i agree, ruhatingagain. i know, most people like that beacuase it's true to the metroid roots. let me tell you, the only other metroid i've played was fusion, and although i loved it, people said it was the farthest away from the metroid series yet. it was great, not great, awsome, spectacular, amazing, best game ever....untill a certain point where i got bored. i only made it up to beating the snow-rock boss dude. i know the spiderball (what one earns for beating uh... Thardus that's his name) can get me alot of different things, but it's just not as exiting. oddly enough, the same thing hapened with wind waker. it was great, not great, awsome, spectacular, amazing, best game ever....untill a certain point where i got bored. that point happened to be in the middle of the wind temple.of course, the same thing happened with majoras mask and ocarina of time. both in the water temples. luckily enough, i started OoT again and beat it, so glad that i had started it up again and not missed the rest of the awsome game. the same will someday happen with, like, every other game i own, just not now.