Metroid Dread

After 19 long years, Metroid Dread has finally arrived, and it's everything fans of Samus Aran's 2D adventures could have wanted. Excellent controls, phenomenal visuals, and an interesting story combine to make a challenging, but rewarding package. 19 years was a long time to wait, but this title is good enough that it almost makes up for that.

Dread has most fluid gameplay and fast paced gameplay of every game I've played. Puzzle elements are nice and simple, this game is linear without it being linear. There are no points of the game where I felt extremely lost. If there is one gripe I have with the game is that the E. M. M. I are very good at killing you. The E. M. M. I sections are a bit too frequent but not by much. I would recommend this game to anyone, just make sure that you don't have anxiety or scare easily.

Amazing game start to finish. The exploration, the mechanics and boss fights. If there would be two critiques the first would be to improve the soundtrack, it was a common critique I had with Samus Returns, the remakes of previous metroid songs are excellent but new material lacks the same emotion as previous entries. But where they may dip a bit in sound they exceed in graphics and mechanics. Both Samus Returns and Dread feature stunning attention to detail in environments and bosses are mechanically brilliant both games featured some of my most memorable boss encounters; though my favorite franchise boss would still be quadraxis from Metroid Prime 2. I'd say give this game a try you will get frustrated at times but this is matched or exceeded by the feeling of victory when you master the encounter.

I really love the environment of this Metroid game! Aside from Metroid Prime 2, this has my favorite atmosphere and artwork. I'll admit this game is really difficult and I've had to put it down several times over the course of these last few years but what can I say? Too many awesome games came out in that time. But I've revisited Metroid Dread and made more and more progress every time I get readdicted to it. I'm a working man with adult responsibilities, sorry I don't have the time to play games as I did when I was young.

But this was a welcome return to the sci-fi horror that Metroid was known for! Samus is like the female version of Doomguy, she's awesome! She can stare down these horrible looking aliens or killer robots, find a way to kick their butts and get even stronger. And all she has is an arm cannon. Even Doomguy has dozens of guns at his disposal to help him, Samus just had the one arm cannon.

Gameplay is fast and fun. The frame rate is smooth as silk, more so than most AAA titles these days. The design of the areas are simple ingenious. It's rare a game will reward me for my curiosity with a missile expansion or a life health expansion.

The side scrolling is a welcome return to form for the franchise! Since Metroid Fusion is one of my favorite nostalgic games. If they made a remaster of all the previous mainline Metroid games for the switch with these graphics, I'd buy that in a heartbeat. Heck, if they announced it was coming the following year, I'd put my name down to get notified when preorders were available.

Sci-fi horror video games should be just as accepted by media appreciators as sci-fi horror films. Metroid Dread did for sci-fi horror what the original Alien (1979) did for sci-fi horror. This game is like Alien (1979) and The Terminator (1984) had a baby.

With updated graphics, we really see what the franchise was trying to do all along; get us a little frightened by the quiet of space and alien planets as well as detail the worlds just enough to where we could know where to go.

T rated Metroid is back, baby!

Metroid has always been my favorite video game franchise. I was happy when Metroid Prime 4 was announced, and was hoping for an update this past E3. I forgot to be disappointed when there was no new Prime news, because Dread was announced! I LOVED this game! I am not the best at games, but I have always loved the challenges the Metroid franchise provides. It pushes me to be better. Dread is a hard game, but with practice anyone can figure it out! I love the art design, and the story. The music was good for atmosphere, though forgettable. All in all this is one of my favorite games of all time! Worth the wait, and the price tag!

I will see the story is at its best if you have at least played Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion. Though you can probably just watch a quick story break down online prior. While the story recap at the beginning of the game was informative, it didn't capture the emotion of the story in my opinion.