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Yes.
 
This is tied as my favorite game on Switch with Mario Odyssey.  It obviously won't have the lasting appeal due to the nature of the game, but god damn it's incredible.  It is very hard to put it down.  The level design is unmatched in any other game it's just so perfect.  I love that it's not easy and there is no hand holding, but the game guides you where to go due to the incredible level design.
 
Such an amazing game.  I am really surprised how little I've heard people talking about it on random forums I frequent.  I am steering clear of the Metroid thread on here until I finish it.

To some extent, it is, but more because of external factors, namely the Exp. Groups.
 
To put it simply for those unaware, there are like, 6 different formulas dictating how much exp. a Pokémon needs to level up, one for each group. The variance is so extreme that even at the very beginning of the game, you can see mons that need twice as much exp. per level.
 
Now pair that up with Share not scaling the exp gain to level every mon equally and the result is a goddamn mess because some mons will get no play because they level up too fast and some mons will get too much because otherwise they fall behind. 
 
Ironically, it also fails horribly at its intended purpose of helping a weaker mon catch up simply because everyone else is still getting exp so the gap takes forever to close.
 
What made me pretty much quit the franchise outright was the reveal that the Platinum Expansion Dex mons seem to be locked to the new Grand Underground feature and that encounter tables are still based on the original Diamond and Pearl.
 
To give an idea of how atrocious those were, DP had a Fire-Type specialist in the Elite 4.
 
Said specialist only had 2 Fire-types out of 5 mons in his team because there weren't enough Fire mons in the game.
 
I shit you not.

Game Freak unironically looked at this and said "Working as intended, ship the game."
 
In other, thankfully non-embarrassing, news Nintendo flooded the streets with crack.
 
Metroid Dread is probably the GOTY and if not, it's definitely in the mix.

Well, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company made my decision for me about the Gen 4 remakes. Just like in Sword and Shield EXP Share is activated at the beginning of the game and cannot be turned off in anyway.
 
Which means I will not be getting it. XP Share isn’t a bad mechanic at its core. It’s been around since Gen 1 but up until Sword//Shield there was always an option to not have it in your inventory or turn XP share off. Now it’s a universal mechanic that is forced on you for no real reason. 
 
Feels bad 
 
 

yeah, some people need time for some odd reason before they say something is GOAT status, but it's already safe to declare Switch as exactly that, imo... I've been having way more fun with this system than just about every other game system I've ever owned.   I like to recognize legend status *while* it's still going on, instead of looking back.  Whatever you're into, Switch has it, basically....and with that bonus of being portable.  At least until the Steam Deck shows up, nothing else out there is fuckin with it.  Out of the Nintendo family of systems, it's an easy #1 of all time there for sure.  The only weak link in the armor is the joycon problem, really.
 
Seriously, folks---just the other day I was sitting in the waiting room at the dentist office.  The wait was going to be a while so I took out the Switch... *bam* just like that I have 80-something games to pick from, right there in my hands at the dentist office...many of them being my favorite games of all time, like the Bayonetta games and Vampyr, Actraiser now, Kingdoms of Amalur, etc. etc..  You can't do that with the other systems of today.  What else is fuckin with that?  NOTHIN'.

It's taken care of, I figured out what I was doing wrong, now I just need to get tf outta the frozen area after beating another Chozo Soldier. lol

How has this video not been posted here? 
 

Shatter all of your opponents’ backs.
 
 

Finally got the gravity suit early after figuring out the technique....but now I'm stuck in that frozen area.
 
Apparently I can get out with a shine spark, I just don't know where the hell I'll charge. Seems I may have to start . But YouTube says otherwise, I'll figure it out tho, sheesh. lol

Y+B. Neutral stick.
 
The shooting button cancels the spin jump and the spark cancels the shot before it comes out.

Start boosting, when you're at full speed, tap down while on the ground.
 
To let er rip, press B with no directional input. You can aim during the startup.
 
If you need to practice, the transport rooms with the trains are great. No enemies and long enough to Boost and try out stuff.

Good the game is selling well, here's hoping we ain't gotta wait forever again for a traditional 2D Metroid game 

Looks like Dread is a hit in Japan
 
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/dread-has-already-outsold-nearly-every-metroid-game-in-japan/amp/
 
has strong first week sales. 

Start boosting, when you're at full speed, tap down while on the ground.
 
To let er rip, press B with no directional input. You can aim during the startup.
 
If you need to practice, the transport rooms with the trains are great. No enemies and long enough to Boost and try out stuff.

If it helps, pressing Y+B will cancel the spin jump allowing you to spine spark  easier in the air. 

I'm surprised that Jaffe can't seem to appreciate the way it's showing and not telling.  I mean if you've been playing the game up to that point and you see enemies in the room then most people probably would have shot up there in the first place to test the walls.  The game pretty teaches you that out of the gate not to mention the fact that it's Metroid 101.  Not only do they let you see the room above there with enemies but they also have an enemy upside down on the wall above increasing the chances of you shooting up there and discovering that the wall is breakable.  I don't know what else Jaffe wants aside from a big fucking arrow pointing up there lol.

Ball being so late was hilarious. Everyone must've tossed some profanity at Artaria because a lot of one-way passages there are like "Bet you wanted that morph ball now, huh?" 🤣
 
This game is freaking amazing.

Facts.
 
Though tbh, the Varia does look pretty neat.
 
Might as well hook y'all up with my current wallpaper.

 
Blue really fits Samus well.

Ball being so late was hilarious. Everyone must've tossed some profanity at Artaria because a lot of one-way passages there are like "Bet you wanted that morph ball now, huh?" 🤣
 
This game is freaking amazing.

No lie, I definitely felt this way the first time through. How the fuck do I get the charge shot, spider magnet and Phantom Cloak before the Morph Ball?

The last 2 Dread reports
https://metroid.nintendo.com/news/metroid-dread-report-vol-9/
https://metroid.nintendo.com/news/metroid-dread-report-vol-10/
 
9 is just going over the controls but 10 is actually more interesting since it gives a bit more insight into making the game.  I think her regular suit in this game is probably my favorite design for out of all the games so far.  The new color is nice and it's not as slim as her Other M design so I'd say they definitely hit what they were going for with her.

You can Shinespark the big experiment boss from Cataris as well and I deffinitly recommend it. 

Ah, word. I haven't loaded a save yet because I just put my Switch into sleep mode when I'm done playing for the night.