We’d already gone hands-on with the Switch OLED but only using older games.

Uses the same core Metroidvania blueprint as Super Metroid What we played was the opening two hours or so of the finished version, which might seem a bit odd as it’s out in two weeks, but Nintendo wanted to show off not just the game itself but the new OLED model of console. Metroid Dread is primarily the work of Spanish studio MercurySteam, who not only made Samus Returns but also the last three Castlevanias – which makes them one of the most experienced developers in the whole genre. Given how rarely Metroid titles are released we weren’t really sure what to expect from this new game, but if you worried about a watered down experience, more tuned to mainstream sensibilities, then that is one fear that Dread will not perpetuate.

Metroid Dread Switch NSP Free Download Romslabĭon’t let that status put you off – storytelling in Metroid has never been a priority – but in trying to cap off 35 years of lore Metroid Dread will also be drawing a line under the whole franchise up to this point, and potentially the whole genre.

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