While the announcement of Metroid: Other M proved to be a big E3 favorite that had Nintendo Nerds creaming their jeans and announcing that Nintendo does care about them (again), a few retroheads seemed concerned that the third-person action game from Team Ninja would not be a "proper" Metroid. Think again, as Reggie Fils-Aime has promised that Other M won't butcher the beloved franchise.
"It's all about what we can do creatively with a franchise to revitalise it," explains Reggie. "A year ago, if someone asked me what's going on with Metroid -- when are we going to go back to the more traditional Metroid series versus the path that we went down with Prime? Here's the answer: Other M.
"Metroid, for us, is a key franchise and in our view, since the SNES Metroid, we haven't broken through -- as in [selling] 1.5 or two million units. As we looked at where we wanted to go with Metroid, we wanted to place Samus back in the more traditional lineage of Metroid. We wanted to do it in a way that had a harder edge, and we wanted to go deeper into her story and more into this Metroid mythology."
Reggie then made my own meat joke for me, by claiming that Team Ninja added "a little extra special sauce" to the development of Other M, in order to make it a "really compelling experience." So worry not, my retro-obsessesed friends. Reggie has said Other M is a proper Metroid game, and that makes it true. Nobody knows and understands a classic Nintendo series as well as a Nintendo of America employee.
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8:00 AM on 06.11.2009
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At any rate I'm really excited for this game.
The special sauce thing was really funny though.
http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=85509
In other news, sounds like Nintendo are spreading themselves a little thin by trying to please everyone these days. Bah.
I keep a Reggie in my basement for good luck. It sits next to an unexploded nuclear missile. I worship it.
Oh, and the story? All you knew about the story was what was printed in the instruction booklet that came with the game. Apart from that, the game was all about upgrading your gear, surviving in a hostile world and eliminating a threat to the galaxy--and accomplish it in 2D!
Super Metroid continued the story while operating under the same formula, and it was amazing.
I'm all for a new Metroid game but when Reggie says 'traditional' I doubt he is referring to the game mechanics, environments or perspective (well, we know this since we have screenshots). He's only referring to the non-Prime era of the Metroid series--the NES and SNES iterations--thereby implying that the action and story will probably be geared more to that timeline.
Also, is the header distorted or does Samus have really big feet. You know what they say about girls with big feet, right?
FUCK THAT.
Metroid Fusion was fun - but it was severely outclassed by Metroid Zero Mission, not to mention every other Metroid title. I don't mind a bit of exposition in the Metroid saga.... but for me, the Prime series was spot on with how it blended a subtle narrative into the standard isolation that ALL Metroid titles should exhibit.
I am very cautious about this.
Plus, the character design for the new Samus blows anus chunks.
http://www.vimeo.com/3975676
HAMEBONE!
You need to go to marriage counciling, because you're killing independent Nintendo Reggie, you're killing independent Nintendo!
I'm not going to write off this game just because it's different. After all, when Prime was revealed to be a First-Person game most thought that it was going to be a "dumb, action game that will forsake the exploration and atmosphere of the older games" and those people were wrong.
On the other hand, I'm not going to see a flashy trailer and immediately cry "I JUST CAME". This game does look like Ninja Gaiden and I don't need that. If I want to play Ninja Gaiden I'll play it. I don't need Metroid to turn itself into it. I'll remain a skeptic till I see more of it. Till then I wish Project M the best of luck.
P.S. Please Metroid Dread. Even if Other M is good I still want Dread.