Metroid Dread
Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Oct 08, 2021
The fifth main installment of the Metroid series of action-adventure platformers.
Short summary describing this game.
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5 (1) 4 (2) 3 (1) 2 (0) 1 (0) 4.0 starsAverage score of 4 user reviews
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Metroid Dread is ultimately a middling game of great spectacle. 1
Metroid Dread is ultimately a middling game of great spectacle. It’s questionable E.M.M.I. gimmick, lack of accessibility features, and it favoring a heavily directed path will like turn off both hardcore fans of the genre and people looking for a fun casual experience.(Note: This review will talk pretty openly about many things in this game, including abilities. Outside of one thing, it does not have any truly major spoilers.)There is no small amount of games falling into the Metroidvania...
4 out of 5 found this review helpful. -
A Worthy Sequel to Metroid Fusion 0
I first heard of Metroid Dread in the 2000s, when I was a teenager. I'm 35. Needless to say, when I heard that a game with that title was announced, and that it was coming out in 2021, I had tingles in my fingers. I was brought back to a time before Metroid: Other M or Metroid Prime 3, a world where I still believed that a good Metroid game could come out. I was tentatively excited, as the team behind this game also made the often-applauded Samus Returns, a game full of potential and unfortunat...
2 out of 2 found this review helpful. -
Mama Bird Returns 0
(Played on launch Switch, Handheld Only, in Japanese text)Metroid Dread is not a game yours truly would recommend over several more modern and cheaper exploration-based side-scrolling action platformers. The newest in the Metroidvania name’s sake series did not take enough lessons from the newer titles in a subgenre its predecessors helped to define. But just like From Soft’s Soulsborne series, there always seems to be something admirable about a game combining old-school tough-but-...
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Slightly Stuck in the Past 0
Metroid Dread is a great game. If you are a fan of prior Metroid games or Metroidvanias generally, you will like this game. I recommend it! With that said here are my general thoughts on the game. Dread feels like someone wanted to a make a tighter, more responsive Super Metroid. For the most parts, this game succeeds in spades. Its feels like a super Nintendo game with all the benefits of modern games. The issue arises in that games have evolved since Super Metroid. Metroidvanias have become on...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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