normalpants

"The game is way more tolerable since it was patched and can be finished single player but before that  it was straight up broken. The train level is utter bullshit patch or no patch. "

"I think this thread backfired, because now I kind of want to go and rent this game out of curiosity. "

Great post! 
 
 there's a part of me that dislikes the characterization of Samus in Other M, but I went back to reread a good chunk of the dialogue and plot in the other games and came to the conclusion that the tone of Other M was remarkably similar to the text-based games, it's just that the big difference is the addition of an actual voice, which I actually quite liked.  Do you remember the bit of voice that played when you booted up Super Metroid? ("the galaxy is at peace...") How about your snarky and silly bounty hunter buddies in Metroid Prime 3? Space pirates? Ridley? Mother Brain? How are they related exactly? Other M is just as vapid as every other Metroid game, it's just that we're older now and our new multimedia options are putting in sharp relief how awful videogame stories really are.   
 
I also loved Prime 1, but I was sort of over it by the time Echoes came out.  Scanning was fine at first, but it quickly became chore.  Samus was sloooooowww in the Prime series.  The additional complexities of weapon and armor polarities in 2 and the crazy Wii control scheme in 3 also sucked out the joy in my opinion. I like Other M more because it's unapologetic about it being a game.  Everything totally falls apart when you apply real world logic to its presentation, but there's something kinetic and addictive in Other M that is missing from the Prime series.  My guess is that the gaming zeitgeist is moving further towards games as games-- which is to say abstract contests of skill instead of deep immersive experiences.  I'll chock that up to WoW taking over a lot of lives and people starting to get a taste for sunlight again.   
 
I dunno, just a theory I pulled out of my ass but maybe I'm onto something!

"I haven't played this game, or any Metroid game besides the original but my only complaint as an outsider is that Other M is a terrible fucking name. It just sounds awkward. Maybe it makes sense in the story? "