Other M had some good game play ideas and some not so good ones.

In general, if I could ask for a full on remake of a Metriod game that took some of the ideas of the original but went out of its way to make it a brand new product based on some of the key features, my first pick would be Metriod 2, either Prime style for maximum horror engagement or Other M style for maximum crafting building on the 2.5D game play.

Other M has nothing to do with Metroid. Even Hyrule Warriors' story makes more sense than Other M. Gameplay wise it's just as bad, but at least Hyrule Warriors isn't canon/main game.

I thought every Metroid fan made a blood pact to never mention Other M as canon ever again

Bad as a Zelda game, maybe. But as a Dinasty Warriors is one of the best (if not the best)

Other M is just... Other M... It doesn´t have a place. I don´t think is terrible (or good) is just that its existence makes no sense.

Other M is a terrible game, unfortunately it exists and it's canon, most importantly makes the prime series (one of the best trilogies period) non-canon. But instead of getting the metroid franchise back on track, nintendo decides to make a spin-off (btw at the very least it looks bad). Great work with one of your best franchises nintendo

It could have been worse you know, like a Anthony spin-off or something like that, if anything I'm thankful that they continue with the Prime name than going the Other M route.

Now that you mention it I'll rather play with Anthony that with some chibi robots, because they can build something around Anthony (best character in other m, which doesn't say a lot but still) And we have seen he's capable of holding his own, this silly looking chibi robots have no background whatsoever and they spend they free time playing soccer, and they are suppose to take enemies in the prime universe? Sorry I know you like the game and you are looking foward to it, and I hope you enjoy it but nintendo could have make a better spin-off, one more related to the metroid universe.

Without wishing to restart a long standing debate, I'm pretty sure Other M doesn't make the Prime games non canon. I've heard that a lot, and it's an assumption I've never really gotten the reasoning behind.

The most common places it seems to come from are a Go Nintendo article reporting on an interview with Sakamoto where he basically calls the Prime games "side stories" and says they aren't connected with the story of Other M. Translation's a bit of an iffy prospect, but the vast majority of Japanese speaking people who I've seen comment on this claim that his words lean much more towards the Prime games essentially not having a whole lot to do with Other M rather than taking place in an entirely alternate universe.

Second place I've seen this assumption arise from is a cutscene from Other M where Samus says that the Bottle Ship stuff was the "first joint mission" with the Federation since becoming a bounty hunter. And that's perfectly fine. Escorting troopers in Prime 3 to blow up some door isn't really a full blown mission as much as it was part of a mission that she was doing mostly independently, and there's no point in the Prime series (or any Metroid game before Other M chronologically) where she's shown working jointly with the Federation.

I'd be curious on hearing your thoughts; I don't want to defend Other M's plot, but I haven't seen anything to really suggest that it makes the Prime games non canon outside of a clarified interview and some seemingly shaky assumptions about one line of dialogue in the game.

Convince me in one sentence to pick Super Metroid back up. I've started it a few times and I always seem to lose track with it. I love the series though (to the point that I even beat 2), but I need a push to get back into it. I figure it'd be a fun challenge for the super hardcore Metroid fans

It's the greatest game on the SNES.

There you go