Too chaotic progression, traversing the map is tedious. Many weapons, bit they don't seem worth using.

Soundtrack is great!

100% Metroid, 0% Vania

Everyone seems to have played Axion Verge by now except for me. I'm not a fan of the Metroid part of metroidvania. This one is all Metroid (the original game from the 80s to be precise) so that is why I avoided this one for nearly a decade. Often too obtuse for it's own good and some of it's control scheme hasn't aged well at all (making the dash ability a double tap on the direction keys rather than mapped to one of the shoulder button is its biggest blunder). Despite everything there is something so compelling about the game from the moment Dr. Trace awakens on an alien world of pulsating flesh and gigantic machines with feminine faces that I had to see the the adventure through to the end. Even when it made me want to pull my hair out.

Some tips to hopefully make your time with the game a bit less frustrating than mine:
1. If enemies seem too aggressive and difficult to fight, use the glitch gun. This will usually make them easier to deal with
2. There is a point in the game where you get corralled in a section of the map (it's a big section so you can still get really lost) and can't backtrack to earlier zones until you get some traversal abilities. There will come a point after you get the space jump where it looks like you can't move forward. You actually can. Use the glitch gun on any bodies of water. Sometimes you can make a platform even if there is no glitching effect to indicate you can.
3. In the late, late, late game, after you clear this palace place on on the mountaintop, there is no indication of where you are supposed to go next. Return to the Edin zone and go to the top of the map. If you have the third upgrade to your ability to phase through walls, the drone teleport, and the upgrade that makes your drone launch higher, there is a tunnel your drone can enter that will take you to the final area of the game. It's up so high that you have to trigger your phase dash during an upward jump and launch the drone into the air to even see the ledge.

Your welcome. With these tips, I probably saved you several hours of running around aimlessly.

It's fun at times, but most of the time everything just feels tedious and un-fun. I'd recommend it if you can put up with that, but I found myself saying "I'm not having fun" out loud a little too often.