Other M is very hard for me to recommend, mostly because I am very sensitive to poor voice acting. A voice is an intrument and while I love music, I despise bad music. Music that is flat or out of tune or repetitive or just shows the artist isn't feeling it or isn't capable of delivering a performance worthy of their part. So the voice actress in Other M just completely destroys whatever narrative they were going for in the game.
Of course, motivation is also something that is important to me. As I mentioned in another post, I don't really need much motivation to inspire me to beat a Metroid game. But when you take that motivation away from me and place it in some dude that "allows" Samus to be herself, then you've just regressed our heroine to some 50s era female ideal and you can just go home with that crap.
Gameplay-wise and graphics-wise, Other M isn't a terrible offering. I don't mind the grappling, I adore it being in 3rd person, and I loved aiming at the screen with the Wiimote. But when you put an item behind the end of the game you've done jumped the shark.
Here's to Nintendo understanding the lessons to be learned from Other M's failures and for them to realize what aspects of the game were successful.
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