Masterful animation, excellent presentation, and truly brilliant moments of progression are brought down by needlessly cryptic layouts, and at times, strangely clunky movement controls.

Super Metroid takes just a little bit too much pleasure in wasting your time, and despite being much more playable and user-friendly than the NES original, is stingy when it comes to explaining just about anything - Better just inherently know you can't get under 3 energy tanks at the final boss!