The Game OverThinker - Episode 58 "HEAVENS TO METROID: REVISITED"

I still say that if Adam said "I'm SENDING you the " this shit-storm would not be happening.

Still haven't heard anything related to your 'japanophobia.' It's not like we expect lead female character to be weak from anything made by Japan. It all falls down to a company well known for their weak minded, well endowed women of the Dead or Alive series. Nintendo giving one of the most well known vg female characters to an harem fighting game development crew was a mistake, even though yes, Ninja Gaiden kicks ass, and other m having some of it's elements is pretty cool, their story never really wooed anyone.

So, when you constantly painted Halo as being vaugely xenophobic, racist, and militaristic, because the country it was developed in has been extremely xenophobic, racist, and militaristic in the past (and even present day) that was ok? Double standards, I suppose.

Super Metroid on Snes will always be the best one, hard to top it and that is the same for castlevania sotn though it comes pretty damn close with castlevania 4 on snes.

japan don't hate woman, they like they idolize them, they put them in all games, even having their own game in final fantasy X-2 I can name a lot of them with hero females and other M didn't care much for it, good game yeah but did well without the voice for years why even add it, I would of probably just gave her a few lines to say, it worked with other titles where hero's give one liners lol

One thing that you never touched on was the actual relationship between Samus and Adam. You mentioned the authorization mechanic and wrote off Samus not activating her Varia suit as an awkward attempt at integrating the narrative with the gameplay, and I can totally accept that. You never touched on the actual relationship between the two, though.

From the beginning of the game it's shown that Samus has a high opinion of Adam, and retains this opinion throughout the game despite his cold reaction in the beginning ("The word he so obviously chose - "outsider" - pierced my heart.") and despite him shooting her in the back, leaving her defenseless as a metroid which may have had its sole weakness genetically removed hovers over her (and then proceeding to shoot it with said weakness that was supposedly removed). That's not awkwardly integrating the narrative with the gameplay, that's pure narrative, and it doesn't look good.

Quite frankly, I'd like to hear your take on their relationship. The Varia suit authorization can be explained as a game mechanic, the Ridley freeze can be explained as cinematic storytelling, but how do you explain Samus' memories and internal monologues of Adam being so great when what we actually get to witness of the man doesn't come close to how highly she's built him up?