metroid-club

After a long wait, Metroid Dread finally arrived on Nintendo Switch today! The new game from Nintendo and MercurySteam has been classified by critics not only as one of the best installments of the franchise, but as one of the best titles you can currently enjoy on the console! As with every major release, the guys at Digital Foundry have already prepared a video analysis of Metroid Dread, in which they talk in detail about the technical aspect, such as resolution and frame rate per second. Here you can take a look at it, although I'll tell you once and for all, Dread is practically flawless in this area. Well, it was to be expected that Metroid Dread would perform really well on the Switch. As always, Nintendo's first-party games hardly ever have any technical hiccups, and this new offering is no exception. Have you had a chance to play it yet? Let me know in the comments!

It's celebration time! Yesterday, August 6, marked the 35th anniversary of Metroid. That's right, it was in 1986 when Samus Aran's adventures began on the Famicom, taking players to a very lonely world full of dangers. While the Metroid series enjoyed quite a promising period at the beginning, with a trilogy between NES, Game Boy and SNES, once Super Metroid hit the market, the series began a long period of silence, something that would become usual. However, in 2002 we saw the release of Metroid Prime, a title that revitalized interest in the property, and brought the bounty hunter into 3D. The Metroid series has also played a pivotal role in the history of video games. Thanks to the great freedom and exploration system that the games in the series have provided, many developers were inspired by this level design. The clearest example was Koji Igarashi, who transformed Dracula's castle in Symphony of the Night into a location as complex as Zebes or SR388. Without titles like Super

While many of us were expecting to learn more about Metroid Prime 4 during Nintendo’s E3 2021 Direct presentation, we were more than happy to see Nintendo instead reveal Metroid Dread: a 2D Metroid title from the same studio that brought us Metroid: Samus Returns for Nintendo 3DS! The reveal of Metroid Dread stunned many fans who were prepared for just about every announcement besides this one, but the news has come as less of a shock to those who have been following Metroid Dread‘s development for over 15 years. Yes, Metroid Dread is the resurrected version of a previously canceled Metroid project, and the story of how it got from there to Nintendo’s E3 2021 showcase is absolutely fascinating. Metroid Dread reports first began to spread in 2005 when the title was briefly mentioned in Game Informer magazine and appeared on a leaked list of upcoming Nintendo releases. At that time, the only things people knew about the project were its name, the rumor that it would be based on