DO NOT BUY Metroid Dread - Terrible Game

Today I'll be reviewing the new Metroid

Dread game on the Nintendo Switch. Just

recently came out for £60, which is really

expensive for a really rubbish looking

video game. I've never really liked the

Metroid series. The whole concept of it

seems really boring and dull. So you got a

woman in some kind of cyborg sci-fi suit

and she has a gun attached to her arm.

And apart from that, I don't really know

anything about the story. It's just like

aliens and she has to fight the aliens and

solve puzzles with her gun. It's just a

really lame, uninspired storyline and

concept for a video game. And the gameplay

is just really boring and dull in every

single Metroid game. So this new Metroid

Dread game is a side-scrolling platformer

puzzle shooter. I don't know why anyone

would want to play a side-scrolling

2D-looking game in 2021. Come on, we have

3D graphics now. Maybe this does have 3D

graphics, but it's like a side-scrolling

game, so Side-scrolling games were things

from the '90s, and this is the problem

Nintendo has. It's like they've never

moved on from the '90s. In the '90s, they

made loads of smash hits, great games—

Super Mario, Zelda— and they kind of

revolutionized that kind of game style and

gameplay and that kind of video games.

And they moved well into the 3D world,

but it seems like they haven't really

evolved much since the early 2000s and the

late '90s. And now they're just rehashing

the same video game brands over and over

and over again, like Mario, Zelda, Animal

Crossing, and Metroid. And it's just

getting kind of tiresome seeing the same

franchises year after year, just in

different iterations, different games.

And it's just basically the same video

game but in a different skin. And Metroid

Dread is not really any different. So the

bulk of the gameplay in Metroid Dread is

you have to use your gun to shoot at the

enemies and you can block and use special

abilities, and then there's puzzles that

you have to solve, and there's certain

different enemy types. There's really

nothing new about the game, nothing

interesting, nothing original. I don't

even see why this game was made apart from

Nintendo wanted to make some easy money.

And the graphics of the game are just not

quite up to my standards. It just looks

very, very simple and very basic. There's

nothing great about it. So in New World,

even though the graphics aren't really

amazing in New World, the lighting system

is just mind-blowing. The sunsets, the sun

rises, it casts shadows. You're running

through a forest and you can see all the

light, the rays of sun glowing between the

tree shafts and the shadows being cast.

And the game looks amazing. Almost any

place you go in the game looks really,

really good because of the dynamic

lighting. You sit by a campfire and the

flames create this orange glow on your

character. It looks great. Unfortunately,

Metroid Dread just doesn't have any of

these same qualities. It looks like a

really basic game from the 2010s. My other

problem with the Nintendo eStore is you

have to pay full price for most of these

games, and they don't even let you refund

the game. There's no free demo for most of

these AAA Nintendo games. They just kind

of expect you to take a gamble. It's

basically like gambling. You pay £60, you

can't really know if you're going to enjoy

the game or not. Sure, you can watch

reviews and watch gameplay, but you can't

really know if you're going to enjoy the

game or not unless you play it yourself.

And in order to play it, you've got to pay

£60, which is nearly $100.

When did video games become so expensive?

My other problem with the game is I just

heard that the game only takes about 8 or

9 hours to finish. That is just incredibly

short. 8 or 9 hours. You could literally

finish the whole game in just 1 day if you

were dedicated enough. Probably 2 days, 3

days, you'd probably finish the game and

then you won't play it again. So you've

just paid £60 and all you got was 8 hours

of gameplay, 8 hours of entertainment if

you enjoyed the game. That is such, such

poor value for money. In comparison, I

only paid about £35 for New World

and I've already played it for like 500

hours and I'm still having fun with it. I

haven't even gotten to max level. I

haven't even done PvP or endgame stuff.

I'm on level 41. And I've already got

400-500 hours of entertainment out of the

game, which is just insanely good value

for money. You go to the cinema, you pay

£10 for a couple hours in the movie. I

just think it's really poor value for

money if you're expected to pay £60 and

you only get 8 hours of gameplay. Not

very, not very impressive, Nintendo. It's

kind of funny because I have a Switch and

I do play it a lot, but I don't really

like any of the official AAA Nintendo

games. I tried Zelda Breath of the Wild.

I finished it in a couple days. The story

was rubbish, not really interesting. The

characters were very bland. I tried Mario

Odyssey again, just really boring, bland

game. My only game that I really like on

the Nintendo Switch is Mario Kart. I play

that every day. Apart from Mario Kart,

there's just nothing from Nintendo that I

really feel like I want to play. They just

make the same games over and over again.

Like Pokémon, and not really much changes.

So unfortunately, I can't really recommend

this video game. I give it a score of 1.1

out of 10. Very lackluster and

disappointing. You know what I would

really like to see on the Switch? Maybe

some good old Sega classics like Jet Set

Radio, Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi,

or that game Soulcalibur. I mean, Sega has

some really great games and good ideas.

And they failed as a gaming company. The

console failed to make money, and they

just gave up making video game consoles

after the Dreamcast. And they had such

great, innovative, original, unique ideas.

And it's just a shame that they, they

failed, they lost, and Nintendo won and

dominated the gaming console scene and the

handheld scene. When Nintendo doesn't

really take risks, They very rarely

innovate and they just rehash the same

franchises decade after decade.

I think that is just very unfair and

unjust. We should bring Sega back. So

yeah, those are my thoughts on Nintendo

and Metroid Dread. Thanks for listening.