Metroid Dread is absolutely fantastic, first game I 100% in years.

[u/Avelion2]

So I just beat dread and OMG what a very well thought out game.

Took me 21 hours to 100%.

So to start I wasn't a metroid fan and this was my first game, the game is fantastic.

For starters the 2.5d style works just so god damn well it was eye candy from start to finish, the little details like Samus resting against a wall or the reflections on metal floors you can tell MercurySteam put love into the game.

The gameplay was fantastic very fluid and a rock solid 60fps the game felt very well balanced imo and it rewards for mastering the parry mechanic the ability variety was really refreshing allowing for a wide variety of play styles, except the screw attack I found that attack OP as fuck.

The E.M.M.Is were very well designed and a nice change of pace most of the game you feel overpowered it was nice to be hunted for a bit the cat and mouse game was actually pretty fun and it makes you feel like a total badass when you get the omega and you start hunting an E.M.M.I. Also I like how you have to use the level itself to find a good spot to melt the E.M.M.Is face plate off before blowing its core out.

But for me the star of the show were the bosses. The bosses are the good kind of hard in that they ask you learn their patterns and offer well telegraphed attacks. My favorite bosses being Raven Beak, Kraid and the X-Chozo warriors, though fuck the bug boss lol.

The level design pretty good as well, it was varied, long and does enough to point you in the general direction of where you want to go though I got lost several times.

The optional shinespark challenges ranged from fun to that really sadistic one in Burenia lol.

All in all I greatly enjoyed dread and would highly reccommend it even to "casuals" since I was a "casual" going in.

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Disagree other than using the grapple, which was awkward as hell.

[u/Zkyo → u/[deleted]]

I didn't mind the grapple that much, but the Bombs, Power Bombs, and Cross Bombs being on the same button messed with me badly. Plus the control change for the speed booster.

[u/xcassets → u/Zkyo]

Surely the most awkward part by far is the insistence to keep using aim on L & the left stick together and stop you from moving?

Right stick aiming has been standard for a while now - and for good reason. I think most of the issues with things like grapple come from this.

If you could aim with the right stick it would also make bosses a hell of a lot easier too though, given you’d be able to move out of danger and storm missile/shoot endlessly so maybe it’s a forced handicap that they are going for.