hardcore kid memories of playing the second best gba game of the ambassadors collection (first is warioware, duh) and replaying it helped me understand why metroid works so well. the movement and shooting is so fluid and energetic that it makes you feel like a badass, as well as getting a puzzle just right. the linearness doesn't bother me, but nothing is like that feeling when you just explore endlessly in something like super metroid. very solid.