it's a classic but that doesn't make it a great or fun game. I own it for the sake of owning it not because I love it.
The main point is the difficulty and well kind of too hard too the point that you have to play this over and over nad frankly I rather play mario.
Game is way too hard and you cant save unless you remember this asinine long password and really whatst he point you will most likely just fail anyways.
gamespot's review is a bit too harsh but at the same time I have never been able to beat it, though I've never given it my best but thats because their are far better games that are challenging but at least gives you a decent save system so you can eventually beat the game without starting over a few hundred times.
They ended up making amazing games but the only ones I liked enough to play all the way through is well metroid prime 1 thats it. The rest take too long to beat for my taste, metroid prime 3 I get to a certain point the floating city and just give up.
my 2 cents a decent game but too hard to enjoy.