Metroid needs (and deserves) a reboot. Caution - Lots of gifs!

[Samus Aran]

NoirSon said:

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.

Nintendo dresses Link up as a girl and no one cares.

You'd be surprised what you could do with good writers. They could focus on the hardship of coming out of the closet in an intolerant society. You don't even need words or kissing scenes to tell a story like this. You could do it through scan logs of for example space pirates who could mock homosexual people and Samus in particular. They're not the most tolerant society after all. They could also use the American army as an inspiration for how the Galactic Federation views homosexuality (don't ask, don't tell).

We could then get Samus her views on all this through inner monologues during elevator rides à la Metroid: Fusion.

You guys have a way too narrow view on how you can tell a great (back- or side-) story based around someone's sexuality. There's much more you can do then show two girls kissing. You don't even need to introduce a partner for Samus, she could be perfectly single and still be gay.