Yeah. Samus is, and has always been a strong character.
However, people nowadays focus more on her sex appeal than what makes her the strong female character she is.
Plus, the game designers could have just as easily made her dress in less sexier clothes, and it wouldn't have altered her characterisation at all.
And who said that I'm a feminist?
This is still a video game character we're talking about. Samus wears precisely what the developers want her to wear.
And the main issue that we're discussing is still that she used to be regarded, despite her even more sexualized clothes in the past, primarily as a strong female character, and now as more of a sex symbol. I might have gone too far ranting about the first Metroid games, but.....you know, she's one of my childhood heroes. I don't care if people #%&# off to her, but when that becomes the main reason why she's in the games, that is taking it too far.