Now I Think the “M” in Metroid: Other M Stands for Madness
…uh… remember when I bitched about all the standing around and staring wistfully out of windows that seemed to fill Team Ninja’s (makers of Ninja Gaiden) new Metroid game? I officially take it all back. If you can sit through this 7-minute story trailer — it’s all in Japanese, although it does seem to give a lovely recap of the events of Metroid, Metroid II and Super Metroid (I guess Metroid Prime doesn’t count?) — there’s a video of Team Ninja interpreting the final fight in Super Metroid with all the awesomeness at their disposal, and as a result, it’s incredibly fucking awesome. Seeing the 16bit one-eyed space monster rendered in gorgeous 3-D, along with a giant Metroid and Samus… well, it made me wet ’em, and I don’t even care about Metroid. I don’t know if Team Ninja plans to go that retro with the entire game, or if this is just for a prologue or an extra or something. But if they do… wow.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.