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Unfortunately for him, Samus arrived early. Also, Samus speculated in her monologues that Madeline Bergman must have been the one who set the facility's system to self-destruct. This implied that James was not responsible for that. He was probably planting explosives when Samus first saw him under the system. As Samus and the 07th Platoon are rushing to the site, they may have completely overlooked Lyle's body, the Demolitions Expert of the team.
It would explain why Lyle, the first person sent to Sector 1 was not the first to arrive. James may have killed Lyle for his explosives and tossed his body into the shrubbery so no one would immediately notice it. By coincidence, Little Birdie would find a snack and cover up James' work by turning Lyle's body into rags. The guidebook confirmed that James was ultimately killed by MB which was an action that she would be capable of due to her superhuman strength.
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There's a bunch of other stuff that happens relating to Madeline, Mother Brain and an android gone insane, which I'll omit for the sake of focus. At the end of the game, Anthony is found to have narrowly escaped death during the scuffle with Ridley. Everyone else from the platoon is confirmed dead on the pause menu's character roster except K.
G, who Samus writes off as missing. By process of elimination, K. With everyone else's actions throughout the story, the only two candidates who had any chance of being the Deleter are Adam himself, and James. Given Adam's back story and the fact that he spends almost the entire game sitting in his command chair and gleefully watching Samus dehydrating without her Varia Suit upgrade, he is unlikely to be the culprit.
Why would he go to the lengths of cutting incoming communication with his own radio, anyway? The most likely scenario is that James was the spy the Federation placed onto Adam's team, who goes about sabotaging things and killing people.
His actions at the Biosphere suggest he was the one who corrupted the computer and blew up the lab. As he was tasked with killing any survivors who may have known what the Fed was up to onboard the Bottle Ship, he eventually confronted MB, thinking she was an innocent researcher.
Instead, she turned out to be a psychotic android with the personality of the Mother Brain uploaded into her memory, and he died for his mistake. Why this was never explicitly revealed in the game is unknown, but while an odd choice not to give the proper explanation, it made for some interesting conversation topics around the time the game launched. Having to work things out for yourself is not only fun, but also fits in with the cryptic style of the Metroid series.
So there you have it. Are my deductions sound, or nothing more than insane conspiracy theories? Does it really matter? Any theories of your own to share? What say you, fellow sleuths? I've been among those Metroid fans who have tried to put things in perspective with regards Other M, and generally I feel that Other M was a fun game. Having said that, I could not care less about the characters or the story which are the epitome of forgettable.
I guess it's cool that some fans out there care enough to spend time piecing the story together, because the developers sure as hell didn't. Uh oh The whole Deleter sub-plot was completely botched. The writing and timing of the scenes was done so poorly that people who beat the game still didn't understand that James was the deleter, since the game never flat-out went and said it, and there were even people doubting KG's death since the game says his body was "missing.
Beyond Adam's death, MOM's plot never results to anything other than a sidestory. A gaiden perhaps? She doesn't even kill Ridley. She also lets everyone around her die - including failing to protect Anthony Higgs, who is just too much of a badass that he can take care of himself. It plays out more or less that Samus is there on the Bottle Ship, and all these events play out around her, with her only being important to the story at very few, short moments.
The whole mission is just worthless. Even at the very end, Samus's "intrusion" didn't really get her very far, and the GFeds "take over" and then blow up the damn ship to try to erase their mistake. It might be why no one likes the game's story. We're given bits of plot development while we play the game, but when all those bits are put together in sequence, it doesn't enhance that experience in the slightest.
Not even in an "icing-on-cake" sort of way. Instead, the cake is kinda moldy, falling apart, and made with rotten eggs. Even though it was baked by 3 different cooks! C'mon Nintendo, why don't you just dangle the carrot in front of our faces a little harder next time. Quote: Having things to work things out for yourself is not only fun, but also fits in with the cryptic style of the Metroid series.
That is your opinion and you're entitled to it. But, if you have any questions, I'll answer them for you. The writing and timing of the scenes was done so poorly that people who beat the game still didn't understand that James was the deleter, since the game never flat-out went and said it.
Maybe I got lucky but I thought it was pretty clear. Then again, everyone knows I place a lot of emphasis on plot and pay a LOT of attention to it. I even have begun writing a monthly piece on narrative in games over at NegativeWorld. I was also lucky enough to be invited to sit on a panel discussion of video game narratives at a near-by college last month. That said, it's nice that every once in a while we get a game that doesn't feel it has to talk down to these dumb gamers and "flat-out went and said it.
MOM's biggest problem is the entire plot is completely worthless in the grand scheme of things. The Deleter succeeded in killing Maurice Favreau and K. Misawa , possibly even Lyle Smithsonian , though Lyle's death may have been caused by a number of the hazardous creatures aboard the ship, such as Little Birdie.
The Deleter has already destroyed the Exam Center, and done away with Maurice. However, Samus meets MB, a witness to Maurice's death.
Samus hurries MB away just in time, and deals with the Ferrocrusher herself. When Samus "defeats" the Ferrocrusher, it suddenly begins moving erratically, either by malfunction or Deleter's design, and creates enough havoc for the Deleter to vanish without notice. Samus, suddenly alone, moves on to other areas, while the Deleter gets to the Pyrosphere. He does, however, find out about it through experience.
After being flash frozen, K.
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