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Metroid: Other M Trailer

Check out the newest Metroid title for the Wii.

Jun. 2 2009

Posted by: Dave

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Metroid: Other M

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Edited By kennybaese

This thing looks goddamn bananas.

This is a good thing. I love me some old school Metroid and the Prime games are amazing, but this looks like it has the potential to be the awesomest thing ever. But then, I really like Ninja Gaiden too.

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Edited By Under_Influenz

Lookin good. Nintendo should shop around zelda to other developers as well.

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Edited By billygoat117

This just looks.........weird. I don't know, it doesn't really seem like a Metroid game. I'd love to be proven wrong, though.

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Edited By ArcBorealis

There's one great thing about all this too. Sakamoto and his team are cooperating with Team Ninja. Yep, you can be sure this will be TRUE metroid, because Sakamoto is one along with Yokoi who created exactly what Metroid was.

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As soon as I saw the Team Ninja logo I thought I was watching the wrong video. This is very unlike Nintendo.. I'll wait to see how this turns out.

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Edited By Brackynews

Meh, I'll give it a rent.
Just kidding. ;)  Giving Samus assassin-style CQC is a road I'm willing to take.

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Edited By GnaTSoL

Well this looks totally different to Metroid games past...... That's not a bad thing but this whole change of identities going on here is weird. This game looks to focus on action while past Metroids have been about exploration mostly.... I mean Samus has become a total melee badass in this game... :O

It's probably not the direction I wanted Metroid to go towards but I can't deny how cool it looks. That's what Team Ninja does best.

I am also another Metroid fan who believes Metroid should be an isolated, creepy experience. It worked wonders in Super Metroid.

........So now that Team Ninja is making the next Metroid......... Does this mean iminant glorification of Samus's assets? :P

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Edited By RsistncE

Holy shit....a good Wii game! How is this possible??

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Edited By vinsanity09

Never been a fan of Metroid (Super Metroid is the only one that I really liked), but man this trailer was the shit!
My nephews have a Wii, looks like I'm going to have to "borrow" it for a couple of weeks hehe

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so much win

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Looks phenomenal. Wow. Game of the show. 
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Team Ninja is making a Metroid game? Will Samus have gravity defying breasts?

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Edited By skyturnedred

I think first person worked better in the GameCube games, explorating the game world in those games was fun. 3rd person usually suggests more actiony game. Guess we'll have to wait and see what the balance is between quiet exploration and blowing stuff up.

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This is the weirdest collaboration ever. Team Ninja and Nintendo making a Metroid game. Crazy.

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Sorta 'meh' throughout the whole trailer. Something about the vibe or just how the trailer was put together just doesn't do anything for me & I'm a metroid fan from way back.
Maybe because the CGI's look JRPG which automatically fills me with dread. Metroid : Other Melodrama.

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@LordKorax said:
" Dammit. At first, I was excited to see that a well-established developer was working on it, but Metroid is not Ninja Gaiden. Stylish action does not fit with the usually dark and sometimes moody atmosphere of Metroid. I'm gonna break something. "
Realize this is a 2 minute trailer right?  Its a 2.5d Metroid and they just happened to show a lot of the combat so what.  Doesn't mean it won't be an adventure game with a huge over world. 
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Edited By Balaamsafe

This and Galaxy 2 dragged the wii press-conference out of mediocrity.

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what about retro studios if they don't develop the next metroid what are they developing

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Now samus will have bouncing boobs technology :)

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JUST....AMAZING!!!!! @ @

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CANT STOP WATCHING!!!! AAAAAAAAAA

%@#$%#$^%$^&$&

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clearly Itagaki wasn't involved in this..... (.)(.)

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Edited By fr0sterson

From the gameplay shown I'm not really seeing how this could be anything other than a brutal disservice to the franchise. I could be wrong though, as there hasn't been a shoddy Metroid game yet. I guess all will become clear with time.

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@bdouble: Hey, I hope that it's the case, but from what I saw, they might as well have just made a Ninja Gaiden game for the Wii and put an unlockable Samus skin in it.
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I don't care about any of this. Where the fuck is Zelda!?

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HOLY SACK OF CRAP

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Awesome, Team Ninja are perfect to add some zest to this series, some zest it badly needs after Prime 3. Nintendo will keep a close eye on everything.

Great art style, love the new styled Samus.
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Edited By Egge

A very underwhelming trailer with lots of puzzlingly cheap CGI, and it's difficult to see how Samus Aran and brawler-esque button mashing fits together. Still, I expect there to be at least some gameplay continuity with earlier games (the last of which I cared about at all was Prime 1) so the end result shouldn't be half as bad as it looks at first glance.

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Bout half way through im sure that's motherbrain from super. n old ridley and adam still alive. possible retake on super metroid?

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@Knives said:
I disagree, especially if this is a prequel, which it looks like. There has to be something behind the scenes, she has to have had a life before being a Bounty Hunter. "
She was brought up by Chozo and then was thrust out into the universe and chose a loner's job. She was kind of Mowgli + Leeloo. Now she's 'gee hey, I'm an American bad-ass! Where's my friends Cortana, Master Chief and Marcus?' If you listen to the E3 Day One podcast, at least SOMEONE agrees with me xD
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You know....i think i like this idea.  After all it seems unlikely that we can go back to the way metroid used to be and honestly I don't want to.  Besides this could be a side or story, a new imagining, whatever.  I'm glad they are taking risks....and having Team Ninja do it should give it some much needed oomph.  I'll keep my eye on this one...it could be as much of a series changer as Metroid Prime was when I first saw it.

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I must be high...Team Ninja of all people.  I fail to see how this will be anything but awesome.  It looks very different.  But I trust both TN and Nintendo.  So, bring it on.

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Hmmmm awesome.

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Keep it nice and puzzle-y and it will be good.
I just wish they toned down on the characters.

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i haven't played nay of the metroid prime games. i ahve the first but couldn't beat a boss and gave up. i've bene thinking of trying it again and this trialer has given me the incentive to do so. it's so awesome. i'd love to get it.

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@RHCPfan24:  I did see this coming..  the opening scene of Samus in Smash Bros. Brawl, turned alot of heads. I'm sure this is what motivated the revert to 3rd person idea for Metroid. I hope it's good not HOPEFULLY not as hardcore as the Ninja Gaiden games...  (that final boss fight at the end of Ninja Gaiden 2 is still haunting me) and with a better cam work. But the requestion is.. where will this story fit in the grand story that is Metroid..  a Prequel to the Prime story line?  or a follow up to Fusion? Who knows... but I'm excited!
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...... I'm shitting in my pants...

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Looks good, but Team Ninja is a shadow of itself after everyone left.

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@simian said:
" Sorta 'meh' throughout the whole trailer. Something about the vibe or just how the trailer was put together just doesn't do anything for me & I'm a metroid fan from way back.Maybe because the CGI's look JRPG which automatically fills me with dread. Metroid : Other Melodrama. "
That's a good way to put it. The JRPG style immediately filled me with dread as well. Also, I really hate Samus' voice. It sounds way too soft, like some weird little cutesy Japanese schoolgirl. I think Samus should definitely sound older, with a more mature tone (with a more solemn but respectable badass-ness like Ripley from Aliens).  Could you imagine Samus voicing her monologues in Metroid Fusion in that high-pitched voice? It just doesn't seem very fitting. The last thing I want is for Samus to turn into some weird, fetishised, ultrafeminine Dead or Alive volleyball player.
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Looks pretty good

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If they take the exploration out of this game and make it God of War, hardcores will stay away because it's God of War with crap graphics, and Metroid fans will stay away because they'll strip the series' defining element.

I doubt Nintendo will let Team Ninja make this game as hard as they'd like, either.

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Nintendo's top game of the Press Conference for sure.  And at least they mentioned Zelda Wii at Miyamoto's conference.

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geez this looks good


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I admit the trailer looks pretty sweet, but for anyone thinking that this Team Ninja is the Team Ninja of DOA or Ninja Gaiden, then they are somewhat mistaken.  While there are junior members of that development team left, if you read James Mielke's interview with Tomonobu Itagaki, you understand that most of the principle people have left Koei/Techmo.  That isn't to say this Metroid Other M won't be good, it just won't really be Team Ninja.

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Team Ninja and Nintendo working on a Metroid game...there's no way this could fail.

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Definitely looking forward to this one.  The original Prime is one of the best games ever made and I'd love to see how they evolve the concepts from that series.

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This was like, surreal when they announced it at the press conference. Totally blew my mind, being a relatively big player of the series. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

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This was the most mind blowing thing out off all three conferences for me.

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Even though I liked them I was growing tired of  FPS Metroids.

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A Team Ninja game without bouncy b3wbs?  I'm shocked!  =o