Ranking the Bosses of Metroid Dread from Worst to Best

[@Hypercane_]

I do like how samus has two lines in the game, one being an assurance to a powerful ally, and the other being a banshee wail that rivals DBZ characters

[@drnarwhal2888]

Thar scream gave me chills

[@jlt-kjv2840]

Kraid just has so much grand scale to him. One of the best boss fights I've ever seen.

[@mkcstealth7624]

Kraid got a lot of love in Dread, and it's easily his best boss fight in the series. He's never been much of a challenge but they made him fresh while keeping his classic feel

[@grunkleg.29691]

Holy shit, I never realized the Chozo shields could be destroyed. Now I just feel like a dumbass

[@Guar9991]

Also, sitting here and not realizing you could use a power bomb to destroy with the sun wave - thingy Raven Beak does in his third phase...we did make things harder didn't we? lol

[@deanschodde585]

@@Guar9991 I'm the same with the sun wave

[@Aozoramurasaki]

i just waited that they got close, jump dash and blow them sky high in the back, wish i knew then

[@TheHomieLew]

@@Guar9991 Out of the non-kraidbomb strats I missed this might be the one that makes me feel the least stupid. Might've figured it out later if the full attack was _insanely_ OP/unfair but I wouldn't say it is

[@Don2006]

I don't have the game or a Nintendo, but Experiment No Z-57 is my favorite to watch. The music, the stage, and the part where you gotta run / jump against the fan and have an opportunity to speed boost/shinespark. It's got such a great pace to it.

[@Stout936]

Now you gotta try all the cool shine spark and screw attack strategies for the later fights Also, Raven Beak is weak to beams in his first phase. He goes down fast with some button mashing

[@Cytonox]

It really is awesome how many ways to approach each boss there is, I’m gonna try these on my hard mode run

[@azuredragoon2054]

Technically not. Electrified armor negates beam damage. However, during a counter sequence, his electrified armor is nullified.

[@theblahhhman2614]

Just have to counter him 3 times in the first phase

[@tokuknight64]

Escue is a joke if you get screw attack early

[@GalickGon]

@@theblahhhman2614 if you spam fast enough I was able to do it in two a handful of times too

[@ObliviKeeper97]

I actually really like the first robot chozo soldier fight because of how they teach you to use the dash, and they even make you dash to get into the boss room to remind you that you have it.

[@Tkdboy-gk1wk]

7:43 For starters, it’s been stated in the prequel manga that Ridley can regenerate by eating raw flesh. That being said… Metroid 1/Zero Mission: His first canonical loss to Samus. He survives and is taken to Frigate Orpheon. Metroid Prime: He’s rebuilt into Meta Ridley aboard the Frigate Orpheon. After a battle with Samus, he falls into Phazon Mines and explodes. He still survives, and is infused with Phazon. Metroid Prime 3: His Phazon mutations lets him survive falling deep into a tunnel down to at least the mantle of the planet he’s on. He also survives being drained of Phazon at the end of his fight, with his shadow being spotted flying away for a split second. Metroid: Samus Returns: Depicted above, he’s slowly regenerating and using less cybernetics in the form of Proteus Ridley. It’s shown at the end that he survived the fight, shed his cybernetics and, still wounded, pursued Samus to Ceres Space Station. Proteus Ridley finally shows where the Prime trilogy fits into the Metroid timeline. Super Metroid: This is Ridley’s final defeat in Lower Norfair. Other M: A clone of Ridley is made by the Federation based on his DNA found on Samus’s Power Suit. In the defense of the Federation, they probably had no idea the DNA belonged to Ridley. This clone is drained of its life force by a Metroid Queen. Fusion: Clone Ridley’s remains are infected by X-Parasites. This one is probably fanservice. Dread: …Not here, outside of the 100% rewards depicting him in artwork. His final death would be in Fusion. So in total, Ridley was in 7 games.

[@rickyricardo4331]

The nostalgia behind the Kraid fight was just...wow. I had to pause the game when he waddled up to Samus at the start of the second phase. I like the Corpius setup as you saw glimpses of him well before you fought him and the fact that he stole the Phantom Cloak off the statue and put it in his tail. EZ-57 making you play Flappy Bird was hilarious.

[@pacoramon9468]

I'm glad Mercury Steam made the boss hard unlike the other 2D Metroids.

[@ajc1476]

Bruh what about Yakuza?

[@Cytonox]

He’s cool also yeah

[@l.n.3372]

Mercury Steam really does their boss fights well, even in Samus Returns too.

[@leelee8d793]

Couple quick thoughts: 1.) Experiment Z-57 is Corpius. After exiting his arena, you can see him getting away in the background, and at some point in the game you can even see his corpse being experimented on. 2.) I'm not quite sure that actually is THE Kraid from Super Metroid. Remember in Super Metroid there was a younger Kraid before his fight, seems reasonable to assume there might be more out there. And even though I'm not the biggest fan of Ridley always being a boss, I would like to say that there are explanations for his appearances. In Metroid Prime his body was salvaged from 1 and "modified", thus becoming Meta-Ridley. You can sort of see him revert back to flesh in Samus Returns and then in Super Metroid he's back in all his glory. The one in Fusion was just a clone that was then infected by an X. So yeah technically Fan service but at least they bothered explaining it.

[@syweb2]

Corpius is too small to be Z-57, likely being a younger member of the species. I will agree that the one being experimented on is the very same one as the boss, and is being foreshadowed. I don't know if Super's Fake Kraid is a younger member of Kraid's species, but it's definitely smaller - given the Space Pirates weird technology (combined with Mother Brain's know-how) they probably either made a clone, or modified another being to resemble Kraid.

[@fernando98322]

I think the lore about the Experiment boss, from what I gather from the Chozo Archives, is that Corpius was native to ZDR specifically Ghavoran, it was captured by the Mawkin and from it the Experiment was created by Quiet Robe.

[@BeastBoom24]

I never realized you had you could counter the Elite Soldier’s shield… Though it didn’t affect me too much. It was still a pretty easy fight.

[@shinesparkss5193]

Ridley kept coming back because he can regenerate himself with the space pirate technology (hence his appearance in the prime games) and he can use bio-energy just to. Revive himself basically. Then he was cloned in other m and that clone was x’d in fusion so who knows! Maybe kraid was cloned too, or maybe he was an x, because that raven beak x had an awfully familiar exterior.

[@Nimi450]

In regards to Kraid we can safely assume two different things. 1-it's clearly the one from Zebes, as shown by the scars and attempt at fighting differently. Number 2 is spoiler There's an X infection going on considering the appearance that is giving to Raven Beak for the climactic finish of the boss battle.

[@phillipk4196]

@@Nimi450 not from super, we know this because the chozo warrior tribe was once on sr388 Before samus but got X'd and came back after metroid 2, they didn't know about the baby. ravenbeak heard of samus after fusion but in the chozo gallery we see uninfected chozo fighting this Kraid which implies that that happened and he got captured before super. also he got infected after samus frees the X in Elun we know they can take over corpses with the only downside being no acces to memory, just the body and natural abilities not learned

[@reecebeaudin528]

I thought he was already an X and we didn’t see the core because it feel in the lava and got burned like the No. Z boss(or whatever his name)

[@phillipk4196]

@@reecebeaudin528 even until he was fully submerged he didn't transform and if ve had been an X the entire planet would have been infected before Samus arrival since they multiply and spread or there would have been MANY MANY MORE Kraids to fight for you.

[@DyrianLightbringer]

To be fair, even though Ridley "blows up" in every Metroid game, that's mostly a video game trope. Canonically, he didn't die in Zero Mission, was modified by the pirates to become Meta Ridley in Prime, still didn't die, became Omega Ridley in Prime 3, presumably was still Omega Ridley in Super Metroid where he self-destructs to try to kill Samus, finally dying. The Galactic Federation extracted Metroid DNA from Samus's suit in Other M, not knowing that Ridley's DNA was also present, creating a new Ridley. Metroids kill the new Ridley, and the Galactic Federation moved his corpse, presumably for study, where the X parasite copies Ridley in Metroid Fusion. So, Ridley officially died in Super Metroid, was cloned in Other M, and was just an X parasite in Fusion. How Kraid came back is yet to be explained.

[@carnage0685]

The dude legit just burrows into the ground after you defeat him in Super Metroid, and that was pretty early on into the mission. He could have easily made it off the planet in the meantime for repairs before it exploded.

[@SJNaka101]

Corpius does not have invisibility powers naturally! If you notice, whenever you get an aeon upgrade, you dont break a ball out of a chozo hand, you walk into a room where a statue holds a cube. When you walk into the corpius fight, samus looks up at a statue with an outstretched empty hand. Then, when you kill him, samus holds the ball in the tail while corpius dissolves, and it reveals one of the cubes! I can only guess that corpius ate the cube, but that doesn't really explain how it got in his tail.

[@smothmoongazer]

i never knew about the morph ball bombs thing with kraid! that's a nice touch!

[@VoltageCowboy]

Experiment Z-57 is Corpius infected by Parasite X. There is a part in the game where you can see Corpius alive but being repaired on where the boss battle with Experiment Z-57 takes place.

[@AzureMoebius22]

No, Corpius and 57 are two separate monsters. For one thing, 57 is much bigger than Corpius, and has more limbs and abilities. However, 57 could be a genetic experiment that used some of Corpius's cells.

[@MidanMagistrate]

@@AzureMoebius22 You can find Corpius' corpse in a lab being experimented on, and after the Z57 its gone.

[@AzureMoebius22]

@@MidanMagistrate Again, still not Corpius. Too many limbs for it to be Corpius.

[@MidanMagistrate]

@@AzureMoebius22 I feel like you don't understand the X Parasite. We literally see one at the end turn Raven Beak into Kraid with a split face. Experiment Z-57 is an X Corpius.

[@AzureMoebius22]

@@MidanMagistrate What I'm saying is the corpse is a different creature. The X aren't a factor at the time of the discovery of the corpse that becomes 57. 57's appearance remains the same both before and after X infection.

[@myleswelnetz6700]

1:38 He did, and he helped us proceed.

[@lemmy4965]

the twin chozo soldiers got me stuck double trouble? more like *pain*

[@jacobmonks3722]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Raven Beak X looked straight out of an Umbrella lab. Gave me some serious Salazar vibes.

[@fangerzstanky]

You can see expiremint early being zapped in the background showing its the same species, and later the body disappears foreshadowing his return

[@SergeantTeabag]

With Golzuna, what I did was charge storm missiles while in front of it and then flash shifted over behind its back to pump it full of missiles. That, and you can deal a ton of damage by charging a shinespark in the room prior to it spawning. The first chozo robot can be killed with shinesparking. After that, storm missiles melt them. Chozo soldiers are fun to fight but were frustrating at first to figure out. If you sequence break, Escue can be cheesed with the screw attack and get significantly damaged with a shinespark. Drogyga is the Spore Spawn of Metroid Dread, but the fight was nice. It took me a little bit to understand, though. Corpius was pretty challenging on hard mode but was really fun to fight. Experiment Z-57 can be insta-killed with a shinespark in the second phase, which I found out after finishing the game the second time. Kraid was really fun to fight, as much as I've seen him through the series. I was pissing my pants over Raven Beak. It utilizes all of your abilities that you've picked up through the game and that's what I love the most about it. What a great way to finish the timeline.

[@syweb2]

Raven Beak even uses the Beamburst from Samus Returns, which I think was a neat touch.

[@miguelaguilar751]

Fighting the two chozo robot warriors reminded me sooo much of Strider! If anyone here hasn't played it, it's another great Metroidvania that fell under the radar years ago

[@Al77343]

The most reliable way I found to avoid swarm shot damage was to slide towards escue

[@_Teej_264]

If it wasn't for the first robot chozo and escue, I'd probably replay this game weekly

[@myleswelnetz6700]

10:47 Kraid’s head does not split down the middle evenly. Instead, they should’ve either split it into thirds, or at the jawline.

[@DarshanBhambhani]

Twin robot chozo would be easily top 3 if not because of storm missiles

[@Cytonox]

Really? I think they’re fun, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think they have the same “cool factor” that larger scale bosses do which severely limits where I could place them personally.

[@zemu2231]

Its so cool seeing how many ways there are to play this game

[@kenjamin9147]

4:35 Or as Samus would say, 'Is that all?'

[@hooodini3322]

the secret to dodgeing Escues scatter shot is literally to go morph ball and move towards him, I’m not joking

[@pforgottonsoul]

the strategy for golzuna is simply dash over his head pelt his ass with missles dash again to dodge lightning and repeat.

[@anonimzwx]

You can shinespark it twice and dies very fast

[@milesprower6110]

Didn't notice that one were able to dash over his head and I was eating his multi crossbombs x'D

[@NatashaZooks]

I'm so glad that Storm Eagle from Megaman X got to be the last boss of Metroid Dread

[@Cytonox]

Are you a Mega man fan? We've got videos on the first two games of the main series so far, if that's at all interesting to you

[@NatashaZooks]

@@Cytonox Ah thank you, I'll check them out!

[@ex-specter3213]

My rankings: 11: twin robot soldiers. They aren’t fun to fight, just run away until you can spam them with storm missiles. Hellish on dread mode 10: robot soldiers. Not as annoying, but they still feel like they take way longer to kill than they should. 9: Drogyga. Kinda boring and not really engaging in my opinion, but at least it’s not actively irritating to me. 8: Escue. I don’t find it’s attacks fun to dodge and it’s lightning armour is an inconvenience, but it’s fun to shinespark and screw attack it while it helplessly tries to do anything. 7: Chozo soldier. The first one on my list I like to fight in a normal playthrough. I like dodging it’s attacks, the finisher is cool and I like the concept. Not very difficult but interesting to me. 6: elite Chozo soldier. Breaking its shield will never *not* be satisfying, but that’s the only significant difference besides the belch move. 5: Golzuna. It’s super fun to shinespark and it’s bomb attacks are fun to dodge, too bad storm missiles trivialize it for me. 4: Corpius. A fun, interesting boss with fun attacks to dodge and it’s cloak gimmick is cool, especially since you don’t NEED to disable the cloak to continue dealing damage but doing so opens him up for loads of damage. 3: Kraid. Do I need to say anything? He’s a classic. His attacks are (again) fun to engage with and he’s satisfying to bring down. His bomb quick kill is also super good. 2: Experiment Z-57. One of the two legitimately difficult boss fights in the game for me, the only one to kill me more than 3 times on my dread mode playthrough besides raven beak. His attacks remind me a lot of diggernaut from samus returns and are super satisfying to dodge. Also the shinespark instakill, chef’s kiss. 1: Raven Beak. Obviously he’s my favourite. Lots of interesting attacks, multiple distinct phases, genuine difficulty. Phase 1 is different from other bosses, you can only properly deal damage by countering him, but you can do it in two counters if you mash beam fast enough, if you fail though his shield becomes invincible. Phase 2, his shield is broken and he sprouts wings, somehow. He’s a huge damage sponge in this phase though and it’s the least fun for me mostly because of the Gatling gun kind of attack. Phase 3, you shoot off one of his wings and his immediate response is to *rip off his other wing*. Similar to phase 1 but since he has no shield and he has some new moves, it feels and plays pretty differently. Killing him is super satisfying, and killing his X clone Dragon ball z style is always a good experience. Keep in mind this is my *opinion*, if anyone reading this has different opinions, that’s fine.

[@grey-spark]

Golzuna looks like a boss that was made in the final rushed stretch of the development.its literally just a reskinned enemy with static spells. It's a shame we didn't get a real jungle boss for this game.

[@GhostRiposte]

I'm working on a Metroid vid and came across yours doing research. Nice to hear from a seasoned vet! By the way, I read Corpius looks like Z-57 because Quiet Robe created the experiment harnessing Corpius' DNA. No idea if that's true, but it sounds good lol

[@nishiki42]

Little theory: It's possible that the X that infected Experiment Z-57 is the same X that infected Raven Beak at the end. It could have survived its fall in the lava and absorbed the corpse of Kraid, who died in the same area, before attacking Raven Beak.

[@Cytonox]

Thats an interesting one, especially considering that if you go into the lava in Kraids room with the gravity suit you can see his bones there. Definitely possible, since for an x to have absorbed Kraid’s corpse it had to have been able to survive lava.

[@milesprower6110]

Lol, power bombs usually has no use in bosses (except in obvious moments like using it on diggernaut after battle and Queen Metroid) it's a surprise that it works with Frieza like fire ball I wonder if it happens something if you use it in Kraid tho? XD

[@l.n.3372]

It's funny that many people don't know the power bomb trick against the Queen Metroid in Samus Returns. But it makes that fight significantly easier. Ditto the 3 Omega Metroid in area 7 too.

[@milesprower6110]

@@l.n.3372 lol, it's nice that abilities can have a use in bosses Just like using Screw Attack on that one boss with multi auto missiles when is in electric state (another wink as a reward for sequence breaking)

[@Arthas972]

2:05 it’s wearing a power suit like samus’, so it makes sense it has similar abilities

[@myleswelnetz6700]

9:02 Saw that coming.

[@schmian95]

I was and am still convinced Kraid is still alive. He was basically living in the lava already, so sinking into the lava doesn't feel very final to me. First playthrough I assumed going back to the furnace meant Kraid rematch, but got the excellent experiment fight instead.

[@ballisticboo7808]

Yeah same here, I was super confused because I came to metroid from smash and was like "doesn't he literally live in lava?"

[@diamondruby7257]

God was I ready to throw my joycons at the TV against Escue. I think I found it insanely hard because at the time I was fighting it I didn't bother much with the side items for more HP and only had like 2 extra "bars" (300 HP)

[@ThePonderor]

If you look in the background before the water section it has a corpious being worked on and upgraded to experiment z57. Once defeated the experiment arms are not working on it. Also kraig does have a insta kill on 2nd phase where u go in purple belly button and bomb to death

[@ThePonderor]

It might be the one u killed previously cause when u go back after u have killed it is no longer there. So maybe the machines were brining it back to life or they just have a 2nd one of the species. Idk

[@phillipk4196]

my bet is on another of the same species with Corpius disintegrating after the kill

[@EclipseHedgehog]

the bosses imo are the highlight of the game because of that beautiful melee counter mechanic very reminiscent of Nero's devil bringer form devil may cry 4/5. AND they CAN kill you if you're not careful! and if/when they do you get better each time, just like a boss should be.

[@Cytonox]

Devil May Cry is great, I’ll cover that series sometime on this channel for sure (even 2, lol)

[@hadesfades]

I was confused as to how Kraid died, like it couldn’t have been the lava cause he was already in it, then again he could have drowned in it but I’m not sure

[@reddeath5791]

I kinda wish the last E.M.M.I you faced was a boss fight, I feel like it would’ve been fun

[@pianoforte611]

I liked Experiment Z-57 the most. He seems impossible at first then you gradually learn his attacks. He has a lot of varied attacks but they are all fair. I really did not enjoy Raven Beak. His second phase was the most fair, but his first phase was silly. I died 15 times to that phase because I didn't realize I wasn't dealing any damage. When I learned what you're supposed to do to damage him, it seemed so arbitrary. His third phase was so chaotic that it seems like a matter of luck whether you survive or not. Particularly the sun attack plus laser beam (I know now that you can destroy the sun, but that's not at all obvious).

[@Litlrox]

4:58 missed opportunity to deflect

[@Cytonox]

This was haunting me while I edited the video lol, still wondering what the animation would've been. I'm about to start my new playthrough so I'll see there

[@youngkappakhan]

@@Cytonox It's nothing really. It just opens up again and lets you get a few more missiles in

[@Cytonox]

@@youngkappakhan Oh well. Not too interesting it sounds like

[@grfrjiglstan]

I love how reactive these bosses are, and how they respond to player creativity. For example, two of these bosses can take _heavy_ damage if you figure out how to charge up a speed boost, then shine spark into them. Which two? That's for you to find out.

[@ethanhinton4549]

I know one is Experiment z-whatever, who is OHKO'd by it if you charge it up during its floppy bird attack, but idk who the other one is.

[@gregdeandrea1450]

You can cheese Escue with the shine spark.

[@theblackangel8059]

Gotta love that as raven beak gets X, he also gets morphed into kraid too and based off what this game implies, I don’t think kraid finished that lava bath so easy either

[@itspikachutime5624]

Maybe it’s cus after I finished the game and got 100% I replayed it twice both times going for sub 4 hour runs for completion … buuut I would’ve but drogyga on the bottom of the list. He just feels so boring and the fight feels slow and you don’t even getting any power up for beating him. Just feels annoying. Golzuna wouldn’t swap places though I’d just bump him up to 10 =w= with that said I’m sure if any of you are reading this you probably know the trick already, but if you don’t, his room is big enough to speed boost in and you’ll have a window to do it when the x are transforming into him. Speed boost charge your shine spark then either get behind him fast enough to aim it at the weak point or wait till he’s about to do that slamming attack when his body is lifted up then just shine spark him. It’s not an instant kill but it does enough damage that you should be able to just spam missiles on him without dying. Shine sparking will instantly kill the Goliath that turns into Golzuna so that shouldn’t be an issue either. If you don’t want to suffer in this fight anymore just get those shine spark opportunities off you’ll be better off for it.

[@KTSpeedruns]

I have no issues with this list!

[@berdus8658]

Great vid!

[@azazel_broski9923]

If you think about it… what would you have gotten from experiment No: 57 Like what ability?

[@Cytonox]

Probably some kind of Beam upgrade, wave beam would’ve fit decently at that point in the game i think

[@MoonfallMidnight]

Every boss was so punishing that I actually appreciated slower, more predictable bosses like Golzuna and Drogyga. Corpius and Raven Beak were the only ones I felt were challenging without being ridiculous. Escue and the twin robot chozo soldiers were absolutely hideous.

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

That's funny. The letsplayer I watched struggled much more with Golzuna or Drogyga than any of those stupid chozo soldiers.

[@Funnylizardman]

I’d consider Raven Beak to be the second most powerful enemy Samus has ever faced next to Prime 3 Dark Samus, and both being excellent fights IMO

[@Cytonox]

I feel like Prime 3 Dark Samus was more equal to Samus in power whereas Raven Beak is beyond, but I can definitely see Prime 3 Dark Samus posing more of a threat to the world at large than Raven Beak

[@adriandude85]

@@Cytonox I still think SA-X was tougher than Prime 3 Dark Samus lore wise.

[@myleswelnetz6700]

8:45 And Bowsered.

[@Zac-gc4gv]

You could see Experiment Z-57 being worked on in the background of a map, so I'm pretty sure Corpius could be it.

[@ryangorewich7001]

Z-57 was the coolest boss but no one really mentions how he was in the background dead in an experiment room. As soon as the X parasites were released he was gone

[@alexdean2109]

I only liked the tentacle boss, chozo soldiers and raven beak. All the others took 30+ tries and I was so sick of them and exhausted by the time I beat them.

[@LavaChip]

Z57 has a quick kill too. Shinepark him to kill him instantly

[@marioluigibros.8176]

7:44 Ridley has only died once He survived metroid 1, with injuries in prime, he got surgery and became meta ridley he got beaten up in prime, and took a 2 game break came back for prime 3, then you beat him up but he lives in metroid 2 remake, he appears to steal the metroid, he loses, but then he sheds his metal parts, being organic again organic ridley appears in super metroid, you beat him up, he lives, but then once you blow up the planet he dies. ridley is dead, but is cloned in other M the corpse of the clone is controlled by an X in fusion. that's it, he only dies once.

[@jabawakiebot]

Golzuna was dumb easy for me i did it without space jump, I balled jumped my way to the boss room.

[@myleswelnetz6700]

10:50 Or Raiju from Pacific Rim.

[@youngkappakhan]

This man had a lot of shit to say

[@skins4thewin]

Does beating the game unlock a boss rush or anything like that? God I hope so, cus the boss fights are HELLA fun in this game!

[@Cytonox]

Sadly not, although you can get through the game in around 3-4 hours if you’re quick so it doesn’t take too long to fight them again if you want to. I think a boss rush feature is always great whenever it’s in a game, it’s a shame it’s not more common.

[@rixatestarossa521]

This was the first metroid game i finished 100%. And to be honest... it lacks in fact of size. The fact i cleared 100% which i usually never do is the ultimate proof to that. And take out the EMMI, the would be glitchless done in about 3-4 hours.

[@ryanramirez6314]

I really wish we got 2 more main big bosses

[@supergojirafan]

I hated Escue because it was mad annoying. Kraid was the only boss I had an actually difficult time fighting aside from Raven Beak, I don't know why, it's fuckin Kraid.

[@holladaycubed]

You can counter the shield?‽ I always locked onto him with missiles then dashed over him when he charged me then shot him from behind lol my bad

[@angel_miok]

wait isn't experiment z-57 the x infested version of corpius??

[@Einzeller2010]

Too many soldier bosses in the game. Would've loved to see more classic bosses like Kraid. And unfortunately the bosses' OST is the biggest weakpoint, especially compared to the dramatic OST used for Super Metroid's bosses.

[@DatzCanny]

Agreed

[@myleswelnetz6700]

Who cares about 10:10? They just wanted to show off a quick little Easter egg.

[@Blasta_Masta369]

I'm sure it isn't but I feels like Corpius is a metroid. (If it was I think it would be the stage before queen)

[@speedude0164]

My list is the same except I have Z-57 at number 1.

[@DNYLNY]

The most difficult boss for me was elite chose soldier. I died like 20x. Raven beak I died like 2

[@FubukiTheIcyKing]

My worst is that chozo bot in the small room.

[@novustalks7525]

They're all really good except for maybe Gulzano and esque

[@eatmybullet935]

I managed to get the screw attack early and killed ESCUE in less then 10 seconds lmao.

[@tacticaljunk1608]

Raven Beak is probably my favorite boss in Metroid history. It was a blast figuring out all of his moves, getting the timing on the counters, and it was a blast shredding him with the Metroid suit.

[@Aozoramurasaki]

the only boss that was to kill me enough that i needed to take a break. hate the boss for it but that make it a great boss. only other boss in metroid serie i love/hated as much was SA-X at the end of fusion

[@danielbraswell5298]

@Samusisback i went for about two hours straight to kill mr beak. Imo the hardest boss on the first play through was ornstein and smough

[@PianistTanooki]

I'd actually collected over 90% of the items on my first playthrough, including a healthy amount of energy tanks, but he *still* managed to kill me a number of times. Best thing about all these bosses was that, while they were incredibly tricky, each time I died, I got just a bit better at them. MercurySteam did a fantastic job with the difficulty in this game. It achieves a perfect balance of being incredibly difficult without being unfair about it. When you beat a boss like Raven Beak… you feel like you "earned" that ending.

[@hackcubit9663]

For me, I think the only boss that I like more than Raven Beak is Nightmare in Fusion, just because of how creepy the entire fight is. From how you see Nightmare's shadow in the background for a while, then the glass is shattered the next time you're back in that zone, the music is creepy, and when you finally blast its face plate away you basically find yourself regretting it. Ridley in Super Metroid probably sits at a comfortable #3 for how you're practically flying through the air in order to properly fight him.

[@billythenarwhal1579]

Raven Beak, Nightmare and Quadraxis are peak boss in Metroid games.

[@NixDolores]

Experiment Z-57 being the first boss in Metroid history that encourages and rewards the use of the speed booster and shinespark instantly made it my number 1.

[@Cytonox]

Yeah I oughtta try that, the only boss in the series I’ve ever killed with Shinesparking so far is Draygon and I wouldn’t exactly say its encouraged there. I always thought shinesparking did max value damage in Super, but depending on the length of contact it can take multiple go’s to kill Draygon so I guess it doesn’t

[@pforgottonsoul]

you can use it on Escue too though its not an instant kill.

[@devoncampbell3607]

Many of the bosses can be wrecked by clever shine-sparks.

[@Chimaera242]

Golzuna is also shinesparkable, there's enough time and room during the run up, before he properly spawns, and he has a special animation when he gets hit.

[@Lupg13]

@@Chimaera242 what's shine sparking?

[@themitchum1]

in the area you fight the first chozo soldier, there are "empty suits of armor" that collapse leading up to the fight, I like the implication here.

[@Cytonox]

Some good old fashioned subtextual story telling is always nice. I love how good Metroid is with that, like the frozen Ridley in Fusion for example

[@exister6652]

Wait, what's the meaning of it? I noticed that but thought it was just the place being in bad shape

[@themitchum1]

@@exister6652 those were the chozos that died, the x parasite ate only the organic mater and left the empty husks of armor standing where they died

[@exister6652]

@@themitchum1 Ohhhh that's actually sick, thanks a lot for explaining

[@TempestGhost]

There are the shambling masses of black X goo we see with the Chozo Soldier armor and not completely intact.

[@researchinbreeder]

Z-57 is not only the same species as Corpius, but you actually see a non-X-infected version earlier in the game. In the section where you restore the power, you can see robot arms experimenting on a corpse of the same type of creature, and after the Experiment Z-57 encounter it disappears.

[@lavitz95]

True.

[@fedjamagga8385]

I'm pretty positive they are the same one.

[@nonamer6621]

@@fedjamagga8385 yeah later on the “corpse” (not really much of a corpse since you see it react to the lasers) is gone.

[@researchinbreeder]

@@fedjamagga8385 The only reason I don't think Experiment and Corpius aren't the same exact creature is bc Corpius disappears after the fight without a trace.

[@failbuster6468]

No, the corpse disappears right after the X get released. the infected experiment then makes it's way from dairon to cataris, where starts cutting the flow of thermal energy.

[@Johno3998]

I just wish there were at least 2-3 more bosses on the level of corpius,kraid and raven beak Also I kinda wish they had made at least 1 of the E.M.M.I be able to sneak outside it's zone and show up randomly...would have really added to the "dread". kind of like how in theory it felt like the SA-X in fusion could turn up anywhere (It can't, but there weren't SA-X zones and non-SA-X zones)

[@Cytonox]

I agree, it'd be cool if they had a Resident Evil 2 sort of thing going on where an EMMI acts like Mr. X.

[@Johteku]

Experiment No. Z-57?

[@syweb2]

@@Johteku That was implicitly included in the list.

[@jellycore1316]

YESSS AGREED

[@countlazuli8753]

One of my pre release theories was that one of the chozo characters would get mutated by an x and begin stalking Samus as a monstrous abomination like a super emmi encounter.

[@evgenyti3250]

Amazing how even the lowest ranked boss is still fun and action-packed, really shows the game's quality

[@ammoconda6415]

Except golzuna and escue

[@DanDan-eh7ul]

Idk, why golzuna is so hated. It was fun for me. I sequence broke, and had a blast fighting him early. Space jump is the lame way of dodging. Wall jump, Flashes, and Slides are the way to go.

[@ammoconda6415]

@@DanDan-eh7ul for me, golzuna was a better "drogyga", I mean, a boring fight with no powers given at the end (I know golzuna gives you the cross bomb but you use it 2 times so I don't count it)

[@samskott2344]

I think an underrated part of Dread's boss battle progression is how they do a really good job putting Samus' entire arsenal to the test. And with Raven Beak, I think you have to use every ability (except for the Phantom Cloak which or more for stealth) at least a few times before you get the win. He is a great looking boss, formidable and intimidating, he hits like a truck, and he tests the player to see how well they know the game.

[@Cytonox]

Yeah I agree, that’s usually the mark of a great Metroid boss. Thats why I love Quadraxis from Metroid Prime 2, for example

[@samskott2344]

@@Cytonox agreed, Quadraxis was a great boss. This one might be controversial because a lot of people thought he was "cheap" but I think Yakuza from Fusion might be my favorite boss in the entire franchise.

[@WeirdVideoGames]

Grapple beam?

[@samskott2344]

@@WeirdVideoGames good point, you don't really use the grapple beam in the fight. Though to be fair, any time the game did utilize thr grapple beam for combat purposes, it felt kinda janky. They probably learned from previous bosses and decided to keep it out of the Raven Beak fight. I'm glad they did too because having to stop, aim, and grapple somewhere would have taken away from the flow of the fight.

[@countlazuli8753]

I think if there was one thing I would have done differently, it would be to keep Experiment Z-57 in Dairon so that the region still has a boss, then maybe have a Kraid X battle at the thermal generator instead. This time around, Kraid would have no restraints, some new X-influenced attacks, and have him on the left side of the screen for the fun of it.

[@Cytonox]

That sounds pretty awesome, I'd back that

[@lordphill807]

i thought kraid was coming back as an x for sure. Killed me when i realized he would not return.

[@grunkleg.29691]

I mean Kraid sorta came back at the very end with Raven Beak X. But the idea of Kraid being on the left side of the screen is amusing

[@milesprower6110]

@@grunkleg.29691 zero mission throwback

[@FandeJay]

Admittedly, when I first defeated Kraid, my initial reaction was: "Ok, that was phase 1. Looking forward to phase 2 !!" ...turns out phase 2 never came...

[@kahp1072]

Escue is the boss that most annoyed me because it's a pain to dodge.

[@fedjamagga8385]

Did you use the shinespark strategy?

[@RobPsy]

@@fedjamagga8385 i did, still the boss is pain

[@bruh9505]

It's possible to get the screw attack before via sequence breaking

[@justafloodofethanol3216]

Escue is easily my least favorite boss. I’ve played the game 3 times now and I still despise the fight.

[@kawee1]

Escue was a nightmare on dread mode as well as raven beak

[@megaplays2748]

While first playing through Dread, I didn't quite want Raven Beak to be the final boss. I was hoping for something more besides "ooh evil Chozo whatever" But when his base was revealed to be a sky fortress (one of my favorite settings for anything) and just the entire cutscene prior to the boss battle made me turn a complete 180

[@Cytonox]

Yeah Sky Fortresses are awesome, I'm glad someone else shares this hyper specific location preference with me

[@iso-didact789]

I crack up every time someone mentions the sephiroth ripoff.😆

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

Sanctuary fortress memories:)

[@megaplays2748]

@@legrandliseurtri7495 yessssss

[@Nomgoose]

The first time fighting Ravenbeak, I was blown away. Definitely one of the most epic boss battles I've played in years, and so cinematic. It felt like I was in an anime with those animations, and also had the feeling of playing Super Smash Bros. with all the movement and agility on display. So bad ass. So epic. Won't forget.

[@DR.SLAMMER]

I kind of wish there had been a little more variety between the infected chozo soldier fights. The addition of shields was a step in the right direction, but it would have been nice if each had different weapons/attack patterns

[@Cytonox]

I definitely agree, I’d have put them higher if this was the case

[@4orks976]

8:11 I'd also like to point out that there's ANOTHER cutscene you can get by sequence breaking here - if you get Flash Shift early, you flash shift from the magnetic panel over to his mouth when it's open. If you do, Samus holds Kraid's mouth open like Steve Irwin wrestling a crocodile, and you get to shove a bunch of missiles down his gullet.

[@Cytonox]

Thats awesome, I’d heard that flash shifting did something but never actually knew what it did in specific. I gotta try that for myself sometime

[@zawarudo497]

Kraid is actually a species not a unique creature like ridley, meaning the one in this game is probably a different one

[@Cytonox]

Thats some neat Trivia, never actually knew that. Hope more Kraids are lying around out there somewhere

[@TheDuckyDino]

@@Cytonox don’t think that’s been confirmed. There are probably multiple of his species, but At the very least, I doubt that “Kraid” is the name of the species

[@phillipk4196]

@@TheDuckyDino probably but its supported already in super with the baby Kraid before the Kraid bossfight sooo... Samus probably killed a family back then. why was she making a fuss over a baby metroid when she just murders other toddler/children

[@Guy-9]

This has not been confirmed and I still feel is false. The mini and fake Kraids in the past games have been stated to be imposters and not related to Kraid. Tbh I feel it's safe to say that it's the same Kraid as Ridley has had way more "final" looking deaths and still came back. Kraid probably has even stronger regenerative abilities considering he constantly does so (with his claws) in battle.

[@robinmeehan5900]

@@Guy-9 Actually, I think we can confirm that Kraid is truly dead, as it’s heavily implied he was consumed by an X parasite after they are released from Elun. This is further backed up when we see that Raven Beak’s X form is a mashup of all the bosses consumed by the X, with the most prominent details on the X form being from Kraid. But, I do think the Kraid we fight in Dread is the same Kraid.

[@Nate9-9]

Kraid will probably some how still be alive for another game

[@Cytonox]

Meta Kraid sounds cool to me honestly, I'd be down for that

[@milesprower6110]

I mean, why does only Ridley has this medical treatments? Does not Space Pirates cares for their other bosses?? XD Phantom has a lot of potential as well

[@TheDuckyDino]

@@milesprower6110 phantoon is a ghost so I don’t think he needs medical attention

[@milesprower6110]

@@TheDuckyDino I mean, as an alien race tho... It's a future where everything is possible

[@phillipk4196]

@Nate99 it wad a kraid as in a species this specific one is dead 3 times over: beaten by samus to bathe in Lava, taken over by the final X-Parasite and then transformed into a raven beak kraid amalgam and blasted from existence by the strongest Metroid Samus Aran.

[@BoxCarBoy12]

I personally had the most fun with Z-57. It was cinematic, tough but not frustratingly so, and had some novel ideas. Raven Beak was cool, but I felt he was too easy once you figured out how to counter his attacks since he dropped a ton of missiles and health. That beetle boss gave me the most trouble, however.

[@Darkfox1750]

kraid's skin is on par with planetary shields (manga) nothing can damage him. samus gave him heart burn. don't wanna know about the gut. the x eats him

[@Mast3rKK]

Z-57 is so underrated, the lore, how you can see him in Dairon and then when Artaria freezes due to him, you have to fight him AND THE FIGHT ITSELF, it is amazing, with visuals and the attacks are so cool… Also looking like Corpius yet behaving completely different makes him amazing

[@bryan8602]

You dodge Escue's storm attack by flash shifting behind it's back while staying on the ground and then spin boosting. The key is to always keep moving as the storm attack can't reliably track you.

[@alternateaccount3898]

You can actually use the shinespark on the bug boss to cheese it and take away most of its health, similar to the way you can do so in super metroid!!!

[@diego1345]

0:51 You are supposed to slide under him? I didn't even know you could do that 😄 I jumped over him and used the dash. It was really easy that way. It's so fun to see how many different strategies people use for the same challenge in this game. Many of them never ocurred to me at all.

[@TheHomieLew]

_Strongly_ disagree with its easiness aside from the smaller ones lmao, the ceiling is so short and the collision damage is massive. Died trying that strat with full upgrades (tho tbf I spent a ton of energy trying to counter the slam)