When I was a child, Metroid 2 came out on Gameboy and then Super Metroid on SNES; I was aware of both, but neither appealed to me at all at the time. I wanted sports games and action.
On N64 in my late teens I might have been interested in Metroid, but Metroid 3D never made it out- so my first and only encounter with Samus was via Smash Bros. (but she was one of my favourite characters there).
I took the GC and Wii years off from Nintendo, but had grown more and more interested in (especially Super)Metroid, hearing so much praise for it, so when I bought the WiiU 2015, one of my first virtual console games was Super Metroid. Then Zero Mission. Liked both a lot.
Dread I bought day one, Metroid Prime Remastered week one as well.
When it comes to ambience, I think Metroid is absolute top tier. And Dread was top tier in movement and combat as well (but was a let-down in the music department, where the other titles are crazy good). However, at one time or another, I always get annoyed with the being stuck and backtracking aspect of Metroid, which does bring down the experience a little bit for me. Still, I would not want to have missed any of these four games.
For Metroid Prime 4 I am somehow not especially hyped, I'll wait for reviews before deciding whether I buy it.
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