Like a fine wine.
Returning to the planet Zebes allowed me to re-experience the harbinger of both the modern Metroid game and the Metroid-vania sub-genre. So many of the tropes and overall structure of modern Metroid was introduced here: from the environmental storytelling, to the nonlinear and exploration-based progression, to a number of specific plot points that I can't mention because I didn't hit the Spoiler Warning button. For as much as I loved Metroid Dread, the game relied a bit too heavily on flashy cutscenes for its combat and dialoged-riddled cutscenes for its storytelling. By comparison, Super Metroid's biggest accomplishment is how it can do so much with so little.
This is one of the finest examples of how video games can be timeless. It paved the way for so many games to come, and it's a great game it its own right.
Returning to the planet Zebes allowed me to re-experience the harbinger of both the modern Metroid game and the Metroid-vania sub-genre. So many of the tropes and overall structure of modern Metroid was introduced here: from the environmental storytelling, to the nonlinear and exploration-based progression, to a number of specific plot points that I can't mention because I didn't hit the Spoiler Warning button. For as much as I loved Metroid Dread, the game relied a bit too heavily on flashy cutscenes for its combat and dialoged-riddled cutscenes for its storytelling. By comparison, Super Metroid's biggest accomplishment is how it can do so much with so little.
This is one of the finest examples of how video games can be timeless. It paved the way for so many games to come, and it's a great game it its own right.