The fluidity of these slides, alongside the grace with which she spins her way through the air before grabbing a nearby ledge, make even simple explorative jaunts way more satisfying. Instead, she’s able to do a slide, accessing small crevices when she approaches them at speed, like Indiana Jones slipping just underneath a trap door. I can’t think of a 2D game that feels better to control.Įarly in Dread, Samus lacks her patented Morph Ball technique. Merely moving around this world as Samus feels incredible. But it’s not just the combat that’s enhanced by the Nintendo Switch. While it maintained the original’s 2D perspective, that game introduced wild departures from the source material, adding a melee counter and the ability for Samus to aim in 360 degrees, opening up new combat and puzzle possibilities.īoth of these additions return in Metroid Dread, and thanks to the game running at a mostly stable 60 frames per second, these actions are smooth and accurate. Dread was made by MercurySteam, the same team behind Samus Returns (the remake of Metroid 2: Return of Samus). Playing with the traditional Metroid formula is very much at the heart of Metroid Dread. Image: MercurySteam, Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon Deep oceans and lush swamps soon become the norm. In Dread, you’ll start in subterranean areas that are science’d to heck, with laboratories and metal walls, but as you get closer to the surface, the built environment gives way to ZDR’s natural environments. This is actually a fun departure from traditional Metroid structure, which usually begins at the surface and digs down. The mission quickly goes awry, and she’s knocked unconscious deep within the planet’s core, with all of her hard-earned upgrades lost. But to see a continuation of the story after Metroid Fusion? We’ve had to wait an astounding 19 years.įresh off of wiping out the nefarious X Parasite with a massive explosion - she does that a lot - Samus Aran is dispatched to the planet ZDR, where some new nastiness awaits her.
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