Capcom Canceled Mega Man FPS Reboot Developed By Metroid Prime Leads

Lol prime doesnt suck, its one of the highest rated video games.

The whole Prime series was awesome and brought a refreshing take on the Metroid universe and backstory! Opinions are what they are… Opinions!

It would’ve been better if the game was an origin story that took place before the original. But considering how far down the timeline the game is, I find it ridiculous that that’s how Samus acts after all the things she’s accomplished, especially after killing Ridley FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES. There’s a good review by The Gaming Brit on YouTube that sums up the game’s inconsistencies quite nicely.

Other M is a writing nightmare with mediocre gameplay and oversimplified mechanics.
You can’t take characters that have existed in a franchise that goes back up to 20 years and pull them out of character only so they can serve your Mary Sue power fantasies. Hell, even if the characters do not belong in a franchise, it is important to make them plausible within their universe and backgrounds.
Other M does none, it produces absurd and hindering traits for Samus Aran, transforms her into a weak, ineffectual crybaby and robs her of any agency over herself, significant accomplishments, and the usual notion of raw power she has.
This isn’t even about the cheap shot of a story, the boring environment or the nonadjustable motherhood theme; this is about the character being changed from what has been represented in canon, this is a no-no even for inexpert writers, and is called pulling a character Out Of Character.
And even if one were to consider Other M as a standalone product, which it is not, Samus still has the problem of being constantly referenced as the person who singlehandedly destroyed the entire population of SR-388 and completely obliterated Zebes, yet the game doesn’t vouch for it, she constantly wobbles and falls apart in emotional tantrums, even to the point of getting disabled by a single shot, in the back, from an, as of then, unknown source.
And man, is she useless; she can’t free herself from a beast, Anthony has to do it for her TWICE, she can’t save nor avenge Anthony, she can’t kill Ridley, she can’t stop the Deleter from killing the team, she can’t kill the Deleter, she can’t destroy Zector Zero or the unfreezable Metroids, she can’t save Adam, she can’t defeat the new Mother Brain and she can’t save Madeline or herself from the Federation, Anthony has to do it for her AGAIN.
See? I’m not even pushing the Prime series here, because Other M seems keen on denying its existence, I’m talking about what the game itself tells us and expects us to believe. That the person who resisted an all out attack from Mother Brain, with no means of defense and no means of destroying it; and eventually overcame the challenge, cannot do a single important thing in this game.
Adam is equally damaged, Mary Sue-ified over her, he’s a clear case of power fantasy gone overhead, he’s physically stronger than her, psychologically stronger than her, capable of feats she can’t accomplish, yet this is all conveyed through a very imperfect way, the man is emotionally abusive, actively hindering and even physically aggressive, but this is never addressed as something negative; voila, instant Mary Sue traits.
The other members of the team are red shirts save for Anthony, who while doesn’t have much to his character anyway, he does have an unsettling height, which also serves my Samus point. In Other M Samus is not only modified personality-wise, she’s also modified physically-wise to look more like a sexual object and less like a soldier. She’s short, with hips almost inhumanly wide, breasts a size too big and generally the body build of a Maxim model. This is inconsistent, no-one who carries that bulk with their body’s strenght alone, constantly running through harsh environments can have that body, basic anatomy logic suggests her body should be much more slender and muscular, with developed legs, smaller butt and hips, hardened abs, smaller breasts, broader shoulders and neck, and developed biceps. I agree that they have to make her appealing, but Prime 3 and Super Smash Bros Brawl managed to make her look much more realistic without losing on the sex appeal, if something Other M makes her look like a post-pregnancy woman, wobbly and soft.
See? That is just the overview of a few characters and it gives reasons for one to criticize the game for entire paragraphs. Standalone characters (Melissa and Madeline) aren’t really much better, bot being weak and ineffectual despite both holding charges of power. Story-wise, the game pretty much changes or denies entire games in order to make its story work, which still doesn’t work because it is inconsistent with the harsh and militarized universe it portrays. The gameplay is only mediocre, it’s not incredibly broken (Until you go on first person mode), but it tampers with a well-established formula that already worked well, replacing the actually doing stuff that previous games had us do with a system that basically shouts “Press x to not die”. The game is short and linear, the environments forgettable and rehashed, the bosses are few and, for the most part, borrowed from other titles, which in itself causes other problems of continuity (I’m looking right at Nightmare and Phantoon), etc.
I could write an entire book on why Other M is not only a bad game, but also something that systematically tampers and damages an otherwise impeccable work of sci-fi art.

Imagine this: A gritty FPS version of Mega Man 2. How many of us wouldn’t be running around throwing metal blades at baddies? (Or each other. Because you know there would be some multiplayer action happening. That might be a bad thing.)

Possibly. Although, the article did say they were planning to incorporate some of the platforming elements from previous Mega Man games, so it might not have been a totally bad idea now that I think about it. I mean, it supposedly had Inafune’s approval too, so he must have seen something in it.