After playing this I think I prefer 2D Metroids, but this entry definitely has a lot of cool things going for it. All of the weapons except for maybe the slow moving ice gun are fun to use, all of the scanners are very cool, the soundtrack is amazing, and all the little details like seeing your face when your helmet fogs, or seeing your bones when using an x-ray scanner and being hit are nice. Scanning every little thing to get higher rating seems way too tedious to me, but if you want a lot of Metroid lore this is a great game for that.