Literally genre-defining;: Another "gold-standard" game.
There have been countless metroidvania games released since Super Metroid -many of them extremely good (I'm looking at you, Hollow Knight, SotN)- but every time I return to this game, I can't help but think it's the best of the lot.
It's so tightly designed, and has a great "show, don't tell" way of directing the player that really shouldn't work as well as it does in such a huge, convoluted maze of a game world.
There have been countless metroidvania games released since Super Metroid -many of them extremely good (I'm looking at you, Hollow Knight, SotN)- but every time I return to this game, I can't help but think it's the best of the lot.
It's so tightly designed, and has a great "show, don't tell" way of directing the player that really shouldn't work as well as it does in such a huge, convoluted maze of a game world.