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Resident_Hazard said:
LordTheNightKnight said:

Other M wasn't because of the targeting but because it was loaded with a bad story, when the game is about blasting aliens in a vast world.

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I've always felt that the Metroid franchise was very much more Western than anything else Nintendo made.  In large part, due to it's history that the franchise has typically been much more popular outside Japan than within.  All the Prime games (including Hunters) solidified this Western appeal, and built upon it crafting some of the most Western-styled games Nintendo ever published.  Other M upends this, and dumps the more mature and Western narrative and style for a flash-in-the-pan, largely immature anime-hued (and broken) plotline.  I have, in all my years, never felt anything anime-like in Metroid.  And seeing it in Other M, among other things, just felt out of place.  Wrong, even.

Kinda the way the anime-themed new Hard Corps: Uprising doesn't look or feel anything like the Contra games I know and love.  I played the demo and it left a foul taste in my mouth.  Contra ReBirth on the Wii, however--is fucking awesome.  

(If only Konami would release the ReBirth games together on a disk...)


And bad anime at that.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs