A first test for the canon: Belmont's Curse

As I write this, currently, I don't know if Belmont's Curse is a canon game for me over Metroid Dread. I've struggled, I've gone back and forth, and there's a clear cleavage of why this is such a challenging choice for me. And why do these two clash instead of just having both? Having both on doesn't say anything new about me, they're redundant on the business card. They just say "Hat likes Metroidvanias." So what's the case for either? Is Rose the chosen one? Metroid Dread is deeper and well, artsier. It has more to say, it's doing different things narratively. This is partially crazy because Dread is so thin on plot. Samus is so silent, most of the plot is driven one sidedly by Samus's AI companion. Belmont's Curse has all kinds of characters for Rose to talk to and bounce off of thanks to the tarot cards, and she just banters more with the villains. But Dread does a better job of storytelling through atmosphere. I went on about this in some depth on that one's article. It makes you…

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