The last Metroid is in the finished pile. My replay spree is complete.

Dread was so much better than I remembered, I think precisely because I replayed the whole series in a row. No longer is it its own thing compared against my favorite individual Metroids, now it's a series finale tonally and mechanically paying off what the past three games have been setting up.

Now I have to avoid the genre until the new one comes out so I'm not sick of it then.