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

[theRepublic]

Mr Khan said:

theRepublic said:

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.

True, but i didn't play it on hard mode, so i never got that impression

Yeah, the constant dodging, zero pick ups, and little exploration ensure that the game just doesn't feel like a Metroid game.  There was so much to find in all the other Metroid games.  Not so in Other M.  Just a handful of power ups hidden in the game.

It was still pretty fun, just not "Metroid".