Eight or nine hours, but I didn't try to 100% everything.

I didn't get the game until Friday and I'm only about 5 hours in.  I  plan to read this entire thread when I finish the game but for now, I want to avoid any spoilers.  It's 5:37am, as I write this and I've been up for the last 2 hours playing this game.  Here's my impressions, so far.

Back in 1997/1998, EGM made a list of the top 100 games of all time.  Maybe others had made lists like this before, but that was the first time I had seen one.  They listed reasons why each title fell into the place that it did, but in the end, I respected this list as the one true definitive list, at the time.  At the top of that list was Super Metroid.  The best game of all time.

Now, in the issues that followed, there was backlash.  There were people that went and played Super Metroid and didn't like what they found.  They didn't get it.  I wasn't one of those people.  Metroid fans, few as they may be, know that the series isn't about flash.  It's about tried and true gameplay, exploration, atmosphere, boss battles, creativity, and devious puzzles.  And that's where Other M comes in.  You see, after E3, this was my most anticipated game of the year.  My hype level for this game was off of the charts.  This was the Metroid that I always dreamed of.  It was 3D, it was third person, and it was somewhat cinematic.  I couldn't wait!  But it seems that some reviewers-not all-have been less than kind to Samus Aran's latest adventure.

What inspired me to write this post was that this game just made me cry.  I don't even know why.  It's a little embarrasing, to be honest.  I was playing the game, reached a puzzle, and I was totally stumped.  I contemplated going to the internet for a guide, but I didn't do it.  I stuck with it.  It took a lot of backtracking and experimentation but then I found this one wall that I could wall-jump off of, allowing me to continue the mission.  It was a feeling that I didn't see that often in this day and age.  It was the kind of thing that made me appreciate solid level design, and it was this blast of nostalgia that hit me at just the right time, and made me think of a time long passed.

The controls are perfect.  Initially, I was put off by the thought of using the Wii-Remote "Nes style".  In this day and age, after all of the advances in controls, how could Nintendo justify reverting back to two buttons and a d-pad?  Well, it didn't take long for them to click.  Now, I can't imagine playing this game any other way.  The story?  I'm getting major flashbacks of Metroid 2, combined with something......I just don't know...But I like it.  I like it a lot.  Something really sinister and epic is going on here and I can't wait to get to the bottom of it.  As for Samus' voice.  Initially, I was a little put off by it.  As it stands, I don't mind it at all.  And for some reason, I feel scared for her.  Despite her experience, and power, it seems like Samus is vulnerable and up against something she may not be able to handle.  It really delivers on that old Metroid feeling of being alone and overwhelmed.  This is the first time that Samus actually feels like a woman--not just a woman-a human.  It feels like I'm controlling a person instead of a souless robot.  Again, I like it and I've been playing these Metroid games since the late 80's.

The graphics suck.  Maybe I'm spoiled.  I'm very unimpressed by what Team Ninja and Nintendo have done with the Wii, here.  I wasn't expecting Uncharted 2 or anything but what we have here is a step below the Metroid Prime series.  It doesn't even stack up to older games like Metal Gear Solid 2 or Starfox Adventures and these games are closing in on being a decade old.  I can't figure out how this can be.  They do the job, but I'm spotting horrible textures, polygons, 2D plants, and weak effects, every time I turn around.  It really takes away from the overall impact of the game.

I don't know.  This is a long post but I felt I had to write it.  I can't explain it.  Maybe nobody will ever read it.  Maybe they will.  I don't care.  I'm going back to play the game.  As it stands, I'm blown away by what I have here.  An experience like this comes along a few times in a generation.  Games that go beyond games and become experiences.  Right now, I'm having an experience.  I love it.  If I had to give a rating based on what I've played so far, I'd give MoM an 8.9 out of 10.  And It's my game of the year.

For what it's worth, even I was getting really annoyed by your posts, and I didn't see the humor. Try to make it a little bit more obvious next time. Use smileys, like Lord said.

Also, maybe some things are better left done with. It really feels like you're beating a dead horse. No matter how funny you try to make it, beating a dead horse is still beating a dead horse, and it's annoying. Maybe you should give up the metroid spiel, or find something else to talk about than just ramming the same points again and again; points which some of us have tried to explain and discuss with you earlier.

For example, you keep talking about how Samus is whining, and I've tried getting into a discussion and talking points over with you earlier, to see what points you really had about it. But you just keep preaching the same thin and vague lines over and over, and it's really not funny.

her internal dialog is whining to me  some  thinks its Shakespeare.  Well good, I think it is bad, and it brings nothing to actual gameplay. It ruins any momentum you get. The question is why put in cutscenes with bad  dialog and overwrought samus? Why cut down who will purchase this game when more will buy it if those aspects are gone. There no need for smiley faces.

 you can't figure out that a 51 year old being on my knees and praying for a game to change is joking?

How were we to know your age? Even if it's on your profile, we don't look at every one on the site.

Plus I wouldn't call it whining, as it's too flat. Even Anakin in Attack of the Clones could make more convincing whining, which was about the only thing that was convincing unfortunately.

You ignored my points, A lot of people hate this game and will not purchase it which was a mistake I made.

If the game cut down of the overly dramatic aspects that a lot of people hate, and shortened the cut scenes then people who like this iteration would still purchase it.  And there is more of of a chance that fans of every other metriod would purchase it

They shot themselves in the foot. They cut down potential customers and pigeon holed samus with this personality.

I am not a genius in fact I have brain damage but those are good points

I think the most ridiculous thing about this game, bar none, is that Samus's Zero Suit has five-inch heels.

Freakin'

What

I think the most ridiculous thing about this game, bar none, is that Samus's Zero Suit has five-inch heels.

Freakin'

What