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I recently beat Other M. After hearing about how horrible a game it is from the internet and then playing it myself, I fell as though I played an entierly different game. This is really bugging me so i'm putting my thoughts on it here. I can understand some complaints the game has. The game is incredably linear compared to preavious games. Getting upset over the cinematic style of the game I can understand. Having a franchise you grew up with get a sudden change in direction from past can get to you.(Glares at Xross Wars and Zexal ) But I liked it, the animations (attacs and finishers) were cool and the puzzles felt like past Metroids.

Now onto the story, this story seems to have been far more overanalyzed than it desreves it's just so cliche. The plot of the game the way I see it is this Samus interceps an emigancy signal and meets up with a Galactic Federation squad. From this we find out that Samus used to be in the federation. In this squad is Samus's former commander Adam and friend Anthony. Adam states that if Samus wants to join the mission that she has to follow his orders amd Samus must limit her use of weapons. Not so unreasonable this is a rescue mission so you't want any chance of your men or the people your here to rescue in any more danger. This also serves as a way to introduce the manditory power-ups to progress this has it's flaws like in the hell run. As things go a mystirous creature (which eventually becomes Ridely but i'll get to that later)show up and starts causing trouble and gets the other beasts rilled up. As you further explore the ship you see evidence of metroid victoms and members of the squard start dying. You eventually meet up with a blonde scientist who says that the Galactic Federation was using the ship to experement with biowaepons, super soilders, and an AI security system that was meant to controll them going haywire. She also tells you that one member of the squad is killing of the others. You eventually discover Sector Zero where Metroids have had there one weakness cold geneticaly removed. Adam jetisons Sector Zero allong with him self to make sure that thier destroid. As you head to the final area you encouter a red haired scientist who says that the Galactic Federation got Metroid DNA from the baby that they scraped off Samus. The only reason that the baby is mentioned is to get the Metroids back in the story. The red haired scientist goes on to say that in order to controll the super soilders and Metroids they needed a mother brain. To gain the ideal amount of control over the exparements they give the mother brain clone (MB) a human forme the blonde scientist. The red haired scientist and MB eventually forme a mother-daughter relation ship. However the other scientists begin to fear MB when they go to capture her red hair does nothing MB goes crazy and causes all the chaos in the bottle ship. so you fight a Queen Metroid then go and find red and run into her and MB they talk the GF renforcements show up. MB is killed Anthony turns out to be alive. Right before the Bottle Ship is to be destroid Samus returns one last time to get Adams helmet.

So onto other things starting off Samus and Adam. This relation ship seems to be massivle blown out of proportion it's one of respect between a commanding officer and a former student. The real conflict between the to seems to come from Adam willing to sacrfice a life, His own with jettesening Sector Zero and reveled in a flash back his little brother to save an entire colony of people. Versues Samus wanting to protect life, she disobeyed orders by not killing the baby Metroid which was later captured by the space pirates then killed and scraped off Samus by the GF and given to the Bottle Ship making this all kinda her fault. Now onto Ridley before I go into the PTSD thing after the first boss an odd chicken thing shows up and starts eating it's corpse. Samus wonders if this thing used her to get food. It did and it's Ridley. Now first off every thing else here is trying to kill me and this thing just used me. Brushing it of turns out to be a misstake senes it grows up to be Ridley and kill a few people. Onto Samus's freak out when she meets Ridley I have no problem if you don't like this me i see it as the space dragon that killed Samus's parents that she thought she killed just showed up again. I think it's fine if she's freaked out.

Well I hope I got that out of my system. If anyone want's to further discuss this I am up for it.

The Game startion podcast is something I occasionally listen to. I was going through a backlog of thier episodes and I came across this one. While I don't agree on many of the issues they discuss I believe that they brought up many things to talk about. Here is the link the point to really start listening is at 2:00:40.

So I found this gaming podcast the guys in it are very down to earth and realistic and it's a very nice show so here's the link. The link contains a video player and to the side the MP3 download link.

http://www.lordkat.c...ecord-loss.html

Why do you love video games? Post it here.

http://www.screwatta...ove-video-games

This pretty much sums it up for me if I think of any other reason why I love video games I'll post it.

I'm currently playing a JRPG and i have the option to get a big fire attack, a big water attack, a big wind attack and a stop all physical damage for three turns. I can only have two which two should I get.