Metroid Dread Review

While watching my dad play this game in November 2021, I realized that other people had to be curious about it. Perhaps tweens. It did win the Game of the Year Award, after all. My name is Dai, and I give reviews on every form of entertainment in hopes that I might help young Christians to think about what they watch, read, and play. Let’s get into my review of this game.

Here is a short blurb explaining the general story of this game from MetroidWiki: “Metroid (a floating jellyfish-like thing that is extinct in this particular Metroid game; not the main character of the game series Metroid) Dread retells the story of the 2D Metroid games leading up to it, ending with Metroid Fusion. Now, Samus (the main character of the Metroid game series) is dispatched to investigate by a currently unknown party and travels to ZDR (a planet where the Chozo, a birdlike species in the Metroid game series, reside). As the only being in the universe with immunity against the X Parasites (Samus is protected because of a Metroid cell experiment that involved her being injected with Metroid DNA), Samus seeks to uncover whether they truly still exist.” (The things in parentheses are my own words.)

I played Metroid Dread through my dad, who has been a fan of the Metroid series since he was a kid. This game is rated T, and rightfully so. Even though I’m a teenager, some of the elements of the game were very disturbing to me. It’s called Metroid Dread for a reason, and I’m glad my dad was playing it so I could walk away whenever it got to be too much.

That being said, I really enjoyed the suspenseful chase elements of this game. Much of the game was running away from and destroying the reprogrammed robots that had been sent before Samus in hopes that the X virus could be found with them. I also enjoyed the way Samus’ abilities played into accessibility to the constantly growing map. My dad marveled at how quickly the game works and how responsive Samus’ movements were (particularly at the times when she was grabbed by robots and quickly escaped with the mash of a button). I can definitely see the appeal of this game, but I don’t enjoy suspense much.

Now that I’ve acknowledged the positive elements, I have two very large complaints about this game. The first one is about a boss that Samus has to fight, one that is chained up within a closed off room on one of the early planets Samus travels to. It fights back against her by shooting projectiles covered with pus and blood from valves in its stomach. It was very unexpected and uncalled for in my opinion.

The second thing I disliked was a plot point in which the X virus, which I thought could only infect living people, used a dead person, as a husk of sorts, to live in and move in. At this point, I asked Dad to stop waiting for me to play, as he’d been doing in response to my and my sibling’s request before. It was too much for me as a believer that God is the only one who can bring dead people back to life.

In conclusion, we should enjoy games but also keep in mind that they are not our lives. In the end, you are you, and there is still real life to live. I hope you all remember to love those around you and give thought to everything you take into your mind. God loves you and wants the best for you, so take time to spend time with Him and the people He gave you.

It’s your choice what you play, but ask yourself about everything: Does it glorify God? It should.

Thanks for spending some of your valuable time reading my review. I hope it helps you to make the choice whether or not to play this game. Share the link for this post with someone who could benefit from it and subscribe if you want a review like this once a week.

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