The Official Metroid Other M Thread

[Mr Khan]

Demotruk said:

Khuutra said:

Inconsistent with Super and Fusion? I am embarrassed to admit it but I don't know what you mean; I suppose I need to brush up on my Metroid lore.

Well the most obvious ones are with Metroid Fusion since I did a playthrough recently enough. Samus' extensive monologues in Fusion make her seem totally unaware of any sort of corrupt activities the Federation could be doing involving Metroids, even though almost the exact same thing happens in both Other M and Fusion. Then there's Nightmare, which was secretly developed on BSL and corrupted by the X parasites (and seemed to have taken the gravity ability from Samus' suit fitting in with the themes of the bosses), which Samus is completely shocked by, yet there it is on the Bottle Ship in the same form (complete with gravity abilities) which is supposed to happen prior to Fusion. It makes Samus' monologues in Fusion make no sense, unless she got amnesia or something. Then, if Metroids have been cloned by federation scientists and genetically enhanced to resist ice, why in Fusion do they need to use DNA from the baby specifically to save Samus when they could have used DNA from the superior and abundant Metroids. Also, why is the Omega Metroid still vulnerable to ice?

This can be explained if Sakamoto wanted it to be a 'reimagining' of Fusion, which it seems to be, but if so they could have presented it that way from the start instead of saying it fits between Super Metroid and Fusion.

You're right on the first one, at least. The "surprise" that the Federation was developing Metroids loses all of its luster.

But given the total destruction of the bottle ship, perhaps they no longer had any Metroid DNA outside of that which they originally gleaned from the Baby to create the Bottle Ship Metroids in the first place.

wfz brought up a good point that the whole "but they're invulnerable to ice" thing was probably a lie that Adam made up, an excuse for shooting Samus, when his real purpose was merely to make Samus unable to stop him from sacrificing himself, especially given that they weren't invulnerable to ice anyway.

Really, that part of her characterization is right in line with how she was portrayed previously. The Samus that jumped down a shaft to her apparent doom just to stop Meta Ridley is really much the same as the Samus that was willing to go into Sector 0 and try to activate the self-destruct on it herself.

Now as for Prime having happened or not, I still stand by my idea that Sakamoto's treating them as a side-series isn't all that bad, given that the events of Prime were inconsequential to the Metroid-II-Super-Other-Fusion line. The one point where Prime could have helped might be explaining Ridley's survival between Metroid and Super, though he seems to be pretty conclusively dead at the end of Corruption, but Prime complicates the question of Metroid II, given the seemingly endless supply of Metroids that the Space Pirates bred across multiple worlds.