Metroid: Other M story was all Sakamoto, says Team Ninja
Metroid: Other M’s story was controversial to say the least. Samus spoke more than ever before, and did so in a pretty melodramatic way.
If you’re looking for someone to blame for the game’s story, it looks like you could point to Yoshio Sakamoto. Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi recently said that it “was definitely the product of Mr. Sakamoto”.
“The story for Other M was definitely the product of Mr. Sakamoto at Nintendo. We definitely worked with them on the project, but that was all him. For NG3, we’ve worked with Masato Kato to create our own story. It’s going to be different in a lot of ways. There are definitely things we learned from Other M by working with Mr. Sakamoto and with Nintendo that we’ve applied to the NG development. The actual story that you will experience here, however, will have a very different feel. A ‘Team Ninja’ feel, you might say.”
