Nintendo surprise-announced Metroid Dread, the fifth mainline game in the series, at E3 this year. Part of the surprise was that it was arriving this year, October 8th to be precise. Now, with just over a month before it arrives, Nintendo has released a new trailer for Metroid Dread, which might be our last look at the game before launch. Of course, this trailer isn’t as detailed as the 20 minutes of gameplay Nintendo showed off at E3, but it still shows off a lot of what to expect when Metroid Dread arrives on the Switch.
The video mixes more cinematic shots of Samus Aran battling some pretty huge and intimidating baddies with the 2D gameplay footage that originally defined the series before the first-person Metroid Prime games. The game looks immediately familiar to people who’ve been waiting for a new 2D Metroid game, but Samus Aran has more abilities to navigate the terrain and battle enemies than ever before. The trailer moves fast, but there’s lots of aerial dashing, underwater action, multiple different arm cannon weapons, wall jumping and more.
Given that this is the first all-new, side-scrolling Metroid game since 2002’s Metroid Fusion for the Game Boy Advance (!), Dread has a lot to live up to. But at least from what we’ve seen so far, Nintendo may have pulled off the feat of bringing one of its oldest franchises into the modern era of gaming. We’ll find out in just over a month.
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