will probably settle down somewhere between 8.0 and 8.5

You made the overall score white for a disappearing effect. How?

oh that happened by itself after I copied n pasted it!!

 i say good score, but i seen Samus is Hot button so i clicked on that lol

"Excellent voice work?"

Just gimme a new 2D Metroid, without over-wordy cutscenes, or another Prime game, please.

From the movies I've seen It has: Bad dialog and acting and a story elements that have been used 100 times.  Should of put all the energy and resources into actual game play.  Very short cut scenes like when she sees the guy she knows and hates.  Facial expressions would be enough to convey hate and my imagination would do the rest.  But no we can't stifle the important creative voice of Yoshio Sakamoto.

I want her to look good and kill things not be a lifetime movie of the week 

 I know I am in the minority

It is a mixture of the two.

Skip button?

I think I read somewhere that you can't skip the cutscenes. Well, not on the first playthrough, at least. I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong, however.

Lasting Appeal seemed to be a major factor in the score