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Mr Khan on 27 August 2010
Ari_Gold said:

After playing the game for around 3 hours (just beat the boss in sector 1), i have some  complaints. The game is not exceeding my expectations, but its a fairly good game so far.

Complaints

-The voice Acting: there's just too much voice acting, sure i get it that it was for the fans, but i think that the execution wasn't very good. Bottom line, it disturbs the PACING of the game.

-Adam: his words alone have power over you, in that you cannot use missiles, bombs, power bombs, etc... this was very poor if you ask me. theres one quote he says... "power bombs can kill your fellow soldiers, and destroy the walls" or something along those lines

-the combat: the game is a cakewalk so far, going from room A to room B, automatic lock on makes the game a cakewalk. For example you move from the left to the right, and enemies move up, or behind you, or at 90, 180, degrees, and you cannot aim, unless you go to first person mode, which is a drag, so, just by pressin 1, you shoot, and the automatic lockon well makes the game easy.

-finding powerups: you find many powerups by defeating enemies in a room, and that makes a blue sign appear on the map, telling you if there is a misslie expansion, or a tank piece.... this just makes the game easier for the casual gamer, and took away the fun of exploring the game by myself.

 

I'm first a Metroid Fan, not a nintendo fan. Take my words with a grain of salt if you cannot distringuish between a great to a good game. Metroid Other M is a good game. Not a great one unfortunately. I kinda see why reviews are between 7's and 8's and i agree. Though my metroid bias, has me rating it as an 8-8.5

On that point, remember that Super Metroid had the map dots too. This isn't a new element introduced for a new casual gamer or anything.

 

I'll agree on Adam. They could've come up with a better deus ex machina to deal with that, or just ignored the issue entirely.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 27 August 2010
Mr Khan said:
Ari_Gold said:

After playing the game for around 3 hours (just beat the boss in sector 1), i have some  complaints. The game is not exceeding my expectations, but its a fairly good game so far.

Complaints

-The voice Acting: there's just too much voice acting, sure i get it that it was for the fans, but i think that the execution wasn't very good. Bottom line, it disturbs the PACING of the game.

-Adam: his words alone have power over you, in that you cannot use missiles, bombs, power bombs, etc... this was very poor if you ask me. theres one quote he says... "power bombs can kill your fellow soldiers, and destroy the walls" or something along those lines

-the combat: the game is a cakewalk so far, going from room A to room B, automatic lock on makes the game a cakewalk. For example you move from the left to the right, and enemies move up, or behind you, or at 90, 180, degrees, and you cannot aim, unless you go to first person mode, which is a drag, so, just by pressin 1, you shoot, and the automatic lockon well makes the game easy.

-finding powerups: you find many powerups by defeating enemies in a room, and that makes a blue sign appear on the map, telling you if there is a misslie expansion, or a tank piece.... this just makes the game easier for the casual gamer, and took away the fun of exploring the game by myself.

 

I'm first a Metroid Fan, not a nintendo fan. Take my words with a grain of salt if you cannot distringuish between a great to a good game. Metroid Other M is a good game. Not a great one unfortunately. I kinda see why reviews are between 7's and 8's and i agree. Though my metroid bias, has me rating it as an 8-8.5

On that point, remember that Super Metroid had the map dots too. This isn't a new element introduced for a new casual gamer or anything.

 

I'll agree on Adam. They could've come up with a better deus ex machina to deal with that, or just ignored the issue entirely.

You know the old premise "Samus got shot or crashed and lost her equipement" got really old. At least with Adam it makes some sense.



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Mr Khan on 27 August 2010
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Mr Khan said:
Ari_Gold said:

After playing the game for around 3 hours (just beat the boss in sector 1), i have some  complaints. The game is not exceeding my expectations, but its a fairly good game so far.

Complaints

-The voice Acting: there's just too much voice acting, sure i get it that it was for the fans, but i think that the execution wasn't very good. Bottom line, it disturbs the PACING of the game.

-Adam: his words alone have power over you, in that you cannot use missiles, bombs, power bombs, etc... this was very poor if you ask me. theres one quote he says... "power bombs can kill your fellow soldiers, and destroy the walls" or something along those lines

-the combat: the game is a cakewalk so far, going from room A to room B, automatic lock on makes the game a cakewalk. For example you move from the left to the right, and enemies move up, or behind you, or at 90, 180, degrees, and you cannot aim, unless you go to first person mode, which is a drag, so, just by pressin 1, you shoot, and the automatic lockon well makes the game easy.

-finding powerups: you find many powerups by defeating enemies in a room, and that makes a blue sign appear on the map, telling you if there is a misslie expansion, or a tank piece.... this just makes the game easier for the casual gamer, and took away the fun of exploring the game by myself.

 

I'm first a Metroid Fan, not a nintendo fan. Take my words with a grain of salt if you cannot distringuish between a great to a good game. Metroid Other M is a good game. Not a great one unfortunately. I kinda see why reviews are between 7's and 8's and i agree. Though my metroid bias, has me rating it as an 8-8.5

On that point, remember that Super Metroid had the map dots too. This isn't a new element introduced for a new casual gamer or anything.

 

I'll agree on Adam. They could've come up with a better deus ex machina to deal with that, or just ignored the issue entirely.

You know the old premise "Samus got shot or crashed and lost her equipement" got really old. At least with Adam it makes some sense.

Oddly, Metroid Fusion had the best of them. Her suit was wrecked from infection so she lost her powers.

In this case they could easily have come up with something better, like the stress from the fight with Mother Brain drained her suit once the hyper mode wore off.

Like some reviewers have pointed out, it makes for some weird situations in the game, like when Samus suffers from lack of Varia. How in the hell could having Varia active be a bad thing? Or the grapple beam? Or the gravity suit for that matter.

 

Also, i just beat Super Metroid again. Not sure what i did right, but Ridley was easy as hell (especially given that i had only 9 energy tanks). And Mother Brain there is laughably easy, since once you go hyper, you can just stand right under her and shoot up most of the time, except when she extends her neck vertically, then you only have to go into her firing zone for one shot, and its back to easy mode again.

And i saved the animals and didn't get shit for it. Is there something i was supposed to do after shooting them free of that room?



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c03n3nj0 on 27 August 2010

I was watching IW talk about Metroid, it seems they really liked the game. 

Now I'm curious to see what the sells are... I think it'll sturggle to reach a million, kinda like how the new Punch-Out!!! sold. 



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theRepublic on 27 August 2010
Soma said:

From the reviews it seems to be a very good game, but not a very good traditional Metroid Game. Kinda what happened with Silent Hill Shattered Memories. It's more action oriented, with few exploration until the very end (weird considering Sakamoto said it was a very important element).

Also it's kind sad the game is short with not much challenge. Super Metroid could be finished in less than 10 hours BUT once you knew what to do. This takes the same time the first playthough =(

I have mixed feelings, it's for Metroid fans because of Samus' story, but at the same time it's not a traditional Metroid game. I'll probably enjoy it, but I'm somewhat dissapointed with the exploration stuff

Super Metroid in 10 hours?  Hell, you could legitimately beat the game in under 3 hours if you knew what to do.  Using glitches, someone got100% and beat the game in under one hour.



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SmokedHostage on 27 August 2010

Other M seems to be Fusion on a console.  Short, Narrative driven, but fun for fans of Super.

I'm starting to think that if people had to choose between the Prime Trilogy and Other M, they'd pick the prime trilogy.  Much like Super and Fusion.



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Mr Khan on 27 August 2010
SmokedHostage said:

Other M seems to be Fusion on a console.  Short, Narrative driven, but fun for fans of Super.

I'm starting to think that if people had to choose between the Prime Trilogy and Other M, they'd pick the prime trilogy.  Much like Super and Fusion.


It's hard not to pick Prime Trilogy. 3 games in one is a sure deal over pretty much anything outside of certain RPGs or a heavily online game in terms of dollars for playtime



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Aiddon on 27 August 2010

guess I shouldn't be surprised over Other M causing such controversy. Even with the 2D perspective the game is STILL doing a LOT of new things with the series which, as most critics of Nintendo claim, they don't do enough.  Seems the only common complaints are with the plot, but I guess you can't do something new without pissing people off.



Stefan.De.Machtige on 28 August 2010

The last one had a 90 meta and sold a pityfull 1.5 million.What's the point anyway to have a great percentage, when it doesn't sell? All the scanning and backtracking was simply too much.

I think Nintendo will be happy with the game. They are atleast pushing the game pretty good. Sales should be better then the last.



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LOVEoo on 29 August 2010

Loving it. CG is beautiful, story is fine, gameplay is fun.

I dont have any stupid Metroid nostalgia and I dont have fun backtracking and looking for stuff through a million rooms like an idiot for a power up so I love the dots.

 

Great game.