the surprising return of a forgotten Nintendo game...
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On the lists of “games you’ll likely never play,” one Nintendo game has made frequent appearances: Metroid Dread. The supposed sequel to the beloved Metroid Fusion, released on Game Boy Advance in 2002, was first rumored in early 2005 to be readying for launch on the then-new Nintendo DS. But months later, the rumors changed from “coming soon” to “canceled,” dashing fans’ hopes of a Fusion follow-up.
Nintendo never confirmed nor denied the existence of the game at the time, let alone that it had been in any kind of development; in later years, when announcing new Metroid games, Nintendo would clarify that the new project had nothing to do with the storied Dread. But video-game fans subsist on leaks and gossip and morsels of possibility, so Metroid Dread became a sort of Holy Grail for Nintendo-heads: a fabled new adventure in the saga of Samus Aran, a space bounty hunter whose games are defined by their non-linear cave-excavating, grotesque monsters, and laser beam-filled action.
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