Title: Metroid Dread [Wikipedia] [IMDb]

Developers: MercurySteam, Nintendo EPD

Publisher: Nintendo

Designers: Yoshio Sakamoto (producer), Jose Maria Navarro Herrera, Carlos Zarzuela Sánchez, Jacobo Luengo

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Release date: October 8, 2021

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SHOWNOTES: Welcome to Season Four of Collateral Gaming! We decided to start it with a banger and a highly, highly anticipated game of ours: Metroid Dread! That's right, folks; Ash and Zach premiere with a spoiler-free review of the latest title in Nintendo's acclaimed science fiction action-adventure series, as well as the first original 2D Metroid game in 19 years! Does it hold up to our hype and the high standards set by previous entries? Find out our thoughts, and if you enjoy this episode, stay tuned for our Halloween Special on Outlast, followed by a full-spoiler analysis of Dread in Part 2 (coming November)!

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