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red chamber dream
i don't quite understand why so many people wanted ridley in smash, but i guess it's cool that he is?
wasn't it originally just a joke that went out of control?
One shall stand, one shall ball.
I hate that Other M's visual style appears to be what Metroid looks like now.
What do you mean? That Ridley had wings and no fur
red chamber dream
Quote from ryu:
wasn't it originally just a joke that went out of control?

originally, yeah, but that was like 10 years ago. apparently some people actually wanted him in the game

hey it's awesome that he is though!
Ridley is one of the best video game characters ever.  Don't ask me how, or why.  It just IS
red chamber dream
i never got the hype

man taiga really needs emoji support so i can use the shrug emoji
"Xenomorph dragons are lame" - no one ever
red chamber dream
he's not really a character though. just a reoccurring boss in the series. there's way cooler bosses in metroid..
red chamber dream
i wanna play smash as metroid prime
People loved Samus until she was turned into a character

Characterization is overrated
I like turtles.
Nah, GOOD characterization is great! But failing that, I'd rather have less of it. :)
red chamber dream
that's bull, she was a character long before other m
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Like Metroid Prime happens entirely because she saw Ridley on the frigate and wanted to kill his ass again because she hates the shit out of him. She wasn't an empty shell.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
I mean that's what took Other M's characterization from bad to insulting. We had a sense of who she was before then: cool lady with bird alien DNA that lets her wear cool armor and fight alien monsters, hates space dragons.

Samus crying at the site of Ridley would have been dumb and bad either way but everyone hates it because it is literally the opposite reaction to what is expected based previous encounters being met less with tears and more "I'm gonna kill it!"
I like turtles.
"Am I out of touch?... no, it's Retro Studios who are wrong" - Yoshio Sakamoto, probably
People reacted negatively to Samus talking in Fusion and the whole origin story in ZM

People already had a hard time accepting that he can talk because he's never portrayed as anything but a shrieking monster

Any attempts to characterize him as more than "psychopathic antagonist dragon" would come off as goofy
red chamber dream
oh

i liked the samus stuff in those games so i guess i never knew
Sure, I like everything including Other M lol

I give a lot of points for trying (and failing)

It was pretty obvious to me that they were going for a reimagining of the character without rebooting the series

"Why didn't Samus react this way in all the other games were this new direction didn't exist yet" was always a silly point to make

You could already see where Other M went in the Zero Mission comics so it wasn't as much of a leap on part of the writers as people who only play the games might think
Jesus Christ Other M is 8 years old
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Rebooting a character bad on purpose is still bad!
It was only bad in execution
One shall stand, one shall ball.
It was bad in its everything.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
It cannot be stressed enough how incredibly flawed every part of Other M was from conception. Completely failed to understand what people liked about the games, what the character meant to the people who would most likely be buying it, and had no concept of how games had progressed as a medium since like 1994 or whatever.
The character didn't mean anything to most people beyond "badass woman who shoots things", that's why any deviation from people's headcanon built up over the first 3 games was met with negativity

If you want to flesh out Samus, "badass woman who shoots things" isn't going to cut it

Can't please everyone