A recent Metroid: Other M trailer promoted the game by taking us through the series' history. The Japanese TV commercial ties the game to the past even more directly, showing the original NES game morphing into Other M gameplay footage. The ad even goes so far as to declare this "a Famicom game with the latest technology," a tagline that also came up several times in the last Iwata Asks interview.

Meanwhile, the American commercial focuses on the "other M," as in: melodrama -- total melodrama. See the slow-motion, live-action TV spot unfold just below the Japanese ad after the break.