| Soundwave said: As an action sci-fi game taken on its own merits and ignoring the cheesy writing of the plot, the game wasn't that bad honestly. |
Even if you remove the awful story, I'd still say it's a bad game.
The controls were horrid; jumping felt off, tapping the D-Pad to dodge was a pain in the arse, changing my grip on the controller to go into first person view was awkward. I felt like I was fighting the controls the whole time.
Simply changing the control scheme to Wiimote and Nunchuk with dodging mapped to a button and better jumping physics would have made a big difference.
Then there were the mind-bogglingly awful design choices, like forcing you to walk slowly through certain segments, no health pickups, not being able to shoot missiles while in third person, and the annoyingly precise "where's wally" pixel hunt bits.
Metroid Other M is a 3/10 game as is, but even with a better story it would still be a 4/10.
