She wasn’t a bounty hunter. She was a harvest unit.
Yuzu’s audio sensors picked up the squelch-thump, squelch-thump of heavy, artificial footsteps. She pressed her dorsal fin against a superheated vent, her thermal signature blending with the steam. Through the haze, she saw it: a crimson, mechanical horror. An E.M.M.I.
But Yuzu was not Samus Aran. She had no arm cannon. No morph ball. No hyper beam. What she had was a perfectly spherical body, a high-frequency sonar pulse, and a genetic coding error that made her pathologically curious.
The E.M.M.I. cornered her in a magma-chamber. The door behind her hissed shut. The red eye glowed. The face-plate opened.
The E.M.M.I. passed. Yuzu exhaled a small puff of coolant vapor and uncurled. Instead of retreating to her designated safe zone, she followed it.
Yuzu, an open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch, has been making waves in the gaming community with its ability to run Switch games on PC. While emulation can be a gray area, many players have been using Yuzu to experience Metroid Dread on their computers, potentially bypassing the game's intended release on the Switch.