Welp, guess I'm not a Metroid fan. (Metroid: Other M related)

[Roland]

Ridiculous topic title is ridiculous, but I can't help feeling that it's going to be true by the time the next Metroid title is announced/developed/released.

The main thing I wanted to bring up was this article that's recently come to my attention.

It talks about the whole Samus/Adam dynamic in Metroid: Other M. There's really nothing there that I can quote by itself without taking it out of context. Even this:

If Metroid: Other M is indicative of the direction the Metroid series will be going from now on, I’m afraid I can no longer be a Metroid fan. For that matter, if Other M represents what Metroid’s creators had intended all along but hadn’t made clear until now, then I was never really a Metroid fan to begin with.

Which I have no misgivings* about completely agreeing with.

tl;dr: Roland has a lot of misgivings about Metroid: Other M, feels that a long article says it all better than he could**, and really hopes that none of this is indicative of future Metroid titles.

*In the sense that I really don't want to accept that Other M's story issues were intentional and really hope it was just the result of poor judgment rather than any real "vision" of what Metroid and Samus are all about.
**Which says more about my inability to put my thoughts into words than anything else, I hope.