Metroid: Other M - The Black Sheep....or so we thought

[theRepublic]

Mr Khan said:

theRepublic said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

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And while it[Metroid Other M] was much closer to a traditional Metroid game than Prime...

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What?  I have never seen anyone make that claim before.  I thought the Prime games, especially the first, felt very much like Metroid or Super Metroid put into three dimensions.  On the other hand, Other M (while still a good game) felt absolutely nothing like a Metroid game.

I would have expected virtually everyone to agree with that assessment, and am surprised to see someone taking the opposite stance.

You two might be talking about two different kinds of feel. In terms of gameplay progression, Prime was basically a clone of Super Metroid until they got to the "get the Chozo Artifacts" line, in terms of things you needed to do to progress, but in terms of how you actually played the game, is in directly interacted with the world around you, Other M is far closer to the 2D Metroids: faster, more accurate platforming, and Samus is more fragile in Other M as she was in the 2D games, whereas she was definitely tankier in Prime

Did you play Other M on hard mode?  It really boils the game down to the developers vision.  It plays nothing like the 2D games.  You spend most of your time spamming the dodge, and the fact that there are zero pick-ups really sticks out.  It forces you to play it "station-to-station", since you are just trying to get to the next save point to refill your health.  As a consequence, it makes it very clear just how linear the game is.  They really isn't very much platforming in Other M either.  It is probably about the same amount as in any of the Prime games.