I know that it's sacrilege to not praise Super Metroid to the high heavens, but without any nostalgia attached to it and without a particular affinity towards the Metroidvania genre, I simply was not having a good time playing this game.

I can appreciate the groundwork that this game has built for game design in general, but playing in 2021, there are just too many factors that go against what's considered a fun and fluid game, and I can't make the same argument for other major SNES titles that have aged more gracefully.