@Background Pony #F53F
Some people are, but those people are dumb. Nintendo has officially denied that theory time and time again, and I think the company that made the games gets final say on such matter.
I could see him (star tracker) Cosplaying as Shelk from Ocarina of time, and not knowing “he” (shelk/zelda) was actually Zelda due to having not beaten the game yet XD
@Wild Stallions @Background Pony #3DBC @Wild Stallions
Equestria is really behind the times in terms of technology, and they just got the Game Boy. He’s only played Metroid and Metroid II, and he didn’t get a good enough time to get Samus out of her armor XD
@Wild Stallions
I figured that’s what you meant. But the other Metroid enemies have all sorts of different names, but I don’t remember any of them other than Zoomers.
@Wild Stallions
It’s not the name of all the alien critters, just the flying jellyfish-looking ones that latch onto your head and suck out your energy.
@Red-Supernova
You honestly find a lot of upgrades just during casual gameplay. A lot of the missile and health expansions are in pretty straightforward places. You sort of figure out the game’s mentality with hiding stuff too pretty early on, like if you find a room with nothing in it you’re guaranteed to find an upgrade or secret passage if you bomb some walls. Also, the later games will mark on your map when an expansion is in that room :D
Yeah, unfortunately. Other M is sort of like the Highlander 2, the Midichlorians of Star Wars, the Timeless Child of Doctor Who, and the whole Discord is Grogar reveal of the Metroid series. There’s very few people who were okay with it as a concept because it just sort of derailed everything about Samus and Adam because they basically took Samus, who’s like this hardened badass akin to Sarah Connor or Ellen Ripley, and wrote her like an abused housewife from the 1950s. It’s pretty bad D:
I would recommend playing them in the order of Metroid Fusion, then Metroid Zero Mission, and the Super Metroid, and then go on to the older ones like Metroid and Metroid 2 which lack minimaps and are pretty hard and obtuse :D
@Red-Supernova
Fusion is pretty linear, tells you where to go and what to do, and it simplifies some things a bit, making it probably the most beginner friendly Metroid game (at least in my opinion).
As for Other M, while the story contains most of the problems, the gameplay has its issues too, and one (albeit minor) issue bleeds over from the story into the gameplay, and that’s that Samus technically has all the equipment she would’ve had at the end of Super Metroid (minus the Hyper Beam), but she doesn’t use any of it until Adam says she can, because Adam said at the beginning of the game that she could be a danger to his crew.
@Red-Supernova
Other M is in canon chronology first, but Fusion predates it (and introduces significant characters (well, character)) in actually being made. “The Only CO She Ever Respected” is a brain-downloaded AI for all of Fusion, where we get (pretty much the only) internal Samus musings on things. Usually, it’s a series defined by isolation, so that was big news.
To quickly explain other M:
||Both are post Metroid (and zero mission, partially a remake), Metroid Prime I, II, and III, Metroid II, and Super Metroid. You confront and kill Ridley roughly once per game for each of those games. First time you meet Ridley in Other M? Samus freezes up and needs Adam, the CO, to tell her to shoot it in the face with missiles. Word of Creator also stated she peed herself. Lovely. ||
||The primary Other M interaction with Adam is him telling you not to use suit functions. Not because you haven’t unlocked or found them yet, but because Federation Command hasn’t authorised them, so no using grapple beam or whatever to cross that gap to pick up the upgrade you can straight up see until the plot unlocks it. Nope. Sorry. || Gameplay wasn’t awful, but it was a big departure from both prime and the 2-Ds, which turned some people off. Less shootan, more grapplean.
tl;dr : Fusion was the first big in-depth examination of Samus Aran as a character interacting with other characters, which suggested more history with those characters. Other M attempted to depict that history and took a gigantic steaming dump on all the previous characterization.
@Background Pony #3DBC
Thanks. I was using a map off another website when I last played so I guess no harm no foul with doing so.
I do have Metroid Fusion on my 3DS as part of the old 3DS Ambassador program before the system got its price cut meaning I have the ten free GBA games as part of my collection.
Sounds like me when I played Street Fighter for the first time. It was awkward. And I bet its going to happen again when I go to Everfree this year and try out Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3.
@Badumsquish
But what if I want to get the upgrades because I have a hard time dodging enemy patterns? Well, I guess that’s what save states are for.
Yeah, I’ve heard Fusion handles Samus’s feelings a lot better than Other M did which is funny because Fusion takes place after Other M. Also, wasn’t Other M’s gameplay fine and it was the story people had a beef with? There’s a couple guys I know on the web who are equivalent of old boomers when it comes to gaming and they actually like Other M. Mainly because one of them hates how people only care about story in gaming.
