Metroid Dread (Nintendo Switch)

Either on being played via console or handheld, it was entertaining and reminded me of playing the original titles for the first time.

This was a fantastic game for the Switch, and a great addition to the Metroid franchaise!

Beautiful backgrounds, difficult yet attainable completion to 100%. Good job!

One of my Favorites

We played as a family- myself, my husband, and our son, he’s 5. It was a lot of fun, extremely challenging at times. Very anxiety inducing with the emmi’s chasing you. But very well done game. I think it’s my personal favorite in the Metroid collection. My son absolutely loved it, he has played most of the other Metroid games as well.

Overall a great game with a lot of new concepts. It's hard enough but not too hard. The game is quite linear and there isn't much element of exploration like previous titles.The biggest negative about the game are the missed opportunities with Samus' skills. Many of the skills are used only once or twice and never again so the map and utilization of all the skills could be massively improved.Many of the skills I forgot I even have because I never had to use it for anything.

El juego es muy entretenido, muy buena la mecanica de juevo y la dificultad del juego esta buena. No por nada se gano el premio a uno de los mejores juegos de Nintendo Switch.

I've bought this game twice mostly because I was looking for the cart revision but I digress this game is awesome buy it

Metroid Dread was my first Metroid game and I really enjoyed it. I've played metroidvanias before I always sort of ran out of steam after a while because the exploration aspect got a bit frustrating to me after a while. Somehow, the regular upgrades to abilities and the beautiful areas in the game always kept me excited about what would come next. The set of skills you earn gradually make Samus a formidable and nimble character that makes traversing the world a breeze. Moreover, by the end of the game I was regularly fighting fairly challenging enemies, but I found I could learn their moveset and react to them fluidly because of both the new abilities I had acquired and the way the game had made me learn how to use them. It's the sign of a very carefully constructed player progression arc that is very hard to get right.If I had to point out a flaw, it'd be that some of the moves are a little complicated to execute at speed. I would often find myself unable to execute a particular sequence of actions as I intended. Somehow my intuition about how the move should work and the dynamics of them in the game didn't always line up. I did manage to master this more or less over the game though and considering the breadth of skills I imagine it was difficult to map them all onto sensible controls. Besides these particular difficulties, Samus moves around very fluidly and is a joy to constrol.Finally, when you unlock enough abilities, the game becomes a sort of puzzle game based on the abilities you have. I would really recommend getting 100% of items to experience this element of the gameplay, because you could easily miss it. You will likely need a guide though as some of the capabilities of Samus aren't obvious, especially regarding the nuances of the speed boost.Getting all the items and completing the game took me about 15 hours. That might not sound a lot for the cost of the game, but it felt like the perfect amount of time for me when the credits rolled.

It's challenging but fun.

As a user of VR, I thought my days of flat gaming were over but then comes a game like this with the classic meticulous Nintendo design. Challenging, beautiful, engaging and makes you just want to come back for more. The animation of the main character is particularly fluid. Yes, the game is difficult but I think it is one of those rare games that the challenge actually improved the way that I play and definitely has made me more proficient at platform gaming and boss battles. One of the games that I will always remember and I'm glad that I have completed.

Not as good as many of the main stream reviews had me believe. I saw this getting lots of 10/10s on YouTube etc. I think they may have been exaggerated, pretty good game I imagine more so if you are fan of the series. For me the graphics were dark and grainy, game play didn’t have the flow I expected and the sound track was a mish mash of noises. Not the best switch game but not the worse either.

This is an outstanding game.