I don't want anyone to misconstrue what I am about to say. I love Other M. I am having a blast with it, it is just not what I expected. When the game opens, it replays the events of the end of Super Metroid only in a new way with updated graphics and textures. I got goose bumps watching it. I sat in my friends house for an entire summer playing Metroid when I was a kid. I then bought a Super NES because of Super Metroid. I primarily bought a Wii for Other M and Zelda although I am finding that there is soo much more to the Wii than these two games. :) But as someone else pointed out, the best part of Metroid has always been exploration, finding your power ups, finding your weapons, finding your suits and finding the bosses. This game is on rails. There is only one path and D-Bag "authorizes" your weapons use via comms, which conveniently only Samus has? Very odd way to get Samus powered up. Now we get to the story, which is fantastic! I love the fact that they are going a mystery route, trying to figure out what is happening, betrayal, friends etc... It gives the game emotion that it previously lacked. The old days you were just this kick butt bounty hunter that destroyed everything in her path. I liked that we went back to 3rd person. I could not deal with the first person perspective of the gamecube series. It is not Metroid to me. Metroid has always been seeing your character and the effects your power ups had on her suit and weapons. There are some exploration elements and you do have to find your missle tanks and energy tanks, but I cannot deal with this "Adam" authorizes me to do stuff deal. Without spoiling anything, there is a point in the story where you wonder if they will bring back some other older elements of Metroid. This keeps me coming back for more and I wonder if that was the intention. Overall, this is a great game. I look forward to finishing it. I look forward to future games as long as they stay away from FPS. I just think a new team needs to take the helm and give us the Metroid we all know and miss. This should have been 5 stars but sadly, they just fell short on what I expected to be another Metroid addiction. I am not sure I would play this a second time, but we will see. Difficulty is something else I am not happy with. It is good, you can beat most enemies with strategy but some are just overly powerful. I don't mind a good fight but when I am fighting the same creature for 20 minutes, I begin to get annoyed. I also wonder if this is a response issue but the game is responsive on every other level, so I am not sure. She has a power move that is either way to difficult to pull off, or I just am not doing it right. Either way, make mini boss fights a little less lenghty.