Notice the bolded part? That meant I agreed with you.

I was just agreeing with you as well

Oh, okay.

As for this game, going off of expanded universe materials, even canonical, should be done more than just slapping it on there and expecting it to work.

Well I think much like the idea Nintendo should try to expand, they should also bring things like the comics over, hell a perfect preorder bonus, get the Metroid manga, get that extra story out there, and since Other M takes a LOT from Fusion yet a lot of Prime players (many of which were new to the Metroid series) didn't play Fusion they're not making money off it anymore include that on the Other M disc since many Prime players missed out.

Well I played Fusion, and what I've seen of this game (videos are online) still looks too far. But as you said, getting the comics out would have been a good idea. They should have had the comics given out as much as possible, even publicly avaiable on sponsored comic viewing sites, before they even tried this with the game.

Biggest thing I believe is NoA/NoE/NoAus ALL need to take note from NoJ support the IPs outside of the general games world, there's a single Nintendo store in New York... whoopie!  They need to do more stuff that appeals to the regions public much like Microsoft does in America, whats that like Halo?  Like Mountain Dew?  Well here's gamer fuel.  Oh you like novels of the Halo franchise that tells backstory? Here's some books (one of which is now a GAME! you might have heard of it it's called Reach ) Now Nintendo could get a writer to make a Metroid novel, it could take off it might not but you can try.

Finally my copy arrived!!!  I'll play it tonight and post later my impressions.

You know there is life outside of VGChartz.  Most fans like me who played the first NES metriod and loved it

And the second and super metriod know who Samus is.  The first metriod was fun but hard.  This game is not Samus, you can give me all the excuses that this is what sakamoto wanted from the beginning but I'm not buying it. He could of added all angst in the first game like Ninja Gaiden.

 I don't get where you come up with the stuff I highlighted we long time fans know what we want.  Mario games that are side-scrolling.  zelda games  like first three on the nes and snes. 

I liked prime1 it was to most fans a real samus and real metriod game.

And the horrid script what is the point of doing a script and having it suck so bad, Sakamoto doesn't know what he is doing.  Didn't someone tell him your writing sucks donkey?  And the plot common some bad sci-fi movies have more imagination.  I could only stomach 2 hours of this game.  I love metriod but we were handed something else

The question then why was he allowed to do the writing? Why have that aspect in the game when it isn't any damn good?

Well, I'm a long time Metroid fan, played it since NES days and have had pretty much every metroid game, even Hunters Pinball. 

I damn sure appreciate the current characterization of Samus, because now she's an actual character in which I see some similarities and can realistically comprehend some of the motives behind her actions. 

To me, Other M is being a pure Metroid experience, overhauled with the deeper portrayal of Samus. And since Other M is supposed to be a bridge-story between the events of Super Metroid and Fusion, without Prime in between as well, there hasn't been a scene or character portrayal so far that feels out of line.

Probably the majority of long time fans don't like the current direction, but to me, it's been an amazing experience so far, even rivaling the experience that I had the first time I played Prime on the GC.

Damnation did that ending come out of left field, but it was quite satisfying for all that.

The Metroids were harder to deal with than the Queen herself, given that you pretty much had to freeze all four in one shot to realistically be able to shoot at any of the frozen ones.

Now on to the post-game.