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Metroid Dread came out last Friday, and it is an awesome game.

Unfortunately, there are not awesome "game journalists" who seem to make a career out of bitching about games being "too hard" or "too inaccessible." Samus didn't come back for her first brand new 2D adventure in nearly 20 years to coddle a bunch of pansies! No, she came back to bitch slap them! Show Samus and the genre she pioneered respect.

Metroid Dread is an excellent and difficult game. It has a really lenient system of checkpoints right around the areas that will kill you most frequently. Those being the bosses and E.M.M.I zones. The game looks great, running at a smooth 60 FPS during gameplay. The controls are nearly perfect. I say nearly because sometimes the Spin Boost didn't always work right for me, but that's really about it. The cinematic presentation is excellent. Cutscenes are well animated and Samus always looks like a badass. I love that new suit design too. The audio is good. Sound effects and creature roars are great. Though I didn't find myself humming the area tunes like I would in other Metroid games. Sounds like I need to start a 2nd playthrough already. If you enjoy Metroid or Metroidvania games, I wholeheartedly recommend it. Or even if you just like her in Smash Bros, give the game a try. It's a tough but very satisfying game.

As for the art...it's obviously a parody of a certain Batman comic panel. Even though this is digital, I used similar methods to produce the image such as a more textured inking tool. The halftone feature on Clip Studio really helps bring that printed look to life. It's not a true halftone because it's not layered CMYK dots, but it's close enough and didn't cause any color mixing headaches. I also made sure that some of the color layers are misaligned, to give the illusion of printing errors.

Hope you enjoy the art!

Samus and Metroid © Nintendo
Batman © DC comics
Art ©

Description
Metroid Dread came out last Friday, and it is an awesome game.

Unfortunately, there are not awesome "game journalists" who seem to make a career out of bitching about games being "too hard" or "too inaccessible." Samus didn't come back for her first brand new 2D adventure in nearly 20 years to coddle a bunch of pansies! No, she came back to bitch slap them! Show Samus and the genre she pioneered respect.

Metroid Dread is an excellent and difficult game. It has a really lenient system of checkpoints right around the areas that will kill you most frequently. Those being the bosses and E.M.M.I zones. The game looks great, running at a smooth 60 FPS during gameplay. The controls are nearly perfect. I say nearly because sometimes the Spin Boost didn't always work right for me, but that's really about it. The cinematic presentation is excellent. Cutscenes are well animated and Samus always looks like a badass. I love that new suit design too. The audio is good. Sound effects and creature roars are great. Though I didn't find myself humming the area tunes like I would in other Metroid games. Sounds like I need to start a 2nd playthrough already. If you enjoy Metroid or Metroidvania games, I wholeheartedly recommend it. Or even if you just like her in Smash Bros, give the game a try. It's a tough but very satisfying game.

As for the art...it's obviously a parody of a certain Batman comic panel. Even though this is digital, I used similar methods to produce the image such as a more textured inking tool. The halftone feature on Clip Studio really helps bring that printed look to life. It's not a true halftone because it's not layered CMYK dots, but it's close enough and didn't cause any color mixing headaches. I also made sure that some of the color layers are misaligned, to give the illusion of printing errors.

Hope you enjoy the art!

Samus and Metroid © Nintendo
Batman © DC comics
Art ©