BlackenedHalo

it reaches hardly a 4/10 in 2021 ....

a 9/10 in 2021???? ....cmon... that´s hilarious

@GrailUK yes, but... "This review originally went live in 2006, and we're updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of N64 games on Nintendo Switch Online."

@Tisteg80 yes, just like Super Mario Odyssey

This game does not deserve a 10/10 in 2021 at all ....

@Leksa The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

NSO = 20 bucks/year
NSO + EP = 50 bucks/year
NSO + EP + GB/GBA = 100 bucks/year???

"Excellent presentation"

• yeah, the most boring environments in the RPG genre ...yeah...excellent...

@Paulo I hope the first MP4 trailer will not be as underwhelming as Bayonetta 3's first trailer

boring games ....i did not buy a Nintendo console to play SEGA games

well, the outstanding 10/10 was definitely an overreaction... the game is superb, but not that good

@deucezulu22 constant gameplay interruptions are not an evolution

none ...I do not own a Nintendo console to play Sega games

@Lordplops exactly...it is just common in the offices

"There were about 120 cinematics to do, it was too big an overscope"

I was frustrated how much cinematics were in Dread mainly at the beginning. Metroid does not need any cinematics, they just constantly interrupt the flow of gameplay....

@Cosmo_Joe actually nobody says anything about the price ...but more like why there is the AC expansion, why we have to pay 30 dollars more for another 9 games from N64? why there are those Sega Genesis games when nobody has ever asked for them? Ppl has been asking for GBA/GC/N64 games for ages!

@BloodNinja exactly ..Does Nintendo want to fight warez emulator sites? Then they should put around 1000 old games to the NSO service.
I mean, cmon, its been 4 years and there are only 100 NES/SNES games combined and after 4 years they decided to upgrade the service with 9 ...yes... 9!!!!!! N64 games ....That´s sick, that´s arogant, that´s absurd, that´s ridiculous.

@mmarkster too complicated
NSO + N64 + Sega Pack: $29.99
NSO + Both Expansion Packs + Animal Crossing DLC: $49.99

this would do

@Jayenkai what? it is not ideal at all ...What does Animal Crossing have to do with NSO? What does the expansion have to do with NES/SNES/N64/Genesis games? What does the expansion have to do with players paying for the service to play all those old games? The expansion has absolutely zero use for them, but they are forced to pay for it. Nintendo must have gone mad...

Putting the AC expansion to the Expansion Pack was a big big mistake and failure ..
1. first, it made the service more expensive
2. second, what the hell has the expansion to do with NES/SNES/N64/Genesis games?
3. third, it caused a big confussion among AC players wanting to buy it

@Bentendo1609 but there is no reason for that, Nintendo should just release expansions the classic way, no reason to "invent" new ideas...

i just do not understand who´s idea was to merge NSO+EP and the DLC for AC ...I mean....why? ...Why put these things together? It just made NSO+EP more expensive and AC players confused...

@ItsOKToBeOK well, you can keep it, buy it for 20 bucks

not bad, I like it a lot! but I do not like the spells/abilities animations

ok so why they included Sega Genesis? lol

I think the worst problem is not the price, but the content we get for it. We all know how lazy Nintendo became in terms of releasing new NES/SNES games in the last years, how Nintendo does not care anymore at all. First, Nintendo released new games (mostly good) evey month, then it was every three or four months (mostly garbage). So even when we know what games are gonna be released in the future for N64, like Paper Mario, people are sceptical and frankly justifiably. There is just not enough games, released or planned, for people to say that it's all worth the money. Because to be honest, there is a high probability that Nintendo will abandon releasing new games for N64 sooner than we would want to admit. Judging the current NSO status, the high probability is basically the certainty.

@Denoloco oh really, so how many VC games can you play on your Wii today?

40e for Europe, perfect!

@Bearzilla823 yeah of course, 20 bucks vs 50 bucks, but when you compare 4 bucks per month (NSO) vs 4 bucks per month (NSO+EP), that is the same

@Bearzilla823 but that´s per year, meaning per month it is 4 bucks, so no change

I mean the price is not bad at all, as it was not changed (4 bucks per month), but you have to buy the whole year in advance ... that´s questionable

@Classic603 in gameplay

the music is just awful ...I mean when I image myself playing this game and listening to such one-instrument tracks filled with neverending shredding notes for hours, I can see killing myself...

OT: Regarding Metroid Dread, is not this game just a reskinned Metroid Fusion?

geez Mercury Steam acts as if a 11 months work meant a 11 minutes work....

7,99e would be a fair price

it is OLED so it can cause the burn-in problem ...it can be easily avoided by developers who might add some options to turn off the HUD, which always is static and it can cause the problem

a bit overrated but a really unique experience

fantastic! so they have my money

@Seacliff oh that is a pity ... I can imagine brutal hard optional bosses giving you optional abilities that you can use to gain certain optional reward which cannot be taken without the optional abilities ...that is why I do not understand why this game got a 10/10 when it does not add anything new to the genre/series.

I would like to know if there are optional bosses or abilities in the game which are not required to beat/gain in order to beat the game

I am mostly a PC gamer but I actually hate the PC community itself ...so much hypocrisy and piracy
... I actually reported one site directly to Nintendo because of this

@Trajan cmon they would find another excuse like - paying 60 bucks for a 2D game?! No way!

playing just-released games via emulator is a huge crime ...I play ancient games via emulators that cannot be bought or were never released in EU on PS1 (Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Cross, etc), but this what is happening to Metroid Dread is something completely different

@Denoloco but PC community uses an illegal way

@anoyonmus nobody compares really, it is just fun

I am 2 hours in and I am shocked how many cutscenes the game has. They are useless and they interrupt the gameplay flow.

"Some boss fights may really test you to breaking point before you crack them"

• this should be moved to the PROS section

the game´s gameplay might be good, but cmon Square, the graphics is bland, uninspiring, boring ...even indie titles do not go for such minimalism