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Metroid Dread

Stalker-robot pursuit zones injected forced-movement tension into classic 2D Metroid design.

Released 2021 Developer MercurySteam Publisher Nintendo Platform Nintendo Switch Genre Metroidvania Era Live service & the long tail

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Metroid Dread inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Line-of-Sight Detection 1981Ability-Gated Interlocked Map 1986In-Game Automap 1993Parry and Riposte Window 1997

The Metroid series in this dataset

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