Official Metroid Thread - Samus is back!

[MTZehvor]

Mike321 said:

MTZehvor said:

Without wishing to restart a long standing debate, I'm pretty sure Other M doesn't make the Prime games non canon. I've heard that a lot, and it's an assumption I've never really gotten the reasoning behind.

The most common places it seems to come from are a Go Nintendo article reporting on an interview with Sakamoto where he basically calls the Prime games "side stories" and says they aren't connected with the story of Other M. Translation's a bit of an iffy prospect, but the vast majority of Japanese speaking people who I've seen comment on this claim that his words lean much more towards the Prime games essentially not having a whole lot to do with Other M rather than taking place in an entirely alternate universe.

Second place I've seen this in is a cutscene from Other M where Samus says that the Bottle Ship stuff was the "first joint mission" with the Federation since becoming a bounty hunter. And that's perfectly fine. Escorting troopers in Prime 3 to blow up some door isn't really a joint mission.

I'd be curious on hearing your thoughts; I don't want to defend Other M's plot, but I haven't seen anything to really suggest that it makes the Prime games non canon.

In prime 2 Samus is hired by the federation to find some missing troops, in prime 3 Samus works with the federation the whole game, not only in the escort mission, so the fact that in other m Samus says that working with Adam in the bottle ship is the first time she works with the federation since she left means the prime trilogy never happened in the canon universe. I obviously acknowledge the prime trilogy as canon but unfortunately nintendo choose other m.

Here's the direct quote from the game, for clarity's sake:

"It was the first joint mission I had been a part of since becoming a freelance bounty hunter"

What Samus does in Prime 2/3 isn't a joint mission. It's being contracted by an organization to do something. If being hired by the Federation to do something that they want you to do qualifies as a joint mission, then basically the entire rest of the series would be non-canon since the Federation hires Samus to root out the Space Pirates on Zebes (the instruction manual states that the Federation hires her) and she's hired once again by the GF in Metroid 2 to exterminate the Metroids. Obviously both of those games are considered canon for Other M's story considering how long it spends banging on about the baby Metroid.

A joint mission is directly working with someone, like how Samus explicitly takes orders from Adam and interacts with the GF troopers for the entirety of her stay aboard the Bottle Ship.