Samus, the planet Zebes, one last Metroid to recover, and an underground maze that defined a whole genre.

On gut feeling, the community reveres it, ahead of 96% of games, even if on few votes. The detail confirms a great one: as a desert island pick, it finishes almost first, and controller feel follows, very high, proof of handling remarkably refined for 1994. Fun and attachment stay solid. Only the wish to rediscover it and the soundtrack fall back, the latter at the very bottom, which is surprising for a game famed for its mood, but on very few votes, so to be qualified.

Next to other adventure games, it laid the foundations of the modern metroidvania, a model of exploration and level design still copied today.

So, who is it for? For you if you like exploration, isolation, and classics that invented it all. Much less if the title's age or its two dimensional trappings keep you at a distance.