GhostTrick
Banned
And the expectations for this were rock-bottom.
It doesn't change whether the game is ultimately fun or not. And it's not like it's pretending to be a mainline game, even. Did Metroid Prime Pinball throw you for a loop too?
Metroid Prime Pinball, are we really going over this again ? Metroid Prime Pinball was made between 2 Metroid games. Few months after Metroid Prime 2. It's a really small budget, launch window game. And at least, it was a funny little twist, with the art design looking like Metroid.
Oh and:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/metroid-prime-pinball
It was good.
But Super Metroid had been a very long old title there. I mean, if we are talking about a great title from SNES, isn't that just show how the franchise both in sales and quality had been in decline?
Super Metroid is the same way ALTTP is. Legendary. It's one of these games you could easily put in a top 10 of best games ever made. No, the serie hasn't been in decline because they still released other amazingly well crafted games, which were a mark of excellence, like the Prime trilogy, Metroid Fusion or Zero Mission.