10 Dumbest Plot Reveals In Gaming History
3. Metroid: Other M - Madeline Is A Mother Brain Clone
Metroid games, throughout the annals of gaming, have always been pretty simple: bounty hunter kills evil forces. That's it, that's all we needed to keep the formula going. Samus is a badass, Ridley keeps coming back and the Metroids need stopping.
But when Team Ninja got their hands on the license, that's when it all got really stupid. One of Metroid's key selling points is the minimalism in the story, letting players go explore and bookend the plot instead.
Whereas Team Ninja thought that cribbing Aliens and making Samus a broody, suddenly parental would pass muster. It did not, but that's not the dumbest thing here.
No, the dumbest plot reveal in the game is that Madeline Bergmann, the missing scientist who led the Mother Brain research, is an artificial intelligence/clone of Mother Brain. And how sly is this reveal? Well, the project name is "MB", to show how subtle it is.
It's been long established that Mother Brain is the big evil in the series, controlling Ridley and Space Pirates. But making clones, that look and act human?
Too obvious, too predictable, and too daft for a Metroid game.