User blog comment:Mathias Custos/Fandom unite/@comment-25405817-20150729135850/@comment-25555436-20150730115134

Anon....no, just no.

1-The gameplay wasn't too solid. 1st person view in-combat was for some reason harder to control than in the Prime games, and the controls in 3rd person view were impractical, and uncomfortable, because apparently some ubber R-tard thought it was a bad idea to use the fucking Nunchuck.

2-Samus's characterization goes against the entire Metroid canon. In every single Metroid game, both the ones before and the ones after Other M chronologically, she's a tough-as-nails quiet woman with nerves of steel. Here? She's a talk-a-lot, think-a-lot, submissive girl that takes all the shit her boss gives her, even though she almost dies countless times because of such bullshit, and angst all the fucking time, about fucking everything, except interestingly about her home being destroyed.

3-In all Metroid games other than that one, you found most of the upgrades, and had a higher emphasis on exploration of a large area to find said upgrades and advance further, even in the Prime games whose areas tended to be more narrow. In Other M they are literally handed to you when your boss takes that stick out of his ass. This makes the plot advancement and receiving upgrades (instead of finding them like in the main and Prime games) much more linear and simple, literally handed to you, which in theory while it could have made for a better storytelling, that wasn't the case. I know the japanese like to get things handed to them but ''come on! What kind of moronic boss avoids giving his subordinate a fireproof armor when said subordinate is about to enter a hot-as-hell area!''

4-Adam. A complete asshole who never really gets any positive trait in the game. His actions, and lack thereof, do not help at all. He locks all and every one of Samus's weapons and upgrades, alright. It wouldn't be such a bad idea...if it wasn't for the fucking station they are in being under attack by something normal soldiers like him are proven they can't handle. And of course, not giving Samus a fireproof armor when she enters what is practically an incinerator. Samus being completely submissive towards him is supposed to be like in Japan where soldiers take all the shit no matter what, but it just gets to the point of absolute ridiculousness. The fact that Samus calls him "a father figure" is full of bullshit because in no culture whatsoever can he be considered such.

Those are just 4 points. But 4 pretty big points. Other M sucked. It's positive aspects can be counted in 1 hand and are not big enough to make a difference.