I got turned off by console gaming after Dreamcast was discontinued and Gamecube's flagship games disappointed and it dragged my usage of the GameBoy Advance along with it. My image of the GBA at the time was already on the low side because I didn't like Mario Kart and the other games were basically all ports (though of amazing games like Mario 3, Yoshi's Island and A Link to the Past), so I never played much else. Until the 3DS got its ambassador program because of the quick pricecut.
With it came Metroid Fusion and Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones, among others. I started playing those two because I wanted to try a Fire Emblem game and it had been almost two decades since I had briefly played Super Metroid on my aunt's SNES and the original Metroid since whenever, and was immediately hooked in a big way. I completed both games in record time (for my standards anyway) and both found a place on my all-time favorites list here on VGC afterwards. After completing it I bought Super Metroid off WiiU's virtual console to continue finally pick that one up again as well.
So I couldn't believe how I missed Metroid Fusion and Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones on GBA at the time.
My fondness for Fire Emblem has since cooled again though, and I never completed Fire Emblem Awakening on 3DS or even bought the other two 3DS releases or Three Houses on Switch and it even fell off my list, but Metroid remains. A new Metroid will definitely be a quick buy.
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