/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9173803
it's not about the backlit crisp LCDs we got, but the dogshit dot matrices we had along the way

>>6485519
It's Mother Brain taunting Samus, her profession, and her humanity.

Mother Brain wants a confrontation, for revenge, hence why she doesn't make Tourian completely inaccessible. She could lead Samus straight into Tourian and kill her herself, but she wants to off Samus with something more poetic; the baby Metroid.

So she creates the statue lock, designing it to slow Samus down, rather than stop her entirely. This gives Mother Brain time to grow the baby Metroid to it's full potential.

I think revenge for Mother Brain is about more than just killing Samus - it's proving to her that's she's the superior life form, the superior living thing.

So she makes the lock into a gold statue, as a way of taunting Samus - implying she will always at heart be a bounty hunter, casting doubt on her motivation for returning to Zebes. Was she really worried about the baby Metroid, or was she actually only chasing the inevitable reward for killing Ridley and the other leaders?

Mother Brain has nurtured the baby Metroid to what she believes is it's full potential, while Samus abandoned it to live for herself, chasing bounties.

Mother Brain is trying to seriously unsettle Samus, implying that she’s cast aside her ‘natural role’ as a mother to chase the false god of money (the gold statue) by ‘becoming death’, while Mother Brain has successfully become MORE human - nurturing the baby Metroid, and creating life (albeit more Metroids).

She will calculate that the statue and it's symbolism will cause Samus to doubt her own humanity just before the surprise encounter with the baby Metroid - not to give it an edge, but to make Samus’ death in it's maw all the more miserable.

Of course, Mother Brain didn't consider that Samus and the baby Metroid might have bonded on a deeper level than just care-giver-and-receiver.

Obviously, the above is total wank. But that's really the point of details like the statue, the wrecked ship, the dead human in Kraid’s lair.