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Game Overview

Super Metroid Legacy feels like slipping back into a favorite pair of boots—if those boots let you wall-jump and shoot missiles from your arm. It's the same eerie, labyrinthine world you remember, but everything just moves better now. That split-second delay when switching weapons? Gone. The awkward crouch-jump? Fixed. You'll still get lost in those dripping alien corridors, still panic when the music cuts out before a boss fight, but now it all flows like it should've in '94.

What surprised me was how many new nooks they tucked into familiar zones—I swear I checked every inch of Brinstar as a kid, but here I was finding secret tunnels behind fake walls I'd bombed a hundred times before. And that first time you get the Speed Booster and plow through a line of enemies? Pure SNES joy, no nostalgia goggles needed.

If you've never played the original, this is the version to grab. If you have... well, guess you're clearing your weekend.