I totally agree, but I think thats why they had them on handhelds, handhelds usually sell more with Nintendo.

And not having games that have proven to be system sellers on consoles was a good idea how?

I'm sorry I just don't understand your statement.

Going back to Malstrom for a bit, he has expressed the theory that people believe 2D games should only be on handhelds, and digital distribution, because they see them as inferior to 3D games, and this course of thought has been carried out by gamers and members of the industry.

I stopped being a 2D platformer fan long, long time ago, but I totally understand Malstrom when he's pissed that a genre so successful both critically and sales-wise, particularly on Nintendo consoles, took so long to get a blockbuster game on Wii. He's totally right about it and if Miyamoto don't like those games anymore, he could just supervise their development and dedicate his creativity to what he likes.

But I can't agree with Malstrom when he bashes whatever he doesn't like. 3D Mario was less successful than NSMBW, but it wasn't by any means the flop he pretends it to be and the world of successful games is a lot vaster than Malstrom tastes. I myself have quite specific tastes, different from Malstrom ones, but very focused like his, but I perfectly know that there is a huge gaming world outside of my little one. I agree totally with him about the centrality of gameplay, but again, he doesn't seem to be able to admit that there can be also good and excellent gameplays totally different from his tastes.

But please, do not misinterpret me to say that you should not enjoy playing your 3d Mario games. I am trying to look at the Big Picture of not just this generation but all generations. When you look at it from that perspective, there is no other conclusion I can see but to declare 3d Mario a failure at carrying the torch left that was handed to them from Super Mario World.

This post contains a lot of input on how Malstrom views gaming. And he has stated other times that the 3D Mario games are not bad games, but they don't sell as well as the 2D games.

He also acknowledged that Pokemon is huge, but not his type of game.

The Pokemon explosion began when I stopped console gaming during the SNES era.

Pokemon is just not my type of game. I am also too old for it. I know, I know, there are adults that play Pokemon. But not this adult.

What Nintendo did with Pokemon was interesting in how they spun it off into another company altogether. I don’t discuss Pokemon because while Pokemon is a huge system seller for Nintendo portables, it is not a system seller for the home consoles. There isn’t much to talk about concerning Pokemon.

Though granted, he doesn't do this very often. 

LOL, sometimes it looks like there are two Malstroms in one body and keyboard!  :-O   

When he's reasonable or witty instead of raving, he's a good read.

Anyhow, he could publish a list of the games he likes (or that he considers good even not liking them) on every major platform, it could help putting in perspective his statements when he goes ballistic about the specific issue of tastes   

One last thing about Pokemons: thanks God he doesn't discuss them, the average wackiness of their fans is already huge enough, adding Malstrom to them could risk making the net explode!   

That's the same as saying that it doesn't make sense if Link talks in future Zelda games because he hasn't spoken up to this point. In the case of Metroid: it's simply that the technology was previously too limited to put real cutscenes like this one into the game. 

"LOL, sometimes it looks like there are two Malstroms in one body and keyboard!

When he's reasonable or witty instead of raving, he's a good read."

He's stated that the latter is just an online persona, the way The Cinema Snob doesn't act that way in real life.

Oh yes, I know it and you, Ronin and every other intelligent Malstrom reader know it, but there are too many of his fans that take him far too seriously, just like clams with Hubbard, he's not acting nicely or fairly towards them. But even knowing it, when he exaggerates, he becomes annoying, I prefer him when he's amusing.

Actually, I prefer the analytical side as well.

What Im asking is.....Is it possible she was scared the first 2 times as well and it was never shown due to.....lack of a proper way to show it? Without dialogue, or even text bubbles, how would we know if she was scared the first 2 times? In metroid, we knew nothing about Samus. Didnt even know she was female until the end. What Im saying is that it is possible she has always been this way and Nintendo just never showed us. So we just assumed she was this bounty hunter with ice water in her veins that shot first and asked questions later.