Metroid Dread - Best Sequence Breaks and Early Items Compilation 

That's what she said.

And many more to come in the future. This game will bring us nice videos for a rly long time

Makes me wonder how it took 3 years for people in Ready Player 1 to figure out that you have to drive backwards in a race to win it

I love that nintendo is embracing sequence breaks

They give reward for sequence break tho. If you have bomb before Kraid, you can kill him faster

@@elitefdc2171 They sure do mate!

@@Axolotl720 I mean they kind of invented them with Super

I’d imagine the shooting through wall ones weren’t intended.

Same for me and I got my ass absolutely handed to me by not having the gravity suit yet.

@@FalcusDead i also sequence broke by accident i think i just slid under them or boosted over them

Lol yup same, but I basically figured it was a sequence break since there were other much more obvious paths forward & it required a rather tricky Shinespark up that Missile upgrade tube. And yeah I died miserably my first try on the boss lol pulled it off on the 2nd try tho.

Dude, I did the same on my first playthrough too without even knowing. You can also sequence break Morph Bomb without Grapple Beam.

I was so surprised to see that in the video, I have no clue what's the normal way to get it!

Yeah, my one complaint, its atmospheric but ends up being kinda generic. Needs a memorable melody like the previous games

@@forgotmypassword465 100%

The music reminds me of Terraria for some reason.

Music-wise, it's fitting (good even), but Metroid Prime was the only one I still 'heard' long after I last played it. Phendrana Drifts was so beautiful. I hope Prime 4 gives us more of that!

@@mikeperrino5041 I definitely got that vibe too while I was playing

At number 8 I did it the bomb part by jumping up 3 times, turning into a ball mid air and placing a single bomb for the 3 blocks way before obtaining the cross bombs, I thought it was the way to do it.

If anything, the method shown is a late pickup, since you're supposed to nab it by coming from the bottom and doing a series of wall jumps

Yeah on my first blind playthrough I grabbed it like he did, made things overcomplicated

@@toxicrush I didn't even think to recharge my boost on the slopes there, so I did it trying to get a diagonal spark without any errors at all... That was hard as hell, but I got a video to prove it, and it was worth it.

@@BackPalSA makes me remember when I grabbed the missile tank plus at the beginning of ferenia by absolutely overcomplicating it (because I'm dumb). I used speed booster, then wall jumped of the left door, then wall jumped again on the right wall, used morph ball immediately, placed a bomb under the blocks, unmorphed while still having speed booster, made the tiniest wall jump on the left wall, morphed back, unmorphed in that tiny 2 block space while still having speed booster and wall jumped 3 times to break the speed booster blocks. Took me half an hour but I was happy. Also got an video to prove it.

If you're talking about 7:04, that's basically how I did it. But without the reload of the shine spark inbetween. That's not the only shinespark riddle I solved in a more difficult way than necessary...

They obviously did to some extent, as Kraid has a specific feature taking into account the fact that you got early bombs.

And for the early screw attack, it's no coincidence some doors are frozen and others are not.

They did it with Fusion

I found the first 'midair' jump back to the left easier. For the second jump it's merely a matter of timing.. you're holding right the whole time so you just need to time you jump after the slide kinda early.. but not TOO early :P While learning the timing I managed to wall jump off the right wall BACK to the hole on the left I came out of once or twice.. but usually it just delayed the inevitable fall into lava :P All up that only took me about 5 minutes to learn both jumps. Pretty lucky!! I've since passed Kraid on Hard mode :)

Im able to beat kraid fine on hard mode, I only learned the sequence break for dread mode cause the bouncing projectiles have just too much health to destroy before getting hit by em'

You can grab a few Power Bomb upgrades early. I had 3/3? on the Save Game screen for a while. Looked odd :P

@@phattjohnson Indeed you can! I still haven't gotten the Power Bombs yet but I'm sitting at 4/4? on the upgrade screen now. I'm still on my first playthrough and I just found it disappointing that the bomb I got, which seemed like a sequence break, did not give any power bombs. The later bombs I found were in much more easily accessed areas, and I realize that it was intentional that you could find some power bomb upgrades before you find the ability itself. It is still disappointing though haha.

On my first playthrough, I was exploring and going for 100%, I ended up with 11/11 power bombs before i actually could actually use them... xD

@@jusquanorthwind1016 Same, felt as fuck; them making Power Bombs the final upgrade almost feels criminal until you realize they beefed them way up in this game compared to Fusion

If you didn't know you can quick kill him with speed boost when he does his blow attack there's a large gap where stops shooting those pink waves at you. Thats when you charge the Shinespark and then just dodge or tank the rest of his attacks until he stops then use the Shinespark and he's done.

Also I got the screw attack before I fought him and it is useless it does 0 damage to him.

@@derrickdaniels3955 I tried that but I needed to do a second jump to be at the height of his head. I thought I could hit him on diagonal with the shinespark from the ground, but I had to get closer to get the right angle and I never had the time 😕

@@alejandrochavarri6340 oh...ouch

I did the same lol but I wasn't on hard mode. It was a really interesting challenge

I just did that exploring around after early grapple on my hard play through. Super obvious it was intended from the layout with beam blocks and bomb blocks but that made it feel kind of special too!

Me too, pretty tight. But some shinespark puzzles were harder imo.

I’m think that that in the games normal progression, you are supposed to get space jump before cross bombs.

Wish I would've known that when I was trying to perfect my infinite bomb jump to get that pickup 😂

dude i did the same thing and was wondering if i softlocked lol

Same, except I was just greedy for the missile tank and didn't see any other way to get it, and after bomb jumping to the top suddenly there's a boss door

The lower route IS faster because the player is coming from there after getting speed booster

i think i got 3

You can also just do early grapple after doing Kraid and getting the Diffusion beam. While it's possible to go and get Grapple at that point, the detour is MASSIVE while beating Kraid will spit you out right at the purple teleportal which puts you right where you need to be for early Grapple. The bombs quick kill on Kraid isn't going to save more time than it takes to run over to the bombs Of course, it's looking like diffusion beam might be completely skipable with various pseudowaves, but if you're not going that route, it's going to be faster to just get that in the intended order while you're there before you go running off to sequence break.

@@AdmiralTails Yeah, but the cool insta-kill on Kraid using bombs tho

@@adaphion Yeah, it's a neat thing worth doing at some point, it's just not viable for speedrunning. The instakill's timesave isn't that long, and the route going through him is just too convenient.

I skipped that boss fight on my first playthrough as well for the very same reason lol

Play this game bro!

@@phattjohnson Brooo already did. Easiest preorder of my life.

Thank you! Grapple Beam is supposed to be gotten after Speed Booster, but you can get it right after Varia Suit and before fighting Kraid, there's Kraid quickkill with Morph Bombs and Grapple helps you to get them for Kraid. Gravity Suit requires Space Jump, but I got it with just Spin Boost and Ice Missile. Cross Bombs would be one of the last item to pickup, but you can get it right after Ice Missile. Space Jump requires Storm Missile, but with Cross bombs you can get it before them. Super Missile you can get like right after Speed Booster, but it's the most useless early item right now.

Same. I love watching explanations of speedrunning tricks. The more detail the better

Same for me, the missiles that are said to be an early grab in the video are obtainable as soon as you get speed booster...

You can get a lot of them before getting the powerbomb. If I remember correctly I had 8 of them when I unlocked them

Looks funny on the Save game select screen: "2 / 2 ?" :P

Bruh I got like nine of them and it was pissing me off so much because I felt like I had somehow skipped over the actual Power Bombs

@@DrPonk That's wildin

I truly think that how your suppose to defeat him. Why else would it be an option.

Having early grapple and early bomb opens up a lot of options. Even if the Kraid bomb kill is a gimmick, I think it’s probably worth it. You’re going to have to go get those upgrades eventually

If we ever have reverse boss order runs, absolutely

As far as current speed runs go, bombs before Kraid is not worth it. However, early grapple beam is still used directly after getting diffusion.

@@johnjohnson6142 Wonder if that would be possible. You would have to reach up to the gravity suit (as that is when the Experiment spawns as the final normal boss) without Shadow Cloak and Diffusion Beam. Though, thinking about it, I can't imagine that we'll never find a way around those scanner doors and if the fake wave beam can be applied more or less universally, the Diffusion Beam would become obsolete as well.

Yeah I'm trying to use it now and even though I've had a few play throughs it's a bit confusing

@Alejandro Yoooooo I didnt even think of that. Good idea, thank you.

Probably not since all the X-Parasite stuff happens after you go far enough into Elun.

Very unlikely, the skip to get into the Golzuna (Cross bombs) fight requires the ice missiles, which you get from the blue EMMI, which is only active after you let the X Parasites out thanks to Quiet Robe shutting them off. Even if you were to skip the meeting with Quiet Robe (which I also find unlikely to happen currently, everything seems to be locked off by one-way barriers like grapple beam and wide beam blocks, or the door he opens of course) I wouldn't be surprised if the blue EMMI is still deactivated. On top of this, the Golzuna spawns by an X parasite's ability to respawn as another enemy once killed, and thus probably wouldn't even show up. The Gravity Suit, a requirement for Experiment No. Z-57 to even be available, also requires the Ice missiles. And lastly, all routes to Escue require either the plasma beam, the storm missiles (its own drop, obviously not happening), or the wave beam (either directly or because you need the purple EMMI Zone EMMI valves to be open), and that EMMI's central unit is itself sealed off between an EMMI valve, one-way door, Wave Beam Door, and Plasma Beam Door. The only exception is the standard route from the Ghavoran Shuttle, the the Ghavoran side of that shuttle is sealed by Enky, once again requiring the ice missiles. So yeah, basically, unless you can manage to get the ice missles without releasing the X, which looks to be completely impossible as that is what triggers its source's activation, you cannot reach any of the X parasite bosses before releasing the X. The room with the first Red (shield) Chozo Soldier is accessible before then, but he just won't show up at that point. This could very well be the case for the others as well.

@@AdmiralTails the last sentence of the first paragraph is important. Even if we find a way to get into the X-parasite boss arenas before releasing the x the bosses most likely won’t be there. There’s a boss arena for an X-chozo soldier in artaria that you can go to early (if I’m remembering correctly) and nothing’s there. Quick edit: although… if there *is* a way and the devs knew that there may be an alternate fight with a non-x version of the monster in those rooms… the power up she gets wouldn’t be x based, but they might be like the shadow cloak boss and she just absorbs the power anyway. It would be really cool and I wouldn’t put it past them, but I’m still betting on nothing being in these arenas.

@@maninblack3410 You can indeed go to that x chozo soldier arena, and even to the pool near Screw Attack and get the missile pack. The pool is too deep to get out of in the direction towards Screw Attack, though, with what you have at that point, and it's too far to keep a shinespark saved for.

@@configchan1062 Unless you have Cross Bomb, then you can Bomb Jump to early Screw Attack.

Yeah, that's true, requires Morph Ball at least to get Bombs before Kraid.

Same. I didn't watch ANY videos or reviews until after I completed the game.

For me it's easiest to mash the b button for the early grapple jumps

@@BenjaminAnderson21 you are a life saver this was the trick all along Thank you Time for early flash