In games as tightly designed as Metroid Dread, however, soft-locking usually requires exploits of some kind. Still, the path ahead isn’t always obvious, and some obtuse backtracking may be required.

If you've played any of the previous side-scrolling Metroid games, Dread will be familiar. As usual, Samus Aran loses all her powers and needs to escape an underworld maze, fighting baddies and ...

Whether you’re new to Metroid or just struggling to get that last suit upgrade, finding all of Metroid Dread’s items and upgrades can be really frustrating. Pushing just past that frustration and ...

Metroid Dread will feel instantly familiar to anyone who has played a 2D Metroid game before. For that matter, it'll feel familiar to anyone who has ever played a non-linear platformer, otherwise ...

Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.