Excellent Pokémon clone, equally excellent classic Final Fantasy. Its anime as hell story super charges both the humor and the melodrama while paying tribute to a legendary series in the dumbest most Ready Player One way possible. The extremely good kind of junk food

Old and musty as fuck but still worth playing. Spend a weekend poking your way through it and you will be hypnotically engaged, despite the general NES Nonsense of it. Still has my favorite ending theme of any Metroid game

The first game i ever beat, the first game to scare me, to make me understand storytelling in games, and the first game to make me cry. A truly fantastic final boss of an angry mother trying to protect her last child and a uniquely beautiful ending afterwards. This was 1991 and it was pushing the medium of storytelling forward light-years without saying a word

All time classic with THE best final act of any video game I have ever played. A culmination of 3 games worth of story only silent spoken and it beats everything from Final Fantasy 6 all the way to The Witcher 3 in terms of impact. Still the best Metroidvania game, proving RPG mechanics are a (fun!) crutch to this core style of game

Probably the game i have replayed the most. Excellent game, flawed only by being a followup to a perfect ending. I do not care even one bit about it being "too linear" as imo i just play the games one single way every single time so it doesn't matter to me

All of Metroids strengths are amplified in 3 dimensions, as now you get to be directly faced with the environment you are in. In this game, you cure a planet of Cancer and I for some reason think thats beautiful

Secretly the best Prime game, possibly my favorite Metroid game in terms of story. Feels like a polished redo of the previous game. Plagued my 10 year old brain with nightmares when it came out. Still suffer from that to this day

Underrated entry! Has the best worldbuilding in terms of logbook stuff. The dialogue i could do without though. In this one, you nearly drive yourself to insanity to kill the Cancer at its source. Good ending to the trilogy, but not quite as excellent as Super

Kinda sucks, but a decent game shockingly enough. Barely Metroid in my estimation, but as a DS FPS its functional and exciting

Best raw game of the series, but a little too slight to stack up to the hours of hypnotic immersion of Super. Probably the best remake of all time imo so there's that

Excellent remake of my precious Metroid 2, but still not quite as good. Does a ton of magic in terms of level design and puzzle solving. If Mercury Steam made an original Metroid game, it'd be the best on, easily.

Wins over AM2R purely because its actually canon and will affect the series going forward

More boring than anything else. I only beat it one time cause I give up halfway, and I've beaten Hunters like 5 times. Yeah the story sucks and is hilariously melodramatic, but I'm a Kingdom Hearts fan so it doesn't faze me. The unrelenting tedium of the game is too much

The current pinnacle of storytelling in video games as a medium. If you are writing a game with an "interesting" story, play this and pour over it and then throw your trash away and start over. An ode to everything beautiful and fun about B-tier media and the best possible way to end the PS4 generation

Perfect Wyatt Game. Saturday Morning Cartoon Doom Mixed With Metroid Prime

While Something holds it back from being truly perfect, it stand shoulder to shoulder with the best in the series and has some of the greatest thrills you could ask for in a modern Nintendo game. More importantly, it fulfilled a lifetime of expectations and joy and left me hopeful again for the future of a series I was positive was dead forever