So has anyone else been hearing the “hardcore fans” crying about how Nintendo raped them and changed everything that made Metroid cool?
Though seriously: Nintendo always sells out to the mainstream. Why are they surprised? The game sells like crack, so you can bet what Nintendo thinks.
Personally, I lost interest in Metroid, after they went 3D… especially since Castlevania took over the gaming style.
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I think the other issue - at least for Western gamers - is that Samus acts more inline with the Japanese fanboy’s ideal woman: more Emotional and Submissive, rather than a “queen macho bitch” who tears off every male sex organ she encounters.
It’s funny my best friend has a Wii and he’s a Metroid fan so I got this for him for his Birthday.
-Saw a bit of the intro and a few of the Custscenes after. I kind of looked at it this way. Samus has finally been reunited with the closest person she has to a father figure in her life. She might have felt she let him down when she left the service to become a bounty hunter. So she’d want to show him that she can still follow orders like a “real” soldier. You could say that she’s still under the influence of the baby metroid that “saved” her in the intro. While slightly out of character as she’s been portrayed so far. I don’t see the reason for the nerdrage.
Actually, I do. While I don’t play Metroid, I can understand the frustration and nerd anger that comes from someone changing a beloved character - especially when changing them for the worse. Consider what happened with Darth Vader/Anakin - the guy was the ultimate villain for a lot of people, for a long time. He was dark, unwavering, dangerous and powerful - a man you did not want to mess with. Then the prequels came out and we find Anakin is actually a whiny, petulant, little brat who fell to the dark side because of a bad dream and a need to be loved. People were outraged, and for good reason - a piece of their nerd history, their very geek identity, had been raped in a way even tentacles couldn’t make flattering. People had invested time and money in an image which was suddenly torn to shreds, and with it everything they had based a lifetime of nerd fantasies to.
While Samus is arguably no Darth Vader (but then, neither is dark vader anymore), she is still an icon which attracted and kept a base of fans worldwide, for decades. And now it has been turned into a parody of everything it stood for and a finger puppet of everything it once stood against. Yeah, I’d be pissed too.
