1) That's not fault of the game In fact, it's good to hear it, means that it could be a challenge for you.

Yeah, I know, I generally tend to avoid hard games because of my anxiety disorder/chronic chest pain though.

2) Can't argue much with you about this, but I think the presentation is sublime thanks to the great isolated atmosphere. If you say that Super Metroid looks bad, then most of SNES games must look bad as well, as not many not tried to top Super Mario World 2's masterful design. 

Yeah, it's not the game's fault, most SNES games look bad nowadays. Super Mario World 2 is one of the few SNES games that still looks good today.

3) Well, the thing is, Super Metroid is about finding new paths with the power-ups you currently have, it's not like the game has a strict way to go, because it rather forces you to explore to the maximum level. About Maridia, well, sorry for breaking your heart, but it's actually my favorite area in Super Metroid Because it's the place where you get the Plasma Beam, and when you start using it, you feel like a badass. 

4) Either way, Wiimote and the GameCube controllers are bad to play this kind of games, you need a decent D-Pad, like the ones the Wii U Gamepad and Wii U Pro Controller offer. 

I know you can use the D-Pad for these kind of games, but I don't like the placing of the D-Pad on modern controllers, so I never use it when I'm playing 2D games. I use the analogue stick instead. It caused some problems with Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission, but it was still a lot better for me than Super Metroid.

So I assume Prime 2 is your favorite Metroid game *crosses fingers*? 

Yeah, it is, how did you guess? :p

You can talk about anything in this thread, as long as it's Metroid lol. Finding the sky temple keys is pretty easy actually. First you need to scan every keybearer lore, which shouldn't be much of a problem the first time through. You'll notice that one word is colored each time (the color represents the area you need to look at, it's the same colour as the translator doors). What you need to do then is look for the name of the room that uses that particular word (in Light Aether). Once you've done that you need to travel to the equivalent room in the Dark World. I did it in about 50 minutes or so without a guide. The fetch quest in the first Prime game is a lot more annoying imo.

How do you like the game so far? It's my favorite Metroid game. Quadraxis is probably one of the best bosses in the entire trilogy. He's pretty hard on a no-dark suit run with only one energy tank. On a normal run he's piss easy (although it's not a shame to die against him in your first few attempts).

Welp, should have paid more attention and not give up so easily there. I already found out where the rest of the sky temples are in a walkthrough but your tip will help for the next play through. I did find the 3rd dark and light beam ammo upgrade and the sonic boom combo by myself though so that felt good Still need to find the last beam ammo upgrade for 250. I think Metroid Prime fetch quest was okay because the over world is much smaller and less complex than Echoes. Navigating Torvus bog in the map screen still gives me headaches sometimes. Could be Wii controllers though.

And I really enjoying this game now! This is my 3rd play through of the game because I keep on giving up near Agon Waste and Torvus Bog. The dark world and beam ammo really discouraged me the first two times but I learned to deal with it and am really enjoying the game this time and will most likely finish it now. And Sanctuary Fortress was absolutely stunning and still looks great today.

Didn't know you could actually skip dark suit and am glad I didn't try to yet lol. But yeah, I'm not really observant sometimes in Metroid boss fights even with scanning and Quadraxis having multiple phases resulted me dying a lot before figuring out what its weak points were each time.