Yeah I doubt there's like a ton left in the game. I have no idea what's coming but I'm assuming it'll be over in another two or three hours. But a ~12 hour game, with more time spent to 100%, and a hard mode that'll probably get me to come back for another run through, is a lot more than what I thought it would be. Plus of course my actual play time is a couple hours past what the clock says so I'm sure I'm already at 12 hours. Lots of dying on bosses, occasionally dying on EMMIs, and died three or four other times.

EDIT: Ah I was close to the end of the game. Got to the final boss after another 40 minutes, so I'm at 10h23m at the final boss, so yeah I guess it'll be about a 10.5hr game for me. But unlike most 1 player games I think I'll do at least a couple more run throughs so more than 10hr experience. Took one shot at the boss. Intense. Will try to beat the game tonight or tomorrow! Such a great game!

haha I'm glad. Since I'm taking my time exploring on this first go around, I'm guessing I'll probably keep going to 100% it after I beat the game. And then maybe I'll try a fast play through on the normal difficulty, and a play through on hard mode as well. I'm not into speed running but it'd be fun to once take a shot at beating it significantly faster than this first playthrough. Anyway, the game is so good, like after a decade of great metroidvanias from indies Nintendo was like yo lemme show you how to do it! I just told my brother he needs to pick it up too.

Beat Raven Beak, (he was not as hard as I was expecting after hearing so much about him being insanely difficult, but still a great fight) and beat the game.

Bravo Nintendo, bravo Mercury Steam.

This is a truly superb title, with immensely satisfying combat, pacing, character progression and level design. The story took some really bold and interesting turns, and Samus’s badass portrayal was a perfect correction to the way she should be. The bosses were very demanding, but that made them all the more gratifying to finally master and bring down.

While I still slightly prefer the Prime trilogy, this is definitely in the same sky high tier, and one of the shining diamonds of the Switch library.

Congrats, curl!

And now we go back to waiting for Prime 4.

My favorite thing about the game is gameplay. The story made me say "this is awesome". The boss fights were fantastic and challenging. Exploration and becoming stronger is standard Metroid.

Where Metroid Dread excells above all others is the way you feel when you're playing it. The way it trains your fingers to dance around the controller: *chef's kiss*

Now they need to port the unappreciated Samus Returns to the Switch. I'll buy it all over again. Hell, port all of the 2D games!

As awesome as the finale was I still don't quite understand the ending;

I'm surprised myself honestly, after all I'd heard I wasn't at all confident I'd be able to finish.

Cheers man!

Just finished the game at 100%, I'm watching the credits, and oh boy, I've enjoyed quite a few Switch games by now, but this one goes immediately right to the top 5, I enjoyed it to death from beginning to end. I am really glad that I didn't watch any promotional material leading to release, it truly allowed me to appreciate the game like I haven't done so with any other title in quite some time.

It also took me quite a while to finish, I sadly couldn't play more than two hours per day, and figuring some things out was a little tough. For example, more than once I forgot that the last laser upgrade allows you to shoot through surfaces, so, in the end, the last object in Cataris took me an authentic eternity. I refused to check any guide, but it seriously paid off, I feel like a god.

Looking forward to Metroid 6, Nintendo is already taking way too long, lol. And I also want this game's final boss for the next Smash/Nintendo's next crossover game.