Sex and the Zero Suit: Why Samus was Great Only in Metroid Prime

[darkknightkryta]

Mr Khan said:

darkknightkryta said:

Khuutra said:

One of the worse things about Other M is how it tried to pretend that Adam was the primary influence on Samus as a person, instead of the Chozo, who had already been established as Samus's family after she was orphaned

One more layer to the argument that Adam was a self-insert for the director

Also one more reaosn that characterization of Samus was horrible

I disagree with you.  Adam wasn't the primary influence on Samus as a person, she just has a lot of respect for him.  Bad writing aside, the point of her opposing Adam was that she was her own person.  Again it was horribly written, I mean the thumbs down was stupid, but that's how I always saw it.  And Samus' characterization wasn't horrible, it's just that Sakomoto wanted to show how she was scarred from Ridley.  I mean if Bruce Wayne can get so scarred as to become Batman by watching his parents die, Samus can have post posttraumatic stress disorder from watching Ridley kill her parents.  The only problem, again back to the bad writing, was that she should have been over it since she beat him a few times.  Right idea, bad part of the time line to put it in.  Last note for me, Other M's storytelling probably wouldn't have been so bad if Samus wasn't narrating anything, I mean, they had her narrating part of the story that literally happened seconds ago.  Such a bad idea.

I agree. I could see a lot of what they were clearly trying to do in Other M, and i did not disapprove of it, but implemented as it was, it had a lot of unfortunate implications.

Indeed