Knux-Future said:
It probably would have been better to have this game happen before Samus truly becomes the badass bounty hunter.
like replace the entire baby metroid shit out and just have a rookie Samus come across Adam and the gang and shit gets real. That way Samus being a bit uncertain and emotional wouldn't seem that bad.
It would be like James Bond in Casino Royale not being Spy Jesus yet.
Since I haven't played the game yet, I could be way off base here, but as with all story telling mediums, I'm a big proponent of "show, don't tell." I would love to have playable sequences of Samus as a child, having to navigate through her home colony as Space Pirates decimate it. Would have equally loved to see the first few missions with Adam instead of this later one, so the connection would seem more organic and unimposing. Less contrived, I guess.
This extends to the pointless monologue as well.
"I look through my visor using my eyes and see a Geemer, a relative of the Zoomer, and a creature I have seen before; it shambles around as such creatures do and I raise my arm to shoot it. As I concentrate, my power suit gathers energy inside the tube-like sheathe around my arm that functions like a cannon; once it is fully charged, I release the energy within as though I am releasing the stresses of my former life. I recall the 'baby,' and the way it sacrificed its energy to me so that I could defeat 'Mother.' I return from my memories in time to see my prior blast make contact with the Geemer and cause it to burst from within in a shower of radiated fluid and chitin. I recall again the 'baby,' and the way its 'egg' sifted away like a stringy placenta once it hatched. I remember the first thing it did in its short existence was see me. It must have assumed I was its 'mother,' and despite my invocations to the contrary, it would not leave me alone. It ate its way through the body of SR388, creating for me a way out of the planet's very depths. I return my thoughts to the present and consider the mission ahead. I look to the left, and then to the right. I feel a slight cramp in my lateral anterior femoral cutaneous nerve; I assume it is nothing and take a step forward. The inner workings of my visor alert me to relevant information about my current health status and armaments. They have always done this. I feel that I am a bit hungry, but push all thoughts of eating to the back of my mind as I take another step. Again, I think about the baby: how it ate the life force of dozens of creatures throughout its short life, its life ended by the evil 'Mother,' the construct that served as an advisor to the Space Pirates, including my arch nemesis, Ridley. I take one more step and look to my left. I look through my visor using my eyes and see a Zoomer, a relative of the Geemer, and a creature I have seen before; it shambles around as such creatures do and I raise my arm to shoot it. As I concentrate, my power suit gathers energy inside the tube-like sheathe around my arm that functions like a cannon; once it is fully charged, I release the energy within as though I am releasing the stresses of my former life..."
