The low scores a few review sites gave M:OM shouldn't be viewed as bias towards Nintendo. But rather, its the bias that each individual reviewer had towards how they expected Samus' personality to be.
All the reviews have geverally the same complaints. The controls could be better (Nunchuk pls) and the cutscenes are a bit long. Those are the main issues which kept it around 8 to 8.5 in most reviews.
However, the big X factor is Samus' personality. When a character has been around for 20 years with no personality, people imagine what it would be like. And when the realty doesn't match their expectations, they get mad and say Nintendo "ruined" the character because its not how they envisioned it in thier heads. Its the eternally "What I think is always best" syndrome.
The best example is the G4 2/5 review. Abbie had an image of Samus in her mind as basically Kratos with Boobs. When she turned out to be a lot more complex than that, Nintedo "ruined" her. However, Abbie failed to consider Fusion, the end of Zero Mission, and even the Metroid Manga. It seems the portrayal in Other M is correct. A women with major emotional issues (you know, from watching her family get slaughtered and growing up with a bunch of bird people,) who fights through them alone, overcomes them, and kills space pirates; is accurate. And its been building for the last 10 years. This game just lays it on the table.
The people who don't like having Samus' personality laid in front of them scored the game low. Those who didn't mind it gave it decent to strong reviews. Its all a matter of taste and what thier preconcieved mental image of Samus is.
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