Would you be upset if it was suddenly revealed that Link was revealed to be the flaming lover of Ganon and all of his battles with him are actually lover's spats? Cause I assume that isn't what you currently feel the Legend of Zelda series is about.
I dislike the game because it has a shit story. That's enough for me.
And that's all you had to say. Trying to make it about other things when it's not is not doing you any favors.
Also, given the surfeit of Links, one of him and Ganon being Butt buddies could happen.
Your point about 'what you feel the story is about' is kind of pointless, though, unless you were complaining about this direction back when Fusion came out.
Wait, what the heck? Samus has always been a character that's never had a problem with gender issues. This new iteration engenders her problems. I'm not trying to say that her gender is irrelevant to her character. It's very relevant. The first time you learn she's a girl is in itself a pretty nuanced commentary ("Shame on you for assumung she was a guy"). The big thing is that it was purposefully played down to emphasize her as "Archetype A" and not "Archetype B." She's a girl... just because she so happens to be a girl.
What this game does is remove her from the category which includes Duke Nukem and Master Chief
A deliberate parody of over the top heroes and a silent, personalityless ubermensch?
and puts her into the same category as say, Buffy or Xena. And it's really aggravating because it reads that as a woman, Samus must be portayed as having "woman issues" in order to make her believable. I think I mentioned before that it seems like the issue could have been easily avoidable. The plot doesn't even have to change that much, even minor changes like dialogue/vocal delivery/facial expressions can change things a LOT.
Not to say there's anything wrong with Buffy or Xena though (Buffy is one of my all-time favourite characters). But their characters
You seem to have dropped off mid sentence.
In any case, I don't see these as being so much 'women's issues,' so much as humanity issues from a raised warrior. If Samus is stressing her femininity, it might be as a way of stressing her humanity. Soldiers often have issues with fears about slowly eroding their humanity, especially after lots of combat. Samus was a child, with her home taken from her, effectively raised as a Soldier.
Would it help to say that I'm not really a fan of the Metroid series and don't really give a crap about Samus (unless she's raping Snake)?
No, actually. Because you don't have to be a major fan of your series to craft the idea of a character in your mind without learning much about that character.
It can work, but you'd need a similar 'raised as a Soldier' character with fears of losing his humanity, in the 'I crush all I touch' fear. It would work best if delivered by a very large man with a very deep voice.
Or a game where Dante becomes a stoic, depressive hero who it too much aligned with his demonic origin.
OH WAIT.
A somewhat different scenario in that Dante was established as something far different, and this was a radical change. Other M is taking Samus in a known direction. Too far in that direction, possibly, but an existing one.
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