Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - 17 - Boss: Hunter Rundas

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Your alien stalker suddenly thinks the universe is better off with you...DEAD.
Key Notes:
Boss: Rundas
(When the battle starts) SCAN HIM!
He does a Marvel Hero impression by surfing on ice all over the place, shooting seeking blasts when he gets away. In fact, most of his attacks consist with doing this.
Although your missiles might be nullified with his barrier, do try to home some of them in. They're useful to shatter his ice armor, which you need to pull right after.
In case you run low of supplies, try shooting down all of his smaller ice blasts to find items.
Be ABSOLUTELY careful when he goes into Hypermode. Instead of shooting three large chunks of ice, he will fling a massive shard that deals quite a lot of damage.
Use your own Hypermode sparingly. Only use it when his ice armor is down.
Ice Missile
Your missiles have now gained an ice element built permanently into them. If there's something hot, the missiles will be your answer.
In this area, these missiles will help you to form ice platforms on Fuel Gel.
Watch, enjoy, and comment, everyone.

[@theinquisition305]

Press F to pay respects for our boi Rundas.

[@alvarovega3253]

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[@cikobo693]

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[@MrChaosOK]

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[@renegade6578]

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[@Spiral-Mark]

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[@ninjamaster9094]

I think the saddest part about this is that Rundas doesn’t say ANYTHING throughout the entire experience. Before he was corrupted, he was a cocky showoff that loved boasting about his own strength, and once he gets corrupted he’s reduced to nothing more than some strange noises.

[@mangodotexe]

True but in the gandrayda battle, shes almost the same hunter we saw in the debrief

[@su_patatita_1951]

Yeah that sucks, he was in my opinion a better choice to be the final hunter to beat, he is extremely powerfull, i mean, he destroyed 4 pirate ships in norion in 4 seconds, he is the one who helps samus the most in norion too. But well

[@conndor2753]

I never picked up that he was cocky or boastful. I just thought he was one of those zealous and passionate, naive young soldiers who was indeed very powerful but suffered a terrible fate of being corrupted. It was hard to tell with the somewhat chill, monotone voice of his. EDIT: I just read the wiki on him. He was pretty cocky and arrogant, but was easygoing, especially toward Samus. Kind of makes him the Metroid version of Mirage from Apex Legends.

[@elpopman2055]

Yep he may be arrogant but he does have a sense of justice and he actually saved Samus life earlier game. He's the Hunter that acually try to bond with Samus

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

Your absolutely right I was just talking about this with my gf this game portrays the most on what Samus has to deal with in the federation me and another KZbinr were just talking about how the allies die and only the villain returns prime example and it's a bitter sweet Easter explanation metaridley a returning villain has Samus on the ropes to be saved by rundas and out of all hunters that are controlled he was the only one that didn't talk nor insult Samus rundas definitely should have been the last hunter if not the last boss before the aurora his battle theme was the perfect memorial for him especially how he does by his own powers malfunctioning then dark Samus consumes his being as Samus has to sit and watch this part was way too impactful for us not to bend our minds on the situation but it's kinda diluted that we have to wait till the end of the game for us to see Samus actually thinks about her allies free will and minds taken over and lose their lives in the process I think this is the main reason why this is the last Metroid I played

[@WoofySKD]

I love at 3:27 Samus loses track of Rundas with his ice surf, then Rundas breaks the pillar he was hiding behind and strikes Samus, then he laughs at her like "Can't keep up, Samus?" but then Samus SMACKS HIM BACK

[@kiarasessyoin6260]

Krucho His laugh is actually very unsettling.

[@duckway4733]

Lol

[@trevorbaker4406]

3:42 That's interesting because I don't think Rundas has ever laughed during any of my playthroughs of this boss fight.

[@aecholapis]

I was today years old when I found out that he can laugh at you/Samus during the battle

[@elpopman2055]

@@trevorbaker4406 that's because Dark Samus has possess him directly because he was somewhat resisting hive mind.. i think

[@mkcstealth7624]

I think its a testament to the writing of this game that they genuinely make you feel sad when facing the 3 hunters even though you barely interact with them

[@CudiBuddy4Life]

They do; not much for the purple one but i felt bad for Rundas. Saves you from the mile high fall

[@renimusprime]

When I first heard the soundtrack of Runda’s It was stuck in my head for weeks. No regrets.

[@tahirkol31]

JurassicWorld Indoraptor because it’s the best song in Metroid Prime 3 🤙🏻

[@liamgoshdanglewis873]

Poor Rundas the last thing he got to see was his only friend

[@AuraChannelerChris]

...Samus wasn't his friend.

[@liamgoshdanglewis873]

AuraChannelerChris eh she kinda was he tried to save her from himself before he accidentally stabbed himself

[@AuraChannelerChris]

So if a hero saved me, they're my friend?

[@speedude0164]

His interactions with Samus during the battle of Norion kinda gave me some ''war buddies'' vibes

[@ShinziiArt]

@@AuraChannelerChris throughout the fight he does say a few muffled lines and he wants Samus to stop him and one of those lines that I remember hearing was, "I'm sorry..." And at the end of the fight he gains control over his body again but dark Samus decided kill him off before he had the chance to escape its grasp.

[@johnetanneso5095]

epic battle .. epic music ..

[@tahirkol31]

Miel Parlant the Best Music in Game ❤️😎

[@franciscosotovillegas4480]

BEST Battle theme in the Game! :D

[@samuelmeza275]

@@franciscosotovillegas4480 Maybe best track in the entire Metroid Series.

[@MexicanRmz]

Rundas mah boi, why did you have to go? ...

[@AuraChannelerChris]

He was too cool for us.

[@masterninjaju]

I legit cried after this battle when i was a kid, i felt terrible that we really had to fight and kill the homie. The battle theme really adds another layer to that feeling that can only be understood through experience

[@AuraChannelerChris]

Hey, we didn't kill him. We beat him, and then Dark Samus took him down because he was useless to her.

[@zacharykenniston748]

I came pretty close to tears too

[@robertfuentes9677]

Rundas' death was the one that made me tear up all the time, he truly was a worrior of justice but the got corrupted like anyone else would

[@AuraChannelerChris]

We barely knew him.

[@danielmendez9964]

​@@AuraChannelerChris for someone who posted the video, you sure are a bummer

[@speinz9430]

Everyone says that Rundas killed him self so Dark Samus couldn’t corrupt him again but I think otherwise. After he reaches out for Samus he turns his head in confusion as if some thing is about to happen that’s out of his control. He then gets impaled by his own ice when Dark Samus shows up. I think that Dark Samus killed him to prevent Samus from growing stronger from gaining new allies, Because Dark Samus knows how much of a threat the real Samus is.

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

Notice how rundas was the only one dead when consumed he would have been the biggest threat since he's strongest against metroids

[@darkarpatron]

I agree, he didn't seem to display any behaviour indicating that he did it himself. Considering how powerful a fighter he was, it's logical that Dark Samus would want to remove him as a potential ally of Samus. That and to rub salt into the wound.

[@Firesonicx03]

I think Rundas would join Samus to fight I against dark Samus but dark samus knew this and kill him so he wouldn't do that ever reveal dark samus plans Plus dark samus rather have a one on one fight with her

[@DiegoRiser]

I never expected Rundas to meet THAT fate. Dark Samus' thirst for revenge really made an impact.

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

Being how he was the biggest threat to Metroids , the most honorable turned the best boss fight only tears bro😭

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

The music brings justice to his memorial hands down

[@metaknight5caldo]

His introduction scene where he reaches to the heavens and the music starting has to be one of the best in the entire prime series

[@bluegaming6788]

6:01 around this mark I can hear rundus probably saying "Samus, why?"

[@bladerunner9129]

The corruption left him for a split second before dark Samus brutally impaled him. I think this scene made me resolved to destroy dark samus

[@murpuhbuh1196]

first time i fought rundas i didn't fully understand hypermode so i fought the entire battle with just my charge beam and missiles and it took 30 minutes

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

Notice how when you scan rundass he's the only other hunter that has hyper mode and is the biggest threat to Metroids

[@Fjaloeat1]

Same. I thought this game was really hard and had really hard and marathon bosses. Then I found out how to use hyper mode on subsequent play throughs and its actually one of the easiest games in the series. Also Rundas literally can take like one minute to beat if you know what you're doing.

[@kingladekahn]

​@demonicpsyhcy7253 Actually, Ghor and Gandrayda have Hypermode too.

[@montecristosmith2343]

"Farewell Samus, Ghor....and even you, Gandrayda"

[@Fjaloeat1]

I really feel like he should have been the last hunter to fight. It obviously makes more sense that Gandrayda is the one on the Pirate homeworld due to her copy ability, but still. Rundas should have helped you throughout the game in different sections only to become corrupted near the end. It would have given the fight a lot more gravity.

[@leo12scar12]

This was a Sad and Painful fight, Rundas was the BEST Bounty Hunter. and then Dark Samus Corrupted him. v_v this hurts a lot of good fans.

[@caolanochearnaigh9804]

Nope... Ghor's the best... He's fucking AWESOME.

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

@@caolanochearnaigh9804 rundas was the biggest threat between the trio remember Metroids are weak to ice and Samus and dark Samus are part metroid

[@darkvictini9377]

R.I.P rundas. You'll stay in our heart.

[@delzermitch]

ironically i feel rundas legacy lives on in destiny 2 now with behemoth titans skating around the universe with ice

[@Azarel410]

saddest thing about Rundas death is he came back to himself just before dying impaled you can see him confused and then suffering while getting pierced through with the ice

[@Spiralredd]

Idk if that's true but if it is its horrifying

[@jey864]

That fuckin entry in the logbook "elevating his threat level to match your own"

[@dgxkeyboards4535]

When i first played this game his death shocked me. I was expecting him to return back to normal and thanking Samus. Instead he gets brutally stabbed by his own ice-pillars.

[@matriarchofazure7607]

This is one of the best battles of the Metroid series, along with Gandrayda, Mother brain (Super Metroid), the Dark Samus elevator fight, Metroid Prime, Queen Metroid (Samus Returns), and Phantoon(Other M).

[@__Ned_Flanders__]

Other M smells bad

[@HazXbox]

Other m is shit

[@jacky9575]

@@HazXbox Other m

[@olsonbryce777]

That phantoon fight was the only good thing from that game

[@Fjaloeat1]

Other m had some banger bosses. The bull dozer, Nightmare, the Fire Fish thing. It had some cool ones. The story is absolutely atrocious still. But its gameplay isn't actually terrible. Also Dread has some of the best bosses in the series. And say what you will about Other m, but without the lessons learned from that game Dread wouldn't be as good as it is. Other m walked so Dread could run.

[@RpGfreak901]

2:09 Notice how after Rundas saves her life, it puts you back in control of Samus, as if everything is fine? But then he attacks you, you see Dark Samus's image, and then that awesome music starts playing and you shout "OH YEAH, IT IS ON!!!!"

[@uncroppedsoop]

I don't think most people reacted like that lol

[@RpGfreak901]

@@uncroppedsoop You clearly don't know what a good boss fight this is.

[@uncroppedsoop]

@@RpGfreak901 nono it's great, I just mean it's really tragic

[@DarknessXxMaster]

It's a hype fight and all of that but, You're fighting a dark samus- possessed Rundus. He essentially has no will of his own and is thus under "Corruption" Once the player realizes that, You're either screaming internally trying not to kill Rundus, But you know...If you don't kill him, Then he kills you. You know it's 'Kill or be Killed' so samus is left with no choice but to carry out her duty. It''s sad but in a way, The only way to progress. (I mean, Technically in game terms, He would be just "Removed from the game" until you beat the game and return on hard mode and veteran mode respectively.

[@Wing-Zero-si1eu]

I feel like that they could’ve make Rundas the last Bounty Hunter that gets corrupted by Dark Samus. Ghour would be the first, then Gandrayda, & finally Rundas. Samus would take her anger on Dark Samus’s shadow, after putting Rundas out of his suffering.

[@zeroxiiimk2]

Oh man memories back when me and my brothers used to play metroid prime, with no internet, being stuck on one part in each game of the games for a week,

[@repeekyraidcero]

Try playing a game with no internet nowadays... *Laughs in ApexLegends* SadTimes...

[@TheQuarterGuy]

"WHY DID WE HAVE TO KILL RUNDAS!?"

[@edgeninja]

This was the battle where I noticed that the Power Beam was weaker than in the previous 2 Primes. In those games, you could fire the Power Beam as fast as you could press the shoot button, but in Prime 3, you can only fire a few shots at a time. After that, your beam will charge instead of fire.

[@radladstudios]

6:06 I'm not crying... you are!

[@triggeredcat120]

One of the darkest and most brutal deaths man…

[@uniteddreams7065]

Rundas' death reminds me of a fatality death from Mortal Kombat.

[@eduardomagana3858]

Killed by his own power and absorbed by Dark Samus. Rundas deserved better.

[@NightmareFueler]

Rundas' death screams put some serious chills up my spine. No pun intended.

[@gishathosaurus6828]

Seeing the ice impaling him like that was fucking brutal... poor Rundas

[@mrsaturn9974]

rundas was my favorite why did i have to kill him first?

[@AuraChannelerChris]

He was too cool for this world.

[@Sunkhrist]

@@AuraChannelerChris ...haaa! Cool... cause..ice...

[@larryviejachucha7173]

@@Sunkhrist frozono alien boi

[@mkt568]

2:31 for when the music starts.

[@lamartruth]

6:05 saddest part 😥😔😟

[@justaregularguy3827]

idk why but i like the whole ped suit design a lot more than any others

[@TheFoxVampire]

Man, Rundas was the coolest bounty hunter out of him, Gandrayda, and Ghor... (No pun intended!)

[@repeekyraidcero]

Gotta love how Hypermode is worse than using Darkchips in EXE4...

[@KungFuManKFM]

Sad reacts only

[@jerryesque3747]

I think rundas was very powerful, but I think samus was his weakness. He cared about samus, and was making sure dark samus didn't overwhelm samus with his power. Dark samus really could have challenged samus if he had full control over rundas, but I'm just theorizing.

[@KL42596]

6:07 you can hear the Vegeta in his scream hah. RIP 😢

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

I literally just made a point about out of all the hunters he had the most control sound familiar MAJIN Vegeta

[@shinysamurott613]

I just have one question Why is the P.E.D on his face

[@R0-83-RT]

Honestly, it bothers me more how different the voice is.

[@fleisch4809]

Sweet summer child. That is not his face, it is his dick.

[@Tostiiman]

Does he even have a face?

[@kiarasessyoin6260]

Tostiman It depends on what your definition of face is I suppose.

[@bluecaptainIT]

"Admiral, I only have one question... WHAT IS THAAAAAAAAT??!"

[@oniunderfellasrieldreemurr7419]

wait I thought Rundas loved samus or was it the corruption tht made him evil

[@AuraChannelerChris]

He never loved Samus. Corruption did make him evil.

[@d3monake674]

AuraChannelerChris no, he loves samus, but dark samus has corrupted him, she made him evil, the same with ghir and gandrayda. They were good but dark samus corrupted them

[@SemperFidelius34]

Oni Underfell Asriel Dreemurr He may have loved her, definitely cared about her quite a bit. The way he talks to her shows they must have been good friends, so who knows? Maybe he did have feelings

[@Tsumefan2]

he didn't say he liked samus though they just worked together

[@madcap3450]

Hmmmm i ship it

[@spidermanproduction350]

one of the best battles

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

And should have been saved for last before dark samus

[@carlosturcios1315]

1:54 Me: FUCK YES 2:24 Me: no...no..nooooooooo

[@christianmayonove6914]

This is usually when I stop playing the game nowadays...I just can't bring myself to kill him.

[@repeekyraidcero]

Why not pass the controller to someoneelse then ?

[@AngelsandWolves1]

I fail to understand why this character or boss theme isn't in Smash Ultimate yet, but unfitting music like the End Results theme for Samus Returns is.

[@superfightingrobotmkx7776]

I wonder why Rundas didn't speak in the cutscene before the fight, but Ghor and Gandrayda did.

[@alonsoperez-lona8193]

It was meant to show to what extent he was corrupted and controlled by Dark Samus.

[@superfightingrobotmkx7776]

@@alonsoperez-lona8193 Well why was he so much more corrupted than the other three? They all got corrupted at about the same time. For that matter, why was Samus not corrupted when everyone else was?

[@alonsoperez-lona8193]

@@superfightingrobotmkx7776 I don't think it is explained explicitly. Rundas was cocky and arrogant but got along well with Samus. I guess making him not speak was meant to show the extent to which corruption and Dark Samus can change and control beings, in this case shifting his personality to the exact opposite. As for why Samus was not affected like that, it's been a long time since I last played the game. But I think it was because the other guys used Phazon with no restrictions, eventually becoming corrupted. I think if you remain in Hypermode (?) for a long time, you actually became corrupted too.

[@elpopman2055]

@@alonsoperez-lona8193 yep Dark Samus had to directly possess him

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

@@alonsoperez-lona8193 he was actually the biggest threat in the game other than none other than Samus and had the most control screaming muffly and saying no

[@awesomefan935]

I enjoyed killing Gandrayda she was annoying, Ghor is just a machine or a cyborg at most so no feelings there but Rundas saved Samus’s life, I hated fighting him but I remember that killing him is mercy considering the alternative is that he is a slave to Dark Samus with no will

[@adamgz12]

Beating him with hyper mode is pathetically easy

[@imafreakinninja12]

Looks like I missed an energy tank somewhere.

[@Infinite85-yt]

It's vegeta with ice powers

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

MAJIN Vegeta

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

I want everyone to know that watches this video rundas was the strongest character other than Samus seeing how he was the biggest threat to dark Samus because she is part Metroid and is the only hunter to have a HYPERMODE this should have been the very last fight before dark Samus hands down rundas was the only one to not talk or insult Samus his muffled screams were proof of the inner fight between him and dark Samus which left his mind completely broken if he were to regain his mind there was no way he was letting dark Samus get away with it and there would be no way to stop him in his hypermode

[@olaffodoomguyaspergerslaye9594]

01:47 my childhood 😮

[@Distortionlabyrinth]

Shoulda saved him for last. They were so cute 😔

[@aleckermit]

This was hard on Veteran.

[@DaxTCrowley]

Imagine this game in vr my lord

[@precutmuffin]

lmao i looked this up because i died and he just got stuck in a corner anyway

[@Rundas342]

[@dragonslayer9547]

Poop Sheep 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Orbaxun.Grolvo.3rd.company]

[@aecholapis]

[@patrickjones2843]

wow im shocked by how much better it looks for me at just 1080p 2x AA on my MacBook it runs smooth as butter to once I found the right settings. Prob around 120 fps but I should find out for sure. I could prob crank it up but I don't want to waste battery it look stunning right now to be honest.

[@Shmorgamorse]

Rundas? As in "Run da zamboni over my fuckin' face"?

[@bobbydazzler329]

This fight would be so much easier using a controller, was so fucking stressful and why are the boss battles so fucking long?

[@howaitosuneiku87]

Rundas is a joke if you use hypermode, i beat him in 30 seconds using it, at the highest difficulty

[@bobbydazzler329]

Gabriel x I did beat him in the end but not without going into a rage with the controls! Turns out when i sat further away from the sensor i was a lot better in battle

[@howaitosuneiku87]

Bobby Dazzler or just disable free aim, i feel the battle gets harder if you dont kill rundas quickly, first time i thought him, that swinging ice attack or whatever it was, was annoying me

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

I beat this game in less than a day on the Wii on the hardest difficulty do you know how to side step?

[@lambnathan97]

Why does Metroid prime 3 look so much...weirder than the other two MP games? It looks cartoonier or something.

[@AuraChannelerChris]

Just you.

[@andreymerlo8178]

Looks much better on my tv

[@andreymerlo8178]

I guess its youtube

[@edgeninja]

Prime 2 was received less favorably than the first game. When Retro was developing the next Prime, it's pretty clear they wanted to address everything that people disliked about Prime 2. One of those criticisms was that the game's color palette was too dark and drab. That might be why Prime 3 has a much more vibrant, almost comic book look to it.

[@alexguy7395]

They censored damn

[@AuraChannelerChris]

Dang!

[@dragonslayer9547]

Halo elite = rundas

[@dragonleo_]

dragon slayer What!!?? Is because he is tall and blue ,I guess???

[@dragonslayer9547]

dragon leo he is secretly rtas vadam with blue armor. see he worked in the covenant for years 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tacopants27]

He also looks like Cocytus from overlord!

[@yorbasfett]

Halo Elite < Rundas

[@gabetheascetic3370]

@@yorbasfett that would be an interesting match up a elite ultra vs Rundas

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

It's funny how these mofos run so fast and you actually got frozen in mid air😂🤣

[@depressedsauce2898]

I literally had to fight him with no lock on. Game has stupid bugs

[@Arjanator]

You probably had lock on free aim enabled.

[@StolTechInc]

Please help me kill him. I must have tried 50 times by now. Just so damm hard, don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I wanna continue the game, because I love it.

[@Lilhajxjk274]

Did you beat him

[@StolTechInc]

No. I've also sold the game now.

[@Lilhajxjk274]

@@StolTechInc ahh, well the game is good if you ever buy it again. Have good day

[@caolanochearnaigh9804]

Yo, I need help beating Rundas... How do you run in Prime 3? Because Rundas is just WAY too fast. Also, how do I avoid that massive ice hammer he swings around before throwing at me?

[@AuraChannelerChris]

I get the feeling that using the Morph Ball gives you the speed for it.

[@caolanochearnaigh9804]

@@AuraChannelerChris Thanks...? Edit: Just beat him... THANK GOD. He killed me 5 times. *5. FUCKING. TIMES.*

[@demonicpsyhcy7253]

@@caolanochearnaigh9804 do you not know how to side step?

[@caolanochearnaigh9804]

@@demonicpsyhcy7253 Nope... Also, I beat him... After *5 DEATHS!!!*

[@metawolf987]

"how do I avoid that massive ice hammer he swings around before throwing at me?" That's the neat part, you don't. You have to stun him before he launches the attack. That Ice Hammer is also the reason why you are encouraged to use Hypermode to kill him as quickly as possible. So that you do not have to face that attack more than once.

[@rickydargence5948]

KINO

[@petersonart9178]

IMPALED lol that's very gore-hentai for a Nintendo game lol

[@ARCEUS493ZELDA]

imo he still had a bit of sanity/purity in him and committed seppuku that way he couldnt bring harm to those he felt were a comrade i.e. samus

[@Meltryllis_AE]

The fact that you immediately went to "Gore Hentai" from impalement is concerning

[@uncroppedsoop]

@@Meltryllis_AE I know your reply is like over 4 years old but it still holds true