will1182 said:
Yayy, another Prime fan! Now for some questions, if that's ok.
How do you feel the Prime series compares with 2D Metroid, namely Super Metroid? Do you have a preference between the two?
And what are your feelings on Echoes and Corruption?
Lastly, do you refute the existence of Other M, like so many others?
Super metroid was awesome, no doubt about that, but I think that Prime is a little more immersive. I think it's just the first person aspect.
Echoes was also a fantastic game... up until the end. The whole fetch-quest for the keys was just too tedious to put myself through. Hell, I've never even finished Echoes because of it. Prime had the same sort of thing, but it introduced the quest at the beginning of the game so you could do it throughout the game, so that it didn't get tedious.
Corruption was different than the other two Prime games, being far more structured. It was also a great game and also had a fallout at the end segment, like Echoes. You also had to go on a fetch quest at the end, this time collecting energy cells, but you collected them throughout most of the game, especially if you had a thing for exploration. It could get a little tedious at the end if you weren't exploring all the time, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as Echoes' fallout. Now then, let's get to the final boss. This is where I got a little angry. Why is the final boss the first AI infected with the virus? Shouldn't that have come first, then, when it's defeated, Dark Samus makes her appearance? Dark Samus is Metroid Prime! She should, without a shadow of a doubt, have been the final boss.
Now then. Other M. I want to refute it's existence yes and I DO call it non-canon. Simply for the fact that Samus says in Other M that she has never worked in a joint operation with the federation. So in other words, Corruption never happened, therefore the Prime trilogy doesn't have an ending, therefore it never happened.
Then we have the fact that Other M turned Samus from an ass-kicker into a crybaby that can only do things when told to by a man. More specifically a madman, that she sees as a father figure, who routinely sends the people who work under him, specifically her, on suicide missions and even physically harms them from time to time. Seriously, the shit that Adam pulls would never fly. Ever.
Then we have average platforming with no original ideas.
Then we have broken, shitty combat and no I'm not just talking about the first person mode, the third person combat blows chunks too.
Then we have the complete lack of freeroaming, one of the things that characterises the Metroid series.
Well, I think that's all I've got.