Nintendo just dropped a new trailer for Metroid Dread as well as another report further explaining the backstory for the game.
Although the wait for Metroid Prime 4 is set to continue indefinitely, Samus fans do have something pretty major and very good looking to look forward to; Metroid Dread. A game that has technically been in the works for about a decade and a half, but Nintendo hasn't had the means to bring the idea to life until now.
The wait for Metroid Dread is almost over and to further add to the hype, Nintendo just released a new trailer. The trailer, which you can check out below, might well be the biggest and best yet. It follows on from a recent teaser where Samus was shown arriving with a bang on planet ZDR.
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As expected, the mysterious figure waiting for Samus in the shadows was a Chozo. A member of the species responsible for raising Samus, but a race that was supposed to have been wiped out. Samus has suffered amnesia, even forgetting how to use some of her signature abilities. A report from Nintendo, released alongside the trailer above, reads that fans will need to keep their eyes peeled for answers on how she survived running into a Chozo Warrior who has her by the throat.
Samus clearly has her memory jogged at some point as this trailer, as well as another released a week ago, shows her using familiar abilities as well as some new ones. Handy, as on top of the Chozo Warrior and the EMMI robots which pursue Samus throughout the game, the new trailer demonstrates that frankly terrifying enemies will litter Metroid Dread's sidescroller paths when it launches later this year.
Dread will launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch on October 8, 2021. After that, Metroid fans will very quickly turn their attention back to the long-awaited Metroid Prime 4. While it still isn't officially on the horizon, an unnamed company assumed to be Nintendo recently ordered a fan-made Metroid Prime 2D demake to be taken down. Studios acting that way is usually a sign that something official is on the way. Perhaps the rumored remastered Prime trilogy.
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