I can for the most part understand why people gave this game such glowing reviews back in the day Retro was able to take the Metroid formula and effortlessly convert it into 3D which is double impressive for this game being the studio's first game and how it seemed like a project that was doomed from the start since Nintendo didn't seem to care what retro was doing hence why their founder was using the money given to him to host porn sites

I'd say the biggest gripe I have with this game is kind of how slow it is compared to something like Super Metroid but that's understandable when you're working with an fps framework the thing I just plain got annoyed about was the sheer amount of backtracking there is compared to super or even fusion it just got tedious

overall a game that holds up well to this day and is another game that reminds me of the best generation gaming being the GameCube era they also did a mostly fantastic game job remastering this game taking an already really good-looking game and made it better the only cons being it can get overly dark and hard to see in some areas and the thermal visor looking like ass