Its possible people arent overreacting at all tho

It's really just because people have been waiting for this game for so long, and then it took so long in development, the anticipation is incredibly high and so people are freaking out at the slightest new thing i.e. the motorcycle and a talkative NPC. And they are feeding off the fact that we don't know much at all about those things, trying to claim the entire game is just gonna be those two things haha.

Anyone who was very excited about the game and now refuses to play it because of a motorcycle or an NPC is a clown, let's be honest. It's fine to not like those two things, but the game isn't called Metroid Prime: Motorcycle, or Metroid Prime: Talkative NPC, so people should stop freaking out so much.

Anyway it's all driven by content creators taking advantage of this to get views, and then people freak out because they see so many content creators talking about it so it feels like a big deal if you spend all your time in the social media world. It's just marketing so these people can get views, and be sensationalist and making people emotional is the best way to get extra views, especially if you are making them freak out about something. If you're an adult human being and can control your feelings, you're not freaking out about an NPC or a motorcycle haha, though you may say to yourself "I'm not sure those things will be a great part of the game".

It's not like Nintendo pokemon'd Prime 4 and put in zero effort to turn the franchise into shovelware haha, from what we've seen it looks like MP4 is going full on after being another epic Prime game.

One thing I DO wanna see in Metroid these days, assuming the twisted bastard lives somehow, is more indication of Ridley's monstrous personality, because so far we've only had tie in manga and Smash Bros. to properly convey Ridley as a monster inside and out. One manga (and I think Other M) even has Ridley confirmed as the pirate who killed Samus' parents.

The main problem with OM isn't the NPCs, but Samus herself, what a mockery of her character, specially for a game that was supposed to happen after Super.

But anyway, if you watched the trailer and saw 5 Miles, you and I must have watched different trailers.

Hold on, "Other M is my favorite Metroid game" followed by "nothing in the series felt as out of place as Miles" is the wildest thing I've read in a looong time.

I thought about it after my last post, and remembered that Prime 2 has U-Mos as an NPC that stops and gives Samus context, guidance and direction at points throughout that game. It wasn't as nearly as involved and overt as it was in other games like Fusion, Other M and Prime 3, but Retro was already laying that foundation in Prime 2. Despite that, it's every bit as "Metroidy" as Prime 1 and Super. You're still spending 99 percent of the game isolated in hostile alien environments.

People forget that one of the biggest complaints about Prime 1 was the sheer amount of scanning and reading of logs that the game contains, especially in the opening hours. Prime 2 isn't significantly better. I've seen people talk about the overuse of audio logs in modern games since the PS360 era; imagine that, but instead of being able to multitask while listening to an audio log, you have to constantly pause gameplay to read the same thing. Immersion is a word that I've used in my earlier post because it's a word that Metroid fans like to use; did it not ruin your "immersion" when you're in a room/environment with hostile life forms that politely waited for you to finish reading data on scanned objects before you went back to shooting them?

Without having read or seen developer interviews, I'm willing to bet Retro realized that and started looking into ways to expand the lore and worldbuilding of the Prime series without being so dependent on reading lore dumps and diary entries. 

It's possible that those things affect the game in a significant and negative way? Sure. Everything is possible.

Do we have enough evidence that points to something like that? Not even close. In fact, the same previews that have overblown the NPC situation have made abundantly clear that literally everything else is great and feels exactly like a Metroid Prime game. 

So yes, I would say this is an overreaction. Even if the game ends up being bad, based on what we know right now, acting like the game will be bad because of an NPC and a bike is not very rational. Specially this level of commotion.

It's very curious, because Ridley is fully capable of talking and acting rationally. But every single game insists in making it a brainless monster. He could have given a lot more narratively wise if Sakamoto wanted to. Anyways...

I'd like for Ridley to get benched for once. It's gotten beyond ridiculous how they keep finding ways to fit it in each game, just to get its ass whipped again. At this point, Ridley's a joke. Don't get me wrong, battling him is exhilarating, but the suspension of disbelief on how he keeps getting revived/rebuilt/reborn/recloned in time to get clapped in Samus' next adventure is broken.

Here's an idea: give us another character from Ripley's species, and have it be more than just the bad guy who does one bad thing at the beginning of the game  before Samus smokes that ass near the end of the second act.

People who don't like ___ are stupid. But it's fine to not like ___. lol

I'm one such clown, and I'm okay with it. What I wanted, Nintendo isn't providing, so I'm passing on it. It isn't the first time, and it certainly won't be the last but again, that's okay. I physically have almost every Metroid game ever released and the hardware to go with it. I'm good.