The federation thing is actually not as it seems. In the Japanese version of Fusion, it was made clear that the horrible things the federation were doing turned out to be just a small group of officials operating without the permission of the federation at large. In the west, translations basically glossed over these details. So in reality, Samus and the federation are still working together just fine.

I never felt like the ending was rushed. It was a great ending. Couldn't have asked for a better conclusion.

I stand by the fact that on a first playthrough, E.M.M.I. Are shit-your-pants terrifying. Fingers crossed that Prime 4 has some dreadful enemies to encounter.

3:40 Proud to say that I have beaten it. Tip for those thinking of trying it, ENERGY TANKS ARE *NOT USELESS!* Your first instinct may be to think that in a 1-hit-kill environment health is pointless to improve, but it has 1 key use: Phantom cloak. Since you die to everything you want to avoid conflict when you can, and every energy tank is more invisifuel since reducing to 1hp makes no difference.

Crazy to me how people can complain about the linearity in this game. Zero Mission literally had statues telling you where to go and Fusion consistently locked doors behind you and had an AI telling you exactly what to do. Dread's level design definitely pushes you in the right direction but it's way more subtle. I didn't even notice how you always end up in the right place on my first playthrough.

This game literally re-awoke my passion for gaming after years of sub par releases and putting down the controller for awhile, what an amazing breath of fresh air, this game deserves game of the year

We definitely need another Metroid game. They are gold.

If they added an updated soundtrack as DLC, this would be one of my favorite Metroid games ever

I loved this game, still go back to it every once and awhile but more than anything....your tip on the brightness really made a huge difference

I think my thoughts align up well with yours even a year later. It absolutely still holds up imo, a very great entry in a series of greats. As a side note, thank you for showing me that the brightness settings actually do something. Thanks to you I found out that by lowering the brightness I could improve the atmosphere substantially, and now I think the atmosphere is on par with previous metroid games. I wanna add another thing btw, I would love to see a character analysis of Samus in Dread if you want. There’s so much about her portrayal in the game that really elevates it to me, it’s also one of my favorite portrayals of her character.

I want an expansion or another sequel. I loved it so much! And it is mostly thanks to 60fps and how responsive Samus' movement and controls are!

The OST is incredible, my guy. They use the area motifs in the boss fights and there's such a wide variety of tracks for the different moods, and the instrumentation is awesome. I will play devil's advocate for Dread's soundtrack until the day I die. It's literally a perfect game in my eyes. There is nothing I would change about it for my experience. Though I agree that it needs some accessibility features.

Speedrun wise this year there was a recent breakthrough that made the speed run only 50 minutes long, what an amazing progression

I really want a story expansion. Metroid Dread is awesome.

I've beaten Dread 15 times now, and I've actually gotten more fond of the soundtrack, believe or not. Especially after listening to the soundtrack itself outside of the game. By far my absolute favorite thing about Dread is it both makes you feel like a Speedrunner (something I have never personally done in any game) and that as you said there is absolute clear indication that sequence breaking is part of the design, where that didn't feel like the case in other Metroids. It actually feels like a speed runner was one of the programmers or was consulted heavily in its creation, and because of that, I am more than willing to look over many of the flaws in the game because, at the end of the day, they just don't impact my enjoyment that much. Dread, for me, is a perfect game for giving me a Metroid experience I have never come close to having before, and I cherish that. Great video, keep up the good work!

The things i wanna see in metroid 6 are: 1 the federation actually chasing samus right after the events of dread maybe because adam has reported her mission status against his will as an AI since maybe he was programmed to do that, and that they justify their actions by saying that she now possess a major treat to the galaxy (since i doubt x quiet robe actually cured her but he actually calmed her metroid instinct/hunger for a short period of time) and maybe give us a cool opening scene where dozens of gff ships are surrounding her gunship in the middle of space and telling her something like : "As the last known living Metroid in the galaxy, you Samus aran have the right to surrender under the orders of the gff, after your curious dna awakening you pose a huge threat to the galaxy and potentially the universe as a whole, the gff will not trust your decisions anymore especially after the events following your mission at the bsl staion and your most recent one involving the destruction of the federation's private property aslo known as the Emmi, we may still have some plans for you, potentially as the gff's solution for galactic peace, disobedience will not be tolerated" or something like that idk(yeah i know this feels really edgy)since im pretty sure they would have some interest in her recent dna awakening, and i really want the story to be her running away from the gff and also trying to control her powers (potentially the armor evolving as the story progresses to emulate the look of each Metroid form) and not to kill any federation trooper sent after her 2 the chozo seen in the background of The chozo archive number (i forgot wich number it was but its the one where the whole mawkin army is gathering in Hanubia for some reason) holding a bident and wearing a cloak playing a major role in m6 maybe either regretting raven beak's decisions and him working for him and siding with samus possibly replacing adam in the next game (since he could be striped away from her by the gff) or wanting to fulfill his leader's wishes and trying to hunt her down alongside the gff( or being independent but still wanting to hunt her down) 3 more chozo tribes that show that even though raven beak znd his tribe were so powerful they still are nothing compared to the other tribes (doesn't matter if they are bad or good) like imagine if the mawkin were that strong how would the other tribes be 4 explaining why THE HECK WERE GREY VOICE AND OLD BIRD ARE PRESENT IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE FLASHBACK THAT'S SHOWING THE RAVEN BEAK TO SAMUS DNA TRANSUNION (granted its just their silhouette and i might be wrong but its literally their same figure) 5 being the final game dealing with the x and explaining what exactly is the purple x at the end of dread, since at the end samus absorbs any x infected enemy she touches except for X-raven beak which literally consumes her with ease with no consequences (yeah that could just be a game mechanic but think about it) 6 idk if i want a multi planetary map but it would be dope if samus is escaping from the gff hoping from and having different gff factions (potentially different races working for them) following her on each planet, like imagine her being at this undiscovered alien jungley type planet followed by a reptilian looking race as troopers sent by the gff thinking that they are best suited for the environment of that planet then escaping to an alien cyberpunk city that belongs to the gff where she's followed by either human troopers or a squad of bounty hunters (potentially rivals trying to get her to win a prize from ghe gff)thats hired by the gff (kinda like the city seen in the prime hunters intro) but idk

I honestly like the Void darkness around the rooms. It adds to the claustrophobic atmosphere and even more so on OLED Screens

I love this game so much. It’s so much fun and I honestly consider this my favorite Nintendo switch game.

Glad you recovered man. Hearing your troubles had me worried.

Wow happy to see you back and hope your hearing got better!!

The one thing Dread needs in my opinion is some sort of "arcade mode" where you fight off waves of enemies, or something along those lines. The gameplay is so incredible, but the game itself is quite short and you only spend a little bit of time with full power ups at the end. I find myself just booting it up just to run around and shoot things because it feels so good to play.

The thing about the Federation and Samus is that there is no feud. There never was. The reason it seemed like there was is just because of bad translation in Fusion. And even in the English version, Samus or Adam (I forget which) says in the ending monologue that the Federation will hold tribunals and that "someone will understand, someone must", implying that the Federation at large will go after the group responsible for metroid project, not Samus. If you think a mistranslation that significant is unlikely, just look at Samus's career title. Whenever game developers in one of the Prime games tried to have Samus hunt bounties, Nintendo was appalled, because "bounty hunter" was actually a poor translation of "mercenary".

Finished it on dread mode a week ago, died 1633 times, mostly on Raven Beak. Escue boss is very dificult in dread mode, had to get the screw attack earlier to pass it easily. What a GAME!😱👍

0:00 General Grievous: General Kenobi, I didn't take you as a Metroid Fan.

I'm glad you're recovering, I hope your neck pain lessens.

Few ideas I'd like to see done in Metroid 6: Hanubia ship X Parasites landing on a former pirate world and reanimating the space pirates Hanubia ship X Parasites landing on a populous urban planet and causing local apocalypse, allowing us to finally explore an urbanized area in the metroid universe without breaking isolation Galactic Federation trying to steal X samples for personal use(possibly via EMMI robot) Return of Mawkin in general More X hosts(preferably chozo ones) regaining their minds like Quiet Robe did(I know people think he just wanted to pacify Samus' Metroid powers, but if that was the case I don't see why Mercury Steam would've animated that scene to make it look QR-X was a good guy. It'd make more sense if he actually WAS a good guy then for MS to just have lied to us about that for no good reason)

Dude your videos are really good and I keep watching them non stop, and Samus is my favorite character and I love the series of Metroid so much. But dude love ur content so much!!!🧡

you cant customize the controls inside game, but you can use the switches built in button customizer and create a profile for it, thats what i did with xbc1 DE, i put the art switch button on l and r instead of the d pad

EMMI wasn't programmed to extract DNA from Samus 'from the get go'. They're made to be stupidly durable and are made of the hardest material in the universe because they were meant for exploration without supervision, they were autonomous. The DNA extraction is a feature they have because its highly advanced space technology for the purpose of exploration and bringing back as accurate data as they can even if its DNA from plants and animals or other organisms.

Samus isn't buddy buddy with the GF. There's a rogue military group within it responsible for both the BSL and bottleship. They don't run the GF as a whole. Samus is in good standing with the Chairman (Keaton), who wants to oust this shadow group for their illegal bio weapons developement. Samus would certainly he an enemy of this subsect, but not the top brass. She just has friends in high places. Edit: should clarify before someone disagrees with me because of Fusion The english version of Fusion lost this aspect of the story in localization, and the ending of the original has almost nothing about holding Samus at fault. Other M, even in the english version, also makes it clear that there is a rogue sect.

We need updates with new areas and enemies

I will say i really don’t think the ships on hanubia mean anything, like for 1 if the X wanted to leave, why didn’t they do it as soon as they were released? I also find it hard to believe that itorash crashing into ZDR (which causes the entire planet to explode) wouldn’t destroy some flimsy ships along the way either considering the destruction to hanubia seen throughout

Fuck me it's been a year already really? Man feels like 3 months ago. It gets scary how fast time flies as you get older.

Got this video in my recommendation so I wanted to leave a comment. I loved Dread. It was my 5th Metroid game (I've played all the 2D Metroid titles, remakes instead of 1 and 2, however). As a game, the gameplay is smooth and Samus controls wonderfully. I wish that she controlled half as well on the GBA games. The story was good enough for a Metroid and I loved Raven Beak as a boss (kinda want him in Smash now lol). I agree that the music is a bit easy to forget, which was a shame given how good the music is in past titles. But overall, as a game to play, it's some of the most fun you can have in a Metroid title.

This was my first Metroid game ever. Couldn't even play it cuz it was so hard. Bought prime remastered this year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I went back to dread after completing prime and WOW. The design of Samus and the way she moves is bliss. And after playing prime, I understand how to play Metroid games a bit better. I'm now on the third region in dread and in love.

A note about the music: Soshi Abe and Sayako Doi (the composers) are newer composers at Nintendo. Both composers have composed for games that aren’t necessarily theme driven - Abe arranged for “Pikimin 3 deluxe” and “Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch” while Doi scored for “Animal Crossing.” They both got put on Dread, and so they did what they were familiar with composing, which is providing music that is important enough to be there but not important enough to stand on its own, which has always been a staple for Metroid. I think it was a mistake to put newer hires on something as big as Dread, so that wasn’t particularly their fault. I would go as far as to say that it’s not really bad music - it’s just not right for Metroid.

I get where people come from when they talk about the music being bad/bland, but there are some good tracks. Burenia and Ferenia are my personal favorites. Burenia is very atmospheric and mysterious, while also being beautiful, and Ferenia is ominous and oppressing. Ferenia reminded me a lot of Anor Londo area wise. Gold walls and floors, many large statues, in an arid desert - there are so many similarities! I agree that the ending was kind of rushed, with the whole kraid-raven beak chimera. I kind of wish that was a fight ngl, but it would probably be too difficult considering the fight beforehand. Overall, I still think it holds up amazing and I’ll definitely be coming back to play it in like a month

One year after the release of Metroid Dread I celebrated my 39th birthday in stead of my 38th birthday.

The worst Part still is that you can't full skip dialogue, if they ever do an Remaster on Fusion I hope they manage to put that in there, honestly one of the reasons why I rather suffer trough the Early Screw Attack Break in Dread, it skips all dialogue after xD

Me and my youngest sister both agreed that a DLC in a similar style to Kirby: Star Allies' "Heroes in another dimension" mode would be cool, they're basically a series of puzzle platforming challenges that switch up who you play as and your ability and given how fun Samus is to play in Dread having that kind of thing going on but it's your gear could quite a fun experience, also doubt that a DLC that adjusts the pacing of the ending would actually remedy it's issue, maybe expanding the remaining areas so you spend more time being almost to fully powered would be cool though. I personally adore the soundtrack's approach.

Subbed. Great vid, m8

I think there should have been a residual Emmi element after you beat the game or before the final boss. As soon as all the Emmi are gone, it becomes a fairly bland normal metroid map with typical expected enemies scattered throughout. Searching for 100 percent of the upgrades felt like such a chore after a while because... The world was empty. The Emmi made the entire map make so much sense, and made me plan my routes accordingly. Without them I sleep.

super still to this day is my all time favourite metroid game.

I still think that Metroid Dread is the best Metroidvania of all time, and I think alone its existence is a miracle itself, because of how complicated its development has been. My 3rd favourite game ever, and the true star of my 2022.

This was the first time I actually beat a metroid game 100%, it was amazing

Not my favorite metroid but I'm glad it exists

Of the metroidvanias I've played, this is by far the best one. Plus, though the story is quite simple, I really like it.

Dread looks amazing on my steamdeck (I own the physical on my switch). I love dread in general as a Speedrun game. It's a ton of fun to do.

I want to get like you and fly through it. I'm all slow and back tracking getting lost in areas I've been.

My only gripe is how it holds your hand with hidden items, you shouldn’t have a flashing box telling you where everything is. Takes the replay ability out of it.

I don't get what people mean by "the ending was clearly rushed". Why is the ending "clearly rushed"? I thought the ending was really good.

I'm surprised you have not beaten Dread Mode yet. I thought, you as a Metroid maniac would atempt it first day and grind through it :D I am standing before Raven Beak at the moment. I took a long break from Dread, but it felt so good coming back to it for Dread Mode, I strongly recommend it.

The biggest problem with dread is it came out in 2021 post indie metroidvania renaissance. And that is a big deal. F.I.S.T forged in shadowtorch had a much bigger impact on me. It's technically an indie metroidvania so it has a few problems but wow that game went under everyone's radar. Do not overlook fist, its fantastic.

I totally agree on the Federation. Even if it's just a subsection of the Federation who are "rogue", like whatever their CIA is, it could be a super interesting game and something new for the series.

After understanding that the e.m.m.i.s. were not a survival horror mechanic, but a progression roadblock that challenges the player to try non run and gun techniques combined with newly adopted skills. This is an attempt to cement the concept that there is more than one way to skin a cat, as spamming her arm cannon on all enemies doesn't showcase Aran's prowess. So fighting them isn't a conventional interaction, and fighting a Gigantic boss within CQC and requiring the players agility movesets to counter makes sense to me. Also, loved the game progression... But I hated finding my next objective after being stuck needlessly retracing sections and agonizing over potential map completion.

4:51 I see what you did there. *tip to my hat*

The game was definitely my favorite game of last year. By far. And I never even played a metroid game before then. The game was just THAT good

Do people still not realize that the Federation plot was a translation error and that Samus was actually dealing with a rogue faction of the Federation? Yeah, you can't follow up on a plot point that doesn't actually exist.

I started the game and after the intro/tutorial section I immediately ran into a room where I could neither escape nor kill the enemy chasing me. I am almost sure I did something wrong but as someone who's new to the franchise I couldn't figure out what I'd have to do. So I never played it again. 😞

3:02, where can I learn how to sequence break and such.

0:53 this is the main reason Dread has become only the second game I've tried to (somewhat) seriously speedrun. The other being Celeste.

i recently finished metroid for the first time and it was amazing. can't believe i waited so long to play it.

Also add the randovania element and you can have even more fun!

I can't believe it's been 1 year already

Music is gorgeous reminds me playing Super Metroid

I have actually beaten dread mode, I died exactly 252 times, which is less then I expected. Even then it was very painful, especially buneria and some parts of ghavoran, the dumb fish and small bugs were annoying. The worst boss by far was the bug holding the storm missiles. That one purple attack with so many arrows just sucks. I HIGHLY reccomens doing the sequence break to get gravity suit early, since that gives you screw attack for that storm missile bug.

I will say I don't think the Emmi are quite as scary as intended, but they are very threatening and oppressive presences that I do find myself... *dreading* for lack of a better word. But I still think they're pretty fun! There are some moments where it's annoying that RNG just isn't in your favor or their movement just didn't make any sense, but the game's movement is so fluid that running away from the Emmi and dodging around it in search of a hiding spot really rewards you for getting good at the various tools you have for movement!

I'm addicted to this game rn. I've already completed it 4 times (Had to redo normal mode for the 4h ending reward I didn't know about). After that, I'm going for Dread Mode! I'm looking forward to being forced to Git Gud at the game. It'll be refreshing not having to play thru the game as fast as humanly possible After Samus Returns and Dread, I hope we can get a remake of Zero Mission, Super, and Fusion. I'd love to play those. And of course a Prime Trilogy port

Glad to see you back! I totally agree that the next game needs to have something about the tension between Samus and The Federation. We all know it's there, now we need to see what's going on. If it wasn't for the Metroid DNA and her extensive experience, she probably would have been left to die on a rock by them

like to add one more to that you can get pulse radar before prayed it's an easy glitch all you got to do is go above him where the red teleporter is have your grapple beam remember suit running to this part jump away you splash shift if you already have it and then you should grapple beam to latch onto a spider magnet platform after that go through the orange teleporter and they go pulse radar

Metroid: Zero Mission is still my favorite 2D Metroid game. This one is good but too frustrating at times.

I can’t wait to see what Mercury Steam does next! I hope the next game will be a bit longer

This game is a gem! Really rounded and compact but still deep

1 year later, and this is still the best birthday gift i could've asked for, Metroid Dread is still one of my favorite games of all time, and my all time favorite metroid game, sorry ZM i still love you lmao I do have a handful of complaints like, the music is kinda underwhelming, its not the worst, i love tracks like Dairon, Upper Burenia and Raven beak's phase 3, and i was kinda bummed it is kinda linear, wish it was a little more open like in Super, i had to forcefully let myself get lost and explore, which made the game so much more fun. And also kinda bummed out they kept repeating alot of mini bosses like the chozo robots and warriors; the main big bosses are so much fun i just want more you know? Lmao I really give this game a 9.1/10, game's extremely fun, bosses are a blast, the game is beautiful. I'm just so happy this game is an actual thing. I really can't wait for Metroid's future and Prime 4 lmao (P.s i've beaten Dread mode a handful of times, it was a really fun challenge, sad there's no new artwork tho)

Oh shit there's a boss rush mode now?! Fucking hell, have a sub for that!

As a person who beat Metroid Dread on Dread Mode, all I can say to it is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! I forgot to breathe during the final fight and nearly passed out from hyperventilation when I finally beat Raven Beak.

As someone that's beaten dread mode. Don't. It hurt.

Wish they gonna make some remakes of the older series introducing that kind of movement, i just can't go back to the older games after playing this.

I would've liked more catchy music and a longer map but considering the final product I'd say its some pretty good Metroid. I give it a 9/10.

nothing beats Super Metroid here its the enemies that runs away from you :)

This game should deserve a DLC

I still love it, I honestly think is the best game on the switch, the other two big competitors (Mario Odyssey and BOTW) are both great, but also gigantic bloated games, almost unreplayable to me. But Metroid Dread I almost cannot put it down, I carry it always with me like a smash bros or a mario kart, just in case I want to give it a go spontaneously. And I often do. It is so entretaining and so replayable that the time spent on it is comparable and will surely surpass the other games, even if they are techincally way bigger. Honestly my main complaint, which is more of a mild dissapointment, is that I wanted more insentives to replay, I wanted a full set of achievements and other alternative challenges and or play modes. I wanted to unlock a lot more artwork. Starting with any kind of reward for completing the boss rush. Dread mode is a decent option but honestly it went too far, to the point that it just completely broke a lot of core design elements of the game, like how energy tanks become irrelevant or how the emmi (the supposed biggest threat) suddenly became the weakest enemy of the whole game by being the only enemy that doesn't kill you in one hit. I would have loved a speedrunning mode with cutscenes and dialogs disabled, maybe some sort of newgame+ or second quest that either gives you more freedom or maybe items in different places. Or honestly just some permadeath survival mode, play the whole game without dying like in hollow knights steel soul mode, that mode would be very difficult and without undermining or negating a bunch of design elements, putting the emmi once again as the scariest enemies. I would do it, and I think it would be more fun than my dread mode playthrough.

I've come back to this game recently. I love how stylish and slick it looks, runs very well at 60fps, the boss-battles are fun, and the mechanics are very fluent and responsive. I'm still not a 100% fan of the Metroid game-structure in general, with backtracking and all that; I prefer linear games.

What is your channel theme music when the name comes up? I feel like I should know it but can’t place it.

And then there's my 5 year old kid who beat it in dread mode almost by himself (had to help him with one of the duo-robot boss fights).

Prime trilogy music is unmatched imo

would have loved it when they would have unlock all closed doors etc. after gettin the power bomb to make backtracking easier

Metroid dread was my first ever Metroid game and it’s one of the few games that don’t just make me pissed off when I lose a ton, like yeah I make a lot of mistakes but I can very clearly see what I did wrong, I should’ve stood there, I shouldn’t have done that, etc, this ties in very well with the majority of the EMMIs however I personally have a big problem with the purple and blue ones, the purple one is incredibly annoying because there’s no hiding with it, if you move slightly then it’s just a big chase section, the blue one is less of an issue but the infinite range beam is very annoying

It doesn't float my boat as much as some of the good older entries. It's hard to understand someone that skips letters now and then.

A year later....and I still haven't beaten Raven's Beak lol

I bought this game the day it came out and a year later is when I finally beat it for the first time lol

Time goes fast

Obi-Wan Kenobi likes Metroid 👍

Playing this on the oled is amazing in my opinion. It just looks sooooo good.

bruh why does everyone hate the music.... it's so good 😫

Only 110 hours? child's play. Seriousness, although while the ending is clearly rushed, I feel it more from Hanubia being short and the final Emmi not having something more to do with the gameplay than the actual ending cutscene/battle, which is probably why it doesnt bother me as much today. Raven Beak's fight is a blast both from the abilities and the context of seeing two Chozos locked in combat, and how the moves were foreshadowed in the opening makes for some neat storytelling, he didnt need to change much strategies because he knew in the end he would win, but was caught off-guard in the something not many could see coming. I wouldnt say the game is too hand-holding, I've seen my friends and family struggle at figuring out where to go for hours, so maybe it feels that way more to us fans of the series who are used to the type of exploration, and I think the sequence breaking are a nice way to satiate the itch. Sorry for the long comment, but just wanted to chime in with some comments, I agree overall with the things you thought here. Great work

Unfortunately Idon't think where going to hear any more official news about Metroid until E3 2023.

Great video! I agree wholeheartedly on the disappointment to not being able to remap buttons. If anything it would help gamers with disabilities enjoy the game more. Still Dread is amazing! 🤩

Now that time has passed, I've notice more people pointing out flaws in the game's plot. For instance, the time frame in which Kraid was captured does not logically fit in the timeline. Or why did Raven Beak keep Quiet Robe alive if he couldn't control Metroids back on SR388 nor create more of them. Or the whole deal on Metroids hating on Mawkins. Still a fun game though. Did far more playthroughs of it than any Metroid game that came out after Prime 3!

Watching the gameplay, seeing you get hit and going "hey why aren't you dead??" Is really funny I've been playing Dread mode lmao I just freed the X and I'm really proud of myself for making it this far lol