10/14/2022 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"Metroid: Other M"

Being a massive fan of the 2D Metroid games - the GBA instalments rank amongst my most favourite games - the reintroduction of some of those gameplay mechanics in Other M is a definite step back in the right direction. Unfortunately, like a lot of Wii games, the developers felt the need to include a "novel" control system and constantly having to reorientate the remote - especially during combat - is fiddly and distracting. The is just a niggle however, as otherwise it's another good entry in the Metroid series and a marked improvement over Metroid Prime.

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4/5 

02/20/2011 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Old Meets New: The Evolution of Metroid

“Metroid: Other M” (“Other M”) is the first game in the series to come out of Japan since “Metroid Fusion” in 2002. In the meantime, the genre-defining Metroid series was given over to the hands of Retro Studios, a Western developer that does what all Western developers do: turn things into first-person shooters. Thus Metroid is a fractured series, as it is influenced by both its origin as THE side-scrolling adventure (“Metroid” and “Super Metroid”) and its most recent incarnations as a trilogy of first-person shooters that started out impressive, but culminated in a fizzle (“Metroid Prime Trilogy”). Having inherited this legacy, “Other M” stands upon very unsteady ground. Fan expectation is fanatical, with no two fans agreeing upon where the series should go. ...

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3.5/5