Metroid Dread - All Bosses / All Boss Fights 

Part of me thought Kraid would be the last boss fight

It’s a shame we didn’t get to see Ridley

May Ridley live on in smash and in our hearts

So no Ridley

No Ridely? Aw man.

And that's why we like her

"Oh great, are you now gonna revive seventeen times like Ridley did? That's got boring after a few years."

She get more stylish too, truly showing her "greatest bounty hunter" credibility

S.A.M.U.S. STALLING AINT MY UHHHH SCENE

Girl blasted him in the jaw LIKE A BOSS.

From what I’ve seen, he isn’t a terrible old Chozo “father”. He did offer his energy to her ship despite everything he did

Raven Beak was one of the primary reasons why the Chozo civilization fell into absolute hell (considering he was responsible for engineering the Metroids to attack Chozo that opposed his ideals). There was no way Samus was going to accept him as one of their own.

@@SoldierOfFate So… I’m very lost with what Raven Beak actually is. Is he a Chozo, a corrupted Metroid? It doesn’t help that he also used Kraid as a vessel. Raven Beak has got to be the strangest original Nintendo character I’ve ever seen.

@@lennydickson8845 Raven Beak is a high-ranking Chozo commander gone mad with power - he was primarily responsible for the destruction of Chozo society, and why Metroids are so aggressive (he secretly engineered them to be bioweapons and why they attacked the Chozo in the first place, as shown in Samus Returns in one of the Chozo memories). While their society believes in peace and prosperity, he believes their technological prowess should be used for absolute warfare and domination. However, he was also the other Chozo that offered his DNA (along with Gray Voice) to Samus when she was adopted by them, hence why he calls her "daughter".

See this guy gets it ^ I will admit though beating the shit out of him does leave a sense of satisfaction for all the bullshit he tried to cause in Samus's upbringing.

You right! In a strage way but you right!

I mean they haven’t really been wrong since fusion.

@@archmagetyler Actually, they have. Fusion only had her injected with Metroid DNA, but there was no information about what that was doing to her, her "Metroid powers" only happened in this game.

@@Macaulyn_97 you mean other than the fact she was doing the exact thing the metroids were originally made for (aka going munch munch on natures apex predator) ?

@@archmagetyler This game has her suddenly gain powers to match powerful beings like the Chozo, before she was just getting suit upgrades and healing.

Considering she's basically a living superweapon that's more powerful than anything the Chozo could ever engineer (considering they're borderline divine beings comparable to the Makyrs that created the ultimate predator of the galaxy), well... she's pretty much on par with the Slayer now.

She could also be similar to Batman especially since both of their parents got murdered.

Where my ridley

Samus is samus. Samus is not doom guy

doom slayer is the new master chief

I also enjoy that the bosses are tough, but fair...

That is for kids....if you are chad you only need to skip the scene and fight

haha yeah, videogames 101: hit the glowing parts!!

@@thetypeofred but then you miss a cool cutscene D:

Not as intuitive as previews titles.

Third time. We don't talk about that thing that happened in 2010.

@@kemanorel3110 I don't think anything like that happened in Other M? What I'm talking about is: - The baby helping against Ridley - The baby sacrifying itself against Mother Brain - Its DNA saving Samus from the X in Fusion - And here, its DNA saving Samus from Raven Beak by triggering her transformation

@@The94Venom I actually forgot the DNA came from the Super Metroid in Fusion, that's my bad.

_T h e B a b y_

@@kemanorel3110 "that thing" is way better than this indie overpriced turd

I also see it slightly as her going..kraid? What happened to you? Well..time to put you out of your misery..

samus killed kraid in zero mission right? how does she kill him again?

@@Garou_BZ For the same reason why she had to kill him again in Super: 'cause bird magic.

I feel like Kraid's DNA has been open-sourced by this point, and anyone can just clone one if they wanted to

Uhm,, she's build to be sort of Robotic - in fact that shows _lack_ of personality lol? Which is just fine - she's meant to be a cold-blooded unperturbed Bounty-Hunter.

Same here

Same also in January 2024.

and Raven Beak *squawks* on most attacks, lol :P

​@@SophiaXiaoyuAralaCranZ-57 should also use a noise from a boss prototype robot from DOOM ETERNAL.

No you're badass

Samus in Metroid Fusion is equally as badass as in Metroid Prime.

50 bucks says that's going to be a meme for the next year or so.

This has been basically my fear since the end of Fusion, and I'm pretty glad Dread adressed the issue, though a lot of questions will have to be answered in Metroid 6... But yeah, from the moment Samus one shots the final EMMI right to the end, the game just goes full horror.

You also have to remember what Samus has witnessed and endured throughout her entire life. She's basically desensitized, tired, and burned out where the moment Raven Beak thinks he can use mockeries of herself to control the universe, she immediately goes "I'M SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR PETTY AMBITIONS, JUST DIE ALREADY!" Maybe in a future title we can see her being hunted by the Galactic Federation because they deem her to be a danger, and/or they want to harvest her genetic material for military purposes...

If you think about it, the things Raven Beak is responsible for when it comes to Samus life. When she went completely berserk on him i think is completely justified.

To be fair, he had nearly strangled her to death - fight or flight instinct was in full effect. Prime/Dark Samus was definitely the bigger threat, since it's goal was to corrupt (and thus control) everything in the universe

The X Parasite can absorb the memories of their prey. Samus destroying Raven Beak's X is way of her saying "Your legacy, memories, and past die right here, right now on this forsaken planet" and obviously she doesn't want to carry or witness it, as he was the main reason why the Chozo suffered their doomed fate to begin with.

@@SoldierOfFate agreed, only memory she will carry on is Grey voice. Also the armor Samus possess at the end might be a hint for the sequel.

@@lucaruxyz1075 If they make a 6th smash game in the future, they'd be dumb not to make it her final smash

It's also really creepy how Raven Beak X just keeps saying "power is everything" in the Chozo language as he drags himself towards you.

Well that and Experiment n z57 that gets obliterated

I feel it's more like the X parasite that absorbed him copied his mind/consciousness. But yeah, it's impressive that it managed to go against its instincts long enough to _not_ attack Samus on sight (even letting itself be absorbed).

@@elinfini I want to agree with you, but even during the final stages of fusion, It was confirmed by Samus that the X copy the body, mind and consciousness, but NOT the soul. There was even an event where Samus had to fight an X copying a human scientist from overriding the space station boiler room. Seeing the way X behaved after copying Quiet Robe Chozo confirmed it for me: The Chozo scientists are special. Special in a way that they know certain things that others don't, even the other Chozo tribes. Which makes me respect them even more, there is a GOOD REASON why the Chozo scientists wanted to destroy the metroids. Because they knew: THEY KNEW what would happen if they were allowed to live; wars, catastrophic damage, even people like Raven beak wanting to use them. We've seen this in so many of the previous games: space pirates, Ridley, Mother Brain, the Galactic federation breeding program in Metroid Fusion. The scientists knew, they say much further into the future. R.I.P Quiet Robe

I dunno....that part still doesn't make sense to me. Quiet Robe was dead. I don't understand how his dead body being taken over by the X-parasite would exert any control over it. That leaves us two options: 1) the X-parasite - in direct contrast to everything we've been shown about them before - actually can be non-aggressive, or 2) it thought it could save itself and escape with Samus. I don't really see how it could be anything other than 2, logically. It does seem very reminiscent of the baby metroid.

i think the way the x parasite behave here is the same as fusion, it knows that the metroids are the natural predator of the x so is essy that an x made the decision to return samus to her normal state. Maybe the x learn that from the mind of the chozo

@@Gonsoi Considering that Quiet Robe was the only survivor of a Chozo clan that could control Metroids (in that they weren't hostile towards them), then it follows that absorbing the X that had his DNA/memories/etc. would "stabilize" Samus' Metroid condition.

When she drained the emmi I lost my shit when I figured out what was going on

Definitely helps when certain boss attacks just eat your health bar like nothing. And thats on the regular difficulty.

“Oh you destroyed my other wing? This shit is useless to me now.” *Proceeds to rip off his own wing*

Piccolo at its finest!

@@rokechikan4481 BRUH!!!! XD

@@davor7764 YOOOOOO! PERFECT REFERENCE!!!!

Sephiroth reference too

Damn people aren't wasting time

@@liviekumori alas, it isnt very long. I finished it in two sessions... 6 hours each.

@@MajorasWrath1 Average total playtime is like 6-8 hours in game time. I've seen speedrunners complete it below 1 hour by now though.

@@gxstly For me it was around 11 hours to 100%

When I first got to Experiment Z-57 I was like "there is no way in hell I'm ever gonna come close to beating this thing". But I figured out it's patterns shortly after and now it's my favorite boss in the game.

What about the one on the 3ds??

@@nathan_drake1237 Samus returns? You don't fight Kraid in Samus returns. Only metroids and Ridley.

@@z.a.y.n-5053 Ahh, ok never mind than

Isn’t there another Metroid game coming out in 2022-23

@@isaachumbley495 That's way too early. 2024 is more likely.

You've became the very thing you sought to destroy.

You mean "ultimate warrior".

You even made a being stronger than you collect your helmet and kill Metroid when you saved a Metroid. (Kirby has to get her helmet in Kirby’s dreamland 3 and has to fight off Metroid)

By this point, she has come to expect Kraid to return since hey, Ridley keeps coming back despite being blown to atoms. Might as well get used to it so you'll never be caught off guard.

She even becomes green lol.

Some of her facial expressions (especially with the pissed off look in her eyes) resemble the Doom Slayer also. And of course...her uncontrolled rage against Raven Beak when she becomes a human/Metroid hybrid...that just screams rip and tear energy.

cringeguy

Cringeguy. He did not invent rage or indifference.

... is it cuz kraid's X infected the chozo?

I was wondering that as well, I have yet to play it but I'd be curious as to why, lore-wise, that choice was made.

@@wqweqwet1804 My guess is that the X infected Kraid's corpse after they were released, but didn't see any use of it so they absorbed what organic material was left and set off to find more suitable prey. That's the most likely explanation why the Raven Beak-X has resemblances to Kraid's design.

@@SoldierOfFate makes sense to me

@@SoldierOfFate I also heard a theory that the X from that Experiment No. Z-57 boss that fell in the lava went on to infect Kraids corpse and then found Raven Beak at the end.

Space bird is dead

@The Jake and El’s Show technicaly that's the clone from Other M, our Ridley blew up with Zebes and never came back from that

I’m saying this now but I honestly think Ridley might come back. I know he’s technically dead but he’s always fines a way to come back. Besides Kraid is still alive somehow so I think Ridley might come back in the future.

@@gioanysgonzalez3396 Cloning is the future!

I’m fine without. This team gave us a great Ridley fight in the Metroid 2 remake.

And hypothetically she could go right back to being it

Doom Slayer: That's my girl!

@@archmagetyler Probably not so much it seems the X-Parasite at the end was meant to supress those abilities so she could lift off as it implies her ship runs off of life energy? Or the Metroids don't just absorb life energy.

@@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective the latter answer is correct, as even as far back as super metroids opening, it was confirmed they had more penitential than just munching life energy. and given that during samuses extreme rage she ate the power of the ENTIRE LOCATION along with the power of raven beaks suit, it's not too much of strech to say that metroids could've been used like live batteries. point is, if she drained enough energy again she could go right back to being that zero laser weilding mad woman we loved playing as.

@@archmagetyler All I know is this had better be a costume option in Smash. That's sounds creepy but awesome. Looking forward to diving into dread really.

This is the last one I thought.

No, this is the last one for the Metroid SAGA, as in the Metroid species is mostly done I think, so we’re probably still going to get new games just that it won’t involve the Metroids as much if at all.

@@ausarthevile2970 Yes, now with samus being “the last Metroid” (now all the people who called her Metroid are right) the series could continue without having to bring the species back.

this is the last one

@@TommyTube89 thats wen prime 4 comes into play the prime series are secondary branch timeline breaking off the main one so i considered them a reboot of some sorts.

Still a missed opportunity for super's theme just saying...

@@cascadingwaterfalls5830 it is in some points

@@cascadingwaterfalls5830 Supers theme is the theme for every boss except mother brain and Ridley I think

@@shrekonion7032 and draygon

He's just filling in for Ridley

I guess Nintendo don't want Samus to have another mental breakdown, Other M style.

our big guy’s too busy fighting in smash

@@papodecasual *We do not talk about that game.*

Kraid deserve to come back, since him and ridley are the most two familiar bosses in the first Metroid series.

Not only that she has the metroid draining abilities too! Even drained and stole Raven Beak's super laser beam ability, and even potentially drain her ship's energy had Quiet Robe had not offered himself to be absorbed for the chozo DNA to neutralize the metroid suit to turn her back into her power suit form

Eu me pergunto que habilidade ele daria, já que toda estrutura dele caiu na larva

Z-57 made me put the game down for 6 months lol

It was so much time of course someone is gonna end it as fast as possible to find the lore, but yeah that take a day and here we are!

Also helps that the ROM for this game got leaked about a week ago (better to buy the game so more Metroid games can be made!). BFD did play this legitimately though according to comments, so some regions got the game a day earlier legitimately .

I actually only knew that from the initial reveals of the game, I was all impressed with the boss battles themselves, the way when you counter a certain attack you go into a cutscene where you can do more damage to the boss. Plus, they made it possible to do many different things in terms of jumping and using your screw attack in tandem with the flash shift ability to avoid attacks better during the final boss.

Traes hambre

Siéntate te ves cansado.

huevo con chorizo

Chorizoildier

I will never see the Chozo the same way again... Chorizo power!!

I both laughed and sighed when he said power was everything, it's just so agonizingly edgy anime

@@KevinGsWK reminds me alot of Jiren.

You'd think he'd at least explain what his plan was, try to convince her it had merit. But no, let me demand obedience from someone who has cleaned up all the messes I could barely contain.

@@T4nkcommander Again megaglomaniac with god complex, he thought cause had hand in engineering samus, that she should be subservient to him for that reason!

@@KevinGsWK least he ain't say it in cringe ass english

Yeah she had a look on her face like "Did you just toss that crap at me?"

No joke, I’ve been playing Switch more than my PS4. Metroid Dread is fun af.

IKR!?!

Switch is way better than ps5 or Xbox anyday - they make nothing but quality games. I have pretty much retired my ps4

The fact that every move works seamlessly makes it feel better as a speedrun type game too. Knowing that the speed booster can be recharged if you shine spark onto a ramp and it also helps when completing those tricky speed booster puzzles. When I realized how much simpler they made shine sparking in this game, they made it more versatile to keep the energy with you so you can store or use it in different ways, like bounding off walls for one of them, to even shine sparking a ramp to recharge your speed booster for more wall bounding.

I lost to kraid 14 times

@@Feesh6 yeah Kraid was even worse lol I wasn't counting the deaths but it took me almost an hour to get past him.

The Federation isn’t actually hunting Samus. Fusion had a mistranslation that made it seem like the entire Federation was corrupt and as a result wanted to capture Samus, but in the Japanese version, it was actually only a rogue group of the Federation doing these things. Which is why Samus is still working with them and took their mission to go to ZDR in this game.

Consider the Following Mother Brain is dead forever

@@ethejumper6568 Yeah but could bring her back in form of cloning or reverse engineering, i mean how think created M.B and aurora units in metroid prime 3. Never said orginal was going make come back.

@@dangernoodle5831 I know that about fusion, i refering her new cicumstance she is now humanoid metroid, and last one in universe making both threat and one most valuablest speciems in the galaxy. I saying that due to that the federation may turn on her.

Raven Beak and his sect are the last Chozo in existence. Dread is supposed to conclude the story of them, the Metroids, and the X - absolutely none of them are left. As for the Federation and the Space Pirates....time will tell.

If the manga is still canon (probably is), then Raven Beak isn't her literal father as her mother and father (Virginia Aran and Chief Rodney Aran, respectively) were killed by Ridley on K-2L. I guess the cutscene and dialogue imply that he was the Chozo who decided to infuse his DNA into Samus, but that would be a retcon as it was Gray Voice who donated his DNA for Samus's infusion process (unless if they took the whole Batman Beyond approach and made Gray Voice think that his DNA was used for Samus's DNA infusion but then swapped it out in secret with Raven Beak's DNA). Beats me what they're going with here.

Samus' Father(technically) Is Old Bird of the Chozo he was the one who provided the Chozo DNA infused into her via Crystal Flash, and he was involved in betraying the Chozo to the Space Pirates, Wait Raven Beak is Old Bird!

@@bigfan10-gaming79 The devil is in the details here. Old Bird decided to infuse Samus with Chozo DNA, but Gray Voice was the one who provided his DNA for the process. Old Bird definitely acted as a father figure to Samus for sure though as he provided Samus her suit and her training. Old Bird and Gray Voice can be seen in that mural that's shown at the Ruins Test / God of War area within Zero Mission's Chozodia Ruins. I looked it up. Apparently she had TWO Chozo DNA transfusions, which makes sense as the cutscene in this video shows Samus as being a bit older than how old she was when she got Gray Voice's DNA infusion in the Manga. As such, Samus has (well, had) 5 fathers: 1) Rodney Aran: Biological Father that was killed by Ridley. 2) Old Bird: Father Figure after Rodney Aran that is probably dead at this point (his last transmission was cut off by Space Pirates during the Zebes invasion and his fate is currently unknown). Also was the one who decided that Samus should get Chozo DNA. Some theories claim that he was one of the Elderly Chozo that Raven Beak killed in the Chozo Archives, but who knows for sure. 3) Gray Voice: Donor of Thoha (Scientist Tribe) Chozo DNA. Was killed by Ridley in the Manga (Skewered and then Plasma Screamed to death). 4) Adam Malkovich: Commanding Officer of Samus before she became a Bounty Hunter. Samus considered him to be both her best friend and her father figure. Was killed when Sector Zero got detached from the Bottle Ship, but his mind lives on through the Adam AI within Samus's gunship. 5) Raven Beak: Donor of Mawkin (Warrior Tribe) Chozo DNA. Weakened by Samus, then killed by the X, then killed by Samus while being part Kraid, part Chozo, and part X, then the X got eradicated from there by Samus's Shoop da Whoop laser (or whatever the actual term for her Super Beam is as it's not the Hyper Beam from Super). This means that Samus has Human DNA as her main DNA, two infusions of Chozo DNA (one Scientist Chozo DNA strand and one Warrior Chozo DNA strand), and one infusion of Metroid DNA. She's basically a melting pot of DNA at this point.

@@theonewhowrotethis5681 Don't forget X Parasite DNA from the SA-X in Fusion from the end of the Game

@@bigfan10-gaming79 I don't think she has X Parasite DNA in her though. The Metroid DNA within her eats whatever X she absorbs and gives her any power-ups associated with any Core X observed. As such, the absorption of SA-X at the end of Fusion probably just gave Samus her Ice Beam and "Omega Suit" back and didn't change her DNA structure. If you think about it, the Metroid DNA would probably eat/counteract any X DNA that gets infused as the Metroid DNA eats the X down to the cellular level. As for the ending of Dread, it looks like that final X that she absorbs either gives her the ability to control her Metroid Armor or just completely negates the Metroid Armor. It's probably the former as it wouldn't make sense for them to drop a plot point that gets introduced

To be fair, it’s possible it was at some point probably one of crocs species. Then x did what x do and mutated that poor boi.

@@archmagetyler A more than fair theory. One I agree with. And there's a reason the X have to be wiped out.

@@DragoRidley17 just gonna point out this giant orbital laser cannon sized hole in my theroy, where the fuck did they get another of kraids species. kraid got roasted in lava and as far as we know, the x can't survive recovering remains in lava.

There's a room where you see robot arms experimenting on it. The X took it over.

Svue071 I love that little bit of foreshadowing to what the boss will be.

After all the shit she's gone through and how her character has that "I'm sick of this crap, stop wasting my time and die" energy and personality, the Slayer should offer her a job as a Night Sentinel.

Thats what i thought too, its great.

Samus can suck the life outta me any day 🥴

@@vozcosmos7987 bruh

Sephiroth

Yeah keep that lame final fantasy shit where it belongs, in the trash

Who needs wings when you got a fucking blaster who do all the awesome shit.

And it sucked

@o they only added the quick time events, the boss battle itself was almost like the original.

@@Chale1288 All boss fights in this game are good

@@rayzas4885 I hope so!

@@Chale1288 If you haven't played it yet I hope you enjoy it when you do :)

It had been so long since a new 2D Metroid that I forgot how good they are. The Prime games seemed like the only possible future... until now!

I don't care as much about prime

And now that Samus has full on metroid powers, maybe she'll have a new final smash if they make a Smash 6!

I’ve never even played the Prime Metroid. This is my first since Super Metroid and I loved every second.

@@desfox3685 I’m of the opinion that by the time Smash 6 comes out people will be living on the moon and colonization of Mars will be nearing its completion

Agree

A truly magnificent monstrosity!

If you stick around too long its leg will twitch. Scared the hell out of me lmao

If you go back after the fight it’s gone too

Is Z-57 inspired from Corpius or are they the same? Or maybe not related at all?

Isn't that in Dairon?

it's kinda funny that metroid dread became what other m should have been: Just Fucking Amazing

She was also a badass in other M too, with counters, throwing enemies and shooting them down their throats. It's one of the games, that actually reflected well her super human abilities. The story and character interactions were different since, well, there actually were many more characters, and was more emotional. Personally I think it was nice to see a human side. Anyways, she never stopped being a badass. Many boss, midboss interactions and smooth fast gameplay are similar to other M's. From there, you can tell that the ideas were reworked and perfected for Samus Returns and now more polished in Dread.

Oddly sweet ^

Raven cuck has nothing on Ridley I’m so sad he isn’t in this game even if it makes sense because he was killed like 50 times

@@heehoopeanut4509 Bowser got killed even more often and he returns all the time, either as undead bones, magically transformed, regular, etc.

@@kingbowser6271 bowser in the games post NES is never killed, only defeated

Ridley will be back in Prime 4

Well how many times has she killed that thing already? He's been in almost every metroid game hasn't he? But I think its more Samus is just sick of all this crap, shes been dealing with it for years, and pretty much anyone else is useless due to what is needed to kill them, So shes stuck dealing with it on her own. I mean in the opening cutscene even her AI on her ship says that the reward is not worth the effort. When even a AI can see it, you can deff bet she knows it too. Whats going to happen after dread though? If she finally gets rid of the x-parasite, what is next? I mean I'd hope the poor woman gets some time off to chill, this is assuming the scientists don't wanna examine her after all this. I mean she is a pretty unique lifeform due to whats happened to her. I can already see it now: Next Metroid game, they extracted her DNA and decided to.. experiment with it, and their experiment gets out of control, Whether they took it with her permission or not, its be better if it was with permission so we could have a scene with her telling the ones hiring her: "I told you guys not to mess with it but no one listens to me." Then she goes off to deal with whatever her dna they were experimenting with spawned.

@@scyris99 This is why everyone loves Dread her no fucks given attitude is what we all been waiting for. She legit turned into Doom Girl.

Very good explanation. I'm impressed

Look at me. I am the Metroid now.

@@OceanAce >Wait she was metroid all this time? >Allways have been

There's an ending gallery, so that's a yes by default.

Got clarification on that for you right here. 1) That pose that Samus makes at the end of this video is the only one that occurs. No suit stripping this time around as the devs were under a tight deadline. Maybe an update will change this, but I don't fully mind its current implementation as the galleries that we did get are pretty sweet. 2) There's a Chozo Archives gallery that is based on item acquisition rate. You get each picture when you get 100% in each area. 8 pictures means 8 areas, and each picture is relevant to the area that you clear. 3) There's an Ending gallery that shows flashbacks to pivotal scenes throughout the mainline series. These are based on how fast you beat each difficulty. The magic number for getting the endings match up with Samus Returns, so the first one for each difficulty is more than 8 hours, the second is between 4 and 8 hours, and the third is less than 4 hours. They are as follows: a) Zero Mission: Normal over 8. b) Samus Returns: Normal between 4 and 8. c) Super: Normal under 4. d) Other M: Hard over 8. e) Fusion: Hard between 4 and 8. f) Dread: Hard under 4. As you can see in this video, they're cumulative (BFD got the ZM and SR endings for getting around 7 hours and 45 minutes), so you only need two playthroughs to get all 6 ending scenes if you can beat Normal under 4 hours and Hard under 4 hours. 4) Clearing the Chozo Archives gallery unlocks a special image that shows most of the key characters throughout the series with Samus in her Power Suit. 5) Clearing the Ending gallery unlocks another special image. It's the same image as the Chozo Archives special image but with Samus in her Zero Suit instead of her Power Suit (she's literally the only difference in the picture). To unlock everything in both galleries, you have two options: a) The Easy Way: Clear a Normal playthrough with 100%, then clear a Normal playthrough with a clear time of 4 hours or less, and then clear a Hard playthrough with a clear time of 4 hours or less. So you'll have three playthroughs, but the first one allows you to figure out the best routes for the other two. b) The Time Efficient Way: Clear a Normal playthrough with 100% item acquisition with a clear time of 4 hours or less and then clear a Hard playthrough with a clear time of 4 hours or less. You'll only spend 8 hours or less with this route as you'll only have two playthroughs, but this is hell if you're doing this blind unless if you savescum or are just plain lucky. I saw a video of someone clearing this game in 2 hours and 59 minutes on both difficulties, so it's not impossible to do at a reasonable pace.

@@theonewhowrotethis5681 Thank you for the extensive reply!

@@mandreotti8320 No prob! Figured I should correct my original statement as it was a bit misleading (it implied that there were multiple 3D endings).

@@mandreotti8320 Also, BeardBear was able to do a 100% Hard Mode run under 3 hours, so it's totally possible to get both galleries in two runs if you plot things out ahead of time.

Well by this point Ridley is super dead and most likely will not be returning past this point. Any games based before Super is fair game but after wards would probably not have him

@@4wheal They’ll always find a way to bring him back. Death means nothing in the Metroid world. The Metroid have faced about 4 extinctions at this point haha

emergencies only

Wait so she’s not part Metroid anymore???

@@eyixon I think it’s up in the air. The scientist could’ve cleared her of all Metroid DNA or just put her in a state of equilibrium with her cells until she has a need for that level of power again.

@@themangomanjuice true, I don’t think the first hypothesis is possible because if he did clear all the Metroid DNA, I don’t think features of her fusion suit would still be present, like muscle fiber and all. Still, Can’t wait for more theories on her green suit! 😁

@@themangomanjuice That Chozo mentioned that his tribe was the only who was able to control the metroids, it seems like thanks to the absorption of that Chozo X, Samus was capable to control her Metroid powers better.