Metroid Other M

Aug 31, 2010  Metroid: Other M (2010) Action, Adventure, Family Video game released 31 August 2010 After her mission to destroy the Space Pirate homeworld, Zebes, Samus is traveling through space when her ship intercepts a distress signal from the derelict Bottleship.

Military commander. “Heh, humans are always so weak to deaths of their own breed! Who knows, perhaps I consumed your 'mama' so that my cells may live, hm? Or here?!„—RidleyRidley ( リドリー, Ridorī ) is a high-ranking, the archenemy of, and one of the most common recurring characters in the series, appearing in most of the games. Sadistic and bloodthirsty, Ridley delights in death and destruction, and was responsible for the massacre of the colony.

Since then, he and Samus have clashed several times, with Samus usually emerging the victor. But Ridley's brutality is matched only by his resilience, and he regularly returns from apparent death to do battle with Samus once more. As such, the Space Pirate leader is fittingly referred to as the Cunning God of Death ( 狡猾の死神 ) in his Zero Mission official art on the.Resembling a skeletal dragon with glowing eyes, the true name of Ridley's species is unknown. Despite his bestial appearance, Ridley is known to be highly intelligent and even shown to be capable of speech in the. He was also apparently capable of building a.

Though Ridley often appears in different forms, it is clarified through scans found in the, as well as events portrayed in, that every one of his incarnations chronologically seen prior to Other M and are indeed the same individual (the exception being the Ridley Robot), despite his numerous defeats. Strangely, some of his prior battles ended with his body seemingly exploding, but in-game lore states he survived these violent defeats until. In most games he appears in, he has been the penultimate or ante-penultimate boss.The manga also revealed that Ridley is extremely adept at survival.

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Ridley was apparently capable of healing his wounds by eating human flesh, as illustrated in the manga in a part where he claimed that he survived the destruction of his flagship by consuming the bodies and cells of the dead humans in. Main article: Boss BattlesIn Metroid for the Famicom Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System, Ridley is located in his subterranean base,. Consists of a large, floating platform with two levels of differing height (with the boss on the highest), and a pool of located below. In his debut, Ridley is approximately Samus' height, and despite having wings (albeit very small ones), he merely hops up and down while spitting zigzagging fireballs at her.

The American artwork of Ridley portray him with a vastly more alien design, featuring a head with a leech-like mouth and numerous ocular organs of varying sizes scattered about (as seen in the at the bottom of this page).Samus can use any weapon her possesses to damage him. His fireballs, however, are indestructible and excel as a defense mechanism, destroying any long-range weapon and nullifying the blast from on contact. If Samus possesses the, she can temporarily freeze all of Ridley's projectiles, rendering him incapable of shooting out any others until the ice thaws.

Main article:Proteus Ridley attempting to capture the last Metroid inDespite not appearing in, Ridley is present in the game's remake as Proteus Ridley. Returning from his prior defeats in the Metroid Prime series with fewer cybernetic implants, he ambushes Samus and attempts to capture just as they are about to leave.This game marks the first time Ridley acts as a final boss.Ridley's final battle in Super MetroidRidley is first fought in the, carrying the in his talons after the scientists on Ceres. He uses the same attacks as his later encounter, but neither he nor Samus can be defeated - after he or Samus takes a certain amount of damage, Ridley escapes the colony with the Metroid and goes back to, with it being implied that Ridley had set Ceres to.

It is possible to damage Ridley enough that he will drop the baby, but he quickly recovers it and flees before Samus can retrieve it.Samus fights Ridley again in his hideout in the depths of. He is one of the four bosses that must be defeated to unlock access to. Unlike his previous forms, and, the space dragon is vulnerable to many different types of weapons, from any angle. However, Ridley can use his invulnerable tail to shield himself against any attack, including breaking through the near invincible.

In addition to defense, he uses his tail for unique offensive attacks, many of which would be seen in future releases of Metroid games, such as the whip and pogo stick-like attacks. Body slams, indestructible fireballs and damaging grips are also used in battle. With no weak points or special tactics available, Samus must simply dodge Ridley's attacks while landing hits of her own - it takes 30 to bring the monster down. However, he generally does not die immediately upon losing all of his health; instead he continuously and aggressively attempts to grab Samus in his talons. If he succeeds, he will fly with her to the center of the room and release one last roar before suddenly breaking apart, dropping Samus unharmed.

If she manages to evade his final attempts at grabbing her while dealing additional damage, Ridley will eventually die normally.When defeated in Norfair, Ridley's body combusts and breaks apart, with every individual piece disintegrating into ash. After Samus kills, planet explodes, taking Ridley's remains with it. Metroid: Other M states that this defeat marks the first true death of Samus's arch-nemesis; Ridley had seemingly survived all of his previous battles, regardless of disintegrations. Main article:Samus battles Ridley's clone.Samus tracks a that molted from into the in an effort to finish it off, believing that it has metamorphosed into a more powerful form after finding a second molted skin.

Unbeknownst to Samus, the animal she is tracking is actually a juvenile clone of Ridley from prior encounters that has been steadily growing through his predecessor's natural life-cycle. When she reaches the Power Plant, the creature emerges from the shadows in its adult stage, the distinguishable dragon-like form, and triggers a battle with Samus.Ridley's clone utilizes some of the original's 'classic' attacks, as well as a few new moves of his own.

His main form of attack is to swipe Samus with his claws, as well as whip her with his tail. Both attacks can be dodged with the. Ridley will also breathe a short-ranged burst of flame if Samus is close enough, and can also charge up a large stream of fire. Ridley's most devastating attack is to charge at Samus and, if successful, slam her against the inner wall of the Geothermal Plant, outside of the platform they are battling on. He continues the attack by grinding her along the wall (reminiscent of his battle in Super Smash Bros. Brawl), causing major damage.

After this, Ridley will fly above the battlefield with Samus still held firmly in his hand, and breathe fire on her at point-blank range to knock her out of his grasp. This entire attack sequence can be avoided if Samus were to dodge Ridley's initial charge attack, which can be predicted as soon as Ridley lifts his left arm into the air. If she is caught and dragged onto the wall, Samus can begin using the to prepare her own blast at point-blank range, though she must fire at Ridley before he does the final segment of his attack.Ridley also has two aerial attacks at his disposal. His first move consists of stabbing the Hunter with his tail, then attempting to crush her from above. Well-timed SenseMoves can dodge this assault.

His other attack consists of charging up a huge and firing it at the center of the arena, creating a large shockwave that must be jumped over.Once Samus has inflicted enough damage to Ridley, he will keel over, stunned and vulnerable to a, in which Samus grabs hold of him and fires a charged shot in his throat. After performing a Lethal Strike, Ridley will immediately counter with a new ability: transforming into. This ability renders him invulnerable to Samus' Plasma Beam shots. He will then immediately fly up to unleash a fireball to the ground.

Samus can either wait until the effect wears off or fire a at him, reverting Ridley back to normal instantly. If Samus is quick enough, she can fire a Super Missile at him before he manages to fly.As Ridley receives damage, his body gradually becomes ravaged. Once his life-bar is depleted, he will fall over, seemingly unconscious, but quickly gets back up during the following cutscene and escapes. He is later killed off-screen by a, his drained corpse left to be found within the.

Main article:The Neo Ridley as shown inThe emaciated corpse of Ridley's clone was transferred from the to the in the, where it was eventually infected by an. Using the corpse's DNA, the X transforms into an unnatural imitation known as Neo Ridley.Aside from this, Ridley also briefly appears in one of the endings, where he is seen advancing on a young Samus Aran and what are presumably and, the latter of whom attempts to shoot Ridley to no avail. It is also to be noted that this was the first time that Ridley's involvement in the K-2L raid was alluded to.Physical appearanceOverall, Ridley had the appearance of a dragon, with his head and neck resembling that of a pterodactyl.

He also possessed a spiked segmented tail with a hooked end.In the NES version, he mostly appeared similar to his later appearances, although the head crest was missing, and was depicted as only slightly taller than Samus Aran. In addition, the artwork for Ridley, depending on the source, either depicted him with a leech-like head and tridactyl feet (concept art) or otherwise as a chibi dragon with expressive purple eyes (Japanese Metroid guide). Interestingly, both sources depicted Ridley with blue skin, although the game itself depicted Ridley with purple skin.In his appearances from Super Metroid onward (the only exception being Metroid: Other M, not counting either or ), he was given a significant redesign: He has bidactyl feet, had a largely emaciated appearance, and his eyes were generally depicted as glowing ominously (although there have been a few instances where he was depicted with irises), as well as his head given definite pterodactyl features, including a head-crest and a distinctive bent neck. Most importantly is that he also had his size increase, although not to the same extent as, where Samus' height just barely reaches the top of Ridley's chest while the latter is crouching.In Metroid: Other M, Ridley, or rather, his clone has some notable differences in physical appearance. In particular, he is given a more muscular build, and his snout now has the top half being smaller than the bottom half, as well as pointed slightly upward, and he possessed four fingers and a thumb instead of two fingers and a thumb on his hands as well as tridactyl feet. His tail also has at its end an appendage that bears a close resemblance to a dagger blade.

Despite this, however, in Metroid Fusion, his appearance resembled how he generally looked since Super Metroid., however, is shown to be much larger with enlarged talons and claws, and also possessing thinner lips exposing his teeth constantly. Neo Ridley also seems to possess gill-like openings on his back, just behind his wings, and is depicted as being colored blue instead of his usual purple.Personality and traits “Kill as much as you want! Have fun!„—Ridley, to the Space Pirates, immediately prior to their massacre of K-2L in the Metroid manga.While Ridley displays few personality traits in the games, the official delved a great deal deeper into the personality of the Space Pirate general.

Ridley first appeared in chapter one, where his brutal disposition, foul temper and love of death and destruction are made apparent when he orders his entire legion of Space Pirates to annihilate the peaceful inhabitants of as he looked on, even going as far as to tell them to 'have fun' while causing carnage. His ability for cruelty is further made concrete in the manga, when he attempts to kill a who tries to befriend him; killing her while trying to shield the child.

This characterization was given a brief nod in his third in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where he is seen with his back turned pounding the ground in a manner that evoked tearing his downed opponent apart before quickly turning his head with a grin. He, like many of his Space Pirate brethren, also believes in the superiority of certain races over others, counting himself among the privileged elite species and seeing the 'lower' races as something only to exterminate. His more sadistic and bloodthirsty tendencies were initially hinted at in a Pirate Data scan explaining his resurrection as Meta Ridley in Metroid Prime, where the crew guessed that Ridley becoming the mainstay of the Space Pirates' security force after the completion of his cybernetics was 'a job he will certainly relish.' He also has some degree of narcissism, due to his commissioning the as a symbol of his power.Despite these bloodthirsty tendencies, Ridley has shown to be an intelligent and competent battle tactician, orchestrating a great many successful battles, as well as proving a serious threat on his own.

One instance of this intelligence was his ordering his Space Pirates to be careful when retrieving the afloraltite due to its volatile properties, as well as his being implied to have held back in going all out on the carnage until after making absolute certain that they've secured the afloraltite beforehand. His battle tactician skills were best showcased during the battle of when fighting Samus: He tried to kill Samus while she was traversing through ducts in Morph Ball form and thus preventing her to transform, and later he also made sure to have Samus fall down the shaft with him to ensure that, in the event he could not defeat her, she would at least die with him. Similarly, it was implied that the reason he bombed the was specifically in an attempt to prevent Samus from accessing the during the events on Tallon IV, and when fighting Samus for the baby on SR388, he also proceeded to use his cybernetic arm to block Samus's Arm Cannon blasts while rushing at her. It is also implied that he set the Ceres Space Colony's self destruct protocol during the escape. Interestingly, his traits as a competent leader seem to also be embedded on a genetic level, as his clone, who was feral as a result of growing up without any education or civilized upbringing, was nevertheless seemingly capable of leading weaponized creatures into attacking 's while he handled Samus alone in his.

Contents PlotSamus witnesses the death of the baby in a scene from Super Metroid.The game begins with a dream recounting the climax of, where battles against and watches the die. After giving a mission report, Samus departs for space. Weeks later, she picks up a distress signal from the derelict. Samus is compelled to follow it.Soon after landing on the seemingly deserted BOTTLE SHIP, Samus encounters the, and is greeted by, an old friend from her days in the.

Leading them is, her former commanding officer. Adam refuses to divulge why they are on the station, but Samus decides to stay on board for the sake of the platoon. The team discovers the body of a, and are soon attacked by a. Samus and the platoon work together to take it down.Adam tells Samus the conditions of her cooperation in the mission.Adam allows Samus to cooperate in their mission, under the condition that she obey his orders and refrain from using certain weapons and equipment until he authorizes them. He orders Samus to find the in.

On her journey through the tropical area, she encounters that begins to follow her.Samus later reaches the Exam Center, and finds doing something under the desk of the main computer. The rest of the platoon then arrives, although is missing.

Investigating, Samus discovers the cybernetic body of a with the insignia on its chest. The platoon discovers that the purpose of the BOTTLE SHIP was to conduct research on, a practice that is illegal within the Federation. They learn the person in charge of the project was.A large purple creature launches itself at Samus from the 's tower.Outside, the Platoon is attacked outside by a large, who viciously attacks Samus when she comes to assist them. After being wounded by Anthony Higgs', the creature flees. The group discovers the bodies of Lyle and the skin of the creature Samus encountered, 'Little Birdie'.

She is ordered to follow the lizard creature.A Federation Trooper operating a large machine attacks Samus in the Cryosphere Warehouse.Midway into her search for the Mystery Creature in, Samus is redirected to the icy to search for survivors. While there, she discovers the body of and spots in the, who flees. Samus gives chase and tries to talk the woman down. The woman refuses to cooperate, fearful that Samus is here to silence her, and implies that Maurice was killed by a fellow soldier. The two are then attacked by a soldier wearing a driving an, and the woman is separated from Samus. Samus destroys the machine, but the operator escapes.Returning to Sector 3, Samus concludes that there is a traitor within the 07th Platoon, and nicknames him 'the ' until she learns his true identity.

Back in Sector 3, Samus encounters Anthony. He explains he was sent to open the in the, along with the rest of the Platoon. However, none of his comrades showed up at the rendezvous point. Parting from Anthony, Samus continues until she finds the empty husk of the lizard creature. Samus enters the dimly lit Geothermal Power Plant and reunites with Anthony. The monster, now winged, ambushes them.

Samus, confronting it alone, opens the magma-eruption port and brings light into the room. To her horror, the creature is revealed to be none other than her nemesis, whom she believed to be permanently killed with the destruction of Zebes. Overcome by, Samus is unable to save Anthony when he is seemingly killed by Ridley. Samus's anger empowers her to battle Ridley once again. He escapes.Samus is forced to battle Ridley again.Leaving the Pyrosphere, Samus realizes she cannot Adam, and fears that the Deleter may be or already has targeted him. She then spots one of her comrades entering Sector 1. Samus pursues him to the, where she instead finds the young woman again.

After calming down, the woman introduces herself as Madeline Bergman. She reveals that the Federation was gathering Zebesians and other deadly organisms to enhance them through cybernetics to serve as a for the Federation, modelled after the original. The project became disastrous when a 'certain presence' (Samus assumes she is referring to Ridley) caused the life forms to suddenly become aggressive beyond their control.Madeline reveals more; the scientists were propagating as well, cloned from remains of the baby found on Samus's after her return from Zebes. They unknowingly recreated Ridley as well. Madeline also reveals that an AI named 'MB', modelled after Mother Brain, had been created for the purpose of controlling the Metroids. MB and the Metroids were stored in. Madeline goes on to say that Adam is behind.

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Samus leaves for Sector Zero. Afterward, Madeline is approached by the Deleter, who shoots her.Arriving at the entrance to Sector Zero, Samus encounters a that reminds her of the hatchling from SR388. Before she can kill it, she is struck from behind, disabling her Power Suit. Samus recognizes her attacker as Adam, who kills the Metroid just as quickly. Adam claims that Metroids in Sector Zero were genetically manipulated to be, while assuming that infant Metroids have not grown into this invulnerability.

He also explains that he had written the Metroid report against the idea of using Metroids; although the Federation agreed, a small faction of the Federation went ahead with the project.Adam reveals that he plans to enter Sector Zero to set off its self-destruct mechanism and cause it to detach from the BOTTLE SHIP. He shot Samus to render her unable to storm past him. Before leaving, he orders Samus to locate a survivor in, to divert the BOTTLE SHIP off an intercept course with and to defeat Ridley. Despite her pleas, Adam leaves Samus for Sector Zero, which detaches with him inside and explodes.Swearing to finish the mission, Samus returns to the Bioweapon Research Center, and finds the body of, as well as the mummified remains of Ridley. She later discovers the Adam mentioned, who opens a large, dark room. A emerges from the chamber.

Samus faces the Queen in a difficult battle when the ship's emergency brakes suddenly become active. Samus resorts to an old tactic and grapples into the Queen's mouth to obliterate it with a through its stomach.Samus the 's flames.The survivor absconds. Samus chases the woman down, who identifies herself as Madeline Bergman. She explains that the woman Samus met earlier was actually in an form. At first, the android displayed amazing skill and learning capability, and developed a consciousness of sorts with the Metroids and a mother-daughter relationship with Madeline, but soon became self-aware.

She began to disagree with the scientists, to the point where they thought it was necessary to alter her programming. Feeling betrayed by the scientists and Madeline, who did nothing to help her, MB unleashed all of the experiments to run rampant throughout the station, leading to the current state of the BOTTLE SHIP.Samus and Madeline are then confronted by MB herself. Madeline attempts to negotiate with MB, who insists that all should be judged. MB is then frozen by a group of invading, but she quickly thaws off. MB summons the BOTTLE SHIP's most dangerous creatures to attack.

Madeline stops the battle by freezing MB again. On 's orders, MB is killed by the Marines. Madeline, devastated and heartbroken, is quickly restrained. The Colonel compliments Samus' efforts but orders a Marine to escort her back to her ship.

Much to everyone's surprise, the soldier reveals himself to be Anthony. He and Samus are thus allowed under the 's orders to take Madeline with them. The trio leave for.

On the journey home, Samus questions whether MB was truly evil all along, or misunderstood.Samus recovers Adam's helmet.Days after the incident, the Galactic Federation decides to destroy the BOTTLE SHIP by utilizing its self-destruct mechanism. Before this, Samus returns to recover an important treasure, which she finds in the after defeating, a boss that appeared in Super Metroid. The ship's is activated shortly afterward.

During a, Samus quickly escapes the BOTTLE SHIP with the helmet before it is destroyed.The events of follow.Development “If I can, I want the series to keep going. From here on, I think I want to develop Samus as a character. I might also create a story going back to the past of Adam and Samus.„—Sakamoto seemingly foreshadowing Other M in Nintendo Online Magazine (March 2003).Yoshio Sakamoto has said that the primary focus of the game was to show Samus' personality, since the Prime series left many players with their own idea of who she was, and he wanted her to be consistent for any future titles.

The game was also intended to seamlessly blend cutscenes with gameplay. As a result, the story and gameplay were developed simultaneously. Sakamoto said that he sees the game as another 2D Metroid game due to its simple controls and 'elegant' gameplay, and calls it an extension of.Sakamoto claimed later in an interview that he regretted absolutely nothing about the project and felt that very little could have changed or been done better. It entirely reflected his original vision of the game.

He was concerned about how the fans would take the feature's lack of movement, but he didn't want to add the confusion of figuring out where players were after switching between the two views; he anticipated backlash but felt it was still the right way to go.Many aspects of the original Metroid game came about due to technical limitations—he cited the as an example. They couldn't add any major changes to the code for upgrades, but simply changing enemies' color and collision settings led to one of the most iconic and dynamic features in the series. He sought to recreate these limitations in Other M's development by forcing the use of only one Wii Remote, hoping this would lead to inventive workarounds for issues rather than just powering through them like other companies do.Gameplay/differences from past gamesdoes not collect her in this game as in previous games. Rather, will her to use certain power-ups, as she has apparently retained all her items from rather than losing them prior to or at the beginning (except for the and the, which do not appear in the game at all). Some 'new' power-ups, such as the, and, are collected in a more traditional manner, however.Like on the in Super Metroid, no longer need to be shot with a beam to open; they open automatically on approach.If Samus is hit by an attack that would normally kill her, instead of dying, she will be put in a fatal state where her energy count will constantly flash 1 and 0. If she gets hit once more Samus will die.

This does not apply to, however.The pause menu, in addition to the traditional map and, features a new sub-menu, where Samus can view details on most of the people she has encountered on her mission.Enemies do not drop health and ammo, rather Samus generates them herself through a new game mechanic called. All missiles can be regenerated by holding the Wii Remote vertically and holding down the A button. If Samus' health is 24 or less with no energy tanks full, she can replenish one or more energy tanks (based on the number of E-Recovery Tanks she has) by holding the A button down longer after Missiles are regenerated. Through an, Samus will automatically target enemies with her weapons fire in third-person mode.There are four upgrades (three being new items) in the game. The upgrade that was previously used in other installments are the. The newer items are the which appears to be similar to the in, the, which increases the number of energy tanks filled when continuing after death or using the Concentration ability, and the upgrade, which increases how quickly Samus can perform a or.Besides the new upgrading system, Samus's character model has also changed as well.

The Power Suit is now yellowish in color (like in ), with a redder helmet, and Samus's face cannot be seen through the greenish glow emitting from her visor, unless in a cutscene. Samus only seems to activate the greenish glow during cutscenes when attacking or when she is under attack. The appears, but no longer alters the colour of the suit and instead adds a purplish glow and makes the lights on the suit pink.

It has the same use as other games.is also different in this game. It can only be obtained by beating Normal Mode with 100% item collection, which requires coming back and defeating the optional boss after the credits. The enemies in Hard Mode are identical to Normal Mode in that their attacks are the same and the damage output has increased, but they take no less damage from Samus' attacks. However, Samus is unable to acquire optional pickups such as, and upgrades, which limits her to 99 and 10 for the duration of the mission. Beating Hard Mode does not unlock any rewards, and the post-credits epilogue cannot be played.

The game is not saved after 's death, so loading a Hard Mode save after seeing the credits will place Samus at the last time she saved before the end of the game. If the player saves as often as possible, that means the save will be right before the battle.Finally, Samus has learned the ability to dodge when sensing an incoming attack, called. If an attack is about to hit Samus, pressing any direction on the control pad will cause her to dodge in the pressed direction, making her invulnerable for the duration of the dodge.

If the fire button is held down during this time, she can also instantly build up a fully charged shot while dodging. SenseMove cannot be used to dodge all attacks; some must still be jumped or otherwise avoided.Teaser siteNew fighting style seen in promotional images.revealed a small teaser site for the game on January 29, 2010, that consisted of an, a, and Samus speaking in Japanese, 'A dream. It's as if I was watching a playback of a tragedy that really happened.' Has also since been updated with the English-speaking line, 'A dream. I had been reliving the tragic moments of my recent past.' A short video titled, with no actual gameplay, was added to the on March 2, 2010.

A gameplay movie was also added to the site in late March 2010, showing off several features. On June 3, 2010, the entire Japanese site got revamped. On 21 August 2010, the English site was also updated to include the.