What direction should/will the Metroid franchise take?

[mortono]

Khuutra said:

mortono said:

I would like the next game to not have Samus as the hero. I would, in fact, find it interesting if the next game portrayed her as the villain, or perhaps the damsel in distress. I would want the main character to remain nameless and faceless until the end of the game, just like the original Metroid. The unveiling could be something surprising.

I came in here ready to hash it out with the usual suspects (Mr Kahn, Aiddon, et al), but this

This

This is far beyond what I had been expecting. Samus as a damsel in distress? How do you justify this? Why not just have Samus never come out of the suit?

The point is to get the character of Samus out of the way and return people's attention to the gameplay and the world that surrounds it. The original game was not called Samus, it was called Metroid.

And hey, the way Samus was portrayed in Metroid: Other M, I think being a damsel in distress would fit quite nicely.