I assume people will come flame me. This is my first time playing any Metroid games. So, I have no nostalgia glasses or memories attached. That’s probably my problem. Anyways, here was my issues with it:

I’ve been playing them in order but doing the remakes (if any) rather than their original releases. So first I played Zero Mission then Samus returns on 3DS and now I am on Super Metroid.

Super Metroid is very clearly where every game in exploration action comes from. It’s definitely the defining moment in the genre that shaped gaming and still does. My issues with it were the ones that were definitely fixed in the remakes and those in the genre today: navigation, flexibility of combat and progression.

All three of those really caused me trouble in SM and constantly getting lost was frustrating. The icing on the cake, though, was how I thought I knew where I was going only to run into walls or unsure how to continue.

Going through that again and again tilted me. The other two I played, yeah, I got lost but it wasn’t for very long. SM was almost hellbent on making me backtrack in a way that made me wanna throw my controller.

I decided to instead, move to Metroid Fusion and just read the plot instead of playing it.

WHY DID THEY DO MY BABY METROID LIKE THAT
WHY
I AM SO UPSET
MY BABY NOOOOOOOOO

Anyways, that reveal would’ve made me cry

Just kidding, I cried reading the f***ing wikipedia article. I’m real upset my baby died…

ANYWAYS. Looking forward to Fusion. Sorry that I didn’t like it you guys. I feel like a failure but I’d rather have fun instead of fighting through something I don’t like.