Metroid: Other M "In Retrospect" - Part One
The transcript...more or less:
I recently looked up the article on Samus Aran on Wikitroid and discovered something that really bugged me and has me both confused and concerned. It might have been nothing, I could be making a big deal out of nothing, after all, but here it is. At the top of the article, there was a box that read:
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If you don't like the way Sakamoto handled Other M, you don't just not like the way he handled Other M, you don't like the way he handled any of the prior games he made. He just happened to be limited in the way he could present his vision of Metroid by the NES/SNES/weaker handheld hardware. The Wii has enough graphical power/space on the disk/so on to let him present Metroid - the way it always has been to him - on a fuller level.
Maybe instead of the USSR analogy, a divorce via the Catholic Church [Catholic not in terms of religion, just policy].
Metroid, Super Metroid, Fusion and Zero Mission can represent whatever stages of dating/engagement/marriage/fucking/etc. you like during your marriage to Perfect Girl X, with Other M the divorce because she went insane and it turns out she had an affair and also just tried to kill you whoops. The Catholic Church does not accept 'she suddenly went insane' as a justification for divorce, because of the "for better or for worse." Neither do I accept 'Sakamoto suddenly went insane he made good games one minute and the next he put out Other M'.
Rather, the Catholic Church accepts the argument (well, on a more complex level but alright) "oh, you did not know Perfect Girl X was actually unfaithful, insane, etc. but the fact is she was always unfaithful, insane, etc." That is, even if she was Perfect Girl X on the first day you started dating her, the Perfect was not true, she was just Girl X, and you meant to marry Perfect Girl X, not Girl X. With that basis, the argument is made that your marriage to Girl X was never valid, so the church doesn't actually 'divorce' anyone as much as say the marriage never existed, was never valid.
Perfect Girl X was never Perfect Girl X, her infidelity is symptomatic of her imperfection rather than an effect of a sudden change, so the marriage was invalid. My argument is then this: Sakamoto never made good games, Other M is symptomatic of the fact he is a terrible video game designer rather than an effect of a sudden change, so Metroid was never a good series.
And by extension, the fact so many video game franchises have taken a turn for the worse isn't just that they are now bad, but rather they were always bad. And it's a terrible post-modern medium, hence.....
it's just video games, bro
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Did you listen/read the interview I put in my video? He stated the question quite clearly.
He's made what he wants to make...
And what he made sucks. Hence, my review.
If you don't like the way Sakamoto handled Other M, you don't just not like the way he handled Other M, you don't like the way he handled any of the prior games he made...
What makes you think I've liked or disliked *any* of his games? What makes you think I've even played all his games?
Sakamoto never made good games,
Fusion was a good game. Sakamoto made that.
Other M is symptomatic of the fact he is a terrible video game designer rather than an effect of a sudden change, so Metroid was never a good series...
So, because one game in a series is bad, therefore the rest are bad?
And by extension, the fact so many video game franchises have taken a turn for the worse isn't just that they are now bad, but rather they were always bad. And it's a terrible post-modern medium, hence...it's just video games, bro
So, when you say "it's just video games" you actually mean "all video games are bad because they've always been bad" ?
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