"It has the audacity to say, "Welcome to this strange place. Now go figure it out.""
Ahahaha, GOD FORBID a Metroid game make you figure things out on your own!
"This is particularly true of the boss battles, which are exhaustive affairs requiring dedication, patience, and most importantly, a familiarity with the vocabulary of videogames: double jumping, circle strafing, shooting weak points for massive damage, etc."
What? WHAT!? Wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG...Exhaustive more like awesome of epic proportions...