Actually, it's her "emo teenager working for the Galactic Federation years", but yeah, except that the actual gameplay will take place between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion (assuming that there are no flashback segments). She's still an orphan raised by bird people, given that nothing in any of the materials has suggested that her backstory is going to be changed in any way. It's just going to be expanded upon.

http://media.strategywiki.org/images...NES_Ending.png
So, Other M, maybe.

Yeeeeaaaaaaaaah, you're kinda goin a bit crazy there Magus. They've given us so little information saying Other M means Metroid is ruined foreverhttp://images.wikia.com/transformers...ed_forever.jpg is jumping the gun pretty hard.

The JPN dub is better than the English one: http://www.metroid.jp/

Too bad the actual writing sucks balls.

Not disagreeing.

EDIT: Well, for what little has been released anyway.

Oh c'mon you guys are going way too hard on the writing here...

Sure, you can SEE they are pushing very very hard for a "this is a deep personal story" angle here, but the effort itself is totally valid, and considering all the variables surrounding this title, i think we should be glad they are going for a more "Personal Drama" angle...

Samus could easily be another One liner spouting cardboard cutout, they seem to be at least giving it a honest try to give her another dimension, i would wait a little longer before going after the writing

Trailer in a nutshell: "I was young. But that was a long time ago...when I was young. And a child. And youthful. I was so young then."

distant gaze, cut to logo

"Mother. Time to go!

I don't know about you guys, but I never cared about Samus. She always felt bland and nothing more than an avatar for you to use and explore this world with. Considering I never cared for games with little sense of direction, Metroid and Super Metroid never really managed to catch my attention the way it seemed to do with everyone else (On that note I don't get all the hatred for Fusion just because it couldn't be sequence-broken like the others, but w/e). Then Metroid Prime (At least I think Prime did it first >.>) brought the concept of reading all the lore and backstory of the planet gradually as you explored to the game, and kept me interested enough to finish the game.

Other M is trying to make Samus, not her environment, the rich experience this time around. I'll have faith in them, and will probably enjoy the game regardless because I'm a sucker for the Metroid series after Prime.

Then again, I only just started Prime 2 last week, so I'm probably not a big enough Metroid nerd to have an opinion here :P

You're basing this analysis on a pair of trailers and a few minutes of leaked opening-cutscene gametime. By this logic, anyone who says a snappy one-liner or something similar pre/post-asskicking is a one-liner spouting cardboard cutout.

Don't add story if the story is going to suck.
 

One liners are objectively terrible writing. The only time they work is when the person writing is doing it with an intent of cheesy terribleness. Hell, this is a terrible one liner even compared with other one liners, and that's how the game starts. If that's what their idea of good writing is, why should we have any hope that it will improve later on?