| curl-6 said: 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. |
I disagree about it being a 3/10 game, I'm going through the game now and tbh it's nowhere near that bad, I'd say it's around 7/10 and only held back by some mechanical flaws and choices. Don't care too much about the complaints about story or characters because I've found those complaints to be hugely exaggeratted, I will say I agree the game would have benefitted from a better mapped control scheme and should have used the nunchuck as this would have allowed for a dedicated dodge button, analogue movement and better first person.
Haven't had too much issue with the physics tbh but you're right that the missiles should have been accessible in third person mode as the lock on in first person mode is erratic often locking on to an enemy behind the one I'm trying to shoot and the where's wally sections give you no indicator of what to look for as well as the player needing to focus on the spot for several seconds before it's highlighted meaning it's easy to pass over what you're looking for, not to fussed about health pick ups as you can regen one life bar if the dodge mechanic is fixed pick ups wouldn't matter too much.
I will say it's not a bad game like it's pegged to be but it's a flawed one with a unique approach and agree with other users that it has it's own merits as an action sci-fi game and the approach can be fixed in a future game to deliver a great Metroid title.
