History Headscratchers / MetroidOtherM

***** She was frozen with shock because she honestly didn't think Ridley would come back because, even if space pirates brought him back before, Samus thought they were wiped out. "And the explosion that followed destroyed Planet Zebes, along with the remains of Mother Brain, the Space Pirates, and my long-standing nemesis, Ridley." This quote would suggest she was convinced both Ridley and the space pirates were completely exterminated and she didn't consider the Galactic Federation accidentally cloning Ridley. This fact wasn't even brought up until after the fight so, as far as she knew, Ridley appeared out of thin air.

* Could someone with Other M please answer a question for me? Without spoiling anything, is there any instances of being inside someone/something. Like, a WombLevel, or a cutscene showing someone's innards (Like showing Samus's corruption in Prime 3.). To put it simply, does the "camera" go on a FantasticVoyage at any point in the game? I'd appreciate it if someone could answer this question for me, because I have a bit of a [[{{Squick}} thi]][[HighOctaneNightmareFuel ng]] regarding this.
** you do get to blow something up with a power bomb...
*** But do you actually see inside it? Or is it like the Stone Toads from Prime 1?
*** If the Stone toad was see-through yes (and i can't think of many things worse than a power bomb blast from the inside)
*** So then it's like seeing a partial X-Ray of whatever creature it is, then? I'm fine with that, unless innards are taking up the whole screen... Also, I can't think of much worse than an internal power bomb explosion, either.
*** You see nothing. You vaporize the target and leave nothing but green stuff. (Blood, acid? I'm not sure.)
*** Already finished it. It's not the blood spray or flesh itself that bothers me. It's the feeling of being eaten. I was a little uncomfortable going down its throat, but once I got into its transparent belly and the camera backed away to show outside of it, I felt a lot more at ease (And had a lot of fun setting off a Power Bomb.).

* Who ordered Adam's team to the station? If they were the GF higher ups, and they had time to insert the traitor, why not just manufacture some pretext for them to not be there? They probably couldn't stop Samus, but if they have enough clout to make an entire secret space station, ''they can stop one squad from investigating''.

**** Then Adam can order her off the station, or arrest her. He can't order her around. He says he needs to ''ask'' her to work with them and follow his orders. The Marines work with Samus just fine in Prime 3. The woman is a walking WMD. She has destroyed ''planets''. She should already have one of the highest security clearances available.

**** Then Adam can order her off the station, or arrest her. He can't order her around. He says he needs to ''ask'' her to work with them and follow his orders.

* If Samus suit is made out of HardLight that goes away when she's not thinking of it, then why did they have to remove it in Fusion, which takes place after Other M?

** Plus, you know, the whole 'Samus= Metroid KILLSTICK' thing.

** Armor or not, Zero mission shows the height difference isn't too great. He'd probably be between 7'1-7'4.

*** "Hello? Senate? This is Samus Aran, Galactic Hero calling. Yeah, I need a security clearance."

* Again, seriously: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqM_8_3jZLg Killing Metroids without freezing them is nothing new.]] In Metroid 2, the higher Metroid forms were killed with missiles only. Did the writer just assume nobody has played Metroid 2?

* Again, seriously: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqM_8_3jZLg Unfreezable Metroids are not new. They were in Metroid 2, THE SECOND GAME OF THE FRANCHISE.]] Did the writer just assume nobody has played Metroid 2?

***** ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'' also shows her to be far more athletic and faster than in her Power Suit. Samus was also trying to get out of the Bottle Ship as fast as possible with a lot of debris and enemies in the way, better to run and jump and flip past them than stand around shooting at them.

*** I think that "ignored" is a bit strong, and even in Echoes it's been demonstrated they use bullets as Haley's scan mentioned running out of ammo (I actually think that federation regular weapons use solid rounds in a sort of energy sheath because theres no way regular bullets glow like they do in the ending.)

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** I'm pretty sure we talked about this just here on the top page.
*** Nope
*** ... Someone hasn't been looking hard enough.

** Ignoring cutscenes, this troper wouldn't call the gameplay "superb" either. The movement feels clunky due to no control stick, the first-person missile mode is annoying, "search mode" is a PixelHunt joke, upgrades are just handed to you instead of giving you the satisfaction of finding them, many enemies feels tiresome to fight due to a comeplete over-reliance on the Sense Move and its peculiarities (such as making Samus roll where you might not want to go) and he auto-aim on enemies... it all adds up to a mediocre game experience, even before mentioning the plot.