Top 10 Reasons Metroid is Underrated

The Top Ten
1 Nintendo treats it like absolute, total garbage

True. They need to advertise. Release prime four, and a sequel to fusion and you'll get the big bucks.

Nintendo mostly think about themselves, instead of the world's opinions!

2 It's basically all of the best elements of Mario and Zelda fused together into one series
3 It's easily Nintendo's third or second most innovative franchise to date, basically inventing its own genre just like Mario and Zelda did

Most shooters games after Metroid were influenced by it!

4 Contrary to popular belief, there has never been an objectively bad game in the series (gameplay-wise)
5 Quite a few of its fangames are easily some of the best games ever made (AM2R, Hyper Metroid, Super Metroid Redesign/Phazon/Eris, Z-Factor, Super Zero Mission, etc)
6 Samus is easily the coolest Nintendo character of all time, tied closely with Captain Falcon
7 Super Metroid is not the only great game in the 2D series
8 Prime 1 isn't the only great game in the Prime Trilogy
9 Samus is more than just hot
10 Metroid 1 and 2 aren't bad games, they're just horribly dated (which is why their glorious remakes exist)
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11 Prime 2's dark world actually wasn't all that bad, and the game itself is a masterpiece
12 Metroid Prime 3 is actually fairly challenging on the Hypermode difficulty setting
13 Some of the best games of the 2010s are actually Metroid fangames
14 People judge it more by the fanbase than the actual games
15 It has some of the best graphics of any Nintendo franchise ever, most especially the Prime trilogy
16 It's probably the only Nintendo franchise to actually have a genuinely mature and intelligent target audience it caters to
17 Ridley is secretly one of Nintendo's most badass villains to date
18 It's a speedrunner's dream
19 Super Metroid is probably the best hack-template game ever created besides Super Mario World
20 It got way better GBA installments than Mario and Zelda at any rate
21 Super Metroid was made largely by DEER FORCE (seriously, how can you not love that?)
22 It pretty much started the modern-day revolution of femme fatales in video games
23 Gunpei Yokoi's death needs mourning
24 It has some of Nintendo's all-time greatest and most atmospheric soundtracks to date
25 The replayability of many of its games is simply staggering
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