It has been five days since Metroid Dread hit Nintendo Switch, and speedrunners are already beating it in less than two hours.

Metroid Dread arrived on Nintendo Switch last week, bringing the curtain down on an almost 20-year wait for a follow-up to Metroid Fusion. First impressions indicate Nintendo and MercurySteam have hit a home run when it comes to Dread. Other than its bosses being pretty difficult, which many of its players see as a plus rather than a negative, you'll probably struggle to find someone with anything bad to say about it.

That being said, there are some people who have complained Dread is too short to warrant its $60 price tag. Considering the content, it's hard to imagine those people have actually played Dread. As for how long it will take you to play Dread's story from start to finish, How Long To Beat currently has it at seven and a half hours, which seems pretty fair.

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Even though Dread has only been on the market for five days at the time of typing this, speedrunners have already been hard at work completing what is a pretty challenging game as quickly as possible. Despite the seven-and-a-half-hour time tag above, some players have already managed to make it through the whole of Dread's story in less than two hours.

If you don't believe us, check out the video above. It shows Samura1man completing Dread in one hour, 56 minutes, and 30 seconds. And on hard mode no less. The video features a “world record” tag on the speed run subreddit, but it is so soon after Dread launched that there are no official times just yet. Apparently, players will be able to submit their times to speedrun.com starting on October 15, 2021.

Whether you're trying to run through Dread in less than two hours or taking a more leisurely seven-hour stroll through its beautiful backdrops, it seems a lot of people are playing it right now. Not just Dread either. Its arrival has rejuvenated the entire Metroid series. Four older Metroid games are in the Wii U's top ten best-sellers right now, and there's even one working its way up the 3DS chart.

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