'Metroid Dread' revives the series' prevalent sense of foreboding

There's a lot riding on the game, scheduled for release this October. It needs to serve a longtime, starving fan base who hasn't seen a new original story in the series in 14 years. It needs to introduce the "Metroid" world to the generation or two who grew up without it. And another challenge: The series was so influential it helped spawn several excellent games that have modernized the "Metroid" formula and raised the bar, titles like "Hollow Knight" and "Ori and the Blind Forest."