Sussyboi

Incredinly dull and pointless game. The gameplay feels clunky. The combat is boring and impossible to die in, just mash and move around. There are pointless cutscenes and animations all over the place. Every time you turn in or out of ball form you have to wait a full second. Every time you want to save the game or obtain an upgrade, you have to wait painfully long. The game stops your flow constantly despite not really having dialogue or story developments. The story I could not get into or care about whatsoever. There are no characters or personality in this game. The general gameplay loop consists of trying to navigate forward through a labyrinth until you get an upgrade, then backtracking through the entire game to look for places you can use that upgrade, so you can get forward and unlock another upgrade. Rinse and repeat. The map is annoying and has no navigation features. There is no fast travel whatsoever. You either memorize the entire game or suffer. Game does not respect the player's time whatsoever, which at the time of release for the original version was more normal since people didn't care at the time yet, but nowadays feels very dated. One of the worst soundtracks of all time. UI and menus are horrible. I had to fiddle around to make the controls feel right for almost an hour because it was that confusing. The boss battles made me experience some of the highest levels of boredom that I have ever suffered from. I just do not understand the hype and high reviews this game has, even in 2026. This feels like the biggest nothing burger **** that I've ever touched. Again, at the time of release it must've been mindblowing to go from the 2D Metroids into this. But looking at it now, it really feels like no thought or meaning was put into it besides trying to modernize the franchise more. I don't understand the metroidvania concept in general or how it's supposed to be good game design, but at least I'm able to tolerate some of the better ones for having other good aspects to them. 1/10, at least the graphics look decent but I don't really care for graphics anyway.

It's fun sometimes but when you start getting comboed and fricked by any character especially clairen, those lows are far more impactful than any high the game has. Every single character feels bs to fight against. Giving this 0 is the only way to vent all the suffering and pain this game has caused.