I thought that I heard you didn't get to fight it on hard mode.  I am worried about the Queen Metroid though.  That thing was really the only boss I had a hard time with on Normal difficulty.

I already beat Nightmare both times.  Not too bad.

What gave me problems with the Queen Metroid was at the beginning when she sends three or so metroids at you at the same time.

Well Other M, I tried to defend you.  I guess I wasn't good enough.  You don't here this often on the internet but......I have been thoroughly defeated.  Other M sucks and I was wrong to like it.

*sells copy of Other M on ebay*

My biggest problem with the story is that it the back story they make for Samus does not seem to match up with the story from the first Metroid.  The story in that one goes that the Federation has to call on a the greatest bounty hunter in the galaxy.  This bounty hunter is shrouded in mystery, and no one knows 'his' true form.

So I guess they just retconed all that to give Samus more of a history with the Federation.  It is bad, lazy writing to do that.

Then there is the annoying thing where Samus's height changes radically between cut scenes.  The suit should only add two or three inches at most, otherwise her feet would not make it down to the boots of the suit.  Instead it seems to add about a foot and a half, if not more.

Lol, I think that is going to far.

I may be critical of the game, but I liked it.  It just wasn't up to par for this fantastic franchise.

I never played Zero Mission.  That's ridiculous that they would rewrite the original and then use it as the basis for the another game in the franchise.  Metroid called Samus a "space hunter".  I'm not really sure what else they could have meant.  I wonder what it was supposed to be.  Nothing else really makes sense to me in context.

Sakamoto could really make things easier on himself if he stopped jumping around the timeline.  He seems to mix things up easily.

my opinion has not changed. i still think other m is the greatest disgrace that could ever happen to the metroid franchise. not only for it's awful story (and i don't mind story in games, but other m's story was just a really bad one),and samus characterization, but also for many gameplay aspects... the really awkward choice of controlling a 3d game with a wiimote held sideways, the lack of esploration, the smaller scope (in contrast to the prime games). oh, and music was absolutely subpar for the franchise's standards.

i just hope that with the bad sales other m is getting nintendo will take the creative control from sakamoto and give it to someone else. maybe the right choice would be going silent for 5 - 6 years (so people will forget this abomination) and then a total reboot of the saga.

No! You can't!

I can't play (thanks to my Wii) so you must play and enjoy for me. :(

Doubtful. Really no one else to give it to, unless we want more Primes (which i would like to see more Prime on the next console, but also a proper Metroid V). Plus i'd rather see Retro try their hands at a new IP as their next project.

There's nothing wrong with Sakamoto at the helm, he just needs a shorter leash. Kinda like George Lucas

There's no much I can add, I agree with many posts here. The thing I didn't like about the story was about Samus' past, when she was young and naive and all that crap of the thumbs down. The first two hours I wasn't liking the story. Then it got better and I liked it, even at the end I smiled when Samus gave the thumbs up.

I liked the gameplay, loved to change views pointing at the screen,  I didn't have any problem with that. The Where's Waldo sections, I only had trouble in 2 of them so it was not a big deal, I think the "over the shoulder" sections were more annoying.

Also, the linearity, lack of items to find, no backtracking and lack of all things that were key in Metroid gameplay, were a bad decision. Some people say that it doesn't matter because other Metroids could be finished very fast, but this isn't true. To beat Super Metroid in less than 3 hours you have to perfectly know the game. With Other M this is not the case, where you can beat it very fast in your first try.

Anyway, my biggest disappointment, that apparently many people don't care (or haven't mentioned), was the MUSIC. I loved Metroid soundtrack, but Other M was so boring I fall sleep many times. =(