This game introduced a lot of mechanics to the series that you really miss when playing older games. Ledge grabbing and not having to fiddle with menus for missiles being the two most important ones. While the linearity can be annoying at times, and removing infinite bomb jumping is a symptom of that, there are still intended and unintended sequence breaks to enjoy anyway. Some of the mot memorable boss encounters in the series. Just a really good game. Maybe not perfect, but still really good.