Rhonin the wizard said:
jarrod said:
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jarrod said:
Rhonin the wizard said:
jarrod said:
And as far as the freakout itself, Samus thought she'd killed Ridley and blew up the planet he was on. In the manga he'd told her as a child he can escape death by consuming the flesh of others, the realization of that being true likely just heightened the shock and may have helped trigger the response. That's how PTSD works, it's not predictable, and anything could trigger it really. Plus it's also not like we really saw Samus response one way or the other in Metroid 1 or 3, though she did also inexplicably pause for several seconds when first encountering Ridley in Super Metroid , which allowed him to roid-nap the baby and take it off the space station. Perhaps that was the 16bit portrayal of shock/hesitation/panic/PTSD?
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In the manga Samus met Ridley, had a PSTD, was completely useless for a while, Then she got better. There is no point in portraying Samus like she goes like this every time she meets Ridley, otherwise she should have died in Metroid .
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I know. But, PSTD isn't something you really 'get over', the trauma causes a permanent damage. It's something you cope with, or at least try to. And for someone as emotionally stunted and distant as Samus is supposed to be, with basically no support network to fall back on, that's likely even more difficult.
Samus was caught off guard, by surprise, and she relapsed. That's not exactly abnormal, or even unlikely.
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Then she should have died in Metroid 1 because there was no one there to help her, would have made a downer ending, but it would have fit Sakamoto's vision.
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Again, these sort of responses are unpredictable. And afaik, we don't have much backstory on Metroid 1's setup outside the bounty order on Mother Brain, so Samus likely went in expecting to face Ridley and able to prepare herself. Which is... well, different than what we have in Other M.
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It is shown in the manga, Adam gives her bombs, while a ghost of Chozo shows her were the Varia suite is, and that makes her practically invulnerable to Ridley's attacks, and here is a little exchange were it proves that Samus got over her problems with RIdley.
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And now she's relapsed. Again, I'm not seeing any retcon here, I'm not seeing anything impossible or improbable. Human beings are complex creatures, let Sakamoto revel in complexity if he wants. He's deserved it imo, Super Metroid's a legitimate contender for best game ever made.
I should probably add that I don't think (at least, what I've seen of) Other M's narrative is exactly good. Overall, it seems pretty cliche, lots of the usual tropes for JP sci-fi fiction, but I've definitely seen way, way worse in popular games. By genre standards, I'd say it's pretty inoffensive really... which is probably why I find these laughable claims of sexism so particularly inflammatory and irresponsible. A real feminist would, frankly, know better...
