I've had quite a journey with this game on Backloggd. I left the first review for Metroid Dread on this site (at least that I know of) before the game came out, saying that I was more hyped for Metroid Dread than Metroid Prime 4. This review got a lot of attention and seemed to cause a wave of pre-release "reviews" with conflicting opinions and subsequent heated discussions about the game and "metroidvania" games as a whole. In fact, you indirectly have me to thank for pre-release reviews being marked as such on this site now, probably. :^)

Those times have passed, and now Metroid Dread has been out for a while. Despite my hype for the game, I didn't actually get around to playing it until a few days ago as of writing this review (Dec 12), due to a mix of real life obligations and a backlog (haha) of previous games I really wanted to complete. After completing Metroid Dread at last, I don't think it's a perfect masterpiece or anything but it was mostly worth my excitement and the wait, and it's probably my second favourite 2D Metroid game now just behind Super Metroid.