If you were a fan of Super Metroid, do not finish reading this review- buy it now.

Super metroid has been called one of the... if not THE... most well designed game of all time.

Also, being a huge fan of Super Metroid and Castlevania, this game not only throws in its own goodies, but has that good ol' "old school" feel to it.

, There's a certain rewarding thrill behind playing a game with this design, and the developers are either fans of that design, are worked on super metroid themselves.

The whole castle environment is done in the same vein as Zebes was in Super Metroid; in fact, the whole game borrows from Super Metroid!

(GBA)-Super Metroid (SNES)"But enough talk

Metroid was also great and was in my opinion the best side scroller until SOTN.

(again, they took it straight out of Super Metroid)

More closely resembling Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES), or to be quite honest, Super Metroid (SNES), SOTN sprinkles the tried and true play mechanics with a good many RPG elements

At a time when side-scrollers were falling to full 3-D games, Konami proved that there was still room for a good 2-D game in the gaming

The graphics are classic 2-D, which might turn off some gamers hoping for something more like Castlevania 64 (which was fully-rendered 3-D)