Metroid: Other M

[Atreides]

One thing I've seen both sides on that I'm curious for people who've actually played it, how well is the swap between third to first person? G4/GI says terrible since you constantly to realign the reticle when you pop in (I guess it doesn't have a default area when you pop in?) others say it's perfect. It appears that you can slide in and out of it quickly enough, but I get hung up enough in FPS without having to randomly guess where my reticle is going to be.

When you go into first person the camera automatically faces whatever direction Samus is facing, so I haven't really had any problems with having to realign since I'm usually pretty good about pointing her in the proper direction before switching to first person. The switch is instantaneous, and you can dodge while in first person by shaking the wiimote just before something hits you. It's very easy to fire off a missile when there's a break in the action, and for the most part combat doesn't really get slowed down because of it. A lot of the combat seems to be designed with this in mind, so when you get the ice beam you can charge it up to freeze certain enemies to the floor so you can get a little extra breathing room to fire off a few missles.

[Corrderio]

It's a different direction towards the "lose all powers at the beginning" type of thing for the Metroid series. While I agree it sounds stupid but she respects him enough to limit her skills to test herself.

In Fusion she names the computer Adam to remember him by. If anyone else saw the secret message in fusion then there is hope for another 2D sidescrolling Metroid game. At least I hope that is true.

Close but...

Spoiler: show

The computer was indeed Adam, since at the end you learn from Samus that the federation uploads minds of great commands/scientists to computers. Which makes me question if he's alive during the events of Fusion or not.

[Kaisha]

I'm still waiting for Nintendo to break the news on Metroid Dread which was supposedly to be the next sidescrolling Metroid game on the DS. It was hinted at recently. in Prime3 via a pirate's scan log on a PC and that was it.

[Atreides]

Finished the game, took me about 10 hours and I finished with 67% of the items. After you beat it you can go back and there's another boss, as well as a thing that kinda wraps up the story, which takes about an hour. Supposedly getting 100% items opens up Hard Mode.

I think when all is said and done you get 9 or 10 health tanks as well as 2 items that give you an additional tank if you use the concentration move to recharge when you get low. Missile packs only give 1 missle, but I think you get 75 in total, as well as items that shorten the time it takes to charge up your blaster/missles.

All in all the game was pretty great, hard to compare it to the other games in the series but it definitely still feels like a metroid game.

[AoE]

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Amazon sent my e-mail last night. >BO

[shukudai]

Am I the only one who likes her voice? I like the cutscenes more than the actual game (not that it's a bad game, i'm a cutscene/story whore)

The only bad part is forcing you to use only the Wiimote, and whoever designed it so you had to tuirn it and point it towards the screen and do the whole lock on bullshit to use missiles, that guy needs to be fired. Now.

[SephYuyX]

Two things im hating about this game atm.
2nd person view and forces 1st person view. 2nd is slow walking, and when they force you in to 1st to try and find some stupid dot on the map that takes an hour to find.

[Atreides]

The game only forces you into first person to scan like 3 or 4 times total

[miokomioko]

Is there any benefit to 100%ing all the scan shit in the game this time around?

[Atreides]

there is no scanning aside from the 3 times you have to do it

beating the story unlocks whatever movie you've just watched in Theater Mode, and your collection/story progression unlocks more concept art/still images in the Gallery. Collecting 100% of all items/upgrades unlocks Hard Mode for new games.

[SephYuyX]

What the gay.
Really, beat this game in one sitting? Fun game all around, enjoyed the story, etc, but so freaking short.

[SephYuyX]

Spent another 3hrs post game getting to 100%, unlocking everything, and beat the post game boss. Easy fight, but fun. Had a real fun time with the game, but so short.

[Atreides]

i haven't had the courage to try out hard mode. Supposedly it has like 0 powerups whatsoever lol

[SephYuyX]

And no reward for finishing it, so kind of pointless to do.

[NynJa]

Wow short game really is short... >.>

[AoE]

Yeah it is. Put it back on Amazon after I finished it to get some of my money back.

[aurik]

Got it, started it the other night. In Sector 1.

Terrible voice acting / story so far. Shitty controls/camera scheme, makes me want to throw the wiimote out the window when I'm fighting stuff. Puzzles so far are not well designed (took like 20 minutes to realize you can go from wall-hang into morph ball in that room with the broken glass...tutorial didn't teach that...so I was trying to bomb jump as morph ball into the vent.)

So far very unimpressed. Really wishing it was Metroid Prime styles.

[Gokulo]

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