Metroid DREAD (NSW) - A Love Letter to E.M.M.I. - October 8, 2021

[Kaisha]

I honestly found the later EMMI easier as you have more of your platforming toolkit at that point to just speed ahead of it. Any word if they were sped up at all on hard? I've yet to do my 2nd playthrough.

[Yabby]

No, hard mode just makes mobs hit harder, that is it.

[Mayareira]

Finished it just now in 16 hours 15 mins, 100% completion in all areas. Overall, as I previously said it was one of the best games I've played recently. I'll definitely see them next mission.

Only thing I disliked was that the game was too boss focused. Boss battles were rather fun but I found overall bestiary quite weak. Regular mobs were uninteresting and once you get a couple of energy upgrades you could probably simply run into all of them and still do just fine, they are just there to slow you down a bit and waiting to get jumped over.

Developers, probably realizing this came up with repeating Chozo soldier mini bosses for extra challenge.

I generally found EMMI's a good, fair challenge. Their one-shot mechanic never felt unfair as the checkpoints were almost always a minute or two before and tbh they were usually quite easy to deal with.

[synistar]

Watching this glitch fest of a Varia + Gravity suit skip route has been quite a treat. Use of camera locks, shine sinks, invulnerability glitches, and one odd glitch where Samus is pointing her gun outward towards the player.

[Lucavi]

Apparently quite a few bosses were cut from the final product. Nintendo wanted them out for some reason, so that's probably why we got so many Chozo statues as mid-bosses.

I was hoping for a good Gold Torizo fight near the end, but I guess the Red Chozo fit the bill, kinda.

[Vil]

Watching this glitch fest of a Varia + Gravity suit skip route has been quite a treat. Use of camera locks, shine sinks, invulnerability glitches, and one odd glitch where Samus is pointing her gun outward towards the player.

Yeah, I watched a bit of Oats' stream last night and I was just like "excuse me?" during purple EMMI.

In the meantime, I'm over here remembering failing every trick from 2 weeks ago to the point where I'm like "you know what? Z57 is kinda fun anyway."

[6souls]

Dread (Brutal) & Rookie (Easy) Modes Added

In the brutal Dread Mode difficulty, all it takes is one hit to cause a game over. Are you ready for the challenge?

For players new to the series, Rookie Mode allows for increased recovery and less damage from bosses. The free update is available now!

Additionally, look forward to a second free update arriving in April, which will add Boss Rush mode, where you can take on bosses continuously, one at a time until you’re defeated!

[Mayareira]

Brutal mode sounds brutal but actually a good challenge for the true masters of the game. Dread means it when it says "no attack is unavoidable" and despite some frustrating moments at times I never felt it was cheap or unfair.

Tremendous boss design.