I know it's only the first of multiple pieces of "evidence" this guy presents, but kicking his argument off by saying both robots are "owned and used by government for research" as the first bullet point for plagiarism is pretty eyeroll inducing. Hello, welcome to the world of evil sci-fi robots, where the vast majority of them are research projects gone wrong.
Even when he gets to the animation comparisons (which are much more interesting and maybe what he should have started with), it feels more like, if anything, the two robots have a "common ancestor" in the sense that this is just a direction that robotics could be headed.
Then he goes off on a tangent about how he just doesn't think the EMMI design is scary or dread-inducing, which... fine. It's OK to disappointed in something like that, but that's just subjective.
The video's argument just isn't strong at all, IMHO. Echoing what others have said, if anything this is all evidence that parts of the Metroid Dread design are relatively uninspired. There's nothing new under the sun, everything is a remix, etc. etc.
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