I will say Dread and Samus Returns both love the parry which is super annoying (i am a parryslop hater, and yes I did just beat Expedition 33 on Hard and hated myself the entire time) but I found them great regardless
I think my breaking point on Dread was realizing the parryslop was so egregious the devs realized they needed autosaves to make the instant-death-unless-you-parry bosses remotely tolerable.
SR also suffers from comparison to the much better AM2R.
I found Dread to be very disappointing. It doubled down on everything I didn’t like about Samus Returns.
Dread is a doo doo metroidvania because the level design is actively hostile to letting the player get lost and explore
The number of anti-backtracking slides and linear corridors is crazy.
I will say Dread and Samus Returns both love the parry which is super annoying (i am a parryslop hater, and yes I did just beat Expedition 33 on Hard and hated myself the entire time) but I found them great regardless
I think my breaking point on Dread was realizing the parryslop was so egregious the devs realized they needed autosaves to make the instant-death-unless-you-parry bosses remotely tolerable.
SR also suffers from comparison to the much better AM2R.