Super Metroid is the third game in Nintendo's Metroid series and the first game in the series on which Gunpei Yokoi did not serve as producer. Yoshio Sakamoto would serve as designer and director here and as well as for the next three Japanese Metroid titles (Fusion, Zero Mission, and Other M.) This game serves as a direct continuation of the previous two games' stories and includes a slow opening cutscene explaining the last two stories, hindered by a hilariously awful bit of voice acting on the opening lines. In spite of that, Super Metroid mostly feels like a remake of the original game. It's a very good remake, fixing every problem that the original game has, and is ultimately one of the best games on the SNES, but Super Metroid lacks the originality of Metroid II in spite of being an overall better game.
