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better?
I read it before, I don't stand by it though.
Well darn. I totally-I'm not so sure of that...
Exactly. Samus torched Ridley in past but he always came back. Except when she last fought him prior to Other M's events, she completely obliterated him with zero expectancy of his return.
That would explain why Samus would be surprised, but she wasn't just surprised. She completely shut down, leaving herself absolutely vulnerable long enough for Ridley to grab her, and didn't come to her senses until after Ridley let her go because he was shot.
you might, because i could read their blue text just fine, and i am using the same theme.
Being caught off guard is a serious problem in a life or death situation, especially when you have a pre-established problem like this. It's entirely possible that her PTSD manifested in a different way in a different situation. And really even if she wanted to get out of it, her arm cannon was pinned, so it's not like she would have a whole lot she COULD do. Which is more than what Brawl's SSE could say, where she was grabbed but had her arm cannon free and available. But REGARDLESS of that was unable to get out of Ridley's grasp without outside assistance.
His ID should be 20816I'm not so sure of that...
I suppose that could work, but where's the evidence? Yes, this would justify the incident, but unless the game outright states it, then it's merely just the fanbase being better writers then the folks who worked on Other M.
I don't know what to tell you other than not every single detail should have to be drawn out and elaborated on in EXTREME comprehensive elaboration as part of the game. Especially in a Metroid game, where for all intents and purposes plot does not matter.
Some stages are going to repeat across versions while characters will of course be the same for both.
Except evidentially, Other M was definitely made to be more story driven. Directional decisions like more focus on the character, extremely linear gameplay and even a theatre mode shows that at least to some extent, the story mattered to who was making it. So if it's going to be presented to a great extent like that, it had to be done well, and looking at the reactions, something didn't go right.
inb4 Pyrosphere is also a 3DS stage
yea, drawing out every single detail and explaining every plot element would be extremely dull, but this game has gone to the other extreme of not explaining enough. WHY doesn't Samus just listen to common sense and keep the Varia Suit on, knowing full-well that it wouldn't hurt anyone and Adam probably wouldn't notice because it isn't Missiles/Power Bombs/other lethal upgrades on Samus' person? WHY doesn't Samus just shoot the giant purple space dinosaur from hell when she has done so several times? WHY doesn't Adam just yell to Samus "HEY STUPID GET AWAY FROM THAT" instead of resorting to violence like he did?
Other M may have been made that way, but it is still a Metroid game. And Metroid games do not generally matter with story. So was it a bad idea for them to even MAKE a metroid game that focuses on story? Yeah. But that doesn't change what I said.
The again, the game isn't even designed like a Metroid game, as it's really linear and actually discourages exploration (with the whole authorization mess). At least in Fusion, which is considerably linear compared to other games, you are allowed to explore and find hidden goodies along the way, unlike in Other M were the doors basically close behind you as you go.
Whether or not the Metroid games are plot driven, that still doesn't change the point I was making. Other M was made to be story driven game, and because of that, whatever problems that directional decision brings up are going to be critiqued and criticized. It being a Metroid game doesn't really save it from that, particularly since said Metroid game is a deviation from the norm anyway.
It's actually brought up somewhat in both Fusion's ending scenes and Zero Mission's post-MB plot. Regardless, that's completely ignoring the point I was trying to make about that scene.
Personally I don't think that a Metroid game having a story would be a problem, I think it could be done if they balanced it out with the traditional gameplay of the series and took care with the story. The major problem with Other M is that, along with not balancing it out and instead going in the other direction, the story it tries to tell wasn't as effective as it wanted to be, so its deviations from the norm didn't work for it.
Samus encounters clones of every creature she encountered only on Zebes. She should have at least suspected that a bioweapon facility may have clones of more powerful beings.
But that's the thing. Literally nobody cloned Ridley on purpose. It was a surprise to EVERYONE that he came back. Everything BUT Ridley was replicated entirely on purpose.
She learns that after the fact, she should have been prepared to face powerful enemies regardless of the scientists intentions which she doesnt know. Nothing tells her the scientist would stop at Sidehoppers and Reos.
That's how it gets here. We all go off on a whim to our own talks but eventually we all somehow regroup. You get used to it after awhile...
My favorite part of Other M so far is using the OverBlast...
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, i already realized that part of my post about story is wrong few posts later. I don`t know are those remixes or not, but they don`t sound like something i heard before in either Metroid Fusion, Metroid Prime, Zero Mission or Super Mertoid.