My thoughts so far on Metroid: Other M

There are times when I hate going along with my mom when she goes shopping during the week. Most of the time I just walk around trying to keep an eye on my younger siblings and have no fun with it, where I could be at home doing something I enjoy better.

But there are also times when it's worth it. Take the other day, for example. We went shopping to this store where everything is $5 and under, and I found Metroid: Other M on sale. I've played Metroid Prime Hunters for the DS, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the Wii (not sure if those are the real names, but I haven't played them in probably more than a year by now) and I liked them. Actually, I think I still need to finish 3...

Anyways, I like them. They're a nice challenge for me when I play them. So when we found out about Other M when it came out I have no idea when, me and my older brother wanted to get it.

Of course, we also earned no money back then, so it never happened. So I'm really glad that I picked the game up at the store. Especially at that price. (Now if they could only get the Kingdom Hearts series there...still need to get Birth by Sleep especially...)

Yes, the game is a bit confusing, and the controls are annoying. Having to hold the remote sideways to move and fire basic shots, then switching to pointing the remote at the sensor bar to fire missles and other more accurate shots (and scanning things) but not being able to move, and finally holding the remote up straight and holding A to restore health or missiles is very annoying. For some people it would be very hard to adjust to those controls. For me, it's annoying, but managable. Mostly because I just attack everything in sight first and only switch to pointing to the screen when I absolutely have to, but still.

I haven't gotten very far, due to only playing for a few hours total between today and whichever other day it was that I played the game. And I've missed out on a few details because I didn't put subtitles on and my younger siblings are extremely noisy (that, and the voices are sometimes really hard to hear over the other noises coming from the game) but I know enough for now, I think. It would probably help to play the other games. Which I might do eventually.

But yeah, I'll be playing the game more whenever it's quiet again and no one else is watching anything. It might be annoying with the controls, but I still like it. I might not have much of a clue what exactly is going on, but I don't really care either. The only way how I'm going to fix that is by learning the stories of the other games.