Super Metroid Vino still holds up—like, way better than most SNES games. You start off in this eerie, quiet spaceship, and within minutes, you're dropped onto Zebes with nothing but your arm cannon and that signature Metroid tension. The music alone gives me chills every time.

The map feels massive, but not in an overwhelming way—you just sort of notice gaps where you can’t reach yet, like a ledge too high to jump or a suspicious-looking wall. Half the fun is backtracking later with new upgrades (hello, Grapple Beam) and realizing, “Ohhh, that’s what that was for.”

Boss fights? Brutal at first, but once you learn their patterns, it’s pure satisfaction. And the atmosphere—those alien caves, the way enemies scuttle out of shadows—it’s creepy in the best way. If you’ve never played it, you’re in for one of the tightest action-exploration games ever made. If you have played it… well, you already know.