Everything in this game is the older Metroids carelessly mishmashed with some good and some annoying modern trends, all with Serial Numbers Filed Off. There are no original ideas, concepts or executions. All the items are the standard Metroid set, the enemies are ripped straight out of Super Metroid, and Other M just has no balls. The whole game is a sea of bland, gray, overly cartoonish textures not even worthy of being development placeholders, and the voice work is just atrocious and is begging for a re-dub by people who actually know what the fuck they're doing. Hell, even from a developer standpoint, the Concentration is simply an ascended debug mode! Everything in this game seems like a giant placeholder, so that shouldn't surprise anyone. Hell, the whole game may very well be a placeholder in the Metroid series timeline. I sure the fuck hope so. The presentation makes it blantantly obvious they rushed this piece of shit out. What happened to the classic Metroid perfectionism? The way the developers would never release a game until it was good and damn ready?
This game had plenty of potential, and the people behind it were in the position to strike big on it. Too bad they had to focus on making a quick buck rather than making a good game, and they just dealt a serious blow to an already obscure and not-very-well-known franchise. Frankly, it's such a disappointment that if I'd touched on all my misgiving with this game (above is a twentieth of what I have to say), this review would be pages long and take hours to read. I honestly think this is a game to be learned from to avoid this crap in the future, and it's an embarrassment to the franchise as a whole. Strike it from the canon and make a better one.
So Bad, it's Horrible.
Everything in this game is the older Metroids carelessly mishmashed with some good and some annoying modern trends, all with Serial Numbers Filed Off. There are no original ideas, concepts or executions. All the items are the standard Metroid set, the enemies are ripped straight out of Super Metroid, and Other M just has no balls. The whole game is a sea of bland, gray, overly cartoonish textures not even worthy of being development placeholders, and the voice work is just atrocious and is begging for a re-dub by people who actually know what the fuck they're doing. Hell, even from a developer standpoint, the Concentration is simply an ascended debug mode! Everything in this game seems like a giant placeholder, so that shouldn't surprise anyone. Hell, the whole game may very well be a placeholder in the Metroid series timeline. I sure the fuck hope so. The presentation makes it blantantly obvious they rushed this piece of shit out. What happened to the classic Metroid perfectionism? The way the developers would never release a game until it was good and damn ready?
This game had plenty of potential, and the people behind it were in the position to strike big on it. Too bad they had to focus on making a quick buck rather than making a good game, and they just dealt a serious blow to an already obscure and not-very-well-known franchise. Frankly, it's such a disappointment that if I'd touched on all my misgiving with this game (above is a twentieth of what I have to say), this review would be pages long and take hours to read. I honestly think this is a game to be learned from to avoid this crap in the future, and it's an embarrassment to the franchise as a whole. Strike it from the canon and make a better one.