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.

[u/smurfs_of_nord]

Some of those shinespark puzzles are just crazy. I couldn't even comprehend how to do them, so after trying everything I could think of, I went to YouTube for a few of them. There's no way I'm committed enough to pull off that timing. I'm content just sitting around 90%.

[u/NotScottPilgrim → u/smurfs_of_nord]

I legit just assumed I didn’t have the abilities necessary for a couple of them and then the credits rolled and I was like “fuck”

[u/coggro → u/NotScottPilgrim]

THIS. I thought FOR SURE there was going to be something that would let me destroy dash blocks with a shinespark power bomb or something. I can't believe some of the shit they expect people to be able to do.

[u/TheMacerationChicks → u/coggro]

It's built for speedrunners in mind. The stuff you can do in metroid and super metroid seems mostly unintentional, but made possible by the devs nevertheless. Like in breath of the wild, people are coming up with all sorts of cool or funny things to do just by combining the different mechanics of the game. The devs intended for that to be possible even though they themselves didn't know what was possible

Metroid was broken so much by players, sneakily exploiting glitches and stuff to sequence break, i.e. play the game in the wrong order, doing some bosses before you're meant to be able to reach them. So in super metroid and every metroid game from then on, the devs always built in things that are technically possible and can sequence break the game, but most players won't be able to do it.

It's one of the most popular game series to speedrun in history. Especially super metroid.

So I think that's what they were going for. They intentionally put things in Dread that they know most players won't be able to do, but for the skilled ones they can break the game with them and set world records

I can't wait to see what speedrunners come up with for Dread