Watch Metroid: Other M Again After You Beat It

Metroid head honcho Yoshio Sakamoto expect that players will miss out on a few things while playing Metroid: Other M, and they've come up with an interesting way to help fill in those gaps. After beating the game, players will unlock a new mode that's designed to provide insight on the game's story, expose gameplay secrets and more.

"There's a 'theater mode' that lets you view all of the cutscenes linked together seamlessly as a single movie," Sakamoto explained in an interview with Famitsu that was posted by 1UP. "We placed just as much weight on enjoying the story as we did on the action aspects of this game, but it's hard to fully communicate a storyline in a video game with just one playthrough. At the same time, though, it's asking a lot of players to beat the game twice to get it all, so that's where the idea for that mode came from. It lets you make a lot of discoveries, things you missed or dialogue that makes more sense in retrospect. I hope it helps people understand the story better."

In theater mode, players can watch about two hours of video, split into chapters, which combine the cutscenes and prerecorded gameplay segments. As Sakamoto says, the gameplay segments aren't based on player actions. "I wanted to do that," Sakamoto said, "but we're using our own sample play data instead because that's also a way of giving the player hints -- like, you can beat this particular boss this way too, and so forth."

It's certainly an interesting way to explain things, without resorting to codex entries or things of that nature.