The Official Metroid Other M Thread

[LordTheNightKnight]

chriscox1121 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Even if I couldn't afford the game now, I would have considered trying it out later, until I heard you can't skip the sut scenes. It's not just that I don't like the story (I've liked quite a few games with bad stories), but having to sit through it, in an action game, is annoying. I tolerated it with God of War 1 and Metroid Prime 3, but that's my limit.

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What I've seen of the story does not impress me (videos are available online). Even giving that the Ridley scene is consitent with the manga (which they should have at least included in the game to give context), the lines are written, and spoken, really flatly. Again, I could have taken that if I could have skipped those and just played the game.

That's th biggest reason I was turned off from Heavy Rain. Despite what I've posted about that game, I really was giving the game a shot (especially when the trailers made it look like it was all about an intense hunt for a serial killer) until I saw the actual gameplay, and knew the entire game was me having to sit through all that. I wonder if the trailers versus the gameplay is why it opened well but had no legs, but that's for another thread.

Plus even RPGs tend to grate on me now for that, and I'm a big RPG fan. One of the reasons I like Kingdom Hearts II and 358/2 over the first game and Chain of Memories (the GBA version, not sure about the remake) is skipping cut scenes.

So in short, I don't like the story (details or execution), and having that peppered througout the game will make it very grating, despite how good it might or might not play.