Story will 'play a big part' in Metroid Other M
by Randy Nelson 
on Jun 17th 2009 7:30PM
Nintendo's Yoshio Sakamoto, who's been involved with every 2D
Metroid game since co-creating the original,
tells Game Life that the latest in the series --
Metroid Other M -- will (in addition to looking
awesome) help flesh out the character of
Samus Aran. Bridging the gap between
Super Metroid and
Metroid Fusion in series canon, the game's plot goal is to depict the legendary bounty hunter as "an appealing human character," according to Sakamoto, and the joint Nintendo / Team Ninja production team will be "explaining a little bit about what happened in her past as well as the characters that influenced her."
The
Metroid Prime games haven't been devoid of story, but we get the sense from Sakamoto's comments -- "The story will play a big part," he said -- that
Other M will offer something meatier, perhaps through more cinematics ... and
no scanning. In fact, we hear that any planned instances of scanning in
Other M have been replaced with
badass.
[Via
1UP]
