Agent Unknown
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No, re-read what was written, they asked Sakamoto for reactions on a SITUATIONAL basis. There was no discussion of how she interacts socially, or how she would confront her arch nemesis who traumatized her as a child, they asked how she would react, in battle, to a hostage situation, as one specific example.

Your excuses for Sakamoto's conversation with Tanabe are like saying: "Although Sergio Leone portrayed Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name character as being a remorseless, ruthless gunslinger whenever the need arised, that's just for those situations. But if there was another scenario where he was hired to kill another gunslinger who also happened to kill his parents, it'd be natural for the audience to expect Leone to have him to completely break down mentally at that point even though he'd encountered this character several times before."
To say Sakamoto somehow changed his mind after the Prime series makes him sound like a wishy-washy designer, when nothing presented in ANYTHING Sakamoto has been involved with suggests that, AT ALL. In fact, when you go and look at the manga he directly supervised to be released in 2002, you can see that, at least in Japan, anyways, he was making clear parallels to what he presented in Other M, including her PTSD over Ridley. (edit: thought it was earlier than that, corrected, but the comic in Nintendo Power makes brief suggestions to this, as well)
So yeah, I'll stick by what I said, as the evidence wins out.
Nope, sorry. The silly PTSD excuse doesn't work because even if we pretend the Prime games don't exist, she's already killed him TWICE and per the officially sanctioned manga's story, she overcame her trauma the first time she defeated him:
[Another difficulty with the scene is that, even if we go into it knowing that Samus is supposed to have been emotionally scarred by Ridley as a child, by this point in her life shes already killed the beast several times (at least twice, in the original Metroid and in Super Metroid; twice more if you include the ambiguously-canonical Metroid Prime trilogy). Even the manga has her overcoming her childhood trauma by this point in her life.
http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/gaming/metroid-other-m-the-elephant/article.html

(Samus belting out a primal scream over Ridleys smoking ashes after she missiles him to death.
Again, this is like defending Lucas for making Han be nicer and have Greedo shoot first in the ANH special edition like the director wanted it this way all along. Tanabe's conversation with Sakamoto speaks for itself. Anyways, I'm done and am going back to Wii U discussion.