By whoisjohn on Skatehive
So I'm putting the PS5 to the side for a little bit because a good friend of mine let me borrow a game that I am far too stingy to pay $60 for myself in Metroid: Dread. I have been excited about this game for quite some time because I was there Gandalf, I was there when the original was released, 3000 years ago. Metroid on NES is one of my fondest memories in gaming. Up to that point I had never played anything like it where it was like an RPG (not that we had much concept of what that was back then) but it was in the future. There was no XP, just upgrades for your arsenal. Revisiting old rooms or areas was part of the game as well because as your arsenal improved, so did your ability to access other areas that previously couldn't be gotten to. This formula was so good that it spawned an entirely new genre of games which today is known as "Metroid-vania" with of course, Castlevania being the other end of that. src I was more excited to play Dread specifically because it is a side-scrol