@foxhound_fox said:
@jg4xchamp said:
I'd take it over Prime 3 any day of the week.
It's a toss-up for me. The gameplay in Prime 3 was spectacular (still hate myself for not buying the Trilogy) but the exploration was heavily limited and that terrible final boss fight(s)... YARGH
For a series to be built on an exceptionally strong foundation of insane boss fights, that anti-climactic finish was ball-bustingly hard to endure.
And I think I was one of the few that not only enjoyed the story in Other M, but thought it was a positive step forward for Samus as a character and the franchise (and regardless of what SJWs think, she was not a "powerless female", in fact, she was an emotionally vulnerable, real-feeling character that grew as a person under stress and went on to conquer the hardships she had to endure).
I still find it fascinating that people think the scene with her seeing Ridley was her being depicted as a "weak female". They so oddly forget that less than 30 seconds later, she went on to destroy him in one of the most difficult and impressive Ridley fights in their entire franchise to date.
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I thought the plot was butthole cancer, and totally buy they make her a puss wagon. IT comes back to the Nintendo should stop pretending their franchises have a timeline, it makes no sense the second you think about it. Somehow after the umpteenth Ridley fights, Samus now is feeling emotional over shit is jarring no matter how they spin it, and the constant gamey shit being glossed over as "video game logic" is like, no, no, either do it right, or don't do it. In that context i always loved Prime 1 and 2, because the Story had nothing to do with the character, and compliments in the game as you are exploring this area, and discovering everything about this area. There was a synergy there, where as Other M was trying to humanize an ass kicking machine, who is obedient in the most offensively stupid ways.
But if we're arguing gameplay, I think Prime 3's shooting is fine, and it is a good shooter, especially given the control scheme there. But those boss fights are fun enough, but underwhelming considering the franchise. It's like their boss fights from Zelda or something. Other M's fights were good, Other M's environmental design is mediocre (artistically and from a design language stnadpoint), but the actual action I think is more satisfying. Prime 3 is action serving a control scheme, Other M is action serving action game badassery. Samus moves and reacts in a powerful manner, and the fights live up to that combat engine. If the control scheme wasn't dumb, it be a dope combat engine.
I don't know, regardless both games are good games for what they are, but neither really stands up to a Metroid standard all things considered. My thing has always been Prime 3 is an action game, and Other M is an action game, but are busy being more simplified action games, and frankly Other M just does that better. But some of the purists get all "bu bu bu the atmosphere'...and yo honestly I'm starting to think all the idiots who wrote about Super Metroid never fucking understood Super Metroid, and wrote bullshit about it like THE LEVEL DESIGN IS AMAZING
why?
because atmosphere.
Completely ignoring that the reason that shit is actually really awesome is the speed running and the sequence breaking. Super Metroid was ahead of its time in the sense that you could do so many areas of the game in 4 or 5 different ways, way before Deus Ex was trying to do that shit in 3D (where that shit should be a no fucking duh), and it's the type of shit that when Strider, or Castlevania, or these modern metroid vanias do the item-gating, or more recently the newest Tomb Raider, they don't fucking get why Item-gating worked in Super Metroid.
I think this rant session was great for both of us.
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