02-01-2010, 07:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2010, 07:30 PM by PrettyNier.)
i don't really mean from a storyline point of view, i mean the point of the games experience - what kind of feeling and emotion and atmosphere it's trying to convey
we assume that - but why? there's no dialogue or literal cutscene that points to that conclusion. no scene wherein samus in an attempt to bond with the metroid stands next to it and laughs an incredibly loud and fake laugh for several minutes until the both of them start actually laughing while everyone else stands and watches while feeling a mixture of revolsion and confusion.
the visual narrative of the game - the metroid follows her like a lost child when she rescues it, and she keeps it alive. Any actual feeling is actually YOUR feeling being placed onto samus. For all intents and purposes, samus could have been totally apathetic at the death of the metroid and simply got stronger because she absorbed his energy - yet, we read into these events. We see them and our own feelings bleed into them. We see the metroid as a child - OUR child - and it's death bothers us.
Quote:she looked to the Metroid in 3 as her own child more or lessthis is sort of the point, actually
we assume that - but why? there's no dialogue or literal cutscene that points to that conclusion. no scene wherein samus in an attempt to bond with the metroid stands next to it and laughs an incredibly loud and fake laugh for several minutes until the both of them start actually laughing while everyone else stands and watches while feeling a mixture of revolsion and confusion.
the visual narrative of the game - the metroid follows her like a lost child when she rescues it, and she keeps it alive. Any actual feeling is actually YOUR feeling being placed onto samus. For all intents and purposes, samus could have been totally apathetic at the death of the metroid and simply got stronger because she absorbed his energy - yet, we read into these events. We see them and our own feelings bleed into them. We see the metroid as a child - OUR child - and it's death bothers us.