The Thrilling Horrific Build up in Metroid: Other M

Minh D
7 min readDec 16, 2021

Nintendo’s much loved Metroid series has always had it’s roots firmly planted in horror. Ridley Scott’s movie, Alien being such a big influence that they would go on to name one of the major bosses after him. Since the first game in 1988, the series has reveled in unnerving it’s players. Dropping Samus into hostile alien worlds by herself, armed with just her arm cannon. Metroid relied less on jump…

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Minh D

Designer, Illustrator, & Writer. I write about what I like.