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November 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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The federation squad will have an outpost in the desert that you'll revisit periodically, in lieu of returning to your ship. This refuge will probably probably be attacked just before the final act, resulting in this scene.
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The federation squad will have an outpost in the desert that you'll revisit periodically, in lieu of returning to your ship. This refuge will probably probably be attacked just before the final act, resulting in this scene.
I'll clap back and ask: what exactly is so interesting about the west's misunderstood version of Samus? Please spell it out for the class.
November 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I'll clap back and ask: what exactly is so interesting about the west's misunderstood version of Samus? Please spell it out for the class.
The decision not to publish the Magazine Z Metroid manga into English, easily the most important piece of media for understanding who Samus Aran is, THE Samus Aran character explainer, because it MIGHT not have sold well, is the most consequential fumbling of a brand Nintendo has ever committed.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The decision not to publish the Magazine Z Metroid manga into English, easily the most important piece of media for understanding who Samus Aran is, THE Samus Aran character explainer, because it MIGHT not have sold well, is the most consequential fumbling of a brand Nintendo has ever committed.
"Have I had the wrong idea about Samus all this time? Nah, Nintendo was probably too stoopid and ignorant to know what a bounty hunter really is." Come the fuck on. The only thing Nintendo did wrong was wait until the 3rd game in a trilogy to realize something was wrong and set the record straight.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"Have I had the wrong idea about Samus all this time? Nah, Nintendo was probably too stoopid and ignorant to know what a bounty hunter really is." Come the fuck on. The only thing Nintendo did wrong was wait until the 3rd game in a trilogy to realize something was wrong and set the record straight.
Nintendo have always known what a bounty hunter is, y'all. 賞金稼ぎ was in the game manual from day 1. The real problem was that westerners, including Retro Studios, spent 20 years not knowing who the fuck Samus Aran really was, and were unable to accept they were wrong when corrected.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Nintendo have always known what a bounty hunter is, y'all. 賞金稼ぎ was in the game manual from day 1. The real problem was that westerners, including Retro Studios, spent 20 years not knowing who the fuck Samus Aran really was, and were unable to accept they were wrong when corrected.
Because most modern progressives haven't actually undergone any radical shifts in their underlying worldview to arrive at their progressive views. They didn't break their chains, they just shifted them around. The "in-group" has expanded, but the frameworks remain.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Because most modern progressives haven't actually undergone any radical shifts in their underlying worldview to arrive at their progressive views. They didn't break their chains, they just shifted them around. The "in-group" has expanded, but the frameworks remain.
Yappers aren't even new to Metroid. People just forget how talkative Adam is because they tap through all the dialogue on subsequent playthroughs. Prime 3 literally had the same level of yap, just without any of them being comedic. Samus herself was a bit of a yapper once upon a time.
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Yappers aren't even new to Metroid. People just forget how talkative Adam is because they tap through all the dialogue on subsequent playthroughs. Prime 3 literally had the same level of yap, just without any of them being comedic. Samus herself was a bit of a yapper once upon a time.
Metroid Other M: [anti-Japanese racism]
Metroid Prime Federation Force: FUCKING CARTOONS 😡 I AM INSULTED REEEEEEE
Metroid Samus Returns: no! they ruined the atmosphere of the Gameboy's 2-bit screen! why color? why melee? AAAA
Metroid Dread: we're gonna pretend it's perfect actually 😇
Metroid Prime Federation Force: FUCKING CARTOONS 😡 I AM INSULTED REEEEEEE
Metroid Samus Returns: no! they ruined the atmosphere of the Gameboy's 2-bit screen! why color? why melee? AAAA
Metroid Dread: we're gonna pretend it's perfect actually 😇
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Metroid Other M: [anti-Japanese racism]
Metroid Prime Federation Force: FUCKING CARTOONS 😡 I AM INSULTED REEEEEEE
Metroid Samus Returns: no! they ruined the atmosphere of the Gameboy's 2-bit screen! why color? why melee? AAAA
Metroid Dread: we're gonna pretend it's perfect actually 😇
Metroid Prime Federation Force: FUCKING CARTOONS 😡 I AM INSULTED REEEEEEE
Metroid Samus Returns: no! they ruined the atmosphere of the Gameboy's 2-bit screen! why color? why melee? AAAA
Metroid Dread: we're gonna pretend it's perfect actually 😇
People have been accusing Metroid of betraying its own creative ethos with every single new release since Metroid Fusion in 2002.
Fusion: too linear and dialogue heavy
Prime: FPS bullshit
Prime 2: too Zelda
Zero Mission: too handholdy
Prime Hunters: Metroid not multiplayer
Prime 3: too Halo
Fusion: too linear and dialogue heavy
Prime: FPS bullshit
Prime 2: too Zelda
Zero Mission: too handholdy
Prime Hunters: Metroid not multiplayer
Prime 3: too Halo
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
People have been accusing Metroid of betraying its own creative ethos with every single new release since Metroid Fusion in 2002.
Fusion: too linear and dialogue heavy
Prime: FPS bullshit
Prime 2: too Zelda
Zero Mission: too handholdy
Prime Hunters: Metroid not multiplayer
Prime 3: too Halo
Fusion: too linear and dialogue heavy
Prime: FPS bullshit
Prime 2: too Zelda
Zero Mission: too handholdy
Prime Hunters: Metroid not multiplayer
Prime 3: too Halo
the Federation must be a mostly disarmed nation who rely on a small scale defense force and employ bounty hunters to pick up the slack.
According to Retro Studios, who are Texans, this means the Federation must be the most well armed nation in space, with space marines and space aircraft carriers.
According to Retro Studios, who are Texans, this means the Federation must be the most well armed nation in space, with space marines and space aircraft carriers.
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
the Federation must be a mostly disarmed nation who rely on a small scale defense force and employ bounty hunters to pick up the slack.
According to Retro Studios, who are Texans, this means the Federation must be the most well armed nation in space, with space marines and space aircraft carriers.
According to Retro Studios, who are Texans, this means the Federation must be the most well armed nation in space, with space marines and space aircraft carriers.
The doors are shoot to open because that's just how doors work in Metroid games, and you're not meant to think too deeply about it.
The reason the Federation doesn't make sense: The Federation is supposed to be a peace-loving civilization.
According to Nintendo, who are Japanese, this means--
The reason the Federation doesn't make sense: The Federation is supposed to be a peace-loving civilization.
According to Nintendo, who are Japanese, this means--
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The doors are shoot to open because that's just how doors work in Metroid games, and you're not meant to think too deeply about it.
The reason the Federation doesn't make sense: The Federation is supposed to be a peace-loving civilization.
According to Nintendo, who are Japanese, this means--
The reason the Federation doesn't make sense: The Federation is supposed to be a peace-loving civilization.
According to Nintendo, who are Japanese, this means--
It always comes back to Metroid fans hating Other M more than loving literally anything else about the series. That and Super Metroid diehards hating every other entry for not being Super Metroid 2.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It always comes back to Metroid fans hating Other M more than loving literally anything else about the series. That and Super Metroid diehards hating every other entry for not being Super Metroid 2.
Sakamoto didn't hate Metroid Prime. I don't know why people think he did.
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Sakamoto didn't hate Metroid Prime. I don't know why people think he did.
reeaaally consider the Magazine Z Metroid manga and its ideas as canon?"
I'm rambling now, but bottom line: if someone's Metroid related opinion leads with "Alien", "muh sci-fi horror", "Samus isn't pretty", or "Metroid isn't Japanese", they are an ignorant shitter and you should ignore them.
I'm rambling now, but bottom line: if someone's Metroid related opinion leads with "Alien", "muh sci-fi horror", "Samus isn't pretty", or "Metroid isn't Japanese", they are an ignorant shitter and you should ignore them.
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
reeaaally consider the Magazine Z Metroid manga and its ideas as canon?"
I'm rambling now, but bottom line: if someone's Metroid related opinion leads with "Alien", "muh sci-fi horror", "Samus isn't pretty", or "Metroid isn't Japanese", they are an ignorant shitter and you should ignore them.
I'm rambling now, but bottom line: if someone's Metroid related opinion leads with "Alien", "muh sci-fi horror", "Samus isn't pretty", or "Metroid isn't Japanese", they are an ignorant shitter and you should ignore them.
conversation. They don't actually care if Genndy Tartakovsky is actually a good fit for Metroid, they just know he's respected, and critically, not Japanese. The ones who most fervently praise Nintendo Power as vital to Metroid's early storytelling are also the first ones to question, "but can we--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
conversation. They don't actually care if Genndy Tartakovsky is actually a good fit for Metroid, they just know he's respected, and critically, not Japanese. The ones who most fervently praise Nintendo Power as vital to Metroid's early storytelling are also the first ones to question, "but can we--
otherwise they might have to reconsider their fandom entirely. It's why when the topic of alternate media adaptations for Metroid come up, they'll scramble to name ANY western animator that doesn't exclusively produce children's content, if only to keep Japanese anime studios out of the--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
otherwise they might have to reconsider their fandom entirely. It's why when the topic of alternate media adaptations for Metroid come up, they'll scramble to name ANY western animator that doesn't exclusively produce children's content, if only to keep Japanese anime studios out of the--
outwardly Japanese for a lot of them, and now the entire country and culture are associated with "ruining" Metroid. Their identity as "a hardcore fan who loves everything Metroid" hinges on their ability to pretend to themselves that Metroid was never reeaaally Japanese, because (Sessler Index 7)--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
outwardly Japanese for a lot of them, and now the entire country and culture are associated with "ruining" Metroid. Their identity as "a hardcore fan who loves everything Metroid" hinges on their ability to pretend to themselves that Metroid was never reeaaally Japanese, because (Sessler Index 7)--
of her character, but because Other M did it poorly, anything more than stoic invulnerability is now forbidden for Samus. Why does pointing out the inherent Japanese-ness of Metroid upset the "hardcore fan"? Because Other M was the first time the implicitly Japanese Metroid clocked as explicitly--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
of her character, but because Other M did it poorly, anything more than stoic invulnerability is now forbidden for Samus. Why does pointing out the inherent Japanese-ness of Metroid upset the "hardcore fan"? Because Other M was the first time the implicitly Japanese Metroid clocked as explicitly--
always been consistently portrayed as beautiful, but she was especially pretty in Other M, and that means all beautiful depictions of Samus are retroactively guilty of an Other M-ness. No sane critic would ever suggest that depicticing Samus with a humanizing vulnerability wouldn't be an elevation--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
always been consistently portrayed as beautiful, but she was especially pretty in Other M, and that means all beautiful depictions of Samus are retroactively guilty of an Other M-ness. No sane critic would ever suggest that depicticing Samus with a humanizing vulnerability wouldn't be an elevation--
having dozens of NPCs. But Other M had NPCs, and that makes all NPCs retroactively unacceptable. It's not that Samus having dialogue is un-Metroid. She was an absolute chatterbox in Fusion. But she was also a chatterbox in Other M, and that makes Fusion retroactively worse somehow. Samus has--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
having dozens of NPCs. But Other M had NPCs, and that makes all NPCs retroactively unacceptable. It's not that Samus having dialogue is un-Metroid. She was an absolute chatterbox in Fusion. But she was also a chatterbox in Other M, and that makes Fusion retroactively worse somehow. Samus has--
of why they hate Other M, disguised as positivity. It is, as you have correctly observed, not as if having NPCs is something completely antithetical to Metroid. Hollow Knight arguably does isolation and claustrophobia more effectively than Metroid has in a long time, and it still got away with--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
of why they hate Other M, disguised as positivity. It is, as you have correctly observed, not as if having NPCs is something completely antithetical to Metroid. Hollow Knight arguably does isolation and claustrophobia more effectively than Metroid has in a long time, and it still got away with--
a "hardcore" Armored Core fan trying to nerdsplain to you how AC is "clearly a melodramatic Japanese take on the seminal, genre-defining Mechwarrior." All of this to say nothing about how for 15 years, the most popularly expressed opinions about why fans "love" Metroid are really just expressions--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
a "hardcore" Armored Core fan trying to nerdsplain to you how AC is "clearly a melodramatic Japanese take on the seminal, genre-defining Mechwarrior." All of this to say nothing about how for 15 years, the most popularly expressed opinions about why fans "love" Metroid are really just expressions--
I'm half convinced was just a red herring by Nintendo anyway). All they know or have is Alien and The Thing (1982), which is easily inferred w/o Nintendo's admission, and "hardcore Metroid fans" beat this hammer like its their one tool of understanding. It's the media illiteracy equivalent of--
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm half convinced was just a red herring by Nintendo anyway). All they know or have is Alien and The Thing (1982), which is easily inferred w/o Nintendo's admission, and "hardcore Metroid fans" beat this hammer like its their one tool of understanding. It's the media illiteracy equivalent of--