That's interesting. I thought I had discovered all of them, maybe not.

I think once you reach every teleporter, you can travel between them regardless of their colour.

I think Mercury Steam went backwards on this one. Samus Returns allowed you to travel between any teleporters you found from the beginning. That encouraged backtracking in order to get new expansions after you got new abilities because you could go back to any area almost instantly. Unfortunately, Dread restricts which teleporters work between them until pretty much the end of the game. Which is... annoying. Specially when their previous game did it better.

I know Dread partially adresses this by making you visit every area multiple times in a somewhat organic and guided way, unlike Samus Returns where once you reached a new area you were pretty much done with the previous one (in terms of advancing the main plot). If you are in Ferenia and the game suddenly wants you to go to Artaria for an upgrade, it will guide you to a near teleporter, an elevator or some kind of transportation method. So you can use this oportunities to go hunt some items while on the way to the next upgrade, making the lack of interconnected teleporters not much of an issue. But still, it's a little annoyance that doesn't really have a reason to exist.

Beat the game 3 days ago, it is a solid 8 for me. I enjoyed it a lot and it was challenging just the right amount.
All the boss fights were great, hard but after a few tries and learning the pattern you can do a no damage run even if you are not the most skilled player.
Last boss wasn't hard at all. Gameplay was the best part of the game, I am someone who enjoys games with story, but I know that isn't the goal with a game like Metroid. If the game had a story that captured the gamer even more could be a 9 or even higher.

I would put some spoilers in there. You are technically not spoiling what's in the game... but you are spoiling what's NOT in the game. Which is pretty much the same xD

But I mostly agree with you. Except the suit thing. They explained in one of the Metroid Reports that the suit is different than in Fusion because after all the surgery and retiring parts, the Power Suit is slowly "regenerating", hence the mix bewteen "organic" parts that look like muscle tissue, a trace of the original Fusion Suit, and the newly grown metal parts.

I would say there are different kind of players. Some definetely wait until the end to go for all the items. But some others (myself included) like to backtrack from time to time when they get certain abilities that will allow us to get those items we couldn't get before.

But to each their own I guess xD

BTW, I'm so dumb

oh yeah i went and put a spoiler tag in the post i made, my bad, about the suit the question i stated it was made when i watched the trailer, now that i played the game i'm aware of what the report "explains" about the suit regenerating but i don't completely buy it, mostly because of what i said about the developers doing whatever they want everytime they make a new game and contradict each other, it just seemed to me that they wanted to give her a more simple and form fitting suit in some parts, fusion didn't look as bulky as previous armor but looked "alienish" and in the end

, and now that i'm writing about it, in my personal opinion the suit in Dread is one of the blandest looking armors of a lot of the ones she had, but whatever, nonetheless is a great game and i hope it sells well enough so Nintendo don't get the idea to can the franchise for another decade. 

Well, last night's session was amazing.

Beat Experiment Z-57; epic fight and the best boss in the game so far. 

Getting the Screw Attack and blazing through the stages destroying everything in my path and reaching areas I never could before felt incredible and really drove home how far I'd come in terms of character progression.

Then came the rematch against the two robot Chozo in Burenia, who had given me so much trouble the first time in Ferenia, and must have killed me over a dozen times. Armed with more experience and the knowledge that I could charge the storm missiles on the run, I annihilated them on my first try. Revenge was sweet.

That's very reassuring to hear; so many folks talk about how insanely hard the final boss is and I'm really scared of fighting him and getting stuck, unable to finish so close to the end. I was able to beat experiment Z-57 though, so if I can do that maybe I can beat the game after all.

At the start the final boss will seem way more difficult than he is, daunting even because of how many different attacks he has and how different the phases are. But when you get the patterns down it gets way easier, after what feels like a thousand attempts.

Just beat the game.
14 hours with all items collected.
Died a shit ton of times, but I had too much fun to really care that match.
For the $60 I paid to get this game… I certainly think I got my money’s worth. XD

I’ll forego any story spoilers for anyone who still hasn’t finished it and is looking forward to that and I’ll stick to just gameplay.

It’s 2D Metroid alright. You got all your bells and whistles and standard stuff all here and working as it always has, so that’s good.
Every time I entered an EMMI area, I felt my palms sweat a little bit more.
Out of all the deaths I suffered in this game, about 2/3rds of them probably came from an EMMI. The timing on the Melee Counter for those things are strict as fuck!!!

This is the first Metroid game where I got 100% of the items and outside of a few bullshit items where I had to use a guide for, it was pretty fun exploring and searching for them.

As far as my personal Metroid rankings go:

Prime 1 is still the beat for me.
Followed by Dread and Super in a virtual tie. I’ll have to wait and see 3 months from now if my thoughts on Dread have changed and probably play Super again just so I know for sure.
Than Samus Returns, it was a fairly good game that was hindered by the 3DS’ hardware. Yeesh, I’m getting hand cramps just thinking about it.
And last on my list is Prime 2, which I still haven’t finished and don’t really feel like finishing right away because that game is more boring than watching paint dry. Good God, that game was boring as shit.

Still haven’t played: Prime 3, Fusion, Zero Mission, or Other M.