A surprising jump in quality over the first game, for being on a system not much more advanced than the NES itself, and lacking one thing the NES had, color. I found myself being led fairly easily through this game, and I didn't get stuck unlike how I got stuck several times with the original.

But little did players at the time know that this was just the chrysalis stage of Metroid, a prelude to the beautiful butterfly that would emerge just a few years later...

Reviewed on Aug 25, 2022


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