Although it does not look like it will have a sequel, Dead Space RemakeIt is a masterpiece for my own merits. Not only in depth the formula of the Dead Space 2008but renewed the proposal as a great “sequence plan”, leaving behind the division by rigid chapters of the original game, with a more limited freedom. And precisely the possibility of exploring at will terrifying USG Ishimura It is what has made me remember one of the best games of Game Boy Advance: Metroid Fusion. In this adventure of Samus Aran We explored the Biometrox Space Laboratoriesa space station that, like Ishimura, was also full of an alien organism that assimilated its victims and threatened to consume everything.
Dead Space Remake and his similarities with Metroid Fusion: A cheerful coincidence, or something deliberate?
One of Dead Space Remake’s most drastic changes regarding the 2008 Dead Space was, as we said, the fact of Being able to explore the USG Ishimura almost at will. Instead of being confined to small areas or levels of the ship Chapter by chapter, in this case We could go to all those sections of the ship open at any time. This way, Ishimura charged a greater prominence as a silent witness of the atrocities that happened insideboth by the work of the necromorphs and by the uniologists, a group of sectarians and religious fans.
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Yes indeed, Access to the safer areas of the ship gradually. Isaac was getting new security credentials As the ship explored, which allowed entering weapons and supplies stores and other sensitive locations to continue strengthening its arsenal. This added, indeed, a great component of backtracking which was simply not present in the original title.
Now, both for the atmosphere of space horror and the greatest focus on the location in which the plot takes place, as well as by the backtracking, Who writes these lines was very evident the similarities with a small great masterpiece that combined genres as disparate as action, adventure, exploration and terror. Your name? Metroid Fusion.
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This title was released in Game Boy Advance in 2002and, at the time, it was the last chapter in the history of the saga. Samus Aran had to eradicate the terrifying parasite-x of Biometrox space laboratoriesa Scientific Space Station with various habitats for the study of alien creatures. Since he had recently lost his team, he had to explore the place from Cabo to the tail gradually and obtaining new access credentials to safe areas not only to find a definitive solution, but also to obtain weapons and objects that helped her survive at that moment. Now, The aforementioned parasitic body acted with an extreme virulence: infects and mimics its prey instantly, spreading and reproducing at an alarming speed.
In case it was not little, The parasite-X also managed to mimic the same Samus Aranreplicating it after infecting several key components of its combat armor that were surgically removed. This Samus Aran-X o X It was absolutely lethal and We had nothing to do against her during the vast majority of the gamesomething embodied in several sequences in which All we could do was flee so that it wouldn’t kill us. These little ones setpiecesinterspersed with the normal flow of playability, were very well executed, and served to keep the player in constant tension… especially arrived from the plot, where it was revealed that there were no less than 20 SA-X actively looking for the true Samus to liquidate it.
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In Dead Space Remake he recovered to Hunter of the original game, A completely invincible enemy Until we found a method to deal against him definitively, establishing a new common link with which in his day was the final chapter of Metroid in Game Boy Advance. Both Isaac and Samus Aran had to manage them to survive an implacable thirst for blood, hiding and using the environment to slow down their incessant advance.
In short, All these parallels are too casual to ignore them. Perhaps some Fan confessed by Metroid Fusion in the development team wanted to add these nuts that remembered Fusion. It is not that Dead Space or his remake are simple derivative worksbut as did with him gunplay de Resident Evil 4, He took elements of other titles and even genres that worked to create an absolutely unique video game. Unfortunately, the bad sales of the Dead Space remake indicate that there will not be a new version of Dead Space 2, so we will have to settle for this masterpiece that Motive Studio gave us in 2023. You already know what is said: in space, no one can hear your screams …
