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I like Other M. It could have been better, definitely, like using a wiimote+nunchuck instead of just wiimote and it could have eased back to only Metroid Fusion levels of linearity. It was by no means a bad game, though.

 

Of course, it's the story that everybody rags on. While I will say that it was poorly executed, I think it had a lot of great ideas that unfortunately were not given the treatment they deserved. I also think it had the best portrayal of Ridley outside of the Zero Mission manga and the least boring version of Mother Brain in all of the games. And it had Anthony Higgs, too, who is probably the best new Metroid character since Rundas. And they were smart enough not to kill him off like they did with Rundas and the other hunters so he could still be used in the future.

 

What I'd like to see is a game with Prime style map design but with a third person perspective like in Other M. And with a story that is balanced so that it's not all scanning like in the Primes, but also not an obscene amount of cutscenes like in Other M. Also, they should let a writer write the story and give voice direction instead of a videogame developer. That way the story will be better executed and decent actresses won't be told to be monotone for no good reason.