User blog comment:Metroid Fan/The Problem with People Who Take Reviews as the Word of God/@comment-1672596-20110126224527

About 2D games not expressing emotions well, I'm pretty sure the Final Fantasy games (or at least Final Fantasy IV-VI) had actually managed to emulate some emotions from the characters. If they could do it, so could the 2D Metroid games. Besides which, not even the Prime games, which were 3D Metroid games, had her reacting in any way to Ridley like she did in Other M, not even in the first Prime, in which the revelation of Ridley surviving certainly would have been a shock. Even the whole PTSD excuse doesn't hold much water when you also remember that in the same manga, apparently Samus actually stated that she was no longer afraid of Ridley anymore before blowing him away with Missiles, which makes the fact that she reacted to Ridley in that manner even less sense in Other M since she technically would have been far over her fear of Ridley.