I rolled my eyes so often that I developed vertigo. To spoil absolutely nothing, you’ll hear about government conspiracies, vengeful AIs, cloning, and genetic manipulation. The story quickly spirals out of control, throwing every tired sci-fi cliché in a blender. During the course of the game’s story you will see many references to Fusion so many, in fact, that you’ll begin to wonder whether Sakamoto gave the Team Ninja developers copies of that 2002 GBA game and said “make a 3D version of this.” Of course, the new kids on the block are Adam Malkovich and his squad of Galactic Federation soldiers, who are (supposedly) responding to the same distress signal that caused Samus herself to alter course. Other M takes place on the Bottle Ship, a biological research space station that bears an uncanny resemblance to Metroid Fusion’s BSL research station. We’ll get to that in a minute, but first, let’s talk about this newest game in Samus’s long-running adventures. And the more I thought about the story and the pacing of Other M, famously lambasted by other media outlets, I came to realize that, really, none of us should be surprised by the direction the series has gone. And what I found was wonderful, so I have to try this review again. So, I binned the old review and played some more.
The next day, however, I sat down with it again and discovered that, bizarrely, it actually improves immensely once you load up your completed game. I beat Metroid: Other M on Saturday night and instantly sat down to write a very negative, raw, emotional review of what had turned out to be a very disappointing game.
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