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Nintendo on why it's taken so long for another 2D Metroid, Metroid: Other M criticisms
Coming from a Kotaku interview with Nintendo's Yoshio Sakamoto...
On why it’s taken so long to make a new 2D Metroid game:
Sakamoto: I’m working on other titles outside of Metroid, of course. I’ve been fairly busy with stuff. There’s a lot of timing involved when all the pieces fall into place, and we have the ability to do some of these things we’ve been thinking about for a long time. I guess for us the timing was two years ago. Or now.
On how criticism of Metroid: Other M has affected the depiction of Samus
Sakamoto: To be honest, as far as wanting to change that depiction of Samus, I made what I wanted to make. It did give me some momentum, I guess, and the ability to look at Samus from a new viewpoint, and maybe reconsider what I wanted to show about her.