Megaman 10 confirmed

[Ton]

tbh metroid doesn't even have a fucking plot
at least, to me, that is
samus is the most one-dimensional character ever imo and the story is total bullshit

haha
okay
well fuck prime 2 and 3
but

as far as metroid to fusion/zero mission are concerned, they have a p. alright plot nothing spectacular obviously
but thats not really what im going to talk about here
whats actually going to happen is
im going to write about 10 paragraphs about how the fact that samus as a character is "one-dimensional" is completely and totally the point of hte game


Samus, at the very least in the first three primary games, is supposed to be "one-dimensional"; she is supposed to act as an avatar for you to control and project yourself onto rather than a "cloud" or a "gordon freeman" or something like that. It's all part of that whole visual narrative/architecture thing I was talking about before, wherein the story of the game is the game itself rather than some superficial plethora of tacked on cutscenes and movies; later games slowly began to lose sight of that, though~


oops i only wrote one paragraph
well
whatever

Meh, not really an excuse. If you're going to have an engaging plot, you need your lead character to be engaging. It's fine for her to be "omgbobafettmysterious" but not if she's in the leading role. Which she is. Metroid is Nintendo's one franchise where they can go all-out with character exploration in a serious setting and they choose to make her as bland as Link, Mario, etc. It's a shame really.
If you have a lame character that the player can project his/her own personality onto you have the base protagonist that is absolutely the worst kind of protagonist you can have because the audience does all the work for you. It's wretchedly boring. Though Stephanie Meyers did that and made a bazillion dollars, so what do I know?