Quick Look: Metroid: Other M

" Automatic dodging, infinite health and infinite missiles.  Seems like they're making it retard proof. "

Well, I'm not looking forward too the controls, but I am probably gonna play this game. I also find the relative uniqueness of the game design kind of charming, hopefully that won't go away as I play it.

Zero suit anywhere? Like, tight zero suit all around?

Just give me more Castlevania and Metroid on my DS and I'll be pleased, but I really wish they'd do more 2d installments on the consoles with high-res sprites. Contract VanillaWare to do the art and have the Super Metroid and Castlevania:SotN teams make the game. I'd be sold day one on both.

Just like Phoenix Down, everyone I knew at the time pronounced it "aren" and the planet "zee-beez".
Also, this game looks like warmed-over ass.  Fuck you Nintendo for shitting all over the great games from that special time one by one until I no longer care to play Zelda, Metroid and Mario games.
 
The fact that this game purposely plays in a broken fashion with inherent design flaws is insane.  It's like they decided to make the opposite choice when it came to every aspect of control that any normal person would have gone with.  Games can have multiple control schemes, you don't need to force people to use one, especially when it's as flawed as this.  Not since Lair has a game so frustrated me with inane control limitations like this, and we all know how well Lair did or what happened to the developer because of it.

That looked like an incredibly frustrating game.

Colour pallette seems a little too drab in spots for me, not to be a negative nelly.

ugh, combat looks clunky as hell 

This seems...interesting, I guess.  I kind of like it but I think I want to like it more than what I actually will end up liking it.  It doesn't look bad, necessarily, it just also doesn't look like what it should/what people want it to be either.

This looks like a mess, and Brad seems confused about what he actually thinks.

This is SO very far from the kind of Metroid game I would play. I miss Prime 1.

lol. Brad will not be stopped! Must fight boss!

I wanted to see the boss fight. Oh well.

Bummer I wanted to see the boss, since I don't own a Wii I likely wont play this game at all.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother reading video comments.

I seem to be in the minority by thinking that this game looks really sweet. This QL felt definetly very negative compared to Brad's review and Jeff sure didn't help with his attitude. 
 
But w/e, still going to get this one soon. Last Wii game I bought was Okami over six or so months ago...

" This looks like a mess, and Brad seems confused about what he actually thinks. "

Looks better than I was fearing. Still it seems like a really weird game with a lot of artificial limitations placed on it. It is almost as if they designed it for another system. Creativity does come out of limitations though so some of the solutions they have created to deal with these limitations seems genuinely neat. The auto-dodging sounds cool and it doesn't seem completely broken since if your doing something other than just running your going to get hit. 
 
It seems like a very japanese game in that way, where you get really weird and unique solutions to common gameplay problems. However these are the types of problems that were solved a decade ago so it comes off kind of crazy. It seems like you will be fighting the controls more than the enemies at times but I am stoked now to play it next week.

" @HandsomeDead said:

" 2010 and no analogue control. The Wii, ladies and gentlemen. "

Precisely what I was thinking. The controls sound dreadful. "

I have always said aran as erin, idk why just sounded right to me.

Looks pretty cool

" @Fjordson said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" 2010 and no analogue control. The Wii, ladies and gentlemen. "

Precisely what I was thinking. The controls sound dreadful. "

Okay, what? Maybe the control scheme is dreadful, but the Wii has an analog stick. If the developers decided not to use it, don't blame the console itself, blame them. You'll have to direct your hate towards the Wii from another perspective.  Also, beams usually stack on Metroid. The Prime series did away with that, but I'm sure that in most 2D Metroids have that. "

I've never been into the 3D Metroid games, and though Other M looks to be taking it to a completely different direction, there seems to be quite a few problems with it. I'll pass on this.

Wii games....  I officially hate Metroid games.   This game is horrible. 

The controls sound terrible, and that 1st person view looked completely broken.
 
Looks alright gameplay wise, and graphically I guess. Still.. why those controls?

Brad's been playing this game throughout, but at the same time he manage to sound surprised

I was more excited for this when I thought it was only 2D.

I'll just go ahead and say it: This was a boring QL due to Brad not saying much and Jeff not being interested. No jokes, no real review, just a hell of a lot of "So...Ummm....Yeah.." And honestly, it looks alright, but QL's usually are usually a bit better than this. Especially for a 4 star review.

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Brad's been playing this game throughout, but at the same time he manage to sound surprised

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"Don't be so literal. "

" Sometimes I wonder why I even bother reading video comments. "

Wow I was really put off by this quick look. I'm not sure if I want this anymore.

" The controls sound terrible, and that 1st person view looked completely broken "

Stacked beams ain't weird Brad, that's how it use to be. Choosing the beam was weird.

The graphics look fine and the sound seems well done, but the controls look terrible. I was getting frustrated just watching Brad play. The camera and first person really seem kind of broken. This game gives me the feeling of Jeff's "Mmm-hmm," comments. Other M looks interesting, but not really something I'm dying to play or drop $50 on. As a pre-Prime fan, this saddens me. I was hoping for a return to Super Metroid... or Zero Mission even.

Jeez, I don't know about this game. Brad seemed a little confused too. Seems like a tough game to review.

ya know what would make all these recent Wii games better?  an actual modern game console paired with an actual controller...

" Wii games....  I officially hate Metroid games.   This game is horrible.  "

I always pronounced Aran and Zebes as this game does. They look like they sound. 
  
Anyways, this was probably one the dullest quick looks I've seen yet. Both you dudes sound utterly uninterested in the game. I'm personally excited about it.

This does not look good at all, it still looks super broken. I was a big fan of the Prime games, such a shame really. I am going to pass on this one sadly, maybe one day I will rent it. :(

Played to around the same point in this QL so far. It's alright.

Yeah, Brad, beam stacking is completely standard Metroid stuff.
 
As for the controls, it looks hard to tell without actually putting my hands on it. I do like the sense of movement between Samus and the enemies. How they latch onto her and how she gets knocked around after being attacked. It's neat to watch.

So the game aims for you, dodges for you, and picks your weapons for you.

I'm pretty sure I won't have a problem with the controls, but with all the controller variations most Wii games support, I don't know why they didn't leave the nunchuck as an option. 
 
Also, glad to see the regular cavalcade of video comments, often reminding me of why I shouldn't read them.

At 10:57 I started getting frustrated just watching this game. That part looked damn annoying.

Looks awesome to me. Glad Jeff didn't review it.