| Samus Aran said: It's not about if Metroid needs it, it's about selling more copies. And that's what Metroid truly needs. Fire Emblem: Awakening and Fates are a good example of what the Metroid franchise could do to become more popular. So what if there would be a kissing scene with a girl near the end of a Metroid game? If it sells 300k extra copies who's going to complain? And yes, people are this shallow. |
Actually, it probably wouldn't. Metriod wouldn't even be the first game to do that with one of its characters but the bigger more concrete issue would be the same as the lame story instances from Other M and the crying we hear about Federation Force, the Metriod core fanbase doesn't care about that sort of stuff and the fans you will pull aren't going to be enough if they aren't behind the game.
The Metriod camp primarily wants the gameplay experience, a few would like a deeper story but it is more about exploring alien terrain and battling diverse creatures while gaining powers. Samus being a attractive woman adds to the appeal but it isn't the focus for most fans and more then anything having a solid to great gameplay experience will pretty much be the basis for any Metriod game. Also people would complain, jeez would people complain especially the hardcore conservative crowds that may not care about their kids playing that 'robot' game now but when they here the robot is a woman that kisses other women on the screen they will flip and probably petition to have her removed from future Smash Bros games.
People are that crazy, Nintendo knows this and wouldn't want the controversy. Fire Emblem can get away with it since those groups probably already wouldn't support the game due to it usually having gods, magic, fantasy and other things that can be considered 'devil craft'. But a character as popular as Samus isn't so popular that a minor controversy couldn't cause Nintendo to put her on ice outside of maybe appearing in Smash Bros games for a long while.
Edit:But I will say once again, a new Metriod game with some of Other M's game play mechanics polished would be a very good game. I personally don't know if Nintendo or Retro have it in them to create another game in Prime's style that would be as good as the first game which it would be compared to like its sequels.
