When you spend time in a hot setting constantly taking damage, and you have a way of avoiding that damage but someone you respect hasn't said you can use it yet, would you take survival over respect? The system of gaining upgrades is a bit broken.

I don't glorify her personality. Yeah, I think she's supposed to be the strong and silent type, but she's still flawed. I see her as tending to be kinda cold, actually, and very blunt, often taking that bluntness too far.

Prime 3 did a really good job of characterizing Samus despite her not speaking. The game was fully voice-acted (anyone that says Other M was the first fully voice-acted Metroid obviously never played Prime 3), yet she still didn't speak. Just that silence alone does a ton of characterization for her, as she had plenty of opportunities to speak, but always chose not to, going with nods and other forms of body language for her communication. I just hope Retro picks up Metroid again, because they do Metroid a lot better than Nintendo does. Nintendo didn't have any involvement with the Prime Trilogy except for their name being on it. Retro did all of the work for those, and they turned out amazing.