I am absolutely enamored with this game! I love every nearly everything about it! The story is interesting and compelling adds onto the existing Metroid lore very well. The sound design and music are very well executed, but the visuals take the cake! I believe this is one of the most beautiful games on the Switch! The lighting, art design, and especially backgrounds, are all absolutely stunning! But the gameplay, oh my, the GAMEPLAY! It is so fcking smooth!!! If a game has good movement, I am immediately hooked, and this game has really good fcking movement. Samus flows perfectly in the level and has a near instantaneous response to your inputs. Her animations are incredibly fluid, whilst also still feeling like a traditional Metroid game. The boss battles are intense and climatic, with stellar music and even more impressive cinematography! I adore how as Samus fights a boss, the camera will pull around and follow her as she dodges and fights the enemy. What's more impressive is that you can actually control Samus during these "cutscenes" where you must attack the boss during these shots; not only are they just interactive, but incredibly thrilling to watch! The voice acting is also great as well, but my only negative comment I have is having to do with some preferences on the writing. It's so niche, but there a few example where I would prefer some certain sentences to be rewritten. For example, in the opening cutscene, Samus Arin talks about how she "got infected," but I thought it would be more appropriate to for her character to say "became infected." Very specific, but I think some few subtle changes go a long way. While the character voice acting is great, the text to speech choices I found to be poor. It would be more appropriate to the lore of Adam if it was a real voice that was digitized that would be better than a text to speech options. It would allow him to emote more. The voice that says "uploading data" right before you talk to Adam is also a generic text to speech voice that is the main voice found in Satisfactory, funnily enough. Yet, these very specific directorial decisions do not diminish the masterful work that is Metroid Dread! One of the best games on the Nintendo Switch, and goes into my personal canon of one of the best games I've played.