Nintendo’s Metroid franchise has long been known for its high quality. While the series has had a couple of missteps over the last 35 years, games like Super Metroid and Metroid Prime are regarded as some of the greatest of all time. Metroid Dread is the first game in the franchise to appear on Nintendo Switch, and fans of the platform will be happy to know that it continues the proud tradition of the series by delivering one of the console’s must-own titles and an experience that easily ranks among the best in the Metroid series.
Metroid Dread is technically the fifth entry in the main Metroid saga. Picking up after the events of 2002’s Metroid Fusion, Samus Aran travels to ZDR after seven EMMI robots were sent to the planet and stopped communicating with the Galactic Federation. Upon her arrival, Samus discovers that the robots have been reprogrammed to attack and hunt the bounty…
