Fine enough for what it is but it suffers from issues that would not have arisen had they been less faithful to Super Metroid and the template established in 2D. Endless backtracking, movement powers that are disempowering when used to motivate vertical play without an easily utilised free look camera, enemy design that doesn't support combat progression or world hostility, lack of sense of place similarly due to a lesser ability to survey it. Weapons feel wet, Samus can barely dodge attacks, and the boss design is pretty atrocious. I get it was a biggish deal but we had better shooters, and better console shooters, that knew how to compliment their backtracking without exciting terrain traversal as a slog; Prime, unlike Super, as a world just isn't enlivened with multivariate incidence. But who knows, maybe there would be no Dark Souls 1 without it, so minor pass.