The more time passes, the more feminine they seem to need to make her. Nobody likes strong butch girls, right?
She was always sexy and very feminine remember before Zero Mission the Zero Suit she wore a girly pink swimsuit and later sexy black underwear under her armor. I'm glad Other M didn't scare them into trying to make her overly PC and boring.
So are you saying that powerful women can't enjoy wearing high heels? Samus is A woman after all, and who's to say that she can't enjoy having A nice pair of high heels, and a good looking space suit. I really want her to have a solid character, and good emotional core, but for goodness sakes, let to woman enjoy her high heels. She must have saved up a lot of money killing metroids to get those.
That argument makes sense when talking about a real person, who has the freedom to make that choice, but Samus is a video game character who's personality and wardrobe is decided by someone else. 'Samus' didn't choose to wear high heels, her character designers gave her high heels.
As far as the heels go, I have never heard anybody utter the phrase, "Heels are just so comfortable and easy to walk in!" Because they aren't. Heels aren't comfortable for even standing in, why would a hardened warrior with an entire life's worth of combat experience decide that foot wear that isn't practical for everyday use, is somehow practical for heated combat?
I don't see why being a female character automatically means she's gonna want to wear heels. Maybe she might like to go topless and Little Mac might wanna wear heels. Sure, everyone, or at least nearly everyone, wants to wear nice clothes or look pretty or whatever every once in a while. And it's not the heels themselves that bother me. If she was going to a fancy party or having a girls' night on the town or anything where heels would make sense, it'd be fine.
But she's going to fight in them. If you went to war wearing heels, you would definitely break your ankles. If you look at a list of pros and cons for heels, all of the cons would be health and practicality related and the pros aesthetically related. There is literally no practical reason for wearing heels to fight.
As far as I've heard, they're just boosters intended to strengthen her leg power to allow her to perform on equal footing with the varia suit. I haven't seen anything that states that they do anything beneficial to her balance. If they come up and say something like,"The heels use electromagnetic pulses to improve her balance and maintain her center of gravity" or something to that effect, then I'll stop caring, assuming that whatever reason they came up with didn't sound like bullshit. It's just the sheer impracticality of the design that irritates me.
And yeah Other M shouldn't ruin the series. Was it a step in the wrong direction? Absolutely, but if Devil May Cry can come back from the 2ND game being so bad even the Director of the 1st game was like "That was a mistake that shouldn't have been allowed to happen" then Metroid should be fine.
My friend and I were talking about it, and we kind of realized that the heels would have to be there because the power suit also has high heels. In addition, being on the the balls of your feet actually does help your movement by making you more agile (at least in my experience while taking karate) so I don't think it's that bad. Granted, as a guy, I've never actually worn high heels, so I dunno if they ignore the whole "being on the balls of your feet makes you faster" thing.
In Brawl, and as far as I'm aware most other games, the varia suit doesn't have any significant heel height and is barely any, if at all, taller than the heels of her zero suit. I haven't seen any new official images of varia suit Samus so unless they redesigned it too, that can't be the reason for her heels. It would be a valid explanation though, besides the fact that I'm pretty sure the power suit accomplishes all the same things the heels do which defeats the purpose of wearing the them.
And heels don't really work that way. The way they raise the heel forces you to stand on your toes while balancing on your heel. I don't know a lot about karate, do you ever need to stand on your toes for any significant amount of time? To get an idea of balancing on heels, imagine trying to balance on a pole the size of your thumb for several hours with absolutely no support.
Frankly, heels serve no practical purpose whatsoever. All of the pros of wearing them are strictly cosmetic and there's a laundry list of negative short and long term effects that come with wearing them. She will break her legs fighting in those.
Zachary_Nox said: And yeah Other M shouldn't ruin the series. Was it a step in the wrong direction? Absolutely, but if Devil May Cry can come back from the 2ND game being so bad even the Director of the 1st game was like "That was a mistake that shouldn't have been allowed to happen" then Metroid should be fine.
The problem is these high heels indicate they are staying the course of Other M. It's a lot like saying 'DMC2 was great and under appreciated, but if we make more games like it then people will see how much better it was than the first.'
And the whole underwear thing is entirely different. She wasn't wearing it into combat. The only times you saw it was if she dies (her armor being blown off), and if you beat the game under a par time (mission is over, time to relax). Absolutely nothing like wearing high heels into combat.
I love her new upgraded design; the heels and the flowing yellow energy. I can't wait to see her alternate costume if she has one and her badass black color.
In Brawl, and as far as I'm aware most other games, the varia suit doesn't have any significant heel height and is barely any, if at all, taller than the heels of her zero suit. I haven't seen any new official images of varia suit Samus so unless they redesigned it too, that can't be the reason for her heels. It would be a valid explanation though, besides the fact that I'm pretty sure the power suit accomplishes all the same things the heels do which defeats the purpose of wearing the them.
And heels don't really work that way. The way they raise the heel forces you to stand on your toes while balancing on your heel. I don't know a lot about karate, do you ever need to stand on your toes for any significant amount of time? To get an idea of balancing on heels, imagine trying to balance on a pole the size of your thumb for several hours with absolutely no support.
Frankly, heels serve no practical purpose whatsoever. All of the pros of wearing them are strictly cosmetic and there's a laundry list of negative short and long term effects that come with wearing them. She will break her legs fighting in those.
And yeah, I'm not feeling the neon yellow.
This is Samus Aran we're talking about. The woman can spin backwards in mid-air, and turn herself into a ball at will, WITHOUT hardcore injury to her spine. She can take fighting in high heels.
I don't have a problem with the heals. They look good in game, and the color matches her hair color nicely. As far as the practicality of heels in combat, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief because it's future tech. Even if she wore full boots, I'm not sure rocket boots would be terribly practical in real life. The only complaint I have about her design is her... increased assets. If I didn't know any better, I'd think Project Soul made her design.
but Samus herself can't be judged the same as a modern human.
She is a modern media character made by a modern human and looks like a modern human, therefore she is judged by the standards of a modern human, I thought that had always been the way fiction works. The same reason why characters like Gilgamesh becomes a handsome man in golden armor in Fate series instead of a musclebound tank of an "attractive" man with a whole mane of beard as the depictions in his original epic would imply.
While extremely common for both gender, the liberty of "design over practicality" in woman is often more frowned upon, probably due to the common trope in RPGs where male armor gets bulkier and more decorated in every upgrade but women gets bikini armor.
For a modern media character who is a gamer's symbol of warrior woman, some people may consider her "feminization" with the use of high heels here as being contradicting to what she stands for, more than actually how practical it is.
Or you know, they just don't like how the heels is designed and think the neon yellow is too distracting to the eyes.
I'm not a huge fan of the mole, but it's really not a big deal. Overall, I really like the new look of the Zero Suit.
My problem, like many other people, is with the heels. I understand that even though she's a badass, she can still be feminine. The problem is, heels have never been, nor will they ever be practical. They look nice, but even in regular conditions, they're a pain in the ass to wear, and she's trying to FIGHT in those things. I don't care if she has Chozo enhancements, or if those heels are "futuristic" fighting in high-heels is not fucking possible.
I mean, look at her shoes in Brawl. Those were fine. If she had been given rocket shoes, it would have made MUCH more sense. They would have still accomplished the intended purpose, without being as impractical as a toothbrush without bristles. Not to mention, they would actually FIT inside the Varia Suit, unlike the heels.