Metroid Dread: 10 Best Secrets You Must Find

1. Finding Out A Major Plot Reveal Early (SPOILERS)

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(Warning - SPOILERS if you haven't completed the game!)

Throughout Samus Aran' mission on ZDR, the bounty hunter must locate facility networks to communicate with her AI unit, ADAM. Although ADAM's personality is based on Samus' ex-commander, Adam Malkovich, it's eventually revealed that the antagonist, Raven Beak, hijacked the AI as soon as Samus landed on the planet. Raven Beak reveals that he deliberately allowed Samus to traverse through the world of ZDR to unlock her Metroid powers, which he intended to extract from her to rule the galaxy.

Even though this is a big twist, some players figured out this little secret because they noticed a little inconsistency in how "ADAM" spoke. In all the games that ADAM appears in, he refers to Samus as "Lady". When she speaks to the AI in Dread's introduction, he refers to our heroine as "Lady" twice.

But throughout the rest of the game, the AI only refers to Samus by her real name. Although this big reveal may have been shocking for some, anyone familiar with ADAM's chivalry would've instantly noticed the AI was a fraud.

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