What are you playing?

[Zero Kirby]

Played through Other M, figured it was worth seeing just how justified my incredibly low opinion of the game was.

It was one-hundred percent justified. The combat was still simplistic and automatic, the first-third-person transitions were still horrible, the controls were still a mess, the exploration was still non-existent, the story was still a mangled pile of shame that nobody in their right mind could possibly consider well-written because Samus does nothing of good consequence throughout the entire story, the designs were still bland, Samus was still boring, Concentration is still a horrible mechanic, and the music was still unmemorable except for the ones that are from another game and therefore don't count.

You can't even collect all the items before fighting the final boss (I don't mean the "bonus boss," but the final boss you don't beat by just by looking at it). Hell, it's entirely possible to die within seconds of the final blow on said final boss because you can't regenerate your health up to at least four bars because you can't collect the third powerup for that until after the final boss. That's really stupid, why couldn't the game just have item pickups? I haven't even mentioned how you kill it, which is the worst fucking thing I've ever seen in any video game.

And what is with that boss fight you win just by looking at it? I sure as hell didn't feel like I accomplished something with that!