October 12th, 2021

A game I’ve been playing: Metroid Dread

I am going to be honest, I wasn’t going to buy this game, at least not at launch. I was going to wait until I had finished other games in my backlog. I caved, though. I couldn’t resist the hype, my own hype.

I haven’t played a Metroid game in years. It was probably Metroid Prime, the last one I remember playing. I recently started playing Super Metroid but didn’t stick with it. I was still very into ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights, which, well, that’s another post.

So, I purchased Metroid Dread Friday night but, it wasn’t until Saturday, while the girls were watching cartoons, that play a bit. A bit, turned into two hours. Even though I am not a well-seasoned Metroid player, and certainly, I may have more difficulty compared to a diehard Metroid fan, I’m still having a lot of fun. It lived up to my hype. It is a great classic Metroid 2D game with amazing modern graphics.

The game does a good job of giving you a backstory of the events leading up to this game. This game is a sequel to Metroid Fusion if I understand correctly. I never played Fusion but, again, you get a good recap and I don’t feel lost. Plus, I have recently got into the YouTube rabbit hole of everything related to Metroid.

You also get a bit of a tutorial to get you going, but the game throws you into the action right away! As you would expect from a Metroid game, there’s lots of exploration, trial and error, and hidden places. The graphics are wonderful, the cutscenes are nicely done, definitely an AAA game from Nintendo.

Now, my new cause of anxiety is called E.M.M.I, also known as Extraplanetary Multiform Mobile Identifier.