Maybe going to write more long form about this so I'll keep it brief, but I thought this was shockingly powerful and horrific honestly. This game really makes explicit that Samus is an arm of the state, she ensures the slow methodical death of every single living thing on this planet. I'm sure there's a backstory on the box or in the manual about why she has to hunt down these metroids, but the game itself is really bare. Which makes the final moment of kindness all the more strange and haunting. It's also just scary! Seeing the metroids' abandoned shells is such an effective signpost and a little scary treat. All the horror is helped by the surprisingly expansive areas, cut down to a small frame. Exploring is not exciting but isolating and frightening. You are not here to do good work and this abandoned world treats you in kind.