All of those things you listed are subjective quantities.
Good night.
And 14-year-old logic strikes again. Bravo.
Seriously, if you want to play the opinion card, I can just end things at my opinion that Other M (story) supporters are rather dense and stupid. But since I find intelligent, evidence-based discussion enlightening, I'd prefer to go down that road. Your call.
And honestly, while the game's writing certainly left a lot to be desired, it wasn't that bad. It had its moments, even. Not exactly high praise but I can think of worse written games that people love.
I would love to see an example of a "worse-written," story-centric game that people love. This wouldn't include games that are badly translated, because there the pieces that make up the events of the story can still be very tight.
Here it is:
"The games that I've been involved with in the Metroid series have been on the NES, GameBoy, Super NES and the GBA. I actually didn't have a lot of input on the Prime series. But when they're doing with Other M here, it's not so much a different universe, it's just a different part of the story. You can't say that there's no relation here; it's probably best to think of them as being in parallel in this world."
He's not saying that they're not canon, just divorced from the main story.
Which we've known since Prime 1 came out.
Yep.
Looks to me like people are pretty much making stuff up completely to try and villify a poor chap who's probably a perfectly decent guy just because he made one game they don't like, despite the many good ones.
Goddamn, when did we get an Other M defense force around here? It's a poorly-received game with a universally abhorred story that no one takes seriously, and watching the full theater mode for the first time only confirms these criticisms. It's baffling.
As for your comment, Sakamoto's clearly saying that the Prime games take place within a separate timeline, i.e. not canon.
And don't get me started on the treatment George Lucas gets! The man makes a few iffy edits (and a few good ones) and suddenly he is the devil.
RedLetterMedia. Just... RedLetterMedia. I feel that any credence Prequel apologists may have once had was crushed with those films. Lucas is a terrible writer and director, but a great businessman.
[By the way, I didn't realize that all the posts I was planning to respond to came from the same person. Thanks for being a contrarian, LS!]
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