I feel like Symphony of the Night is a bit more action-y than the (I'll even dare to say quasi-minimalist) Super Metroid, so ultimately I guess it's up to whether you like your Metroidvania one way or the other.
At the end of the day I'd probably go with SM, as I'm not a big RPG fan and didn't quite care for those elements in SotN. That's my problem though, not the game's.