Other M's great, I've gotten 100% and completed the (awesome) post game and came away pretty happy. That said the story was totally awful (Capcom calibre basically, it really did feel like RE-in-space at times), and the artificial sectioning definitely held back the Metroidy exploration imo. Overall, I'd have to say I liked Super and Fusion more, but Other M set down a great template that I hope to see Sakamoto (and Team Ninja) expand upon in the future (3DS Metroid 2 remake plz). Just hopefully with a more open world design and far less cutscenes. Also, no pixel hunts (ugh, they sucked).
Combat was great though (so fast!), 1st person worked WAY better than I expected, removing life/missile farming actually worked, the bosses were EPIC (Best. Ridley. Ever) and goddamn it's nice to have shinesparking and (a usable) screw/space jump back. I was a little disappointed in the morphball bits though, sad to say Prime did the morphball better (though thats nearly all it did better gameplay wise imo).
