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Mike321 on 17 August 2015
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MTZehvor said:
Mike321 said:

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.

Like I said, in prime 3 she works with the federation the whole game, you can interact and talk to them. Fleet Admiral Castor Dane is the one that gives the orders to samus and the other hunters. In the escort mission Dane gives Samus the order to protect those troops, not to mention during the whole mission other federation troops are fighting against the space pirates. And what about the final assault to phaaze? Sure Samus went to the planet alone but the federation ships opened her the path. So yeah that Samus quote completely disregards the events of prime 3 and in consequence the events of prime 2 and prime 1. You know what the funny part is? without that quote we wouldn't be having this conversation, but nintendo went over themselves thinking Other m was going to take the franchise to another direction.