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Expert: Metroid Dread aims for series' scariest but echoes Metroid Fusion

Horror critic Jenna Stoeber examines Metroid Dread and finds it was explicitly positioned as the scariest Metroid yet by producer Yoshio Sakamoto. Stoeber compares Dread’s design to Sakamoto’s earlier game Metroid Fusion and concludes those similarities undercut its horror ambitions. She nonetheless calls Dread a strong game, using a tongue-in-cheek culinary metaphor to describe its overall quality.

• Metroid Dread was developed and presented as the scariest entry in the Metroid series.
• Producer Yoshio Sakamoto’s previous game, Metroid Fusion, shares design elements with Dread that temper its horror impact.
• Jenna Stoeber argues those similarities cause Dread to fall short as a pure horror game.
• Stoeber nonetheless assesses Dread positively, describing it as a good game—likened humorously to a “good... soup.”