In hindsight I should've played the original since I haven't yet but I wanted to take another look at how MercurySteam laid everything out so I know what to expect for Dread. This game is definitely the oddball of the series, I enjoyed the difficulty a lot but the strange progression and exploration (which I'm assuming came from the original, not the remake) bogged the game down a bit. Enemies having inflated HP pools to make up for having the counter + abilities is a bit dumb. Diggernaut is a fucking bitch. The final Ridley fight was neat though. I like how cool they made Samus in the cutscenes. Overall, decent game and I love the level of polish MercurySteam put in even though the source material seemed hard to work with.