This is the same case as Metroid 1, the remake is so much better that it doesn't make sense to start with that one (I only started out of stubbornness), the problem with this game is the graphics that make it look like you're inside a cave made of poop , the camera which is obviously at the beginning of the 3d era and also the textures that will allow you to know what is graspable and what is not,
the game is so ugly that I can't tell what's entry and what's solid (I don't know), the combat is very slow and sometimes it's hard to know what you're doing and, yeah... I dropped this game at one stage boring with running water where I needed to get 3 contraptions to make something work, but it's that thing I already knew what to do,
but imagine me going to the "right path" taking the contraption without knowing about that thing that makes that other thing appear (maybe that broken bridge) and then I ask myself "okay now what? what do I do, where to go?", yeah very enigmatic and the camera as always doesn't help at all, I tried to get these 3, but it didn't work,
I felt tired in the game and look, I continued and was at that stage and if I continue the game and I'm already tired of that stage it's because there's something wrong with it.

Anyway, just like Metroid 1, play the remake (Anniversary Edition), only play this one out of curiosity or difficult access to the remake.