So everything went absolutely according to plan. It was just a bad plan.

Happy the release of the new What Happened was authorized.

My absolute favorite story about this game is how Sakamoto tried to appeal to the Japanese demographic by making Samus more submissive, but instead just left her Japanese fans disappointed about how she was made "too normal."

"From Adam's stern expression, constant swearing, and repeated kicks to my face and stomach, I had a feeling he was upset about something."

Sorry, Matt, I REALLY wanna thumbs-up this episode of Wha Happun? (especially with how long I've been waiting for you to cover Other M), but I'm afraid Adam hasn't authorized the use of the Like button yet.

Other: M is a kind of sobering story for this show. "sometimes the game is just bad even when everything goes right."

> "One of my goals is to present Samus as am appealing human character" >Proceeds to make Samus Aran, one if not the first female videogame protagonist and badass bounty hunter, into a whiny, senpai-driven girl. Good job!

It's so weird because seeing Dread today, which has the same director, the tree house team even talked about how cool Samus was and how she was unflinching.

From now on, any time I Google something, I will be exclaiming SEARCH ACTION!

I have mixed feelings about Other M, but one segment I'll never defend were the moments the game forced you into first-person mode, to look around one screen until you found one teeny-tiny thing you needed to scan... for me, it was finding a drop of GREEN BLOOD IN A GRASS FIELD!

Dread ended up being a really great response to the insane characterization of Other M. Very subtle with how it characterized her and actually made her likeable and strong. They pulled it off.

I'll never forget how a local gaming magazine in my country did a review of this game that gave it the highest score possible, claiming "we finally have a Metroid entry where Samus is human and independent, instead of previous entries where she was nothing more than a generic heroine who depends on men to save her". Every few months, I remember that article and wonder if the author just spent two pages on a joke. I hope that's what it was and he wasn't this much of an idiot.

Imagine one day miyamoto wakes up and says: "I want to give mario a backstory"

They say time heals all wounds. They lied. I still get just as angry when I think about what this game did to Samus as when I first experienced it.

"We have this really cool, strong, silent protagonist lady who, in several games has demonstrated almost 0 fear in over a decade of games. What should we do?" "Well... we could have her break down in tears at the sight of the enemy she has canonically fought without flinching 2 or 3 times by now, need permission from a man to use her abilities that she already has and be mega baby crazy." "Hm. Yes. Yes, that will do nicely."

I've always been of the belief that they never needed to use Adam to restrict Samus' abilities. They had a ready-made story explanation from the end of Super Metroid. All they had to do was say, "Hey Samus? Your previous encounter with Mother Brain compromised some of your abilities, and now you're back to square-one." There, I just fixed half the problems with Other M with ONE sentence.

I remember when this came out. Reviewers seemed so heartbroken or angry when they talked about the story. It was fascinating to watch.

Surprised that Samus' face while she was scared by Ridley wasn't used for the thumbnail.

It's almost scary to think that this game was in development for like 3 years, and not one person pointed out that literally everything is a bizarre baffling decision.

The fact that Matt says ‘appealing human character’ while almost bursting out laughing says it all really.

"Adam Malkovich" is my favorite Nintendo franchise. I hate that it lags behind Mario and Zelda. I can't wait for "Adam Prime (Rare, 2022)" to come out, where all we get is a 5-minute cutscene of Samus crying and saying "the baby..."

Oh man. So, my knowledge at the time (Well, a little while after the fact) was that almost everything in the game was more or less Yoshio Sakamoto's fault in a rare case where you actually can point at one person, since they had something of an iron fist approach to the game's development - even down to dictating that Samus' voice actor ignore her own training and experience with English voice acting, which resulted in Samus being so robotic and monotone, and constantly rejecting various ideas from the games' composer which led to them more or less giving up and saying "I don't know what you want me to do." I wonder if that really was the case or if that was mostly internet hearsay accepted as fact. Edit: Yeah, that's pretty much true.

Other M stands as perfect proof that when it comes to character writing, sometimes less can be more. Prime never had Samus talk and kept cinematics to a minimum, but Samus' body language gave alot of small insight into her thought process. It's little things like holding her gun on someone for the entire time he meets the Luminoth and in the same game, that non-chalant wave back to them when the job was done. What's more tragic is that Sakamoto's team did actually treat the character respectfully with spoken writing in Fusion. They were generally very smart about it. She was portrayed as you'd expect. Very direct, very no-nonsense, it wasn't shakespear, but it translated her stoic silence we'd gotten for the longest time (barring some narration in Super) to a spoken format in a way that you can understand. Other M makes the mistake of assuming that Samus is a blank canvas when she wasn't. While minimal, her identity was very much defined by the little undertones. Besides her body language, we knew that she was; - Trained by Chozos as a warrior, meaning a strict and diciplined childhood. - Seems to consistently pursue both the killer of her parents and the legacy of her fostering Chozos, implying she values those families. - Ex-Federation, currently bounty-hunter. A loose cannon that doesn't like doing things by the books and maybe has issues with the government. - Above all else, *solitary.* This "baby" she rambles about in OM is something she was willing to sell to get disected in a lab for the convenience and probably meaty paycheck. Even in all of her monologuing in Fusion, she never feels lonely or discontent by the isolation in her life, when an AI she doesn't even know is sentient until the very end is enough to fill that void. These were the recipe they had to go with for Samus' character and while some of that they follow up on select elements of those, go about it in the most myopic and simplistic method available. It shows Sakamoto as more of a game designer over writer.

Metroidvanias are now Search Action and Roguelikes are now Die-'Em-Ups

So, funny thing to unpack here. Years before Other M, there was a prequel manga that supposedly led up to the game. If I recall correctly, Samus was barely stopped from murdering an alien slaver. When Adam talked to her later, he said, “You’re one of the greatest warriors I’ve ever seen. But never forget you’re also a lady.” In THAT context, the use of “Lady” as a nickname was a reminder to Samus to keep a cool head in the worst situations.

"There are some bad games that are bad because they fail in what they set out to do, and then there are those that are bad because they succeed." - Yahtzee Croshaw

Metroid Dread came along last year, and it's just BEAUTIFUL. It was a Metroid game everyone really wanted for YEARS

Sakamoto must've learned quite a bit from Other M's consumer reaction, because Metroid Dread ended up being one of the best 2D Metroid games since Super Metroid. Fusion and Zero Mission were good too, don't misunderstand.

(Inhales) The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby The Baby

The worst part of Other M was that Anthony Higgs only got 30 minutes max of screentime. I mean, come on, Anthony is the best character in the game and deserved better than that.

"Sticking to your guns despite many, many opinions to the contrary" I dunno, I'd much rather hear something that sounded like honest reflection. Like, okay, I get it - you saw your "vision" through to the end, I totally believe that. But maybe a bit of reflection on why it was so poorly received would be in order?

Still find it hilarious that they were so focused on telling a story, and ended up making something with so many retcons that it contradicts every other Metroid game in the series. Its not even just a bad script in this game, its a bad script that makes every other Metroid game worse!

In a brutal turn of fate, that “Remember me?” triggered a flurry of my own nostalgic memories of SomethingAwful and /v/ not remembering that guy

Something that I think a lot of people either don't know or keep forgetting is that Gunpei Yoko was heavily involved in the development of the first three Metroid games. The series has never been the same since he parted.

Samus here is basically your typical Anime waifu trope character. Submissive, hot and waiting for approval of a male figure to feel empowered. It's kinda sad, it's like turning Doomguy into a cry baby.

A What Happened of Metroid Prime would definitely be an enjoyable one because EVERYONE thought it was going to be shit. Leading up to it, everyone thought it was capitalizing on Halo, and wouldn't have any traditional exploration elements and would just be a linear FPS. It was about as controversial as Wind Waker's art style reveal.

Perfect missed opportunity to talk about the complete throwaway character in this game named Ian who existed for maybe 2 minutes in a cutscene that comes out of nowhere, that serves no purpose except to characterize Samus and Adam. And also dies.

it's kind of sad to think that other m is just how sakamoto sees and intends us to see samus.

Other M would have been less of a problem if it was the first game in the timeline. That way, Samus' regression as a character would be wayyyy more tolerable, as it wouldn't be regression, it would be *progression* in a timeline sense. As she goes from being a scared, moody newbie who needs permission to do anything, to the fearless bounty hunter we see in her other appearances.

For once, the publisher didn’t interfere But this time, they probably should have

You should cover Crash Twinsanity for a Wha Happun, it has all the ingredients for an episode

Yoshio Sakamoto: I want to develop Samus as a character. Me: That’s good. Yoshi: (Introduces authorizations) Me: That’s bad.

"I'm burning alive! I need to activate the suit that keeps me from dying." "Nah. You haven't progressed in the story enough."

I’m so glad Metroid wasn’t killed at Other M. We now have Metroid Dread in October, and Prime 4 on the way as well. Just, no more character destruction, please Sakamoto

Hey, remember the sweet-ass, quasi-military deep lore of both the Galactic Federation Marine Corps and the Space Pirates? Remember all the awesome established technologies and hierarchies and histories lovingly hand-crafted by Retro Studios? Well guess what, we threw that all away just to make Samus the most cliché, boring, predictable and unsatisfying character ever. The agonizing thing is, the prime games had a thousand times more story and lore than Other M. It's just that most of it was optional, requiring the use of the scan visor. The scan visor in itself was sorta revolutionary, it allowed the player to take in all the huge amount of info in the game at their own time, and also served the function of providing guidance to the player. In my opinion, metroid prime was doing "environmental storytelling" far earlier than the Souls games, and in an arguably even larger scale. So much of the world can be scanned for little tidbits of information. For people who love diving deep into lore and details, it was paradise.

IIRC, Yoshio Sakamoto got burthurt that some studio in Texas made a good Metroid game and demanded he be allowed to make one. It was bad.

Oh goodness, knowing that Sakimoto was completely behind everything in this game just feels so wrong. He's alright with Samus going into shock after seeing Ridley for the 6th time in her life. He's alright with Samus being bossed around by some guy for the whole game. He's alright with these long and droning cutscenes. Bleugh.

Honestly, what hurts the most is that this whole mess COULD have worked if they just, ya know, made it a prequel and explore Samus's past like he said he wanted to. Then things like the authorization, her character, the whole Ridley shit, and just everything is at least a lot easier to stomach. But no, instead we get this trainwreck that is constantly shoved in our face like "This is your Metroid now"

What Happened: Earthbound 64

You, a smooth brain: "Search action" Me, an intellectual: "Backtracktion"

Apparently, Sakamoto is a genius when it comes to designing a game with little to no story that relies almost entirely on gameplay to draw in and satisfy the player. I mean, I love the Wario Wares, the Rhythm Heavens, and Tomodachi Life, but "story" is not in any way a draw for any of those games (See also: Super Metroid). The mechanics and gameplay of those games is just pure fun and satisfaction. I can understand that it probably feels like some sort of cheat or scam to him as an "Artist" to have failed so mightily at his attempts at telling Metroid's deeper story, but some people's artistry isn't meant for or bolstered by traditional storytelling means. Most long-time gamers know: An amazing story can be told entirely through game mechanics; someone just needs to tell Sakamoto that.

As it turns out, when you take a character that's largely viewed as a strong badass, it's *probably* a bad idea to turn him/her into an emotional trainwreck that depends on someone else for everything. Shocking, I know!

Classic case of the creator not understanding what people liked about their creation. It's extra sad when you realize that this man invented a genre, that he doesnt understand...

Great video. But I won't lie, learning that the creator of my most hated game is completely blind to how awful it is is rather soul crushing.

The thing is, the Prime games had a pretty good way of implementing its story, setting details, and background lore. Being able to scan items in the environment such as computers or ruins to get mostly-optional info tidbits let you learn all sorts of things without the games having to rely on clunky dialog or lengthy exposition. It's the same style of story-via-journals style that had become popular in some other games, but with the added benefit that it actually made sense and didn't rely on people recording diary entries as they're being ripped apart by monsters.

Friendly reminder that when Nintendo recently did a promo for Metroid Dread, they spotlighted people to play Zero Mission, Samus Returns, Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion. That's it.

that random shot of Zach Braff reminded me of the golden era of inviting random celebrities to tech events and making them give some of the most painful interviews of all time

Basically: He added that "little bit" of what was going on inside Samus's head into Fusion, which is why Fusion is an amazing game. He then added a metric shitload more into Other M, which is why that game is a steaming pile of horse manure. He was trying to do the things that he thought was the selling point of 2D games in 3D, in the first such game he made. And that almost never works.

8:50 I would argue that a game featuring a look inside Samus' head could be a good thing. Hell, as the series has gone on (since Prime 2 at least) and more characters have been introduced that also talk, it's stranger that Samus _doesn't_ talk or have some sort of narration (this also applies to Link as the Zelda series has gone on but that's a different can of worms for a different video/comment section). Even discounting the comics, a lot of her actions show a lot of different character traits that could be explored, like how she's supposedly a bounty hunter but she takes a lot of pro bono work that ends up saving the universe, or hell, the very simple fact that she has alien-bird DNA and an exosuit from a dead civilization! That's something you can build on! A story in Samus' head is a great idea... it's just too bad Other M was that story.

I have never played a bad Metroid game. Then again I've never played Other M.

5:19 "A rare gap" *zooms into DK's cheeks* was enough to make even Matt laugh 😂

I can't think of any other game where the story actively harms the gameplay so much. Having to go through heat zones without the Varia Suit because daddy Adam didn't say it was okay, getting upgrades right when you need them instead of being able to learn how they work first in an item room or something, fights where you just flub about until it's said that you can actually use the boss' weakness...It's bizarre. Worst of all, Samus. It's not shown in this video, but Samus literally has a mental breakdown when Ridley shows up, despite having blown him to bits multiple times by now, let alone blowing apart multiple other things. What? Why? Every scene has her either being extremely whiny, or extremely emotionless. Up to the point where Daddy Adam has to save her from a Metroid. Y'know, THE THINGS SHE HAS BEEN KILLING COUNTLESS NUMBERS OF. Even now, I don't think the Metroid franchise will ever recover.

I feel like a middle-aged mother towards Other M. I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. So many cool ideas on expanding the Metroid lord and Samus as a character were mired in contradiction and insanity. For every neat idea, there were two others that tarnished what Metroid was at its core.

This is the timeline split. If you save the animals, Metroid: Fusion happens. If you don't save the animals, Metroid: Other M happens.

This was one of those times I saw the thumbnail and instinctively went, out loud: “oh yeah what *did* happen with that?!?!”

Sakamoto was never a good writer IMO, yes the story of Super Metroid is effective but it’s extremely simple, most of the atmospheric work wasn’t done by him. Sakamoto finally got a chance to create an in-depth story and he fumbled it so badly that he should never be allowed touch the series again or he’ll kill it completely.

Honestly, when the worst or most controversial game of a series is on the level of Other M, you can start to grasp the incredible quality of the Metroid series.

The fact that Samus has more personality in Metroid Prime, a game where she doesn't speak and relies entirely on body language and the rare facial cue, says something. If you ignore the storyline aspects of Other M, it isn't completely horrible, but oof, what we got out of the writing was absolutely abysmal.

I think Paper Mario sticker star would be a great episode in what happened.

So basically, complete director-to-audience disconnect.

One theory I heard from Geek Critique is that Other M was originally supposed to be a prequel, but was changed into a Super Metroid sequel for some reason. In the context of a prequel, many of the more troublesome elements of Samus's characterization make more sense. She wouldn't be an outside bounty hunter, but a new recruit to the squad. Adam isn't her client, but her commanding officer, which makes her subservience to his commands more justified. Of course she'd be bratty and emotional, because she isn't an experienced bounty hunter yet, just a young woman who is starting to become independent. Her fear of Ridley is more justified too, since it would be their first meeting since he killed her parents, not the 10th time she's beaten him. The story would probably have been much better received if it had been a prequel. It would have been perfect for an origin story, but they fucked it up.

Coming back here after Metroid Dread is such a trip because the Dread team absolutely nailed Samus in dread all they had to do was create the textbook definition of a Stone Cold Badass

Greasy Tommy Wiseau hair is some kind of curse for creatives apparently.

That "SCENE" in this game still angers me to this day.

The fact that around 1 year later from this video we’d get one of the best Metroid games to date announced is amazing.

Hooray for Dread, since this game is no longer the most recent original game that wasn’t in the main series.

This was my first Metroid game, and I liked it back then. Now, after playing much more of the series, I understand the issues in it

I think the best way to get Metroid back on track is to make a truly awesome, heavily stylized Doom-like FPS on Switch but still keep the aspect of finding new gadgets to pass through different areas with. It would be sick.

Sakamoto: I want to give Samus a deep character. We're going to spend all the time in her head and go over every nitty gritty detail that will end up making you dislike her by the end. She is going to obsess over a baby metroid and Adam's going to be a dick to her, yet despite me saying she speaks out against him, she sure as hell doesn't act like it Fans: Understandably upset that this is not in character to how they've imagined Samus Sakurai, a God writing SSE: Samus saves a Pikachu after seeing him used as a battery. The develop a bond, and without arguing with him, they fight together through the research facility and later Pikachu saves her from Ridley. Fans: This is literally so in character we're still going to make art of Samus owning a Pikachu in vague Smash-related content to this day

>Passion project game doesn't sell well >ends up no longer involved in any more games he helped create... Ouch...that seems kinda har- >feels they did NOTHING wrong Keep an eye on this guy...

3:09 Oh man, that’s one of the best tracks from SA2

PlayStation AllStars Battle Royale or that DC Comics MOBA called Infinite Crisis would both make for great episodes.

Matt im loving the new intro, im glad youve kept pushing wha happun to bigger and better heights.

Just for fun, I'm gonna try my hand at scripting an exchange between Samus and that "remember me?" space marine that makes Samus more appealing and natural-sounding than Other M, without straying from how other games in the series portray her. Indulge me for a moment. (Arriving in a new area of the game after defeating a boss, Samus takes a moment to sit on some wreckage and remove her helmet, having confirmed the air to be breathable. She spots something in the environment that shows her reflection. She takes a moment to look at herself, her eyebrows raising in what appears to be surprise, before a content smile forms on her face. At that moment, the marine catches up with her.) Marine: "...Huh. I didn't peg you for the type to care all that much about your appearance." Samus: (a look of irritation crosses her face for a brief moment before returning to a neutral expression) "I'll ignore the implied insult. Normally, you'd be right, anyway. Being that these missions typically see me spending several hours encased in a metal suit, I usually have neither a reason nor time to put much effort into my physical appearance." Marine: "Sorry, sorry. So why the sudden interest now?" Samus: "It's less out of a sense of vanity and more out of a sense of...discomfort. To put it colloquially, my reflection weirds me out." Marine: "...I don't see anything wrong with it." Samus: "That's the problem. Despite my aforementioned lack of reason and time to care for my appearance, I--" (She turns to look at the Marine, then toward the ground, looking unsure of herself as she hesitates. The marine waits for her to continue, and soon enough her eyes meet his once more) "...Disregarding your own taste in women, you would consider me _conventionally_ attractive. True or false?" Marine: "...I get the feeling this question only has one right answer." Samus: "Heh...Maybe so. I haven't tried asking this before. Answer me, true or false?" Marine: (He stays silent for a moment, eyes avoiding Samus' to show his discomfort with being put on the spot) "...Fine, true." Samus: "I agree. I'd say I'm...at least an eigh--" Marine: "Ten." Samus: "...Thank you. Very well, I'm a ten. My point is, I'm not sure why that is. I've just spent the last several hours performing physically strenuous activities in high-risk situations. I should be soaked in sweat, hair matted to my face, and have bags under my eyes, at minimum. And yet, when I look at my reflection, I appear, if I may say so, downright immaculate. All I've done today and shower and tie my ponytail to keep my hair out of the way in the suit." Marine: "...Alright, now that you mention it, that _is_ pretty weird. Although, come to think of it, you're not 100% human, right?" Samus: "Correct, I--" (She pauses and gives the marine a disapproving look) "I'm beginning to notice a consistent lack of tact on your part. Try to work on that." Marine: "Ooh! RIght, sorry..." Samus: "The only conclusion I can derive is that the Chozo DNA in my genes provides me with some comparatively mundane health benefits, in addition to the physical capabilities the Federation valued me so much for." Marine: "Maybe. I'd say you should try to get the science boys to run some tests, but good luck getting them to care about anything about you that doesn't have to do with winning fights." Samus: (She stays silent for a moment, then puts her helmet back on and stands up.) Marine: "...Guess I said something insensitive again. Sorry." Samus: "It's alright. I need that reminder sometimes. That people in the Federation see me as a weapon first and a woman second...if at all."

I saw this in my notifications and my immediate thought was “oh god..”

I recently heard someone's tinfoil hat conspiracy fan theory that this Samus is actually a clone created by the Federation and this is one big test run to gauge her abilities. If someone in the Federation is willing to experiment with bioweapons, what's stopping them from playing with the DNA of a woman whose genetic makeup is partly that of a forgotten alien race? It'd explain the contradicting lore (artificially implanted memories), her lack of emotional maturity, why she can't do anything without authorization, and why she's so damn short. Seriously, Samus is canonically 6'3" and here she's about 5'2".

You have got to be one of the hardest working people on KZfaq. I have no idea how you manage to put out a quality video every day. Keep it up!

the major problem is they put the story after super metroid where she at that point literally a veteran bounty hunter now if they put the story before zero mission it will be make her ptsd and childish act will make sense but of course because zero mission is her first mission so they cant put it before zero mission

I find it hilarious that they want to develop Samus as a character, while Samus has already been developed pretty well through atmosphere and subtle storytelling

And now we have DREAD...All hail the return of the Queen!

3:23 is the music that starts here the Bio Lizard theme from Sonic Adventure 2? It fits Metroid so well its crazy.

Do you know why Mario and Link were silent during their recent games? Because it’s extremely difficult to transition a silent protagonist to a speaking one.

"Husky"? Don't be so hard on yourself, you're just big boned.

Samus Aran ft. DA BABY - Other M's (Millions)

Honestly any time I stopped and wondered what was going on inside Samus' head I imagined it was similar to what was going on inside my head. "Okay, where am I? How do I get here? Time to kick butt" It's kinda immersive like that. She's discovering and understanding this world at the same rate I am

If you need evidence as to why the story in this game is like mouldy cheese, let me point you to the end of Metroid 2 on the game boy. The last Metroid hatched from an egg and doesn’t immediately latch onto Samus like other Metroids, but rather sees her like a mother - And flies around her. Together they exit planet sr388, the infant chewing at crystals in their way to help who it believed to be its mother get to the surface. This is incredible visual storytelling... Now compare it to other m... eww.

Top of Drake meme: Nintendo Direct Mini Bottom of Drake meme: Metroid: Other M Wha Happun?

“The baby is the key to all of this, if we can just get the baby working, cuz it’s a funnier character than we’ve ever had before.”

12:57 "A sense of DREAD and isolation Metroid was known for."

God, that quote "ultimate female hero" at 8:07 really grinds my gears. It's no surprise to me that they ended up with such a terrible characterisation for Samus if that's what they were going with. The problem I see is that they're trying to project/create a personality for a character who had been silent up until that point and their foundation for that personality was that she's female. If you really think about Samus, you realise that she's a lot like Ripley from Alien (which I assume is no coincidence): it wouldn't change too much if she were a man even though her being a woman is an iconic part of the character. I think this is part of what makes Samus and Ripley work, even if it's not necessarily the most ground-breaking thing ever. They're women and the fact that they are doesn't contradict the fact that they're badasses. Obviously it shouldn't and it usually doesn't. It's a bit sad that such a simple idea is considered so amazing, but I digress. The problem is that trying to force a personality on Samus with just "she's a girl" in your head is going to lead to the problem we see so often with the "Strong Female Character" trope. As we saw, she ended up being both headstrong and emotionally-unstable, stubborn yet meek, obsessed with feminine things like motherhood *and* a stone cold badass who focuses on the job. The problem is obvious: as the only major female protagonist the writers/director wanted to do everything at once with her and none of it worked. There was no room for originality or anything interesting about her because it was lost underneath a sea of shitty assumptions and sexist bs. Her relationship with Adam is the prime aspect here: this guy controls her to the point of abuse and yet the game frames their relationship as romantic and bittersweet. He literally watches her almost cook to death before allowing her to activate the Varia suit, he doesn't let her use basic functions of her suit to save herself *and he shoots her in the back when a dangerous alien is floating above her head ready to strike.* And to top it off, he takes away her free choice to complete the mission her way by sacrificing himself. So they wanted to make the "ultimate female hero" but in doing so they turned a stoic warrior into the victim of abuse and had her abuser steal her thunder at the end and then had the audacity to write that off as a romantic gesture? I'm angry for her, it legitimately makes me so mad how badly they screwed with her characterisation. It makes me fantasise about a world where a woman or *at least* a non-sexist man is allowed to write for Samus. Wouldn't that make sense? If Samus is Nintendo's most iconic female protagonist, shouldn't a woman write for her character if there's going to be a game that centres around her as a human being?