Metroid: Other M

[a babyass man]

i genuinely can't decide how i feel about this game

i mean it's a good game sometimes but the story progression in the game is so fucked up and convoluted it almost seems like an afterthought, the voice acting is INCREDIBLY boring and the cutscenes are a little longwinded, and on more than one occasion samus will kill a boss and then narrate everything that happened in the boss fight and the cutscene before it, in case you forgot the last five minutes i guess

the gameplay itself is a lot better than what i was expecting, but a lot of the combat is based around the same "dodgeroll, charge shot, dodgeroll, chargeshot" mechanic. the exploration is kinda still in but i definitely get a sense of the same railroad-y ONE OPTION ONLY vibe that i got from metroid: fusion and metroid prime 3

also i loved a lot of the bits that were pretty blatant fan-service, a certain boss from metroid: fusion shows up late in the game out of fuckin nowhere and offers no explanation for himself, and the final two bosses are really great.

and maybe coming from playing the prime trilogy straight into other m was a bad idea, i hadn't been following other m as closely as others and was expecting a good 10-15 hours of gameplay, and was a little disappointed when the credits rolled around the six hour mark, and i don't think other m has much for a new game+ mode