Of all of the characters in Nintendo’s stable of properties, there are none as intriguing as Samus Aran, the power-armor wearing space-faring bounty hunter from the Metroid series.
After 25 years it seems that not even the company that created her has a firm grasp on who they want Samus to be. She’s either a tough, no-nonsense ass-kicker or the person we saw in Other M. Kotaku reader InvadingDuck wrote up a decent sized essay on the history to the character and her portrayal from game to game and it’s definitely worth a read if you’re a fan of the series or the character of Samus.
Personally the Samus that always stuck with me was the one from Metroid Prime. As InvadingDuck mentions in his article, you can read Space Pirate data entries on Samus where she’s depicted as a nightmare-figure of sorts, a nearly mythological entity that can rip through their outposts almost unscathed. True, this version of Samus didn’t have much personality but it was certainly more palatable than the way Other M handled her.
So what do you guys think about InvadingDuck’s post? Who is Samus Aran to you?
Source – Kotaku
Is Samus anybody? I’m not trying to be a Nintendo troll here, but I think the beauty of their old school games is the simplicity of characters like Mario, Link, Samus. I think everyone keeps expecting games that are more mature than anything Nintendo wants to make, but I could be wrong about that. I admittedly have not played many Metroid games.