Metroid: Ranking All Main Games From Worst To Best

After Samus Aran and the space pirates were introduced to many consumers who owned the NES, Nintendo continued the bounty hunter's story with Metroid 2: Return of Samus on the Game Boy. The first handheld title in the series, the game saw the bounty hunter heading for the home planet of the Metroids with the objective of destroying them all before they become a major threat.

Because of the Game Boy's lack of a colour palette, the team had to change Samus' suits physically as the original NES game saw her attain different suits that were represented by colours. Therefore, each of her suits would have small physical additions and patterns for gamers to identify with. The redesigned Varia Suit would be used as Samus' signature look on the covers of future Metroid games.

The writers also made the Metroids much more menacing with the introduction of the alien species having new matured stages and the intimidating Metroid Queen. But this was to set a very interesting twist at the end, where a Baby Metroid assisted you to escape the planet and believed that Samus was its mother.

In fact, because co-creator of Metroid, Yoshio Sakamoto, loved the way the game's story wrapped, he thought it would be ideal to continue this unique relationship in Super Metroid.