Metroid: Other M for Wii Reviews by Gamers

Metroid Other M is an attempt to bring to light the inside of by far, one of their leading Heroines. Samus, fully voice acted appears to us as a real person, emotions, thoughts, and personality. But Samus seems to mush of a wuss compared to the stoicism of the Prime series, heck the whole series. Her constant narrations are not exactly stirring, interesting, or very heartfelt. she seems to be much less than what we expected, a compassionate, stoic, warrior of justice. her woeful flash backs, monologues, and narration may be somewhat upsided by her less frequent in game speech. When she isn't crying about her past, she actually is fairly competent and more... powerful sounding. but the narration of every cut scene keeps slapping a less appealing Samus in your face

Story laid aside, the game play of Metroid Other M let me emotionally drained, along with a thirst to play Metroid Prime 3. The exit from FPS game play interested me, and I was excited to follow a 3-D Metroid game. I couldn't be more disgusted. The game opens with a tutorial, a totally un-metroid characteristic. Metroid games have forever rewarded you with life and weapon refills after killing enemies. MOM has no pick-ups, leaving you to the mercy of a slow, unreliable "Focus" to refill missiles, and at critical stages, restore a smidgen of your life. Bosses made this impossible, as most of them relish in scooping you up and smashing you around, draining a whole energy tank. Sure, "sense-move" allows Samus to avoid attacks of most types, except grabs. Having to adhere to this system to survive anything beyond a zoomer is more than upsetting. You only get 2 new abilities. Everything else is authorized your CO. The feeling of successfully collecting a power up after a grueling boss is gone. The game even had the audacity to have terrible, droning and dark "Music'. No metroid brand beats at all!

I sure had my hopes up, and I was let down. Metroid may be gone forever unless things change fast. Lets hope so.