It's not dumb. It's a simple process of elimination. You already know it's either James or K.G., so once you find James, the thought process simply goes something like, "Here's James's body, so K.G. was the one dumped in lava, meaning James here was the deleter." After that, you can make the connection as to why James died in the lab and later discover some of the clues that were left earlier in the game.

They probably should've had Samus mention something about it during the final cutscene. Like 'I still can't figure out who it was' or something to that effect since there were only 2 possibilities left in her mind (Maybe only 1 if you look at the characters page).

Samus: The Deleter was actually... unmasks James Old man Jenkins James Pierce!
Anthony: James? But why?!
James: I wanted the gold that was hidden in a secret vault on the ship! And it would've been mine, too, if it hadn't been for that meddling bounty hunter and her obnoxious android!

Clear enough for you now, SkullMan?

Because the game itself never acknowledges it.

I don't think the game needs to. As explained above, there's only one possibility. It's not a mystery in any sense; if you pay attention to the clues, there is absolutely, positively only one possible solution. The last thing we need is yet another moment where Samus pauses to lengthily explain something to us that we already know.

I actually liked that the game didn't sit us down and walk us through the clues and explain who the deleter was. Why should it? Surely we've all sat through films, or TV shows, or even books that spend far too much time explaining to us something that we've guessed hours ago. It's a frustrating process, and it makes the characters seem like imbeciles for figuring something out long after the audience has moved on. It was a nice bit of narrative restraint in a game that could otherwise have used a lot more of it.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/...

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watch this!

It's an awful review.
That's all.

I love that guy's reviews they always make me laugh. Best review ever because what he's saying is funny but it's also spot on. I like he to gets angry about the deleter storyline being completely dropped. And Samus' terrible voice acting and the terrible dialogue. Her freezing up during the boss fight with Ridley after she's fought and defeated him a gazillion times. I can help but feel the Japanese developers forced their skewed perceptions of females onto Samus with her almost appearing to be a little helpless girl with daddy issues and just wanting to be loved, and hurt the series. This isn't Final Fantasy, it's Metroid.

Its just like AVGN reviews, hilarious, and not to be taken seriously.

I think you misinterpret these reviews. The funny thing is is that they are to be taken seriously by pointing out legitimate faults with games and but in a very funny ranting raving manner. They take what we all feel about the games and just rip on it and present it in a way that makes them really funny. But in the end they are still real reviews.

When your primary concern is making people laugh, you're a humorist.

When your primary concern is evaluating the positive and negative aspects of a piece of work, you're a reviewer.

Yahtzee is a humorist. And he makes no secret of that. That's not to say that he can't make legitimate points along the way (he does), but when he himself says within one of his videos that he's intentionally going to belittle a game rather than admit it's good because that's what his viewers prefer (see the Bioshock episode), he's kind of sacrificing the right to be thought of as a serious reviewer.

Reviewers don't go into games looking for reasons to hate them, but, by his own admission, that's exactly what Yahtzee does. Because it's funnier. Not because it leads to a sounder review.

Terrible dialogue, yes, but Samus's voice acting was pretty good for the internal monologues of a loner. For the last time, Samus froze up upon finding Ridley not just because of their history but because he was supposed to finally be dead.

I agree with this so much. I loved Samus's narrative most of the time, but there were many times when she really should've just kept quiet. For instance, when Adam called her an outsider, it would've been much more effective if she said little or nothing about it. I don't need her to tell me that it's a cold statement, and her "pierced my heart" line simply made me cringe and ruined the mood.

It was this montage of design flaws that brought the game down for me. The post game locked doors, the unnecessary and occasionally badly-written dialog... Gah. Annoying.

its worth noting that Samus has only defeated Ridley twice at the time Other M takes place. and he murdered her family.

also, during my 2nd playthrough (during the epilogue) I checked out the "Story" section of the menu, and the little bit about K.G.'s mysterious unknown whereabouts is a nice implication of the Deleter's identity. not that I care who the Deleter is. it was a pretty pointless plot thread IMO.

Ridley was the little mouse thing. Anybody else figure that out? A huh huh huh.

hahaha. that was hilarious. i could not disagree more, but hilarious nonetheless.

...but now he's dead for good, right?

Wow. That summed up the game better than anything I've seen AND it ties into my Other M question:

Why DOES Adam Malkovich sacrifice himself in Sector 0? Samus blows stuff up all the time and she never goes down with the ship. Is there something else in there he didn't want her to see? Even stranger than Adam not letting you enter Sector 0 is after it's destroyed MB is still terrorizing the Research Facility. Isn't that why you were going to Sector 0 in the first place? To kill the new Mother Brain who we now know to be linked to Melissa? It seems like the only reason Samus goes to Sector 0 is to watch Malkovich die in an unnecessary fireball of glory.

@Gamesake
by the way, I was totally wrong. I had no idea the Prime series takes place BEFORE the events of Super Metroid. So, yeah. Samus has totally killed Ridley like a million times.

Actually, the Prime games describe in great length and detail that Ridley didn't die in Metroid, Metroid Prime, and the opening of 3. The end of 3 is up for debate, but...eh. As of Other M, this is the first game to say flat out "Ridley is dead."

Adam sacrifices himself because he thinks MB and unfreezable Metroids are inside Sector 0 (And at that point, so do you and Samus). It's only until AFTER THE FACT that you find out that MB was not in Sector 0. Unfreezable Metroids were definitely there, but not MB, who is in actuality Melissa. It's supposed to be tragic and somewhat ironic, especially if you look at Metroid Fusion.