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!
