| theRepublic said: I see. I don't care much for timeline discussions either, but if it is in the game, I consider it canon. I think the Prime Samus has as much right to be considered the "real" Samus as any other Metroid game's Samus. I always thought that the Samus from Super and the Samus from the Prime games seemed the same to me anyway. If Other M's is so different, that one is going to feel like the outlier to me. I've never played the portable Metroids. Anyway, Amazon says Other M is "Shipping Soon". Hopefully it will go in the mail tomorrow. After that things always seem to get here pretty fast. Maybe I'll have it Monday. |
You'll finish it in a day or so. About eight or ten hours for yoru first runthrough, so if you have a free day you'll blast through it. It's of typical length for a 2D Metroid.
As to their canonness: Other M makes reference to every chronologically preceding game except for the Primes, pretending as if they didn't happen. For Sakamoto, they may not have. Doesn't matter.
It shows the difference between the Western and Japanese views of Samus. The Western Samus is defined by hardness - the Japanese Samus is (now) defined by that hardness being a veneer. I hope it doesn't surprise you that Ridley is in this game.
The Western version of Samus sees Ridley and says "I'm going to ruin his day."
The Japanese version of Samus sees Ridley and has a PTSD flasback that incapacitates her.
