It was both depressing and infuriating. It happened right on stream, with the Hobby Consolas staff streaming the Direct. People rightfully criticised them, and they doubled down on it since there were other people defending them.
A whole saga then. Being based initially in a live stream and then continuing -- and what purpose is there to double down on being objectively wrong? -- it seems this might be a bit difficult to experience and thus feel the immense frustration.
Metroid prime is the series name. It didn't become "Dark Samus" after the first game, which was the closest thing to "Metroid prime" in those games, and regardless, they already made it clear by 2006 with Prime Hunters that the name had nothing to do with the enemy from the first game.
It's a bit like demanding 3D Super mario games stop being called "Super", because actually other than 3d land and 3d world, they don't even have the Super Mushroom item in them, which I hope we can all agree is absurd.
Nah, not demanding anything. It's just my opinion based on the story being pretty definitively finished, and I know Nintendo doesn't care about it.
That said, I don't feel your objections quite touch upon my stated reason for the aforementioned opinion. Metroid Prime is what they call that series, not much room for disagreement there.
But my point was that Metroid Prime as a trilogy is one story one which, again, they meticulously closed off. That the Metroid Prime entity ceased to be after the first game doesn't mean the given story was ended. It continued very directly through the element of phazon and (spoilered for anyone who hasn't played)
Dark Samus, as you mentioned, being a direct continuation of the combined Metroid Prime entity and photon elements.
So, again, opinion based entirely on plot being contained here.
We can certainly agree that's absurd. Luckily, it's separate from what I was talking about (random item without an actually strong connection to the name, not based on being its own distinct story arc).
It makes me wonder now if the first game should get yet another remake, but this time making it 2.5D like Dread ("Zero Mission Definitive Edition"?).
Also having Samus' backstory be relegated to a Japan-only manga might be a limiting factor. I kind of really wish they've established it as "game cannon" already.
Probably doesn't need another remake. Zero Mission is generally well regarded, and getting rid of sprites doesn't strike me, necessarily as definitive.
The backstory point, yes indeed. As the series has tried leaning more into plot and, indeed, incorporating elements that rely on knowledge of that backstory, it becomes somewhat bizarre that it's never actually incorporated.
And it almost seemed like Other M wanted to be something where delving into that would be important, and then it just ... didn't.
At this point I expect it’s just meant to represent the First Person games as a separate product line.
I wouldn’t mind if they dropped it, but I suspect others might feel differently
Oh, certainly. At this point, it's basically been Trilogy and a couple spinoffs, but I do expect that's how they view it. I do expect they'll keep the title because, again, marketing.
(Man, I always feel like maybe I make messages too long.)
