Although I have never played Metroid other M, I have seen a good chunk of it on Youtube, and having played through the Metroid prime trilogy, Fusion and only played the original, but never finished, all I can say is that MOM is a pretty bad Metroid game.
The game mechanics seem iffy, cutscenes are really annoying, and the game world just seems so meh. Exploring a ship in sapce is not very exciting, unlike, say, exploring a planet in Prime. Now that was awesome. Great game in general as well, worth having a GC just for that.
Also, why does practically no one mention the original Metroid? It's a completely non-linear game, and so hard as well, yet you all seem to talk about Metroid as if it appeared with Super Metroid.
@OP: True, it might crawl it's way to 1-1.5 million sales, but when you compare the userbase sizes, it should be expected, no? And even if it did make Nintendo money, the point was to make Metroid more popular with this direction, but not only did that fail, it probably alienated quite a bit of Metroid fans, like me. They should look back to what made Metroid a hit in the beginning.
