I think Mr Khan and I were agreeing with you.

I know you were. I was being succinct for the sake of succinctness.

Well let's elaborate.

It would be less ridiculous to make Samus's armor shaped like a fancy ballgown (tiara instead of a helmet, bell shaped skirt instead of leggings, sleeves would stay the same though).

It would be less ridiculous to have her having to fight monsters in a fur bikini.

Why? Because such things are so over the top silly, that good reason would have to be put in the game for those, not just go with something that flat out slaps the established logic of the game in the face.

her boring internal monologues are whiny imo 

you don't

You know I would have been pretty okay with the Zero Suit if they had.... actually I have a lot of problems with the Zero Suit (not the suit itself, but Samus's softness), but I would be pretty okay with it if they had kept the reasonable feet design.

I would also be okay with an extra mode that lets me run around in nothing but the Zero Suit, like Justin Bailey of yore.

Actually I'm fine with lots of silly extras. Playing as Samus kicking the shit out of people in a fancy dress would be hilarious (if Nintendo could handle skirt physics). Just so as long as it's not canon. Canon like her five-inch heels.

If this game had a "Justin Bailey" code, I would buy a secomd copy.

I think the skirt physics was simple time constraints. Brawl had plenty of time, had the physics. NSMBWii had to be out for the holidays, since Nintendo evidently didn't have any other hits ready.

Incidentally, which famous fancy dress would you think would be the funniest? Peach's? Zelda's? One of the Disney Princess's?

There could be a Christmas DLC of Samus in a dress like at the end of White Christmas.

The five-inch heels are canon like the bikini she used to wear was canon. That bikini was (with some misfortune, given how comparatively often Samus undresses now) retconned out of existence, likely the heels will disappear, or the finer points of the suit will otherwise be altered.

Despite this idea we seem to have over Sakamoto being obsessed with determining the finer points of canon, the little bits of continuity have always been up in the air. Hell, the existence of Super Metroid and Metroid in the same timeline is a little incredulous (explaining how Mother Brain, Ridley, and Kraid survived)

The worst metroid game i have ever played, not a bad game all round in terms of production but a bad metroid game  for sure, in fact it might aswell be some other game. This is not metroid, although tough lets try to ignore the fact that they turned samus from a badass bounty hunter space pirate killer to a teen age pussy in heat pansy crying for daddy all the time...seriously. No sense of isolation , no atmosphere , linear as hell , easy as fuck , no memorable music, a staple in the series , dumb control setup, insulting cutscenes with bad voice acting  which you can't skip and many other things which i wont bother to menshion right now. Give metroid back to retro asap nintendo!

Okay... this article is likely not going to make friends, but since this is the thread about the game, and this article is about the game...

http://www.destructoid.com/metroid-other-m-s-story-fails-on-so-many-levels-183310.phtml

Hoo boy...