An ice cold Metroid: Other M boss fight

the gameplay looks extremely clunky. i miss Metroid Prime on the gamecube =(

I dunno. I think I'm set in my old ways. After 3D Metroid from the Prime series, don't know if I want to go back to side scrolling. And I'm especially unsure of the autoaim.

"I'm fine. But did it have to be bugs?"

Wow, I love the faster pace of this game! I really didn't like how long it took to travel across levels. Samus seems more like a super soldier than in Prime series.

I like it!

I love reading gamers' comments about this game...

It's the exact same situation as when Metroid Prime was announced. A lot of people were bashing the game because the transition from 2D sidescrolling gameplay to a 3D first person view... and yet, Metroid Prime 1 is one of the best games ever.

People bashing Nintendo because they don't change the formula of their games... and then, people bashing Nintendo because they change the formula of their game...

I'm really excited about this game... just this gen, we will have two Metroid games on the Wii. So... everything is fine with me.

This game looks very good.

So far it looks pretty good, specially the exploration and the faster pace of the game. Can't wait until it comes out.

The guy playing in the second video has to be the worst Metroid player ever...

I see what they are going for, but the first person, 3rd person switching seems jarring to me. I haven't tried the game yet so I cannot say for sure, but it certainly looks like it slows the action down unnecessarily.

It worked in games like Metal Gear solid because of the rigid corners and slow paced battles, but here it doesn't seem to flow as well.

I'm more excited for this game thatn the new Zelda. In fact, once I think about it... this is really the only game I have been looking forward to this year. Ughh, why does it have to be released on the last day of August?!

"Ice to see you, Samus."

:/

Just more stuff out of the demo that we've seen from two separate events so far.

I had hoped a week of Metroid videos from CVG would've been more enlightening, especially as close to release as we are.

God, does anyone else hate CVG's video player as much as I do, it's so ridiculously broken, doesn't let you nav back in the last page if you click View in HD, and never shows the video in the correct aspect ratio! I wants it dead and off the internet!

Anyway, on the OT, this is the game I'm looking forward to the most for the rest of the year pretty much, can't wait for some classic-like Metroid action.

I would prefer that they kept it a 2D scroller and had 8 way aiming like in the old titles, but this system looks smooth too, can't wait to try it out. ^_^

You know, I have probably seen at least a dozen different gameplay videos of this game by now, and I still have virtually no sense of how the bloody hell it plays.

You know, I have probably seen at least a dozen different gameplay videos of this game by now, and I still have virtually no sense of how the bloody hell it plays.

Prime series was great but after 3 games, its enough. This seems like a nice change of pace to say the least.

I very much don't like were this game is headed

It's seems like a failed attempt to bring metroid back to it's 2d roots. That's all well and good. Should you actually do a good job of it. The production company in charge of the Prime trilogy got it right. It was an experience like no other game I've ever played. I was samus, and I loved that, even more so when the wiimote got involved! This, on the other hand, is on a fast and furious track to getting it wrong.

Clunky looking gameplay. Looks to be pretty much stop-start; no flow, no excitement, no pressure.

Almost arcade like - not a good thing.

Trying to hard to to be reminiscent of franchise's 2D roots.

Too much of an Eastern Anime influence regarding the visuals. Metroid Prime's art-style was better suited IMO and less common. Blame Team Ninja and Nintendo SPD Production Group 1 who have never worked on a Metroid title before let alone a home console game for that matter [apart from a Warioware one that actually consists of a series of mini-games which aren't too different to those on DS Wario games. You can't really categorise it as proper console game IMO]. This will unavoidably impact the quality of the game. Their expertise is clearly Warioware games having developed 6 of them. Yes, that's right! 6 of them! This game will be a massacre. I would have prefered Nintendo to have developed a stylised 2D side-scroller than this mishmash of different styles of gameplay. What is going on at Nintendo? First, they develop a Twilight Princess/Windwaker aberration that is comparable to Cézanne squirting oil paints in water and thinking that they'll mix well. Worrying times...

3rd person switching sounds very restricting and makes the gameplay mechanics seem somewaht old-school. Not good then in the current video-game climate . They should have strived to make it more interactive, more of a unique experience for each gamer, but this game looks like a step backwards. Having this feature kills excitement to an extent and the action paced nature of the game so I expect the feel of Other M to be different to the Metroid Prime series.

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Team Ninja developed Metroid 2 for the original Game Boy, both Gameboy Advance Metroid titles [Metroid Fusion and
Metroid: Zero Mission]. They haven't even made a home console Metroid game. Considering that all the games I've mentioned are 2D platformers, credence must be given to the argument that Nintendo want Metroid to be more like the older games in this fresh re-boot series. I don't like the way Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption had more cartoony FMVs in comparison to the first game and I don't like this new artstyle if you can call it that. I'm not a realism addict, I just want some variety on the Wii. Young children are your target audience, we get it Nintendo, but show older people some love as well, you know?

Anyone who wants to argue over 'cartoony' graphics not necessarily meaning kid-friendly games are welcome to give their say.