Welcome to the 1990s, me!

[A Black Falcon]

(Is it really needed to say heroine?)

No, it's not... note how at the Academy Awards it's "best female actor" not "best actress". The former is the past convention, but I think it's changing somewhat...

Okay so Samus was the first "serious" heroine, but yeah, I can't believe I forgot Ms. Pacman. Well, that one isn't even human...

Still, no one ever says Samus with that qualifier. They always just argue in the general terms of her being the first female hero.

Look... Samus was NOT the first female videogame character, or first female character who was the hero of a videogame. What she might be is the first female videogame character whose game was extremely popular... but it just wouldn't be true to say Metroid was first. Ms. Pac-Man does count, like it or not... Ice Climbers kinda since it's two characters and the female one is secondary. But other games back then starred female characters too... some interactive fiction games surely did (though most are "you are you, the undefined person playing the game" (or as the (fantastic 1997 graphic adventure) Zork Grand Inquisitor calls it, AFGNCAAP... 'Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person'. :)) some present you with a character...)

Ms. Pac-Man should be plenty, but if you want more examples...
http://www.classicgaming.com/reviews/nam...apcom2.htm (third one down)
or how about this... http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/showt...hp?t=26213

Evermore on the other hand has a weird and intriguing storyline, and when you get to the bottom of it you get a genuine surprise (I was surprised anyway). It's not anywhere near as deep as games like CT or even Earthbound, but those are like the epic novels of SNES RPGing. Evermore is more like a slightly above-average sci-fi/mystery novel. SD3 is like... a cheap episode of Dragonball or something.

Every good game has people who dislike it, I guess you're one of them for SD3...

It's not THAT hard, if you want hard play MP2. The only hard part in MP1 really, was the final boss. Took me about 5 or 6 times to finally win.

I never beat the stupid snow boss (the final boss of the snow area)... only got passed him when a friend did it for me and even then I never went back to actually continue the game after that...