God there were so many good ideas here but it fell flat on its face. The overall gameplay was actually better than I was expecting and sideways Wii remote was weird but simple enough to get used to, and it was surprisingly fun. The combat took a lot of the good parts of Prime and the main series and put them together in a pretty solid way (except you can't move in first person, why?).

However, exploration - the most important part of any search action/metroidvania game - sucks so much. The game is constantly restricting you (I don't mean the restricted suit powers), they really tried to crack down on any kind of sequence breaking by throwing invisible walls everywhere (even when bomb jumping you hit an invisible wall if you go above a low height), locking doors behind you constantly, and just overall taking any thought or enjoyment out of running through the space station. Atmosphere is okay, but nothing special. I can't remember any of the music in this game, even though I finished it minutes ago.

Dear lord what was that story. I heard it was bad but I was not expecting it to be that bad. I don't even know if it had any themes (what does "other m" mean anyway??) to it, it was just "Samus goes here does stuff with Fed army and her old CO". There was nothing necessary in the story that made this game worthwhile, even if it explains some things in Fusion, those were not necessary explanations to justify how bad this is. I'm totally fine with Samus having emotions and expressing herself more but not the way it happened in this game. It's almost laughable just how bad the story was.

Overall, I really wish this game had good writing. Even if the story doesn't matter at all, it would have at least made this game more enjoyable, at least if they were going to restrict the player this bad.

Giving it a 2 star because at least the gameplay was pretty fun.