Never thought I would find someone who had my exact thoughts on this. They are different people from OG to remakes, and the timeline can't be treated like a single unbroken thing because RE5 Jill is just a straight up different person. And WESKER! His new voice actor isn't *_bad_* per say, but he's *_generic._* Albert fucking Wesker is not *_generic._* He has a commanding, nasally tone almost akin to Vergil. He's distinct, he stands out, and when he speaks, it's always clearly him. His voice actor being let go because of false allegations or some shit is just heartbreaking. They didn't even get someone similar. I can't say the same about Ada. To be blunt, her new voice actor is just bad. She puts no emotion or weight in the performance. Compare RE4 Leon getting chainsawed with RE4 Ada. She's worse in every way, I think. With the exception of RE4 Leon... I just don't like the remakes. I hope they don't do weird shit with Chris and Sheva if they do remake 5. I hope somehow, miraculously, they change Jill and Wesker back against all odds. But I know, logically... those versions we love are just memories in the past now, and we won't be getting them going forward. That hurts, man.

All of the Metroid games are fantastic but this one is crazy I agree with your opinion it is a really good game

I think ultimately it was a game that was a victim of its own overhype and just didn't live up to the standards of Super Metroid or Metroid Prime - games that were both considered pretty much instant all time classic masterpieces consensus close to 10/10 games when they released. If memory serves developers before the game were calling this the best Metroid game ever made and the hype was fever pitch after the awesome trailers. Ultimately the game just didn't clear the ridiculously high bar it and the fans had set for it.

You know what would make it more useful to not have to constantly change out glyphs? Not using 2 of the same on each set all the time.

As someone who has never played Metroid Prime or Other M. (I fell off after Super Metroid) - if I had to pick between the two, I would pick Other M. It just looks way more fun, like Metal Gear Rising Revengeance but with Samus. if I want to play an interesting space faring first person shooter with super powers... well Destiny has been around for a decade :)

10:48 I felt the emptiness back in Botw. Zelda 3 did such a great job of giving the player an entire world, yet doesn't feel exhaustive at any time.

I see most people hating in this wym it’s overrated

I have such a rocky history with Other M. I was in Metroid heaven after the release of Prime Trilogy and remember being so hyped for Other M and even preordering it. While I enjoyed the gameplay and the more cinematic approach to telling the story, the characterization of Samus is what ultimately ruined it for me. Had it been a prequel to Zero Mission and been about how Samus came into being the stoic bounty hunter we know and love, I think it would've solved a LOT of problems.

Something almost nobody seems to know about, is the Varia suit dynamic was reversed in the English and Japanese versions. Adam was begging Samus to enable her Varia suit in the Japanese version, while in the English version he was granting her permission to use it. And neither works. In one, Adam was being a dumbass, in the original, Samus was being a childish dumbass.

Agreed on Jill feeling like a different character, but I think Ada is more or less the same with a little less charisma. Cold-hearted woman.

I love how he glosses over and misses the point entirely for why these common criticisms are criticisms in the first place. While I agree the arguments he’s making are valid, when applied to Other M, it’s clear he wanted to focus less on presenting Other M with a positive spin, and more just wants to shit on the fan base because “fan base toxic”.

I'm so glad they remastered these games and thank you for making content for them!

Jill is a man now 😴

Loved every minute of this video. It felt cathartic to me because it's great to finally hear someone say the things I've always thought. Never could understand the hate this game received. I had a blast with it at the time and still enjoy going back to it. Like you said I'd love a sequel or a remaster. Never gonna happen probably, but a guy can dream, right?

Yesterday I clicked on a thread "should other m be remade?". I thought surely its time we are past this nonsense and people can see the game in a new light. but nope. it was nonstop apeshit hatred of the likes i have never seen, for ANY game. Just completely ridiculous. Other M has a few minor issues, but id play it over Samus Returns any day. In fact it probably ranks somewhere on the top for all my Metroids. By no means is it perfect, the spammable dodging is a bit too mindless, the story is badly paced and structured, but otherwise? There are a lot of Mrtroid games that have way more bothersome issues in my opinion and comprehending what brought about this unison of hate is seriously beyond me.

Very helpful! Like I really wanna know “How does the card game *work*” with things like this, and skimming through reviews hoping they’ll address that is such a hit-or-miss prospect, this was clutch for getting a sense this game will be worth a buy for me

Im convinced we arent even playing the same game. I felt that. You got my subscription. I love the energy you bring. Cant wait to watch other videos

The whole why does Samus listen to Adam thing kinda makes me really mad that people dont get it. This dude was her commanding officer. As a bounty hunter she cant just do what she wants. You think Dog the Bounty Hunter doesnt have to answer to local police and that he wouldn't have to listen to any of their commands? I know its a wierd analogy but it s really the same thing. Imagine instead of the federation its the Cops about to arrest someone. Dog is tracking the same person. When he gets there police are already there. Real life tells us that police in this scenario would be the ones in charge. So why do people think Samus shouldn't have to listen to authority thats already in place? Its also very clear in the beginning that she is tagging along and not the one in charge of this mission.

Ty ❤

55:38 "Seems to predate even Skyward Sword"; "Despite Skyward Sword not happening yet".....uh......what?! Eventhough the Goddess or MasterSword are not visible or mentioned on screen, or any of the points mentioned thereafter, doesn't mean that this isn't post-SkywardSword. Ok ok, I shouldn't get ahead of myself here. This video was made a year ago, so maybe things have changed since then. But still......how did you come to that conclusion back then? The 2 most prevalent theories I'm aware of at this point, that BotW/TotK are either set sooooooo far down the timeline that anything which took place in the existing timeline thus far happened dozents if not hundrets of aeons ago.....or that both games are set up to exist within their own continuity and they only took the existing games as a blueprint. The latter theory stems from concepts such as...the MasterSword being able to break in BotW/TotK or that "evil stuff" (namely Gloom) can now damage it, eventhough we were always led to believe in lore that it's this impervious almighty sword, the sword of evils bane that nothing else but the chosen hero can touch. Then there's the Triforce which seems completely absent in both BotW/TotK, outside of a few symbols "here and there", aswell as the full Triforce glowing on Zeldas backhand during certain scenes...which has led some to theorize that Zelda now has the full Triforce which apparently now seems to be passed down through the bloodline of the goddess rather than being a physical obtainable item as it was depicted as in previous games. Nintendo really didn't do us much of a favor with these two games.

My gripes with TotK: 1. Flight. With this, I don't have to engage with 90% of the world. 2. Lack of Guardians. This one enemy and the piano music always added a threat no matter where you were. Even with issue #1, I bet these guys would have been awesome. 3. Same areas. I feel a certain way after visiting the same areas, like....there's nothing new here. Sure, things have changed, but it's not new enough. If the areas were new enough, I'd forgo my issue #1. 4. This is more of a feeling, but a lot of it felt like "work" and not "fun". I felt a lot of time is wasted "making stuff" when I just want to have fun fighting. But now fighting is trivialized by #1.

Just picked this game up on sale from the eShop for $30. Thanks for this!

8 foot tall mute lunatic 💀

Love it! Great job

Great video!

Other M was flawed, but good. Samus Returns also had big flaws, but Mercury Steam literally fixed every problem SR had, and then some with Metroid Dread. Speaking of Mercury Steam and Metroid Dread, Metroid Dread does feel like what Other M should have been, even though it's 2D, it way it controls, the 3D graphics, and the overall smoothness feel like Other M, except polished to a mirror sheen. Because of that, I think Mercury Steam's next Metroid game should be a 3rd person 3D Metroid game. If anyone can nail the formula, it's them. I agree with you that I prefer a 3rd person Metroid game to a 1st person Metroid game. With a few tweaks, non-linear game structure, better story, actual analog controls (controlling Other M with a D-pad was a terrible idea, surprised you didn't mention it at all), the game could be amazing. A 3rd person Metroid game is harder to make than a 1st person game, but it's the style that Retro originally wanted to make, it was Miyamoto that insisted on Prime being 1st person. It's also the style that a lot of Metroid fans actually still want, even the ones that hate Other M, will agree that the 3rd person concept shouldn't be abandoned, but by hating on Other M, they're essentially telling Nintendo that they should.

Majoras mask has so many cool details totk could never do, like the dogs reacting differently for each mask (they run away from the goron, growl at the zora, attack the deku, and act normally/follow sometimes the hylian form)

Here a year later when it’s finally okay to say TotK sucks now.

i mean, you'll always watch cutscenes atleast once to find out if the suck or no and on repeat playthroughs you're probably gonna skip them because they actually sucked or it's just cutscenes that you already watched so there's no real point to watch it again. Having them be skippable in a SECOND playthrough makes literally no bearing on how unforgivably bad they are

You sound like Irving at the very end lol

I hate the new trending tank top badass female archetype

Your speech on Twilight Princess having an incredibly strong identity was SO cathartic to hear omg thank you 🔥💕

No, YOU need jesus. Other M is genuinely sxist, and completely contrary to the rest of the series besides fusion, and that arguement is only SLIGHTLY stronger then for the other games. It has the same problem as the Star Wars: The Last Jedi: It makes no logical sense when put next to the rest of the series, even the stuff it claims to be canon, no matter how much you like it as a movie/game. Both of these would be better off, from an objective standpoint, as their own, stand alone thing, and NOT in a franchise. EDIT: The rest of your video re-enforced my "last jedi" opinion. "New" is not always "good." It was all opinion after the 20 minute mark, and your needless anger did not help. Just because you consider the hate towards this game disproportonate, doesn't mean you also need to respond with disproportionate anger. Your title made me think, at watching this has confirmed, that your opinion came from a place of bitterness because a game you like is hated. Your vitriol made it EXTREMELY difficult to take you seriously. OK you point on a lot of fans not beating the game actually pissed me off. I beat it after a known bug made me HAVE TO RESTART THIS TRASH FROM THE BEGINNING. Don't even say that to me, because it is false. Final take from me: a polished turd is still a turd. Your rose tinted glasses are just as bad as the rest of the fanbases shit stained ones. This game is at most a 5/10.

HOW COULD YOU NOT SPEAK ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK?!?!?!?!😱😱😱😤😤😤

Oh yeah I love how angry you get in this video, hell yeah! Also I was super hyped when I saw Link doing flips in Majora too. And we still don't know SHIT about the Zonai, they were literally just another super advanced mysterious civilization. Heck we still don't know much about the SHEIKAH, and they were literally tossed away so there could be a new "THEME" . NO MORE BLUE, ITS BLUEISH GREEN NOW. You know damn well we aren't ever gonna hear about the Zonai ever again, or learn anything else about them. Anyone trying to explain away the badly written story/lore is just doing legwork for a mega company that couldn't give a shit. They aren't thinking of any of the excuses people make. They have nice designs though, Mineru is cute, I like how tired she looks. And Raaru is cool looking.

Jill’s almost 50 years old in dead island…

Randomly picked this up last week on the eshop sale, tried to look for some info om the game as nobody of my jrpg-friends knew about this. There is not much info about the game, but glad to fins videoes like this that shows how much people love the games. I've been enjoying the game so far (arrived at festival island yesterday). The story is cool, but the main people is growing on me. Kalas is not my kinda guy, but I like that he is "not like other main guys".

Someone who feels the same way! Jill has always been my favorite, and when I heard about Death Island, I was hoping to get blonde, kick ass Jill back. Sadly, that wasn't the case. Her looking the same and wearing the same outfit was pretty weird. The biggest issue I've had is that she feels like a totally different person, and hasn't even gone through a reboot

Releases 11 with Mega Mans "comeback" being one of the main draws and hypes up the fanbase. Capcom following the momentum: "I'm gonna do whats called a pro gamer move"

57:00 this is after the events of SS and OOT. Old hyrule has fallen back to a hunter gatherer. Then the zonai come and rebuild it.

I agree this game is good

I have played every single metroid game and have enjoyed every single one. These spin-offs get way too much hatred.

Another comment here because I cannot believe how good it feels to talk about this game without expecting some hate coming instantly. Did you play Hard Mode? Probably did but I have to say how cool of an idea it has and I think other Metroid games should do a hard mode like that too. Dread kinda does the Dread mode but imo Other M hard mode has such a better and fun implementation. It takes away all the reason for looking around by taking Missiles and Energy tanks but tbh I think by doing that I look back on the level design itself more again and got even more of an appreciation on how good the puzzles in the rooms are. So much better than some 2D game as well imo. It makes it as if even in this linearity it has such a good feeling of exploration because of its puzzles in rooms.

Just go back to proper tightly designed Zelda games PLEASE NINTENDO

24:07 So let me ask you this: Did you not like the purple aura on samus's power suit when she got the gravity suit in Super Metroid? Or zero mission, for that matter?

20:18 The reason why this design choice was so clunky is because of the way in which we had to execute it, by pointing the lone wiimote at the screen. If Nintendo had just allowed us to use the *_nunchuck_* for movement, this would have been a non-issue. But having to stand still just to use your missiles in the middle of an otherwise heated battle during which you could get *_killed,_* just never sat well with me.

I would actually love for Nintendo to try again to make a 3rd person Metroid game. There was a lot of potential here. I won't deny that, especially with the gameplay elements that were handled by Team Ninja; but it got squandered on some poor design choices! All we really need is a better story and a better control scheme.

3:10 But here's the thing: what other m was trying to do, Fusion did *_better._* In fact, my biggest problem with this story in particular is that it contradicts a lot of the character that was already established for Samus, not only by many games before, but also by the manga.

Bring back old jill 😢

Ada remained purdy much the same thruout to me