Admittedly, I see why people hate it, it is frustratingly difficult, even unfair at times (and death mountain can fuck right off, straight to hell.) But there is fun to be had here, if you can forgive some transgressions. Weirdly, it feels like the first real metroidvania in Nintendo’s library, even past Metroid itself, which seems almost a proto-game in light of how the medium and the genre have evolved over time.