Me and a friend rented a copy of Metroid: Other M near launch day. Giddy with anticipation, we plopped down near the awesome 1080p definition capable television where we proceeded to carefully insert the disk. I was sadden to discover that there wasn't any definition settings to heighten the pure ecstasy that we were about to plunge ourselves into.
My friend soon lost interest in it, but I kept going through with it like a man on a mission. I was terribly confused at why they would choose such a terrible way to exert Samus's personality on us since the bland and mono dialogue was doing absolutely nothing for me.
Everything looked fantastic, except the difficulty was frustratingly easy to where I began falling into sleeping cycles while playing. I advanced through the plot, one segment after another. Dismayed to continue any further, I finally got up to the point where Adam and Samus reunite near the lab.
I heard all of these wonderful things with how there's a new type of experimental metroid species that is immune to frost and highly dangerous. I was pumped, ready to go, and then he gets the retarded idea to leave Samus behind with the rest of the Bottle Ship as the space lab slowly drifted off into the unknown. I began to cry, not at Adam's brave sacrifice, but how the game trolled me into thinking that it would live up to the standards that I wanted it to.
Running hastily through the corridors of the ship to escape the breaking segments, I soon later arrive at the end of the game where I met that strange girl that strangely belonged with the Dead or Alive series, given her attractive appearance and the idea of her belonging in a bikini. Many cut-scenes later, the game ends. No self-destruct sequence, no conclusive boss, no reasonable or unforgettable plot either. My heart was broken.
I discovered shortly after that I could continue the game, even after it was finished. Surely, I found another boss as a sort of "consolation prize for being trolled". It was Phatoom which made me happy. The very last thing that I did was picking of Adam's helmet. It then initiated a self destruct sequence and I was like,
BWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I picked up a helmet and it triggered the self-destruct sequence. I understand that they were going to blow up the ship after she finished any needed business there, but this? Bullcrap, they're just trying to give fan service where it doesn't have any effect in this pile of a terrible sequel.
Yet, this one awful game hasn't torn down my positive attitude towards the series. At least I can still enjoy Metroidvania every once in a while to pretend it's a sequel.
