REL38
Smash Lord
Wait . . . so Wolf's only getting his Brawl blaster that pretty much only stuns enemies?kirby is male
anyways, as for blasters:
for spacies ive been using their smashbros blasters seeing as the only other ones were in assualt, and it was all the same.
So wolf has the very powerful one, no charge ability.
Also brought up with Fox: what is preventing samus from shooting in melee range?
Also, JOE said it himself. Wolf stays still when using the reflector.
@Tocador
True, Samus is no gladiator. I'm just using that as an example that similar weapons have been used in battle that hinder usage of the wrist.
A punch requires only the swing of an arm to do damage. The wrist doesn't affect the damage a punch will do. If anything, it'll damage someone who doesn't know how to punch. Samus can still punch Wolf even though she loses mobility of her wrist. You just wind your arm back just like a regular punch and let it go. It would deal more damage for it being so big and long (haha insert dirty joke line). Look at one handed sword. With it being an expansion of your strength, you deal more damage than what you would do with a knife. The knife only expands you strength so much because of its length. The sword's better length does more damage, not necessarily because of the blade, but because you have more surface area for your force to be exerted by. Same deal with Samus.
The cannon itself would do a great deal of damage. Wolf isn't super human strong. He could be compared to having similar body structure, anatomy and intelligence to a human. His speed would only be a perk to being a humanoid wolf. A punch from Samus' extremely durable armor would devastate Wolf, be it from her hand or cannon.
You can't say that Samus lacks hand to hand combat when Wolf is never seen fighting hand to hand as well. Samus deals with enemies face to face. Wolf deals with enemies from his ship.
You can't say that Metroid: Other M will have some "ZOMG" change done to it like other games have had. This is Nintendo we're talking about. They're very predictable. Samus is the main character. Samus is in an action-adventure type game. Her close combat skills are being shown for the first time.
Nintendo isn't gonna change it up into a RPG with Ridley as the main character showing off his stats. It's safe to say that game is gonna be just like the trailer is, bar none.