Johnny vs. Metroid: Other M

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of sakamoto has been with the franchise since the very beginning and i was just being a young ignorant [ __ ] in fact let's get this out of the way now there's still plenty of things i dislike about other m as i'll get into soon enough but looking back compared to other games sakamoto was involved in other m now more than ever feels like an honest god misstep on sakamoto's behalf that sure will probably leave a permanent blemish on his otherwise incredibly solid resume but in the end it should just remain a blemish a reminder of what happens when a creator gets too ambitious to the point where even your teammates think you're being a little much he [ __ ] up but he learned from it i think so anyway and now that we have samus returns dread and the upcoming metroid prime 4 in the docket i think he legitimately wants to make amends and restore people's faith in him regarding the metroid series that's it we still have to talk about other m today the lead up to it my anticipation for it all that good [ __ ] so let's begin 2010 was a good year for nintendo wii fans we had the second super mario galaxy sonic got sonic colors donkey kong made his return and the second no more heroes title dropped in but out of all those metroid other m was my most anticipated release this wasn't a first person adventure like the prime series it was a third person action adventure title with team ninja behind the wheel and team ninja yeah i'm sure a lot probably thought ah boobies but i was also like oh [ __ ] the ninja gaiden devs i never played the 3d titles but i was more than aware of their positive reception okay cool this might be one of the most kinetic metroid's released so far but yeah team ninja instead of nintendo r d one the ones responsible for every mainline 2d metroid game up to this point but sakamoto wanted to give another team a go given r d one's lack of experience in 3d titles metroid other m though would spend about three years in development this was not only a game heavily focused on action but the production values of the story and presentation was the highest to ever grace the series this was like the metal gear of metroid games a title not only presenting a story right out of a feature-length film but a story that would finally go into samus aaron as a character who she was as a person a bounty hunter and her upbringing that was the intent anyway whether they succeeded is ultimately up to you i don't think it did but i'm just me metroid other m was yoshio sakamoto's baby and he wanted to make sure it was everything according to his vision and you better [ __ ] believe that came with some caveats despite getting teen ninja involved in creating the pulse pounding action sakamoto heavily insisted that other m only use the singular wii mode like not even with the nunchuck just the wiimote by itself a 3d game you controlled like an nes game to keep things simple and it's like i get that you don't want to risk overwhelming the players but i think that philosophy goes out the window when you're creating an action game in a 3d space control and accessibility should not be compromised for the sake of artistic integrity unless that was the entire point of the game that's subjective so let's leave it at that but the simplified control scheme as dumb as it sounds on paper i think team ninja made it work yes it certainly could have used an analog stick and an extra button here and there movement is fine buttons are responsive things work as intended in this game and it feels weird at first but you warm up to it fast it's not perfect [ __ ] it's not even that great but it's good enough my real sour point is the first person stuff you have to point the wemo towards the screen to enter fps mode to either scan something for story progression or to shoot missiles yeah that's the only way you can shoot missiles and they pack a lot of punch as they usually do but it never gets any less clunky and awkward having to shift wemo positions to switch weapons and going for the kill without a doubt the worst thing about other m's combat control was one thing the story direction was another and this was also something sakamoto wanted full control over and well results may certainly [ __ ] vary on that wouldn't you say oh god this [ __ ] story well we should probably get into the nitty-gritty now and before i begin there's something i wanted to discuss real quick now ever since i made it known that i was heading back into other m for a proper versus video man i can't tell you how many times i was told about how things were lost in translation when other m story was dubbed in english and how the story ultimately suffers from it and look if this were any other game where the localization efforts clearly massacred a writer or director's original intention i would agree in fact that was sort of the case in metroid fusion as some of you told me were the corrupt federation officials that wanted to create metroids and capture the ex-parasites for study was in fact only a part of a rogue faction within the galactic federation and not the galactic federation as a whole as it was implied to be in english that's a pretty important distinction to leave out certainly makes the beginning of dread less confusing i understand that sometimes things get muddied in the waters when translating a story from one language to another but here's the thing about other m yoshio sakamoto directed the english translation and the english dub yes despite not speaking the language very well himself he was adamant on directing the english translation anyway you want to know why samus sounds like alexa with a low battery all sakamoto baby it's what he wanted i feel most times i was told about how the japanese translation made things a little better for the story it wasn't for the sake of getting more out of other m's narrative but to negate any criticisms other m story received on the english side which i'm sorry it doesn't work that way the english dub words and all is what sakamoto wanted and it's what he gave us i can't just ignore that because it's better in japanese and i'm sure it is maybe a lot of other m's problems exist across both translations let's not kid ourselves here but to completely disregard the english side is just foolish i will be commentating on the story through its english translation for the record and if you're worried about me being an overly negative nancy about this whole thing don't worry i'm not gonna be honestly guys i'm gonna be more of a ambivalent agnes because the story is a whole bunch of [ __ ] nothing set between super metroid and metroid fusion metroid other m chronicles the adventures of samus aaron as she answers a distressed beacon sent by the bottle ship a humongous research station much like the bsl station in fusion where a bunch of creatures are kept for study but also like the bsl station something sinister brews within its steel walls but it's not parasites this time it's man okay so here's the 4-1-1 samus answers the distress call and heads to the battleship she gets there and discovers that a squadron of galactic federation troops have also answered the distress call being led by commander adam malkovich samus's former commanding officer during her days in the galactic federation only looking less like an ai this time around good on him samus insists on helping the platoon explore the station to see what caused the distress signal and adam agrees but demands that samus follow his every order for a successful mission and that she can only use certain weapons when he authorizes them samus's arsenal can be incredibly dangerous samus agrees by deactivating all of her most dangerous weapons like power bombs and even goes the extra mile and deactivates all her defensive upgrades like the varia and gravity suit that do nothing but protect samus because hey let's go the distance and trying to win back adam's good graces you [ __ ] idiot the rest of the story i kid you not is one part soap opera one part murder mystery and another park conspiracy it's all over the place with none of it getting any proper closure it's soon revealed that the federation or at least a rogue faction in the federation is making bio-organic weapons which is a big no-no in federation law to make matters worse those same people have sent one of their own to infiltrate adam's platoon and act as a saboteur slowly killing off members of adam's squad one by one to cover up their work done here he's later given the nickname the deleter no bad samus that's how you get attached to them and for the record if you're wondering why this secret black op project sent out a very public distress signal it's because the experiments ultimately got out of hand and someone inside said [ __ ] something's gotta get here and that person was madeline bergman one of the ring leaders of the bow program but turns out this wasn't madeline bergman but this was madeleine bergman and that this person later named mb was a sophisticated ai program created to mimic the brain patterns of mother brain and control the bows through telepathy as mother brain did in planet zebus but mb would later develop a soul and urine to be treated more as an ai which the ring leaders decided was bad for business and wanted to shut the program down but m b rebelled and calls all the experiments inside to go ape [ __ ] kickstart in the plot of other m one of those experiments in fact was a recreated ridley made from the remnants of his dna scooped off of samus's suit after her last encounter in planet zebus another thing they scooped out of samus's suit metroid dna for they are also recreating metroids that are also invulnerable to the cold except oh wait a minute no they're not i just froze that one just fine and considering the omega metro infusion is weak to the ice beam i guess that was just a straight [ __ ] lie look the general plot of other m is bare bones is all hell it's more about the themes for as inelegant and heavy-handed as i think they're handled did you catch the maternity themes and samus's fixation on the baby metroid that saved her life madeleine bergman's mother and daughter relationship with mb the fact that the station is called the bottle ship how metroid other m's acronym is mom or how other m can be arranged to spell mother yeah i think you get it but in the end does anybody really give a [ __ ] about anybody in the story it's so scattered by unfocused characters in unfocused subplots adam and samus is nothing but one-sided melodrama on samus's n the deleter plot gets no proper conclusion it's just quietly dropped after mb enters the scene and while it's pretty much implied that it was james to do with the evil mustache it just makes everyone and adam's platoon feel that more pointless and unnecessary they're given names that's it and besides lyle's fear of bugs and his conservative way of dealing with it that's it these characters are nothing much i'll accept anthony a character i legitimately like and one i would like to see return at some point in metroid's future these good chums with samus supports her endeavors has a positive vibe altogether i don't know are we sure this isn't what adam was originally supposed to be samus describes the dude in fusion as the perfect military mind someone she deeply respected and if adam had all the qualities anthony did in other m [ __ ] i'd buy that in a heartbeat but no the atom here is just a stone-faced boar those who read the manga will recall adam being a stern but understanding authority figure that helps samus prepare for her venture into planet zebes they even have some playful banter when samus charges extra for a bounty all while she stacked out in her carmen san diego attire as a flex admittedly there wasn't much there but they were clearly on good terms as samus became a freelance bounty hunter this game says actually no because in one of the game's many moments of flat out disregarding the manga which i should stress was an official tie-in to zero mission goofy canon or otherwise it's shown that samus originally left adam and the galactic federation on bad terms after an incident involving adam's brother getting killed while on a rescue mission though adam did what was ultimately best for everyone's safety samus didn't originally see it like that and left in what's basically an angry schoolgirl huff i'm going to assume this left adam incredibly bitter because despite salmons inner monologues painting adam as this father figure samus never truly got to have him sorry great voice throughout this whole game adam comes off as someone who doesn't acknowledge samus as anything other than a soldier to command and it really is a one-sided affair on this whole thing samus is so fixated on her previous relationship with the student his potential thoughts of this investigation and okay clearly they have a history but we never get adam's side of it these two spend little to no time interacting besides basic ass mission control and they had plenty of opportunity to do so it's established early on that interference in the battleship is blocking communication between the troops all except for samus who can still communicate with adam you'd think they would take this opportunity to give adam and samus some one-to-one conversations maybe go into their split adam's past samus's past [ __ ] anything but no adam just uses the comlink to give samus orders her next point of interest and to authorize different weapons when it's convenient it's fusion but lesser given adam's greater prominence he doesn't say or do anything about the potential traitor in his squadron it's just silence and while you could argue this was intentional to lay on the suspense for the player maybe adam secretly the puppet master behind everything it's later shown that that isn't the case so in retrospect it just makes adam look extremely incompetent if this is the dude samus calls the perfect military mind man i don't see it this scene right here is the only time they have some sort of heart to heart together but it's right before adam sacrifices himself in a moment that is not as emotional as intended because it is not earned i do not care for this man and the only reason this scene is even possible is because adam shot samus in the back while she was in front of a [ __ ] metroid that was on the attack what does she see in this guy samus spends most of her scenes in her monologuing and not even about herself but about adam and the baby metroid from super and the language is so theatrical she doesn't do much of anything in this game's story i mean yeah she fends off creatures she explores the stations but her role her impact is so minimal it's not her that solves the bow conspiracy the federation does that she doesn't resolve the deleter subplot mb does that off-screen it's not heard that kills ridley the queen metroid does that off-screen and it's not her that stops the secret metroid project adam does that off-screen it's like she is only here to follow orders and bear witness to the evils of man and maybe it's just me but it's so tiring and dull and the whole authorization thing for weapons and protection just makes her look so [ __ ] stupid i get wanting to turn off the super dangerous weapons until absolutely necessary but i don't get turning off defensive upgrades like the various suit and i don't get why samus doesn't have enough sense of self-preservation to turn it back on when it is clearly needed or why adam doesn't do the same [ __ ] he tells samus to turn the ice beam back on and not the various suit when you already traveled in a superheated hallway the sector 3 section is so infamous because of that [ __ ] it's clear that the area is hot but you got this dumb ass running through it without turning her various suit on multiple times and you got this dumbass telling her not to turn the suit back on immediately despite the com systems working just fine terrible terrible story and gameplay integration i am shocked this got the green light even with sakamoto wanting everything to be in his design and later when adam is mia and samus has to cross this large chasm so she self-authorizes the space jump and screw attack like it's a moment of empowerment no i'm sorry that was also not earned because this [ __ ] had to be told to turn on her suit before she was cooked this plot is also just fusion's plot but again right obviously there's no parasites but a research station with different sectors housing different ecosystems for different life forms a faction of the federation secretly working on bows with samus doing what she can to stop it that's just fusion again very weird for this intercooler to recycle elements from its future sequel in fact kind of had they said this so many times throughout the years but i mean it every single time i don't understand why this game had to be set between super metroid and metroid fusion it should have been an origin story set before the first game yeah you would have to rework a couple of things like the whole mb thing and the metroid stuff but i think it would have worked better if it was set earlier in samus's career it should have been an adaptation of the manga because a big reason why certain things in this game story doesn't work is because of its time frame and its utter disregard of past events true this is the first time in the games proper where so much time is spent on samus as a character and her backstory but it goes from zero to 100 and establishing [ __ ] that just wasn't there previously in the games her relationship with adam her feelings about the baby metroid her utter disdain and fear of ridley if this is truly what sakamoto wanted samus to eventually become it should have been done in earlier games but it wasn't and it makes certain scenes harder to swallow as a result and you can't tell me it wasn't possible in earlier games because of limited technology because rpgs and ninja gaiden would love to know your location these games have demonstrated that as early as the 80s you could tell stories with something as primitive as the nes hell there was an opportunity to do it in zero mission the remake of the first game that wanted to flesh out samus origin as a hardened chozen warrior but they did just about nothing there either probably because they figured the manga did all the heavy lifting already also the chozo they are not even mentioned once in other m's narrative samus is talking about how adam was like this father she never had and i'm like hello you had grey voice you had the chozo it's so weird how this game just completely ignores her upbringing from the bird people who is this version of samus a glorified borderline submissive barbie doll so desperately yearning for the approval of her former co made to appeal to a dwindling japanese market that didn't care for the metroid franchise then and after this game certainly didn't care for the series afterwards considering its budget this game bombed big time even for metroid standards again metro was never one of nintendo's largest ips but the game barely managed over half a million copies before holiday season of its release year and it wasn't long before the game was going for bargain bin prices at your local gamestop in fact the copy i hold here i got for five bucks not too long after i traded my original copy shortly after my first experience this game left me very bitter back then but looking back that was more in response to its terrible story because as a game metroid other m and i really mean this it's fine it's fine especially in future playthroughs where you can skip the cutscenes it's certainly more action oriented than before but a lot of samus's arsenal from here is back and utilized in a pretty fun way except for missiles i'll say it again not a fan of needing to point the wiimote towards the screen to use them they hit hard they're functional but not very fun utilizing the heat of the moment but her basic beam cannon and takes down enemies big and small in her charge shot more than makes up for your potentially shaky aim though samus will auto aim to the closest target because of the game's limited control scheme sort of a necessary evil but i didn't find it screwing me out of a potential kill because it's kind of hard for samus to die in this game with her new sense move it's a dodge roll you can perform whenever something hazardous approaches samus but all you gotta do to perform it is tap the d-pad in any direction before samus gets hurt meaning you're likely activating it by complete accident most of the time it never feels graceful but it does work and because it's so easy to activate it works a little too well it makes combat with a lot of creatures almost brain dead on normal difficulties but you can still make combat a little more engaging thanks to some nifty combat maneuvers you can execute on certain enemies like hopping on top of them and giving them some point-blank love or getting them in a chokehold and blasting their [ __ ] face in the lethal strike i think it's called and when utilized correctly it's always great to see an action and it makes me wonder what kind of ways can i kill the next enemy before resorting to the classic missile or power bomb which doesn't give a [ __ ] about anything what sort of kills combat though is that there isn't much point to it besides mandatory encounters because otherwise enemies don't drop health or ammo you instead have to rely on the save stations to fully replenish your resources which there are plenty of in defense of the game [ __ ] the game won't even let you progress to the next room without using the save station at all they hold your hand so tightly in this game outside of safe stations you have this concentration maneuver where you tilt the wiimote up to refill your missiles and even some health when you're in critical condition now refilling missiles with concentration i actually don't mind that i kind of [ __ ] with the idea that samus can just will power some missiles back into her gun as nonsensical as that sounds but needing to be in critical condition to restore some health really makes me think they should have just had enemies at least drop some health to compensate like this right here this is not fun in the middle of a fight in some rooms killing all enemies will reveal the hidden item in that area so if you're going for 100 then you have some incentive you can even go into first person mode and mark items on your map that you can't reach just yet for future reference but since i never cared about fully completing the other m these aren't very enticing perks what i was shocked to see coming back to this game was despite its linearity and it is super linear more so than fusion if you can believe it there was still a decent amount of exploration you can do to get energy and missile expansions for your arsenal i know i just said i don't care about getting all the items but that doesn't mean i can't acknowledge the solid level design though picking up items doesn't come with a classic pickup jingle it's sort of this cold depressing i was genuinely surprised to see my initial curiosity satiated by exploring rooms in areas like i would in other metroid games using the morph ball and bombs wall jumps or kick climb as the game calls it what is that name the speed booster and shine spark incredibly cool to see an action in this game you feel like a [ __ ] bullet train goodness the space jump and screw attackers so good here as both a means of exploration and combat watching enemies that gave you trouble earlier just [ __ ] exploding in this space dust is liberating but missiles energy tanks and pieces of energy tanks make up for most of your collectible items because as for your standard upgrades and tools well you already got most of them so there's never that gratifying feeling of discovering a new chosen statue and getting a new item instead you'll just unlock the item when the story says it's time to use it because of adam's authorization and in essence it isn't that different from just getting to a certain point in other games and finding a new upgrade and immediately putting it to use but it being so heavily linked to the story just removes that sense of wonder you get from getting these items yourself and as i mentioned earlier it makes certain parts of the story progression feel that more idiotic a couple of times you'll get a new toy to play with that i guess adam doesn't care about authorizing but they don't have the same zing as discovering other power ups despite the upgrades in question being quite useful the diffusion beam adds a scatter effect to your charge shot making your explosive beams even more explosive it's great and the secret missile returning from metroid prime 2 is still the secret missile for metroid prime 2 and i don't like using it also not a fan of the mandatory walking segments you're running around exploring rooms and suddenly you find samus going alright my legs hurt let's slow it down it's in service to the story yeah but since i hate the story and especially on repeated playthroughs these are just slow and plotting sections that i wish i could skip over some have a good sense of humor though i like the excel charge you can find in the women's bathroom and i don't know why but seeing this employee lounge makes me laugh it's like who broke into the vending machines and scouted the items like an [ __ ] here was it the deleter that they not have jamie's favorite brand of chips what a prick considering were over 10 years removed from its initial release and how dirt cheap the game goes for nowadays i think metro other m is fine and worth your time it's better than i remember it actually controls are limited but responsive the upgrades are fun to use it looks [ __ ] fantastic for the nintendo wii as much as i despise the narrative you know the presentation is still damn good it's just [ __ ] this story man and on your first playthrough you can't skip cutscenes so you're in it for the long run and some of these scenes run pretty [ __ ] long almost metal gear long it's like the antithesis to the standard metroid experience but english or japanese maybe you could find more to the story than i did you'll never convince me that it's good so save your comments on why i'm wrong i won't read them please don't waste your time at the end of the day you be the judge metroid other m is a good game buried under a whole bunch of [ __ ] i feel like i didn't even cover half of the developmental process but i can plug someone who did go deeper catch my bud the golden bolts video on metroid other m death by ambition yours truly even makes a cameo as the voice of sakamoto i think i did a pretty decent job but now it's a great video just to have in the background my man goes deep into the developmental process of other m and how sakamoto's vision might have been too ambitious for the game's own good i hope everyone here in america has a wonderful thanksgiving i'm gonna go fill my face full of regret but then i can bask in the desert that is my final video for this metroid marathon metroid dread as always thank you all for watching stay safe wash your hands wear a mask if you decide to go outside get vaccinated if it's possible have yourselves a fantastic night and take care [Music] you

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Length: 25min 21sec (1521 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 23 2021