Metroid: Other M: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"[[Arc Words|Any objections, lady?]]"''|'''Adam Malkovich'''}}

 

 

Set after the events of ''Super Metroid'' but before those of ''Metroid Fusion'', ''Other M'' finds our heroine Samus Aran resting on a [[The Federation|Galactic Federation]] ship, convalescent after her battle against [[Big Bad|Mother]] [[Brain In a Jar|Brain]]. Shortly after leaving, she picks up a [[Distress Call]] from a dormant bottle ship and sets out to investigate. Once there, she reunites with familiar faces from her days on the Federation Army: Anthony Higgs and her former commanding officer, Adam Malkovich. Following an attack from an alien being, the three split up to discover the nature of the strange threat.

Not to be confused with [[Project M]].

 

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* [[Action Commands]]: Samus's dodge-roll maneuver. In some cases it even becomes ''literally'' [[Press X to Not Die]].

* [[Action Girl]]: Samus, of course.

* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|In spite of the trouble the Galactic Federation had with Metroids, Space Pirates, and Mother Brain, replicas are deliberately made of ''all three'' (with an accidental Ridley clone to rub salt on the wound)}}.

* [[Alliteration]] Seriously Sophisticated Security System

* [[Anticlimax]]: Are you pumped to {{spoiler|charge into Sector Zero and kill some Metroids}}? Too bad. {{spoiler|Adam steals it.}} Are you ready to find out who the Deleter is, and bring him to justice? Too bad. {{spoiler|MB steals that one.}} Are you looking forward to a potentially awesome final battle with {{spoiler|MB}}? [[Rule of Three|Too bad.]] See [[Anticlimax Boss]] below.

** Although this is played straight in the case of power bombs, you merely need to get to the first boss before bombs and missiles are unlocked again.

* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: Many of the bosses.

* [[Badass]]: Anthony and Adam.

* [[Bag of Spilling]] / [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: [[Double Subversion]]. Samus retains all her upgrades from [[Super Metroid]], but she needs Adam's authorization to use them. In practice, it works the same way; you still need to reach certain points to use certain abilities.

* [[Gag Sub]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wht3rRGMw28 Metroid: Other M - The reMovie] which, among other things, has Samus [[Cloudcuckoolander|monologuing about whether she should order baby-back ribs after her training exercise]], and the [[Scrappy Mechanic|authorization mechanic]] is explained away as Samus doing a [[Minimalist Run|low% run]] just to piss off Adam.

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Several people have reported an issue where a door in Sector 3 (that you have to go through) will not open, no matter what you do. Nintendo had to accept [http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/ts/metroid-other-m.jsp mail-ins for cards with save files.] They claim the cause of the bug is picking up the Ice Beam, going into the following room, killing all the enemies to open that room's next door, and then immediately backtracking into the Ice Beam room before continuing on into the room you just opened at least once. Prior to this, the fandom assumed the bug had to do with the Rhedogian boss (going back down the lift after beating the boss the first time and then saving, or going back and saving after the third fight with it).

** Played mostly straight with the "Concentration" mechanic. Samus actually uses it once in a cutscene, but the maneuver itself is never justified in-story, and is instead explained in various manga released years previously.

* [[Genre Blindness]]: Adam sends Samus to a lava area without authorizing her Varia Suit (a suit that protects Samus from deadly heat and convection). Hardened Metroid players will automatically know that's virtually suicide. Only partially justified as, until the appropriate boss fight, he wouldn't expect her to do lengthy combat in that area.

** {{spoiler|"Any objections, Adam?"}}

* [[Joker Immunity]]: Not just {{spoiler|Clone!Ridley}}, but some of the other enemies in the game just won't stay down.

* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: The Federation Troopers use machine guns. [[Zig Zagged]] with Anthony's BFG [[Energy Weapon]] and the [[Freeze Ray|ice guns]] that appear to be a standard-issue secondary weapon for all Fed troops. They use them almost as much as their SMGs. Unfortunately, these machine guns are shown to be pretty ineffective against the creatures on the Bottle Ship.

* [[Last Chance Hit Point]]: Any attack that reduces Samus to zero energy instead leaves her [[Life Meter]] flickering between 0 and 1, and she can take ''one'' more hit before a Game Over. She ''can'' get killed in one attack if multiple hits are involved and she's reduced to zero mid-way in the attack (for example: if Samus gets grabbed, slammed into the floor and then thrown across the ground, she'll be dead if the first hit knocks her down to her [[Last Chance Hit Point]]).

** Also, Samus's "thumbs-down" in the above scene.

* [[Minimalist Run]]: What Hard mode basically is; all item expansions (missles, energy, etc.) are removed.

* [[The Mole]]: Also known as "The Deleter."

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Twice at the end of the [[Playable Epilogue]]. {{spoiler|One moment, Samus is in an intense fight with Phantoon, the next, Samus finds what she was looking for, the quiet "reminiscing" music is playing -- only for the moment to be abruptly interrupted by the self-destruct starting up.}}

* [[Mythology Gag]]: One of {{spoiler|Ridley's}} attacks has him [[Wipe the Floor with You|slamming Samus against the wall and dragging her across it]], much like {{spoiler|his first appearance in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''.}}

* [[Narrating the Obvious]]: Samus does this a lot in the game. Sometimes repeating what another character just said in monologue form so she can state her opinion on the subject or give a deeper analysis of the actions of another character, usually Adam.

* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|Misawa. Justified in that he was dumped in magma, though}}.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Adam's hat has become a minor meme in itself among the Metroid Community.

* [[One Hundred Percent Completion]]: Unlocks hard mode. Or rather, ''harder'' mode.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Samus is on her 3rd voice actor.

* [[Personal Space Invader]]: A couple of foes are like this, either trying to latch on to you or ram you, but {{spoiler|where there's Metroids, there's only one thing to expect}}.

* [[Pixel Hunt]]: Many of the forced first person segments fall into this. Others go straight into [[Guide Dang It]] territory.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: {{spoiler|After the fight with Ridley, he's so scared of Samus he flies face-first through a wall trying to get away. See also "Oh Crap" above}}.

* [[Ship Sinking]]: ''Because I was so young when I lost both of my parents, there's no question that I saw Adam as a father figure.'' Ouch.

** It's worth noting that the game makes subtle hints that Samus may or may not have been in a relationship with {{spoiler|Adam's younger brother, Ian. Especially when it's not-quite-as-subtly hinted that his death is the reason she left the GF and became a bounty hunter}}

* [[Shout-Out]]:

* [[Show, Don't Tell]]: Averted in the scene where {{spoiler|Adam dies.}} Samus is told that the {{spoiler|Metroids in Sector Zero are unfreezable,}} but we never see them, thanks to {{spoiler|Adam's [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}} The only two times that we ''do'' see them, they {{spoiler|''are'' freezable,}} for a different reason the [[No Control Group|second]] [[Averted Trope|time]] than the first.

** Played painfully straight elsewhere, however.

* [[Slow Electricity]]: When you're reaching for {{spoiler|Sector Zero}}, the lights begin to turn on this way.

* [[Story to Gameplay Ratio]]: Two hours of the about ten hour game is cutscenes, and once you've beaten it, you have the option of watching it as if it were a movie (with the gameplay segments as videos.)

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: Samus speaks in a very monotone voice and often uses this.

* [[The Computer Is a Lying Bastard]]: At the beginning of the game, new upgrades receive either an inventory screen blurb, an appropriate dialog, or both, regardless of whether they're obtained or authorized. Trying to use them before they're unlocked, in the case of chargeable weapons, simply prevents the charge meter from completely filling, restricting you to the lesser weapon. At times, {{spoiler|Samus will self-authorize, such as with the Space Jump/Screw Attack}}, but with the same indications; however, while fighting {{spoiler|Queen Metroid}}, a later stage in the fight requires you to use the {{spoiler|Power Bomb}} to survive - however, the usual indication that this weapon is available for use doesn't come until ''after the ending credits!''

** In previous games, Zoomers simply strolled along a set path, only bumping into Samus by accident. In ''Other M'', they actively attack Samus.

** Samus each time she gets one of her top weapons. The Screw Attack can one-shot many of the tougher regular enemies Samus faces, like the Zebesians. The Power Bomb can one-shot ''every'' non-boss enemy, including the Rhedogians (the flying anomalocaris-like creatures).

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