Metroid Dread is ... real

[A Black Falcon]

Wait, what?  That's not a sentence I thought I'd ever write!  Metroid Dread is getting a Siwtch remake.  That's maybe the biggest news from Nintendo's game-filled E3 presentation this morning.  It's not the game from that show I'm the most excited for, but sure, it's a cool thing to see I guess.

To be clear, it's most likely that this game is a full new game using that name.  It's made by Mercury Steam, same developer as Metroid Samus Returns.  But yeah... Metroid Dread. For Switch.  Who knew?

[Dark Jaguar]

Remake?  As you said it's a new game.

[A Black Falcon]

I meant of the cancelled 2005 version of the game.  I don't think it actually got all that far into development so I imagine they were mostly starting from scratch from this one.  Of course on top of that this is from a different developer and clearly builds on what they did in Samus Returns, mechanics-wise.


And that's my main issue with Metroid Dread, really -- I'm sure it will be good, but I did not like the feel of that melee counter attack thing Samus Returns has, and this one's got that move in it again that's for sure.  I don't know, it's too QTE-ish...