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Metroid Dread Speedrunners Are Beating The Game In 90 Minutes Flat
There comes a time in every game’s life-cycle when speedrunners crack the code, and a baseline time against which to compete reveals itself. Now that we’re a few weeks removed from the release of Metroid Dread, such a benchmark has crystallised: The game’s fastest players are racing from start to finish in about an hour-and-a-half.
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With Metroid Dread, Nintendo Finally Gets The Action Hero It Deserves
Metroid games, particularly the early entries on the NES and Super Nintendo, have traditionally been at their best in isolation. Literally: Metroid games are at their most iconic when they’re presenting players with a haunting, lonely atmosphere that really sells the idea that series protagonist Samus Aran is all alone on an alien world where…
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Metroid Dread: The Kotaku Review
I admit I was sceptical. If a game is genuinely going to conjure a sense of dread, as Metroid Dread’s title seems to promise, I think it needs to be thorny and aggressive and hostile in ways I wasn’t convinced the Nintendo of 2021 could deliver. Boy, was I wrong to doubt: Metroid Dread is…
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Metroid Prime 3 Could Have Been Open World, And That Hurts
You know what I’d sell my extended family to be able to play? An open-world Metroid Prime. Just the phrase sets my imagination reeling, combining an all-time favourite game series with the possibility of all that player freedom. Which makes it all the more galling that this is something that could have happened.