Metroid Dread is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo and MercurySteam and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.
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16 Facts About Metroid Dread
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Metroid Dread is an action-adventure game in which players control bounty hunter Samus Aran as she explores the planet ZDR.
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Metroid Dread adds stealth elements, with Samus avoiding the EMMI robots in certain areas by hiding, reducing her noise, and using the Phantom Cloak, camouflage that makes her invisible but slows her movement.
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Metroid Dread slaughtered the Thoha tribe and spared Quiet Robe so the Metroids could be controlled with his Thoha DNA.
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Metroid Dread planned to use ZDR to house Metroids, but had to contain an infestation of the X while Samus eradicated the Metroids from SR388.
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The X possessing Quiet Robe appears and allows itself to be absorbed into Samus to neutralize her Metroid Dread abilities, allowing her to escape the planet before it explodes.
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Sakamoto did not want Metroid Dread to be a horror game, but did want to explore "fear-based gameplay".
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Sakamoto attempted to have Metroid Dread developed for the DS at least twice, but the technology was too limited to create the game he envisioned.
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Title Metroid Dread first appeared on a 2005 internal Nintendo software list of "key DS games set to be announced in the future", triggering expectation that it would appear at the E3 convention in 2005 or 2006.
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Metroid Dread said that they were "waiting and watching and reading the comments to see what people are interested in before we make any comment on the project".
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Metroid Dread felt that Metroid: Other M was a disappointment and it made him nostalgic for Dread.
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Chris Carter of Destructoid said Dread "masterfully" executed the Metroidvania formula, and that it "doesn't take a lot of big swings, but it rarely bats a foul ball".
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Joe Findly of CGM wrote that "Metroid Dread is a wonderful, modern take on a classic game from childhood".
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Metroid Dread pre-orders topped the Amazon Video Game Best Sellers list in the US, UK, Japan, and Australia.
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Metroid Dread had the highest-grossing physical launch of the franchise in the UK, debuting at number three on the weekly video games sales charts.
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