Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 11th
SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
The last Metroid is in the finished pile. My replay spree is complete.
Dread was so much better than I remembered, I think precisely because I replayed the whole series in a row. No longer is it its own thing compared against my favorite individual Metroids, now it’s a series finale tonally and mechanically paying off what the past three games have been setting up.
Now I have to avoid the genre until the new one comes out so I’m not sick of it then.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I had so much fun revisiting Dread after a year or two because that game lies to you about how linear it is—it’s crazy.
I swear to god, there’s a point somewhere in the first third to halfway through where it just becomes an open-world game.
SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
This was my third time through it. The first time I fell for the lies, second time was after I read about that slide jump and I tried all game long to break it all as hard as possible. Maybe context isn’t the only thing that made this run special, maybe it’s that I can finally bring that same balance of mastery and whim-following that I have with Super, where it doesn’t even feel like resistance anymore.