Video: Metroid: Other M Cinematic Footage Trailer
Last week our own Pixel Poet ventured on over to a Nintendo's latest media summit to check out a batch of their upcoming titles, including Metroid: Other M developed by Team Ninja. When describing the game's cinematics as "outstanding," I guess I was hearing a nagging voice inside my head that shouted, "...yeah, for a Wii game maybe." Judging by this brief "cinematic footage trailer" I may been slightly unfair to the title.
It's really interesting to see how drastically different this title is shaping up to be. I'll admit that I was more than skeptical about Samus getting involved with the makers of Ninja Gaiden, but so far the results look encouraging. While the game seems a little heavy on plot, I like this trailer because it still gives the feeling that the woman featured in it (Samus?) is feeling the same type of loneliness and isolation that permeated Metroid 2 and Super Metroid. On top of that, the visuals seen here look fantastic, even if they aren't playable.
For a series well over 20 years old and 12 titles deep, it's refreshing to see that Nintendo is unafraid of taking pretty big risks with one of their biggest brands. In light of less than original content getting recycled on an annual basis, it makes me appreciate some of the riskier choices that Nintendo and company have made in regards to the series over the years.
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Posted to Video Games on 3 March 2010
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Remember when seeing samus or learning more about her took time and effort... yeah I long for those games. I hate spoon fed stories and emotion.
Ugh, Metroid: Other M is still my most anticipated game of the year, but with that haircut and if the whole story is going to have that much excessive melodrama I hope that there's a "skip cutscene" button.
I'm really excited about the game, but I dunno how I feel about Samus's new look. She looks like an anime character. Obviously the original Metroid games were all made in Japan, but I've always thought of it as sort of a western style game. The series has certainly always been more popular here, at least. So the extremely Japanese style art seems out of place to me.