my first ever Metroid game aaaaand this was really good!
really liked the moveset, map layout and honestly the sense of polish enhanced the whole experience : the game looks great with amazing cutscenes to boot and the endgame is honestly extremely fucking cool. also always fun to be able to sequence break the game with the hand you're dealt.
I'd maybe just say that the EMMIs kinda get old after a while, their sequences can sometimes just feel unfair, and that there was a tiny itsy bit too much backtracking. (also wasn't huge on some of the bosses)
really makes me wanna try the rest of the franchise! (2D and 3D)

This game is so good that it awoke me to the genuine quality and substance that video games can have. Metroid Dread is electric, it captivates you with the atmosphere it creates which is alien, intriguing and if I'm being honest down right scary. The game is incredibly difficult but never feels punishing. Instead of every death feeling like a defeat or a problem with the game, they instead encourage and teach you to get better at the game's core mechanics. This is made explicitly clear when the game tells you that every single attack from an enemy is avoidable. This results in one of the most rewarding game play loops of all time, as every loss is your fault (Disregarding incredibly rare bugs.) The only problem I had was that I got lost a few times, however this was admittedly due to it being my first foray into metroidvanias, with many veterans of the genre mentioning how the game is actually comparatively linear. Metroid Dread's impeccable game design, taught me how to play video games, even though I've played them my whole life and that is certainly an impressive feat.

9/10.

Truly gorgeous.
Absolute Great.

A experiência mais divertida e marcante que tive num jogo metroid.

O level design disso é sem duvida maravilhoso
A atmosfera pega legal até a região de burenia, depois desanda um tanto.
Num geral foi uma excelente experiência, o fator exploração me pegou demais, a progressão também se fez excepcional e somou com o bom gameplay.

Porém não gostei de 3 coisas.

A forma como o plot twist/explicação da trama acontece.
A droga do free aim e sua sensibilidade 1000
E a fase final.

Absolutely perfect game from start to finish. After playing Returns I can clearly see that it walked so that Dread could run. Dread takes all of the best aspects in the previous games along with refining all the issues of the previous games and combined them to create this masterpiece. Every area is super memorable and fun to explore; the gameplay flow is just seamless and that makes returning to previous areas feel natural and not like a chore. The abundant number of boss fights is incredible and they're all super fun to fight against. They also added so much enemy and boss variety which was a problem that I had with Returns. The EMMIs are leagues above the SA-X in Fusion when it comes to gameplay due to their unscripted nature and forcing you to be skillful in avoiding them until you have the means to destroy them.

Lastly I wanna talk about the story and Samus' character in this game. While this game is much more focused on the gameplay (as the previous games mostly were as well), there isn't an insane amount of story content, which is fine. Instead we get major story reveals throughout the game which unveil a ton of cool lore and story that ties the previous stories together. Overall, this made Samus' character the most interesting she has been in the 2D series, and she didn't need to utter a single word for me to feel that way about her.

Dread is easily the best 2D Metroid, and probably the best 2D platformer I've played so far. It expands on everything the previous games had set up for it, and refines all the issues to create the most smooth gameplay experience in the series.