And bear with me here: Samus has large hips and small breasts for a video game character. In “Other M,” we see behind the mask and outfit in many cinematic scenes. While portraying her, we just ran forward, scanning rooms for evil lurkers, then shot them to bits. But in previous “Metroid Prime” games, we didn’t see her face or body, or hear her voice or story. The feminist rub is, we portray Samus - a woman who is not dressed like a hussy, and who outwardly stands up against a pandering, male military system, literally turning her thumb down against a male commander (and romantic interest) who gives her orders. In “Metroid: Other M,” we portray a supersoldier (a bounty hunter, actually) in outer space, blowing away evil beings who are bent on power or anarchy. In America, it sold 173,000 units in September, though “less than half a million” by November of the same year, which was far below what Nintendo was anticipating.You don’t get to call a gun-filled, action video game “feminist” or “matronly” every day. It sold 50,000 copies in two weeks in Japan and was the third-best-selling game the week of its release. But the plot and the characterization have people split, with more people hating it than liking it.Ĭommercially, the game was either a raging success or a limp flop, depending on your region. And a lot of people would agree: it looks very pretty (especially for a Wii game) and the music is very good and all that jazz. Critics praised the graphics, music, atmosphere, controls, and just the whole general feel of the game. All we knew about Samus, as a character, up to that point, was that she liked to leave exotic planets by blowing them up.Ĭritical reception of the game was extremely polar after the game came out. We were promised an engaging storyline taking us further into Samus as a character ground that had never been tread before. The game looked gorgeous, the audio was great, and the gameplay looked…different, but doable. Metroid: Other M was first announced at E3 2009, to much hype and high expectations. The guy actually has a pretty extensive repertoire for Nintendo games. He also supervised each of the Metroid Prime games. It was developed, published, and written by a long-haired Japanese hippy named Yoshio Sakamoto, a man who also directed every Metroid game excluding the original NES game (I incorrectly state that he had in the first video) and Metroid II: Return of Samus. It was the first Japan-made Metroid game since Zero Mission, and was developed by a group calling themselves “Project M”, consisting of members from Nintendo, Team Ninja (Dead or Alive, Ninja Gaiden), and D-Rockets (cutscenes). That’s right! Metroid: Other M was released for the Nintendo Wii in North America on August 31st, 2010.
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