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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Kraid will probably some how still be alive for another game

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Thanks for the awesome video!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 😭

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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”

Love the square enix copyright line 😂

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.

The first time I beat Kraid, I totally expected a rematch later in the game (like, a REAL one). I figured he wasn't dead because if lava could kill him, he wouldn't have been standing in it the entire fight or during captivity. I figured he was essentially just "flushed down the toilet" and was gonna return later and pissed as hell. *SPOILERS* Then when the X got loose I was like "Oh shit... Kraid is still out there waiting to get infected". I was SO sure there was going to be one last grand battle with him before reaching Raven Beak. In fact, it would have given some context as to how that ending got set up if Samus failed to kill the X Kraid on her way to Raven Beak and it fled, then they just crashed on top of or near that X.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Great vid! Very underrated

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

Quiet Robe... 😥 EDIT: LOVED the Sephiroth reference!

Honestly I have a hard time ranking some of these bosses, because this game has some of the best boss fights in any game I’ve ever played

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.

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!

The most difficult one for me, even took me more tries than Raven Beak, was Escue. But the reward for beating it - the storm missiles - are 100% worth it.

I love games where the final boss is the best one and this was absolutely the case here. Once you figure out how to fight Raven Beak you feel at peak level of bad ass