If waiting four more days until October 8th is too much for you to handle, and you need your Metroid fix now, it might be of interest to know that Metroid Dread for Nintendo Switch has been dumped online. Both an XCI and NSP version of the game are floating about the internet, and it appears that Ryujinx Emulator can boot the game to some extent. According to the early leaked download, the game comes in at just a tick above 4GB. As always, it's important to remember that GBAtemp's ToS do NOT allow linking to warez or illegal content, so please be mindful!

 

[CoolMe]

You start off pretty powerful.
An incident causes the bad guys to take note, and you lose all your powers/abilities.

You go round getting your powers back, allowing access to different areas of the map. Defeating some mini bosses along the way with powers you just unlocked. Some mysteries about the nature of the game's universe are teased a bit but even if you have played all the others you will probably still have to enjoy a speculative lecture on what it all means.

Finally you beat the end boss, that is related to the main series big bads, and that is the game.

Sounds like the game is really short.. is it?

 

[Rahkeesh]

Four days early is just a physical copy breaking street date. Not exactly an inside job, not even necessarily from a retail person. And this dynamic is basically inevitable for every major Switch physical release.

 

[sith]

Four days early is just a physical copy breaking street date. Not exactly an inside job, not even necessarily from a retail person. And this dynamic is basically inevitable for every major Switch physical release.

exactly, its a cart dump not an nsp/nca leak, I dont get why people think this is a deal, are people really gonna burn through the game on day one to avoid spoilers?! .... in metroid... as other users pointed out the story is not exactly deep.. its the hidden invisible rocket upgrades in the corners of boss and save rooms that gets you... oops! spoiler!

Actual first minute spoiler:
the X parasites are still alive!

 

[Chrisssj2]

I love stuff leaking early!! happens wayy to less these days! Not that im playing it.too busy with other stuff but still

 

[djnate27]

I would hope so... If the opposite were true, I'd genuinely be surprised.

I guess my point was that I hope enough people buy the game so that Nintendo deems it a 'success'.

 

[tabzer]

People are too cheap to buy a console and games but can spend four times the amount on a PC and not support developers. Leaking a game can have spoilers and people who post entire playthroughs online because they're conceited morons.

It's one thing to blame someone who intentionally spoils the game for you, but that's not the same as leaking the game.


As for people who spend money on a PC, a lot of people who buy a PC would rather not compromise on a lesser quality PC just so that they can buy a Switch too. It's considered a waste of money and drives up demand, causing you to have to pay more for your microchips. As for supporting developers, PC owners can and do support developers. Even if they do not, it has nothing to do with you.

 

[Amost]

I am getting a crash on open: 2162-0002
atm 1.1.1 firm 13

Anyone else got this problem?

Edit: fixed, my bad

 

[LoyalZero1]

Oh, I think I'll just wait until Friday to buy mines for my switch. Metroid 2D games have traditionally sold not great. And this is our chance to show Nintendo that we want more, by voting with our wallets. Playing Metroid 5 will be great. Playing Metroid 10, would be even better.

 

[ganons]

i'm surprised so many are ok with pirating a game

Welcome to gbatemp where 95% users are pirates

 

[chrisrlink]

just wait for Pokemon that will be nuts

 

[|<roni&g]

That enemy with flashing light not too far into the game, screw that. Can't get past it

Edit finally.dropped that maafka

 

[Randy Steele]

Just a reminder that pirating Nintendo made games is the morally righteous thing to do in most cases.
That being said, I still plan on purchasing this game but I would feel perfectly justified in pirating Nintendo games. Nintendo is a scummy company so I try to give them as little money as possible.

 

[Gronbar]

This is soo lazy continuation of Samus Returns. They even don't care to use right stick to aim, bc 3ds have only right stick, but Switch have two...

 

[wolf-snake]

You start off pretty powerful.
An incident causes the bad guys to take note, and you lose all your powers/abilities.

You go round getting your powers back, allowing access to different areas of the map. Defeating some mini bosses along the way with powers you just unlocked. Some mysteries about the nature of the game's universe are teased a bit but even if you have played all the others you will probably still have to enjoy a speculative lecture on what it all means.

Finally you beat the end boss, that is related to the main series big bads, and that is the game.

I want real spoilers no babby shit.

 

[ShadF0x]

Aren't the cutscenes pre-rendered?

The pre-rendered stuff doesn't display for some reason, the entire intro is just text on a black background. Cutscenes are real-time, although the game locks itself to 30 fps for the duration of the scenes.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

Whelp, from what I can see... this was a review copy leak.

Lots of official youtube channels showing off the game that look to have an early copy..(that aren't pirated)

 

[someguyonGBATEMP]

well that was unexpected, pretty hilarious i suppose

 

[Ericthegreat]

I get that, I just don't want anything to happen to this site, or to slowly move towards the piracy side. I'm not necessarily against piracy, but I am against theft, if people aren't willing to pay for a game, but willing to fully enjoy it, honestly it's not going to hurt a big company like Nintendo, but it will DESTROY a small company relying on sales like humble games or what yaht club used to be. THAT I'm against. Especially if you CAN purchase but choose not to. But that's not even why I commented, I guess I just don't want us to PROMOTE piracy, although I DO see how a major leak like that IS legit gaming news, and I respect the journalism there. I guess it's just very controversial, food for thought kind of report analysis. That's my 2 cents. Y'all have a good day. And to the pirates on this thread, at LEAST support local game stores and indie developers when you can, it goes a long way.

Read the history of Gbatemp lol...

 

[Yawnn]

Good news, it was to be expected! This will act as pre-release access while I wait for its physical release to arrive

 

[CompelYols]

Should we use stuff like that?