared that most Metroid fanbase agreed with my thinking.
Now Nintendo is trying to make Samus succumb to the level of other video game heroines and sell sex appeal. Being the Metroid fan that I am, of course I'd raise an alert and argue in favor of the "old Samus."
Now to reply to some of the other comments...
matter of factely, were all a bunch of guys arguging over wither or not a fictional characters costume is "too sexy" for some audience OTHER than ourselves. (for some reason)
I do not care whether Samus is attractive. In fact, I find Samus to be sexy both from the fact that she is a kick*** bounty huntress and that she looks nice. My point is, yes, Samus is sexy, but that doesn't mean Nintendo has to overtly sell Samus' sex appeal, which, I believe, is an infringment of Metroid canon, theme, and tradition.
also, use logic. girls like sex appeal to some degree. do you see us guys jumping to play the fat ******** characters who have the worst moves and are completely unattractive?
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I will use Zero Suit Samus now simply because she's ultra hot and to annoy people who are making a big deal out of a very nice body shape.
I've said this before: I don't mind that Nintendo is selling sex appeal, as long as it's not Samus for reasons stated above. I also do not care whether Samus is sexy or not, as long as Nintendo isn't selling her sex appeal any more than through the endings.
Most are still missing one point.
Samus NEEDS to wear this "revealing" outfit. Why? Think about it. Why would a racer wear a skin-tight suit? It's not because they would look sexy. Why would a diver wear a skin-tight suit? Or a ninja in an exoskeleton with a katana, who has currently three owners, for which two are now dead, for that matter.
It's all about agility. A big armour isn't too mobile, and having loose clothes would surely not benefit to this agility. Skin-tight is the only sollution. She could also go in the nude if that's what you want, but she does need to at least wear something in which she could move freely. And a skirt just won't do. Neither would jeans.
I mean, have you ever tried to run the marathon with jeans? Have you even seen people run the marathon with jeans at all? Or those baggy pants, or a skirt for that matter? Nintendo knows that they could have done it, but seeing as Metroid already is absurd, they wanted to add at least some logic to it.
Samus also needs her armor. Have you played ZM? That's one crappy laser gun. And no powerups too...
Actually, I would say captain falcon has a suit even tighter then Zamus. Ya know, you can see his abs, and probably his nipples if you zoom in close enough (I haven't checked, sickos). Zamus on the other hand does not have a suit so tight as to show off her abs (which we know she has from the other Metroid games). So remember, Captain Falcon still wears a tighter suit.
@everybody saying BUT SAMUS IS MYSTERIOUS!!1one!11!!
Umm, does wearing a skintight suit make her less mysterious? I was pretty sure her body wasn't mysterious anymore after beating the first Metroid but maybe it re...mysteriousized (real word?) itself later on. It's not like SSB is telling everybody about Samus's life, its just showing them her body (which we have already seen).
Again, Falcon is not Samus. And again, no, I'm not being sexist. I wouldn't mind it if every video game hero or heroine other than Samus is selling sex appeal because they're not Samus. And yet again, there's a theme in the Metroid series: that video game heroines don't have to run around in revealing outfits to be successful.
Yes, I know Samus is no longer a mystery among gamers, but
A. The last time I checked, her identity is a myster to most of the people in the Metroid universe, and she wants to keep it that way.
B. It's not about Samus being mysterious. It's about what Samus and the Metroid series represent.
the suit is nothing to get worked up about, she has the suit for two reasons, because any loose clothing would be bad for her if she wanted to operate her power suit properly, and for sex appeal
BINGO!!
And a special reply to most (if not all) of Pancho's arguements:
Hopefully, by now, it has become obvious that Nintendo is selling Samus' sex appeal. THAT's what the arguement is about. So what's the big point? The answer is something I've been repeating over and over again: it goes against everything Metroid. If you don't think that that's not important enough of a topic to argue about, then you don't have to post. And please remember that this is a GAMING forum--hardly any topic is very important.
