Metroid: Other M

[The Qu]

Prime is a gaiden game, end of story. It has little to no bearing on the main series, so there is little to no reason to acknowledge it here.

Also, Super Metroid had a similar death sequence. Samus' suit explosded, leaving a black zero suit clad Samus visible for a few seconds.

[Deleted]

While under any other circumstances I'd argue and say "well it still happened, so it has SOME bearing, and it's part of the series' canon," but this is Team Ninja we're talking about. They follow the same faggy storytelling protocol Square does with Final Fantasy, so of course they're going to leave Prime out in the cold in favor of the more exploitable stuff.

I DREAMED THAT MY PLANET WAS DESTROYED BUT IN MY DREAMS IT WASN'T SO I DREAMED THAT THERE WAS A DREAM AND I HAD A DREAM WHERE ALL MEN WERE CREATED EQUAL AND so on, so forth, ad nauseam until the entire thing might as well have been written by George Lucas for Hayden Christensen.

[Wildcat]

Team Ninja didn't write it. Sakamoto did. Just to clarify.

[Koopaul]

Hence me attributing his snarkiness on the Prime series. I believe he used the words "insignificant"

[Leon]

By definition a side story is insignificant. It's nothing to get upset about. Prime served its purpose, but the events within those games do very little to reinforce the themes of Other M.

[Deleted]

Jul 29, 2010 19:30:45 GMT -5 Wildcat said:

Team Ninja didn't write it. Sakamoto did. Just to clarify.

I thought Sakamoto was part of Team Ninja ^^;

[Wildcat]

Nope, he's a long-time Nintendo staffer. Totally ganked from Wikipedia:

Yoshio Sakamoto (坂本 賀勇, Sakamoto Yoshio?, born July 23, 1959) is a Japanese game designer working for Nintendo. He is the co-creator of Metroid series of video games, having worked as director, scenario designer, and script writer for many of the games.

Sakamoto grew up with Nintendo toys, which he noted to be inventive and occasionally "strange". The company hired him in 1982, when he came out of art college. Recruited by Shigeru Miyamoto, his first position was as designer on the team behind the arcade game Donkey Kong Jr.. He turned to the Nintendo Entertainment System afterwards, helping design Kid Icarus and directing Metroid in January 1986.

Following the original Metroid, Sakamoto has directed all Metroid games produced internally by Nintendo except Metroid II: Return of Samus. These are Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, and Metroid: Zero Mission. He also supervised the production of Retro Studios's Metroid Prime series as well the upcoming Metroid: Other M which is being co-developed with Team Ninja.

Sakamoto's design work is found in various other Nintendo games, including Balloon Kid (1990), Kaeru No Tame Ni Kane Wa Naru (1992, Japan only), Teleroboxer (1995), Galactic Pinball (1995), Game & Watch Gallery (1997), Wario Land 4 (2001), Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001), Wario World (2003), WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (2003), WarioWare: Smooth Moves (2006) and Card Hero DS (2008). He is one of the most prominent members of Nintendo's R&D1 department, within which he founded the Team Shikamaru group dedicated to script writing.

Sakamoto has stated that he wants to live up to public expectations of Nintendo to deliver products similarly unique to those of his youth, describing WarioWare, Inc. as a prime example of this effort. Regarding his professional relationship with Shigeru Miyamoto, he believes his own mission is not to compete but to "always come up with something very different from what Mr. Miyamoto is likely to do".

[The Qu]

Those complaining about story in a metroid game should also realize that the series is far less mysterious in Japan, with the mangas being official continuity. In fact, Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission made extensive references to them, especially the parts with Samus being raised by the Chozo. That wasn't Retro's idea.

[Grandy02]

Jul 30, 2010 9:47:16 GMT -5 @sgtmajorkururu said:

Jul 29, 2010 19:30:45 GMT -5 Wildcat said:

Team Ninja didn't write it. Sakamoto did. Just to clarify.

I thought Sakamoto was part of Team Ninja ^^;

Metroid Database's article on Sakamoto is also worth a look:
metroid-database.com/features/profile_Sakamoto.php

He was also involved in the making of the manga that covers Samus's past:
metroid-database.com/manga/listing.php?vid=19
metroid-database.com/manga/listing.php?vid=13

Quite ironic that those Metroid comics (there are even more) were only released in Japan, huh? Especially that series where Samus stars alongside a typical manga boy looks like a (apparently not that successful) attempt to make Metroid more popular in Japan.

[Boo Destroyer]

Huh. Well, I wonder what compelled Sakamoto to put Other M's story together like this? And what's Team Ninja supposed to be doing on it anyway?

On another note:



Am I the only one who hasn't forgotten about her? She appeared in the end of the first trailer.

She's said to be someone rather important to the story, but I guess we'll have to wait on when the game's actually released to find out. Mysteries abound, thus the greatness of the Metroid series.

[Wildcat]

Team Ninja is doing the gameplay/graphics end of things.

[Deleted]

Jul 30, 2010 9:56:47 GMT -5 Wildcat said:

Nope, he's a long-time Nintendo staffer.

Just the same, I don't care for his storytelling method (what we've seen of it thus far, anyway).

[Da Robot]

I'm really starting to think you folks should hold your compliants until you actually play the game . . .


But then again . . . Here's a Japanese store preview for the game. Probably not the best image to use for display purposes . . . Makes you wonder what is Nintendo's idea behind using that image.

[Koopaul]

Samus' opinion of the game I suppose.

[superpoppybros]

Jul 31, 2010 19:16:38 GMT -5 Da Robot said:

Here's a Japanese store preview for the game. Probably not the best image to use for display purposes . . . Makes you wonder what is Nintendo's idea behind using that image.

Wow, epic fail XD. It kind of reminds me of that Earthbound marketing where it said "This game really stinks!" or something like that.
I don't know if this was Nintendo or the retailers fault (or boths fault) but whoever it was they should have used one of these instead.
metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:0737043001276663901.jpg
metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:0734160001276663901.jpg
metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mom_vignette.png