Finally, someone else she recognizes

It makes Kraid a good contrast to Ridley too.

@@Mac14329 Yeah, she most always perceived Ridley as a threat. I wasn't a huge fan of how Other M had her react to seeing Ridley since she'd already killed him a dozen times by that point, but if they'd stuck with their original idea of making OM a prequel to the original Metroid then it would've been great.

@@L1LegoAnimations I meant that Ridley was a much more personal matter. As for the "killed him a dozen times bit", those times where Samus defeated Ridley, he never really died until Super Metroid. Before that, he would either disappear in a fiery display, drop to the ground motionless or fall down an abyss. In Super Metroid, his body combusted and crumbled like an alien pterosaur cookie. And with the later explosion on Planet Zebes, anything that remained of him was no doubt dematerialized. As in, nothing left. So Ridley as we knew him was gone, and wouldn't be coming back. So you can imagine what must've been going through Samus' mind when he saw that the monster that killed her family and ruined her life was somehow STILL alive even after his body breaking apart and a planetary explosion was supposed to have erased him from existence. If I was in Samus' place, I'd probably drop dead of a heart attack.

@@Mac14329 Idk man, lotta those boss fights ended in fairly convincing deaths to me. I know that can probably be blamed on the fact that they're video games more than anything, but still. She's fought and beat him a dozen times, every time walking away borderline scott-free while doing enough damage to Ridley to know she at least _could've_ killed him if she somehow didn't. By Other M's time, I think I'd be more annoyed with him than scared.

Even though it's implied that Kraid in Dread is a different individual than the ones we seen previously.

@@thevenomspino really omg I didn’t know

@@rypto9428 yeah the kraid on Zdr was probably pissed via no food and being in lava while Seamus has killed many kraid so was probably not to scared

Kraid: “Remember me?!” Samus: “Kraid! How could I forget?!”

​@@Potato_tomato47if I'm correct it was a clone right?

technically she only fought kraid twice before that (since 1986 Kraid and zero mission Kraid are storyline the same (zero mission is just a remake of the 1986)) unlike Ridley who appears in almost every Metroid game (still sad he wasn't in dread then again he was infected by an X and you absorbed said X in fusion unless there's a small piece of him that the space pirates could just remake him)

She's like: Oh, its you.

@@bulcsukalmanchey8503 Raven Beak: You KNOW her!?

@@wildboi1979 Kraid: She's a friend from work.

I always thought that she was reacting to him as if she was expecting Ridley and she's like "oh kraid you're still alive? Well ok"

honestly, love how super metroid had a very cool gotcha moment that i feel alot of people dont recognize or appreciate, which is that just before fighting kraid, you fight a tiny version of him thats very similar to the kraid from metroid 1. It goes even further since mini kraid feels very anticlimatic and just kind of there, very static, similar to metroid 1's, and since on your first playthrough, without sequence breaking, this *should* be your first boss, the fake mini kraid is kinda meant to make you think oh so this is how its gonna be, until you find out about the real kraid, who's far bigger, and sets an expectations for how the rest of the bosses are gonna be.

@@jitsauce522 It’s moments like this, the return of the croc mini boss, finding the glass case after the Ridley boss, and the progression through Torian that remind us that Super Metroid is one of the best organically told video game stories ever

@@dellapj I honestly agree, it uses a lot of visual story beats you normally never saw back in the day, it always works amazingly well, it makes me wish other games in the series emulated that, or at least tried following what it set up, zero mission just having big kraid always felt like such a letdown to me due to how it broke this part of super metroid, even just having a kraid sized like the zero mission ridley would've worked well.

We're talking about Kraid, right?

​@@jitsauce522Kraid is a giant, why do you want to make him Ridley size?

Yes!!! This is a nitpick I have with Zero Mission. It spoils the impact of Kraid’s size for Super.

I like to think that in Metroid you fight little Kraid because you are fighting the one is outsidr the boss room in Super Metroid.

@@lh9591 in both games kraid is mostly the same size but I think than zero mission's is wider and super's is a little bit taller

@@puniopenetrante Only problem with that headcanon is that the Kraid outside the boss room in Super already shows up in a different spot in Kraid's NEStroid lair. It's weird how they left him out of ZM though.

@@macnzee7572 Kraid in Super is actually a bit wider than shown here - TVs stretch the SNES's image to a wider aspect ratio (just a bit narrower than a 4:3 aspect ratio - same applies to the NES as well), with rectangular pixels. This video, on the other hand, leaves the aspect ratio untouched, so while it's narrower than how it would actually look, it bypasses any issues that uneven stretching would bring.

I thought it was even better that he was even used at the end of Dread too. Really puts to size how powerful he was.

@@salsaspartan7 *SPOILER FOR METROID DREAD* Although technically it wasn’t Kraid, it was an X version of Raven Beak and Kraid.

@@wildboi1979 And the creature that clogged up Cataris. I had a feeling that particular X parasite would show up again, but I didn't expect that. Still... what ability could we have gotten from that fight?

@@atomicreactor6033 It would just be the wave beam, since it was one of its attacks

@@wildboi1979 No, it’s not. It’s Kraid. May not be the same one, since Kraids are a type of monster, but at the time you encounter him, the X haven’t been released on ZDR yet. They’re still contained.

Wut

@@linksolo2678 morphball and dash

@@wolfwarrior1176 are you supposed to have them or are you not?

@@bredoffender technically no, there is a standard path of progression for the items. But the devs did put in little things like this because they knew people would sequence break to get those items early. Thus the morphball instakill and the dash grab. They fully intended for sequence breaks to occur.

@@wolfwarrior1176 yeah, I got some items way before others, like a shinespark that led me to a missile+ tank before I had the space jump. I know how sequence breaks work, and I love them so damn much. I just didn't know if he Got the items early or the kraid fight early, thats all.

Literally

He's too big for Sma... wait..

@@EdKolis shut

@@EdKolis Just like Ridley!Hopefully next Smash Bros. has Kraid.

@@PhotonKobold Dude what did he do wrong

Have you tried the morphball bomb method? 😎

It is, actually

If Ridley was too big before no way kraid is getting in, Someone more menacing like raven beak would make more sense.

@@ruccsacc he said as a boss not a fighter.

@@ruccsacc Raven Beak as a boss or even a fighter would be sick ngl

@@ruccsacc problem with him being a fighter there's already Samus, Zero Suit Samus, and Dark Samus that all have very similar attacks ( samus and dark samus mostly because they are more of a reskin than an actual new char

@@Shakon_Krogen RB would probably be very different, I imagine him having say a command grab, a Flash Shift thing, and he could use his claws as well as his cannon

She's not scared of anything anymore, all she can feel in the face of danger is anger. She even goes fuckin feral on the final boss.

Doom guy vibes

@@readyforlol i actually intensely *hate* this version of samus because of that. They literally just copied Doom. Samus was never an angry character, shes supposed to be maternal, benevolent, a tiny bit mysterious and 100% selfless. This new version literally just made angry her personality. Nerds are so out if touch with women they don't even know how to write them anymore, they just turn these characters into their weird anime fanfic tsundere waifu fetish.

@@colelawton4901 What? Samus is shoot first, ask later.

@@colelawton4901 what

A little

Not really when you have to remember this guy used to work for an organization who wants to take over the universe and would gladly kill anyone, even innocents to do it simple out of fun.

@@jacobfoxall5633 Kraid himself was never seen committing war crimes, especially not on Ridley or Mother Brain’s level.

I did until the fight started and he thrashed me badly

He’ll be back, don’t worry. We never did see him die, he just sank into the lava like he always does

replaying dread makes alot of bosses a little easier once you get that pattern recognization down and learn a few boss tricks, kraid killed me quite a few times my first run but now i can basically no hit him and it feels damn good

The funny thing is, is that, in order to do the phase 2 insta kill, you need the morphball and the bombs, and if you actually took the seq-cut, YOU CAN ACTUALLY BEAT KRAID THAT WAY!

And Nintendo land, a truly classic Nintendo game for all the ages

You have to sequence break to do it

What do you mean?

@@dantetouchdown9030 i where playing, and when he uploaded the video was short after i defeat kraid in the game

There's lava everywhere, at least on Zebes. Run around Brinstar- lava. Norfair- lava. Heck, fly up into the *sky* in Crateria and you find lava. That's just a place that gets a lot of lava.

@@danieldavis2055 Well, the "Lava" on Brinstar rather looks like Acid to me, because that form of Acid can be repelled by the Varia Suit, even the description said that the Varia Suit protects you from that acid Even on the other Brinstar Stage with that Giant Brain is Acid, which doesn't look like Magma l

Its just called Ravenbeak-X :/

Kraidvan Beak is phenomenal

Straight* half* half*

Kraiven Beak X I say (KBX) everyone else just says Raven Beak X (RBX). The X got his DNA from the spike he shot.

@@sherbertshortkake6649 It's actually Kraiven Beak X-57, because there's also Z-57 DNA in the mix, from the Core X that escaped.

It would fit perfectly into a Doom game or The suffering franchise....poor kraid looks like a mind controlled freak

Imagine playing Smash and seeing THAT rise out of the lava

What about it looks "horrendous?" Ridley was brought back in Prime as a cyborg after his defeat in the original Metroid, so obviously that would've been the explanation for Kraid's appearance as well, thus the cybernetic helmet. He's got blue veins on his stomach because the plot of that game involves the space pirates experimenting with a mutagen called Phazon, which they inject into anything and everything.

@@ZebboGeesucks i believe the horrendous part comes in that unlike Ridley, who had prosthetic parts that fit into his body and looked anatomically fitting to his original design, Kraid has half of his skull missing and just replaced with a dome. I highly doubt those space pirates care about looks but one cannot help to wonder if he is himself or being controlled by that "enhancement".

@@RodH-pj1py Phazon enhancement makes that a moot point, since it can control him anyway. Ridley was just more intact, due to his cellular regeneration being more effective. He's also apparently able to transfer his consciousness between clone bodies, if necessary. However, it's never explained how he does it. The only thing that is explained is that all Ridleys are the real Ridley, and not just copies. Kraid is not the same: he has a whole bunch of miniature copies that are shown in SM, and anyone of these copies can grow to the full Kraid size, as they are natural children of the Kraid race.

Yeah, you can also fight Kraid on foot too in that game which involves a lot more platforming

I just thought it was a special sound effect for hitting him...

TBF, the "screeching when damaged" started in M:ZM, but Kraid did have a death screech in SM, so it's not too unusual.

Pretty much the equivalent of Samus giving a bitch slap to Kraid; the subtlety with her utter disrespect to Kraid was rather funny.

I always thought of him as a more crocodile-like beast, hence his V-shaped maw and the many protruding upper teeth.

Yeah, in zero mission and fusion they do too

It shows up in Samus Returns as well

I have a feeling that it was to do stuff to him like the other trapped creatures and Test Z57 (or whatever it's called). Or maybe to get him out of the way? Or maybe imprisonment for being mean?

The Chozo warriors of ZDR contained him.

I’ve been asking the same question. That’s the one thing I can’t seem to piece together.

Tbf, Zebes is a big ass planet, and it takes a WHILE to go from murking Kraid to even just brawling with Ridley for the second time, so some dude was like "yo Lord Kraid's unconscious and complaining about a belly ache in his sleep I think the hunter got him" and he got carried away Or something like that

Well, nobody knows if that is the original Kraid, a clone of Kraid created by Raven Beak, or a different monster that belongs in the same species as Kraid. Even the promotional material plays coy with Kraid's appearance being a monster that resembles Kraid. Which makes Samus' reaction all the more hilarious because it means she no longer cares how Kraid is on ZDR.

He would have been cool as the boss of Magmoor Caverns, as I don't think there was a final boss like the other areas

@@chrischin_94 Thardus (the rock monster) was supposed to be the boss for Magmoor. The boss for Phendrana was supposed to be a six limbed giant gorilla but it was cut. Kraid would've been in the Phazon Mines but they ran out of time to include him.

@@ianfinrir8724 Thanks for the info, I wonder how Thardus' weak spots would have been exploited in Magmoor. Thermal visor sounds awful down there

@@chrischin_94 Probably the X-Ray visor or just simply blasting away.

i think its kind of an amalgam of the expirament boss from cataris, kraid and raven beak, expiraments X was never absorbed so it makes sence it found the remains of kraid and merged dna and then found raven and samus attempting for revenge