"Don’t worry… I’ll end this. Once and for all."

A welcome return to form, with some of the smoothest 2D action platforming one would dream of a new Metroid playing like. Dread mostly plays out like a greatest hits album for the Metroid series but given the gaps between Fusion & now it seems only fair to reintroduce veterans and recruits of the series here. I think from here on out I hope the next 2D game comes sooner rather then later and they take some new directions in the design, mechanics and settings going forward. To my surprise getting a true sequel to Fusion was unexpected and led to some incredibly satisfying payoffs to the previous games and the final moments go unreasonably hard. Still not a huge fan of 2.5D style games and parts of Dread look pretty rough at points in comparison to its legacy titles but this is probably the best use of the dimension I've played at this time. Here's hoping for a bright future for the series going forward and Prime 4 isn't just vaporware collecting dust inside Nintendo HQ at this time.

Sony really are a bunch of nimrods for sending a DMCA to the dev right at the time of its original release. But alas you can't kill the dream and glad under some new tongue and cheek rebranding, Nightmare Kart is here and its a blast with more to its surface then I was anticipating for a game that initially was a April Fools joke. While not as clean and smooth as the kart racers its trying to emulate from the peak hay day of racers in this style from the 5th generation. Seeing one of my favourite games reimagined under this context is equal parts hilarious and surprisingly impressive at many points. The astral clocktower track was probably my favourite. Also a operating table as a kart use lol.