Ranking the Bosses of Metroid Dread from Worst to Best

[@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?

[@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.

[@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

[@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)

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@jlt-kjv2840]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@miguelminanopajaron8569]

Experiment z-57 is like an experiment of corpius, there is a zone where you can see de body of corpius with some mecanic arms in burenia

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@SimoneBuzziReschini]

Cool video! I would swap #2 and #3 since I LOVED everything about Experiment Z-57. Also for me the most challenging were the first Chozo Robot and that dmaned flying bug

[@milesprower6110]

Also how cool Samus looks when does the after parry animation on it, standing still on it's head while this thing is running all around the heat machine like crazy

[@Troutfisch]

Agreed, Experiment was tough but felt so accomplished and satisfied once I beat him.

[@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.

[@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.

[@gnrchild]

Every single boss fight in this game felt like trying to beat that opening boss fight against Ridley in Super Metroid even though you were supposed to lose

[@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.

[@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

[@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)

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@wanderingcalamity360]

Since you mentioned Raven Beak X being pretty much G5 from Resident Evil 2, it's also worth noting that Drogyga is not unlike a 2.5D version of the final Nemesis fight in the RE3make. Similar mechanic of stunning the boss so you can safely trigger devices on either side of the boss room that allow you to finally actually damage the boss. Though, in the case of the RE3make, it's so you can power up Paracelsus's Sword, as opposed to draining the water level, and there's no magnetic conveyor belt to transport you from one side to the other. But the overall mechanic of the fight is rather similar.

[@Cytonox]

I see that now, I actually platinumed RE3make just last week so it’s fresh in my head. I’ll probably cover the resident evil games at some point in the future, since I’m a big fan of em these days

[@gmartuch]

with krad 2 phase there are 3 way to fight him. [one] is to wait for him to shot the 3 spikes to bring down the magnet runner, [two] is the morph ball and bombs, [three] when he shots the spikes one at a time; you can platform up them like in zero mission to get to the magnet runner be careful you will have to counter him when you get to the top

[@AnomNOus]

I was mad Experiment X-57 was so low. Then I remembered who was left and realized how great the main bosses are.

[@garbotoxins840]

I noticed you barely use the blue dash move in the footage, a lot of these fights are built around you using them, like with escue you can dodge the prohectiles and whatnot.

[@Cytonox]

Yeah I picked up more on this on my second playthrough, very useful for sure

[@solismax65]

4:10 for the electric bug, to dodge those projectiles you’re suppose to jump when he starts blasting and time your space jumps over the blast spreads and you’ll dodge it 100% of the time

[@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.

[@shakefan1484]

“…although this isn’t to say there aren’t missteps.” *shows Golzuna* You ain’t wrong.

[@GrinNBarrett134]

Raven Beak straight up takes number 1 for all Metroid bosses imo, the fight was so good like I've beat the game multiple times and every time the Raven Beak fight is always the part I'm most excited about.

[@bradleyc.5425]

Z-57 was still my favorite boss but they were all amazing

[@DroolingNoob115]

When raven beak gets infected by the x it looks like Kraig and I thought that was pretty cool. You are literally blasting 3 enemies at once, raven, kraig and the x

[@will__mem9rno]

the sad part about this is that we now have one less way to bullshit kraid into future entries 😥 ill miss him

[@syweb2]

Apparently, it includes features from other previous bosses as well, but I only saw Kraid bits.

[@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.

[@jellycore1316]

Thanks for the awesome video!

[@Cytonox]

Glad ya liked it!

[@jellycore1316]

@@Cytonox Aww, for sure!

[@jcplays5831]

The two robot chozo soldier fight really kicked my ass. I had to really slow down, learn their patterns, make sure they were in the right place at the right time, and keep my cool. My hands were sweating so much afterwards, and even though my patience was being tested, I still had fun with it.

[@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.

[@danielgiovanniello7217]

My personal favorite thing about the Metroid series is how every single planet depicted from orbit doesn't look like a terrestrial world. For whatever reason, they're all depicted looking like Gas Giants.

[@Cytonox]

It is kinda interesting how that is. I can understand it for Aether in Prime 2 since it has a weird atmosphere, but everywhere else there’s not a super obvious reason. I think “it just looks cool” is probably their main reason

[@danielgiovanniello7217]

@@Cytonox Oh without a doubt. It's just something I picked up when replaying the series in preparation for Dread's release. It's not even like it's a super hard thing to differentiate either. A swirling atmosphere like Jupiter 9/10 times means that the planet is a gas giant. Sorry, I just really like space.

[@myleswelnetz6700]

10:46 “I told you I’d be back!” (Face splits open). “END OF THE LINE!!!”

[@Litlrox]

4:01 If you are on the ground and it shoots, start moving upward. I always manage to not get hit. You can also use the shift to move away quickly.

[@kiekiek]

Raven Beak is probably the best boss in 2D gameplay I have ever fought against. Metroid Dread is perfect example of good balanced difficulty, not only in its boss fights, but also world design. It does help you where to go at all times, it prevents you getting lost and backtrack and make it feel a chore like some indie games struggle with, but also gives you room for explaration, searching for items and sequence break the order of things. Greatly accessible while maintaning that metroidvania hardcore flavour. Just great game design. Best Switch game after BOTW depending on your taste.

[@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.

[@spiritzion]

actually the red elite soldiers shield can be destroyed with a few storm missiles, so basically just damage. dont need to counter, which makes it a bit easier for people who arent used to the timings

[@RancidRiki]

The experiment is the corpse of the corpius that was being experimented on in the lab area

[@Cytonox]

Ah, I noticed that in Dairon but didn't ever check that room after the fight. That makes a lot of sense. Although I think they're possibly still different and it's just another similar creature that was getting experimented on.

[@Dopamine-ms3md]

@@Cytonox it is, after that fight the corpse disappears

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@Dopamine-ms3md The corpse disappears before the fight, actually. I think it's once the X are released, or perhaps when ADAM says "Assume the entire planet is infected".

[@JacobPDeIiNoNi]

I read on the wiki that Corpius and Z-57 are both experimented versions of a creature native to Ghavoran (of course not sure of the legitimacy of that lol) but I really wish that the real version of this weird-faced creature was our boss fight of Ghavoran instead of the lame size-increased regular enemy that's for some reason Ghavoran's boss. I think it would have been especially cool if it was some sort of wyvern-like creature that can fly and the fight took place above the treetops, which would have made for a nice sequence of the fights- First you fight the mangled corpse of corpius who can only stalk around awkwardly, then the terrifying experiment Z-57 that creepily climbs around, and I think that it would have been a nice finishing fight to fight the original, real creature, powerfully flying around. That's just my idea though.

[@RancidRiki]

@@azuredragoon2054 spoiler "Adam" is actually bird daddy raven beak

[@ZR-HR]

I really hope we get dlc content for Metroid because honestly this is by far my favorite one so far

[@dyal4505]

dude I never realised you could remove the elite chozo’s shield, I was just shooting him from behind 😂😂

[@prelude2disaster]

Glad I wasn't the only one who didn't know about this ahaha. Countering gives health and missiles too, so I thought it was a re-coup move used periodically.

[@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.

[@d_d1721]

Raven Beak is like a Megaman X Boss, feels so damn good XD

[@Cytonox]

Definitely has a Sigma feel to it, I can see that

[@cattooma]

6:58 Experiment Z IS Corpius, in my opinion. You can see it in the background of Dairon until the X takes over ZDR, ,then kd disappears. My guess is that Raven Beak moved his body there somehow or something

[@thealeks1]

I think the last Infected Chozo or the Elite Chozo as it is called is neat just because of how you use the grapple beam to bust it’s shield. I think it is super neat when games use utility items in boss fights. A Ridley fight where you could grapple to his tail and swing around while blasting him would be super cool

[@smothmoongazer]

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

[@Vapecatlol]

0:38 #11 “Golzuna” 1:29 #10 “Robot Chozo Soldier” 2:16 #9 “Twin Robot Chozo Soldier” 2:36 #8 “Chozo Soldier” 3:18 #7 “Elite Chozo Soldier” 3:43 #6 “Escue” 4:28 #5 “Drogyga” 5:22 #4 “Corpius” 6:48 #3 “Experiment No. Z-57” 7:31 #2 “Kraid” 9:03 #1 “Raven Beak”

[@metric152]

I learned quite a bit from this video. I didn’t realize you could rip the shield from the soldiers or counter the robots. So many little things in this game. I loved my time with it.

[@DanielMisner]

Awesome list! Kraid can die in like 3 different ways, what a legend

[@alecl.9849]

Love the square enix copyright line 😂

[@kamentrainerhorn2073]

Raven Beak truly did grant us one Final Fantasy.

[@heavydata9440]

Nothing I ever do will ever give me the thrill I got during the cinematic after the Raven Beak fight.

[@sealvain6810]

IM SO DUMB I DIDNT REALIZE YOU COULD GRAPPLE THE SHIELD- I WAS JUST HITTING IT UNITL IT TRANSFORMED 😭 EDIT I DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD BREAK RAVEN BEAKS SHIELD EITHER I WAS JUST DODGING AND PARRYING 😭

[@lochnloaded6905]

Raven beaks first two phases are incredible pure skill and not unfair… the third phase is frustrating because it borderlines on unfair. But it’s tough for that fight to not be the best one in the game.

[@axsys31]

With Escue flash shift will be your best friend you can activate it 3 times on 1 aeion charge. If you notice the boss will always be opposite to you leaving a little pocket for you to dodge through.

[@rp-lopez]

Great video man! Totally agree with your list. Love this game and the bosses are some of my favorite ever. Wish the music was a little better but oh well. You just got yourself a new subscriber!

[@QwertyCaesar]

You gotta use your flash shift more often in boss battles. It's not absolutely essential for all boss battles but it makes most of them easier by giving you more time to get extra hits in. For example whenever Raven Beak spawns a black hole and you're far away and set a power bomb he does this move where he lasers the whole room except right next to him. Flash shift up to him to avoid that, get a few hits in, and by then it has recharged enough that you can flash shift away when he tries to stab you. Also helps you make distance from him when he tries to corner you. Wall jump, double/triple dash, and ready some missile locks before he even turns around.

[@blvk3]

there are 2 minor details many ppl seems to have missed 1)Corpius' invisibility power isn't natural, if you pay attentions to the boss room when you enter, there is a statue holding its arm out but no power up, and after you beat him, you actually retrieve that missing power up from the tail 2)No.Z57 grew large after the X-parasite was released, he was basically a Corpius corpse being experimented on at the background of that area, the corpse disappear after the X-parasite escaped

[@kevinr.9733]

The twin robot Chozo soldier fights are like the single robot Chozo soldier fights, except that there are two of them. Which makes the fights twice as good or something. At least, I think that's how math works.

[@campkilldavy]

I may be late to the party, but your analysis is spot on man. Great vid! I was surprised to find myself agreeing with, pretty much everything you said.

[@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.

[@alexanderkefford3911]

Quick cheat on Escue boss. Use the speed booster before entering the boss room then shine spark attack up. it does major damage or kills the boss entirely.

[@scissoroo]

Raven Beak kicked my ass and I loved every second of it

[@kamentrainerhorn2073]

Good to know I'm not the only one. Probably the first Metroid boss I've faced whom I enjoyed and found to be worthy.

[@tristanneal9552]

Some people think Z-57 is Corpius, and that after defeating Corpius Raven Beak hauls his corpse over to Dairon where he begins experimenting on him, only for the X Parasite to infect him. I however think the corpse being experimented on is the one we see killed in the Chozo Archives.

[@Cytonox]

Yeah, about 60-70% of the comments on this video are about Z-57 being Corpius but I’m not totally sold on it. The art you get for 100% completion of the areas shows some of the Mawkin standing on top of a (presumably) dead Corpius, implying it’s definitely not a one of a kind organism. I think there are definitely at least 2 separate ones encountered in the game, being Corpius and the X reanimated Corpse from Dairon (who is the experiment)

[@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.

[@BeeWaifu]

7:44 From what I can tell, Ridley has regenerative powers (at least because of phazon, I think). He survived in Zero MIssion and was rebuilt into Meta-Ridley in Metroid Prime. In Prime 3 he's rebuilt again, gets mutated with phazon, and the 'explosion' is likely just for the gameplay. It would be weird to see him 'die' like that. In Metroid 2 3DS he's back as Meta Ridley again (canonizing the Prime games) and gets defeated again, but he leaves behind armor pieces as his body grows back. Then he gets genuinely killed by Samus on Zebes, and even if he survived that encounter again, he didn't survive the planet exploding. His corpse likely survived the fracturing of the planet and got mummified by space only to have his body rediscovered and brought back to BSL in Fusion where he was infected by an x parasite and brought back as a mutated boss. Also, pretty sure that that isn't Kraid and just another of its species. Kraid didn't have that belly thing nor the ability to expel strange larvae from there.

[@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.

[@catface7133]

That Escue boss is easier to take down if you are closer to it, slide under him when he does that spread shot and jump back over the 2 projectiles that follow you. It makes it easier to dodge his charge attack too as he usually darts downwards

[@fangerzstanky]

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

[@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

[@ratburn4830]

Corpius was pretty easy for me as a newcomer to the series and I liked it because it lured me into a false sense of security until I got completely decimated by kraid

[@cantdestroyher7245]

Love the disrespect on samus’ end during the whole kraid fight

[@lemmy4965]

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

[@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.

[@duckway4733]

You also forgot that you can flash shift into Kraid's mouth at a very specific moment, which initiates a cutscene.

[@Cytonox]

This is the first comment I’ve seen anywhere mentioning that, thats awesome. I wanna see that now

[@123christianac]

@@Cytonox It's a recent discovery... which is understandable considering the fact that morph ball bombs are much faster.

[@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.

[@myleswelnetz6700]

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

[@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!

[@maiwei]

Isn't Kraid an X-Parasite clone? Would explain why he's in this game at least. The way I understand it, Raven Beak had been experimenting with X-Parasite cloning on ZDR, which could be why we have so many clone battles, not just because we let them loose.

[@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

[@devildolphin2102]

Purple EMMI should have been a boss. It could have interrupted you getting omega energy and have to slowly whittle it down with An Light Omega Wave beam Purple EMMI could use the Purple Stun Ball for tracking shot, Ice Beam, Missiles, laser beam and a Quick needle strike. I don’t know how fun it would be but it would have made the EMMIs a little more special maybe.

[@misery44]

I guess gettin' one shotted isn't enough

[@Al77343]

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

[@myleswelnetz6700]

0:39’s theme sounds like the Parasite Queen’s theme from Metroid Prime.