I really though something fishy is that scene showing that Reddish belly hole. I'll think it was a hint. Check reference and conclude it From Nes. I was right even I don't have the Game. I'll wonder how many Easter eggs are in that game. And what if we need to save something. Like the Super Metroid!?🤔🤔🤔
Its not a secret, if you played metroid 1, back in 1986, this is the most efficient way to kill him. You cant crouch, or aim ur missiles, so 2/5 missiles would hit, because of his belly spines blocking them, also u cant shoot another missiles until the explosion sprite is over... however bombs cannot be blocked and you can set 3 at a time and they explode faster than missiles... so this is nostalgia for most of us...
I remember fighting him in the gba port, (not zero mission a port of the nes game) and yeah, trying to fight him with missiles was tough, because his belly spikes just blocked them.
@@almircoelhojr. A quick Google search: "The general rule is that the possessive of a singular noun is formed by adding an apostrophe and s, whether the singular noun ends in s or not. The possessive of a plural noun is formed by adding only an apostrophe when the noun ends in s, and by adding both an apostrophe and s when it ends in a letter other than s."
@@Dark_Wolf0626 ok slide jump right above the door in the room where you would use diffusion beam to open the path in speed booster emmi zone, the slide should get you far enough to wall jump up to the ledge and bypass the area without grapple beam. Its not that hard its just in an emmi zone
The sheer level of fucks not given by Samus in response to Kraid showing up after all this time is just wonderful, like the complete inverse of the breakdown in Other M.
At 8:26, instead of doing the damage boost, you can do a slide off the ledge into a jump (similar to the second jump of the grapple sequence break) to reach the other wall and perform the wall jump
@@uhaxthegrey7798 the timing for the second slide jump is way way later than you think it is. It feels samus should already be falling but somehow jumps midair
Man, i thought this game was about as linear as Samus Returns but with needing to go back adn forth between different areas. I did not realize you can do a slide jump and bounce off walls for getting the grapple beam early.
i am trying that slide jump. Failing each time. Update 10-18-21: I finally did the first slide jump and made it up to the ceiling. Now I keep falling on the second slide jump 😕
dude that slide jump is the literal death of me, it's been a whole God damn day and I CANNOT make the two jumps across the lava... how the hell did OP do this so easily???
@@MDRSPACEGOAT press yourself up against the wall in front of the gap. Hold forward then slide, then jump out of the slide and hold left till you hit the wall, and jump off the wall to grab the ledge. For the second one, I just do the same thing except I mash jump, you can usually get it this way.
On my clean-up in the first run I found this weird pipe, but couldn't think for a use for it. This is actually mindblowing and really useful for speedruns!
Unfortunately not. It takes longer to get bombs early and come back than it does to just beat him while you are there the first time. I don't know how far along it is yet, but glitch hunters are working on ways to bypass diffusion beam (and therefore kraid entirely).
I saw It immediately after the fight as I checked the map for where to go next and.. "morph ball launcher? In kraid's... Waaaaiiit... Bomb attack, where?". Seems like a pain to go get it.
@@futurehistoryarchaeologist4480 They've nearly done it with a technique called pseudo wave beam. Placing the arm cannon at specific angles and precise timing lets you shoot through destructible walls to hit their triggers and skip stuff.
@@jesseallen3109 It's an unfortunately long trek to bombs, yeah. Two passes through the EMMI zone and a precise jump to bypass needing Grapple Beam, but you then have to go through all of Dairon again. It's faster to just kill him normally, as mentioned above, than need to make an entire extra round trip.
Holy crap this is amazing!! I love it when developers add things like this, they knew some people would figure out how to get certain items earlier than intended and rewarded them with things like that! I haven't started trying sequence breaking myself but I will soon and it'll be really fun to figure things out. I love this game so much, like, I love everything about it. it literally surpassed my expectations for a sequel to Fusion which were imposssibly high and yet they did it. MercurySteam are unbelievable man, they love Metroid and it really shows!
So spoiler: How cool was the ending? With the metroid suit, that huge kraid raven beak monster and finaly the nice x parasite that helped samus? I have only beaten it once and not 100% but i will do that in the future, there is one thing i didnt quite understand though. Was that at the end the real adam that told samus to obey or was it a ilusion of raven beak? Im guessing ilusion but im not that sure
@@theoneandonly9775 The ADAM at the start and the end of the game is the real one, meanwhile the ADAM throughout the game is Raven Beak impersonating as ADAM. As for X scene during the the end of escape sequence, not really sure what happened there. Some people theorized Thoha tribe's nature kind of helped Quiet Robe to suppress the X parasite's takeover, at least to some extent. Other people said X made the decision based on Quiet Robe's memory and intention. And that's only to mention few.
@@dindapriska ah ok thanks. Though im still curious to see where they will go from here. I mean the absorbtion and metroid suit are inherant abilities tied to her dna its not something they can easily take away at the start of a game. Implimenting it could be dificult aswell considering how powerful it is, aside from the hyperlaser and one touch kill the suit provides, her absorbtion at the end literally hit the entire sky castle they where in
@@theoneandonly9775 I also want to know how they'll handle the Samus later on. Although since Quiet Robe X brings Thoha genes back to her body to re-suppress the metroid DNA within her, I doubt we will see her Metroid Suit and stronger abilities unless situation demands. However, I can see the devs using that reason to strip her from her powers lol.
@@dindapriska true possible but at the same time that would mean that everytime she gets cornered she gets stronger/her abilities back or even if just at the end of the next game that would still mean she cant leave cause she would be stuck in the suit and cant use her ship. I like metroid games but the powerups are mostly predictable and if the finale starts to always end in metroid suit it could end up borring. I have an idea how to potentialy write it out. Though its kinda lengthy in explaining and i can only type on mobile. If you wanna hear it im down to write it out as best as i can in sone free time
@@RychschaX your opinion but okay, also saying "the *bad* metroid game" doesn't really narrow anything down, atleast to me, I've loved all the metroid games that I've seen and played. lol.
@@SaviourV when you can smell someones breath, in an air tight, water tight, vacuum tight suit, thats meant to keep everything from toxic air, to magma and much much more, I think you need more than what samus can give for that odor XD!
@@Laughing_Dragon I rest my case. Fact is, Ridley's only got a fiery version of halitosis. Here, Kraid's probably had a diet of toxic bugs and the like. In other words, his breath is *ABSOLUTELY GHASTLY.* 😅
I saw it after killing Kraid, and was like : "...that's useless, I already have the Varia and Screw Attack." Then I checked the map and realized I was in Kraid's room after it blew up. "ooooh"
that first kraid secret was SO COOL. like it rewards you for being so clever but also is a risk as you take damage inside his belly. very creative. I like that there are options in a bossfight in how you approach them
Switch would benefit from an achievement system, but I don't think there would be an achievement for this. It's like dropping the chandelier on one of the Watcher Knights in Hollow Knight, just a neat speedrun trick to make your life easier in the boss. I'd put oneshotting the Experiment boss with a shinespark in the same cathegory
@@awesomefan935 yes, if you get the gravity suit early and trigger that sequence (which ends in acquiring the screw attack), or get just the screw attack early by some other means, it dismantles Escue (storm missile boss in Ferenia) in 10 seconds flat.
Not really sequence breaking, but you can Shinespark the core X bosses to heavily damage them, or in the case of Experiment No. Z-57, finish it off completely.
I thought to myself that this spots would require bombs to be dmg, but I didn't had the bomb upgrade. Later on I visited that room to notice that bomb pipeline and suspected there was more to that bossfight. I would definitely try to get the bombs early in my next playthrought now. Thx for the clip :D
The devs are 4 timelines ahead of us... They knew we would try to get something early on in the game as that happen in other metroid games... And they reward the player for doing so
The team at Mercury added these boss fight endings on purpose, intentionally and knowingly, this game has 20 years in development literally, they designed it this way. The director kept putting it on the shelf until he was satisfied with the technology. Theres an easy intended path and an alt path of the players choice. Thats the biggest and only "secret" in the game no one believes, there is no sequence breaks, no secret endings, just actual smart game design BUILT that way. Hopefully more people find this out and spread the word.
@@patsayjack402 As in a device that can read minds? Haha no. (Fail) As if its impossible to look this stuff up or follow a games development here and there for a few years at least with some info on the game or even watch one youtube video on the history.
I have to say my two favorite things about this game map design (for obvious reasons) and how cool the bosses are, they are terrifying, all of them are fairly different fights for an all 2d game with limited mechainics, its beautiful creativity
I like how Samus really just couldn’t give any less of a damn in most of the cutscenes for bosses… casually just walking around or standing there with her cannon lowered charging it up before firing. Suppose when you’ve been through what she’s been through throughout her career and become as skilled as her, you wouldn’t really be phased by much anymore either 😂
She's just a badass… She's like "Cmon, you think a boss fight is a surprise to me, no eat his charge beam (which in the kraid boss fight should be a wide beam, idk why it shows her shotting a normal beam, since by then you should have the wide beam)
I love how this is a tradition started all the way back in Metroid 2 on the Gameboy. And just like bombing the Metroid Queen after rolling up her gullet, you take damage inside Kraid’s belly and have to kill him fast.
I was wondering about that the first time I went back there, I was like "Was I supposed to shoot myself into craig's belly?" But then on my second playthrough I realized I needed bombs which I didn't have. Neato.
I discovered this after I defeated Kraid and came back to the area looking for hidden items 😂. I was like "ooo a hidden area!" *spits me back out* "huh? ... WAIT A MINUTE!"
The way you take a hit and use it to reach the higher platform looks so much easier than the slide jump other sequence break videos are showing. Thank you!
That sequence break for getting the grapple beam earlier got me trying like an hour until I mastered it! Now I wonder if it's an effective method for speedrunning.
If you opt to get the bombs without the graple beam, 1 you can slide jump off the ledge below that bot (which is how I do it), and 2 it opens up the flash shift, which makes the second jump for the graple sequence break much easier.
Really cool easter egg but in practice I think it's faster to kill Kraid without bombs because that's a long detour and there's a teleporter right after Kraid that takes you to the corridor that leads to bombs anyway.
I’m still working my way through the game, but are you aware of just how many Power Bomb storage upgrades you can get before you get power bombs? I have six and haven’t even gotten the damn things yet.
I died a handful of times trying to do the two slide jumps over the lava pool, but I discovered a good way to perform it gooder: Mash the jump button immediately after using the slide, hurr. X3
Wow, Nintendo really accounted for this. Take that, Other M. It actually reminds me of how the Queen was killed in Metroid 2, being able to roll into her mouth and attack her from the inside.
She usually ends up inside giant creatures because they try to eat her. I am actually wondering what her mindset is that today she just decided "you know what? I'm going to shoot myself inside Kraid's belly button"
This reminds me of how you can electrocute Draygon in Super Metroid to kill it faster. Metroid Dread is quickly proving to be the best in the franchise since the days of the SNES.
Maybe he survived his death in Zero Mission and was later captured by the Mawkin, or that wasn't Kraid, but Kraid - X... Probably unlikely this early in the game though...
@@Gazing-09 If you look closely at Raven Beak-X at the end, you'll notice the monstrosity is also Kraid. It seems that the X-parasite absorbs him sometime following Samus's encounter with him here.
I can't help but think this was either a cool secret the developers made for debugging purposes or that they were aware of the sequence break and accounted for it by rewarding the player.
Considering the specific cutscene here.. it's on purpose. Unlike that map marker glitch. Remember to remove all markers before stepping into the itomas (raven beak's floating fortress) save room .
*You'd think after the first time Samus acquires certain abilities, they'd be standard issue for her armor from then on, and she'd NOT have to reacquire them every single game.*
THANK YOU! I didn't have the timing/reflexes to beat Kraid the hard way, and this opened the game back up for me. Took about 47 deaths before I got both jumps to reach the elevator, but I did it!
This is great! Phase 2 of Kraid is making me wild. It's my first Metroid and I wanted some hints to the boss. Now I'm in training to jump over that lava xD
I don't get how the lava killed him. You mean to tell me Kraid was submerged to his waist in a deep fryer for God knows how long, yet still alive, but being broken free and having to walk across like Godzilla kills him?
I could be mistaken, but I had heard there’s another sequence break where if you get to the part where the X parasites run rampant and haven’t killed Kraid yet, they basically killed him already
I love how they made Samus an unceremoniously bad ass stone cold killer in this game, and it's probably most evident in this fight when she bitch slaps Kraid with a charge beam at the start of the fight and then cold-shoulders his last ditch belly spike at the end of the fight while she watches him slowly die. But god damn if that sequence break morph bomb attack wasn't bordering on cruel lol.
Funny, I went back to the boss area after the fight and came across that ball launcher, I wondered what it was for, and now it makes sense. Hats off to the devs for allowing and even encouraging sequence breaks.
It's really cool how the devs acknowledged the fact that people will sequence break this game because it's a metroid game
And of top of that, Kraid's first battle with Samus in NES' Guide is to beat him with bombs. Good thinking dev team.
I really though something fishy is that scene showing that Reddish belly hole. I'll think it was a hint. Check reference and conclude it From Nes. I was right even I don't have the Game. I'll wonder how many Easter eggs are in that game. And what if we need to save something. Like the Super Metroid!?🤔🤔🤔
Metroid Fusion secret message says "hi".
I just thought about this today “what happens if I try and go in the hole with morph ball.
Same as super metroid
It blows my mind that the developers added this secret strategy to beat Kraid because they expected people to sequence break the game. :O
for my mind, the game setence was cancled cause originaly, we suppos to get the bombs erlyer, the setence was create befor the change....
always one step ahead... brilliant
Nintendo.
@@RubenGoMoRadioboyPlus Sega
Methinks they were expecting it too. There's no shortage of sequence break vids out there
I love it when game devs put little secrets in the game for players that don’t play as intended.
Me too. But in this case, I still got to say one thing…yuck…😨
One example is deltarune when you use an exploit on one of the secret bosses
Its not a secret, if you played metroid 1, back in 1986, this is the most efficient way to kill him. You cant crouch, or aim ur missiles, so 2/5 missiles would hit, because of his belly spines blocking them, also u cant shoot another missiles until the explosion sprite is over... however bombs cannot be blocked and you can set 3 at a time and they explode faster than missiles... so this is nostalgia for most of us...
@@rhyhaggen336 but it’s a sequence break so it’s still a secret
I never played a single Metroid game yet this was very easy to find.
Few people know, but this is a reference to NES first Metroid, as the easiest way to kill the Kraid in that game was by putting bombs inside him.
I remember fighting him in the gba port, (not zero mission a port of the nes game) and yeah, trying to fight him with missiles was tough, because his belly spikes just blocked them.
@@imortal333 I always freeze the middle spike mid flight and punt him with missiles.
Don't put " s " after " ' " in a word that end at " s " letter. (I'm acting like a teacher for a alphabetizated (?) word. )
@@almircoelhojr. Remember, when using a, if the next word starts with a vowel sound, you add an n to it to make it an.
@@almircoelhojr. A quick Google search: "The general rule is that the possessive of a singular noun is formed by adding an apostrophe and s, whether the singular noun ends in s or not. The possessive of a plural noun is formed by adding only an apostrophe when the noun ends in s, and by adding both an apostrophe and s when it ends in a letter other than s."
It's a miracle that Kraid managed to drown in that pool of lava considering how undeep it is.
I still don´t understand how he walked on the lava if the pool is more deeper than it´s height
@@juanse985 arquimedes principle
He probably passed out from exhaustion of the fight and seemingly drowning
Guys it’s a game calm down
He broke the floor holding him up
Probably the most humiliating way Kraid is killed. Poor guy, always playing second fiddle to Ridley.
Is Ridley even in this game?
@@DragonKingX78 No, he’s not because Samus permanently killed him in Fusion.
At least he managed to outlive him considering Ridley doesn’t show up in this game.
@@evanbao93 SPOILER
Ridley is Fusion is just X parasite imitated him though not the real Ridley
@@kratosgow342 That’s because the real Ridley died in Super Metroid, blown to pieces and incinerated by the Zebes explosion.
The devs are genius, they knew that some people would break their game, so they made a special easter egg for those players...
I think maybe it was scrapped bc they wanted to put the bomb upgrade before Kraid, maybe I'm wrong tho
I belive that these sequence breaks are intentionally designed. Games that do this are very hard to design thpigh
they design all of their games like that starting with the first one
They knew people would break the game because they pay game testers to do so all day long.
@@Jords250 every metroid game has intentional sequence break except samus returns and fusion.
Of course there would be a Kraid quick kill. That's fantastic.
Sad that you have to go a bit out of the way for either method to sequence break bombs
@@Dark_Wolf0626 theres an easier sequence break, but you have to do it in an emmi zone
@@firenze6478 fine by me lol, brushing with instant death is quite common for me
@@Dark_Wolf0626 ok slide jump right above the door in the room where you would use diffusion beam to open the path in speed booster emmi zone, the slide should get you far enough to wall jump up to the ledge and bypass the area without grapple beam.
Its not that hard its just in an emmi zone
@@firenze6478 cool, good to know
The sheer level of fucks not given by Samus in response to Kraid showing up after all this time is just wonderful, like the complete inverse of the breakdown in Other M.
Might be a kraid clone
"Hey Kraid. All tied up?"
*starts charging her cannon*
"Shame."
Honestly she should be that way by this point. After you beat someone 2-3x you really shouldn't be that scared of them. Same with Ridley.
I love the casual shot to the mouth at the start lmao
And That is why we don’t talk about Other M
At 8:26, instead of doing the damage boost, you can do a slide off the ledge into a jump (similar to the second jump of the grapple sequence break) to reach the other wall and perform the wall jump
It's also what I did and it's easier and faster
I have tried both ways at least 50 times and I still can't make the jump.
@@uhaxthegrey7798 the timing for the second slide jump is way way later than you think it is. It feels samus should already be falling but somehow jumps midair
Thank you for this tip!! I can't seem to pull off a damage boost, but was able to do this maneuver on just my 2nd attempt.
@@uhaxthegrey7798 I tried the damage boost a bazillion times until I realized I had to do it in morph ball mode xD
Man, i thought this game was about as linear as Samus Returns but with needing to go back adn forth between different areas. I did not realize you can do a slide jump and bounce off walls for getting the grapple beam early.
i am trying that slide jump. Failing each time. Update 10-18-21: I finally did the first slide jump and made it up to the ceiling. Now I keep falling on the second slide jump 😕
There's a lot more sequence break in the game than you think. If you've beaten the game, check out speedruns online.
dude that slide jump is the literal death of me, it's been a whole God damn day and I CANNOT make the two jumps across the lava... how the hell did OP do this so easily???
@@MDRSPACEGOAT press yourself up against the wall in front of the gap. Hold forward then slide, then jump out of the slide and hold left till you hit the wall, and jump off the wall to grab the ledge. For the second one, I just do the same thing except I mash jump, you can usually get it this way.
@@SJNaka101 it worked for me thanks to you bro🔥
Samus: After all this I think I’ll need 17 something baths.
👀
I see that they have really put a lot of care for Kraid's first boss battle in over 15 years. Good to know!
Right? 30 second boss fight for the loss
And it had been planned since Metroid Prime. Shame that he missed the fun back then.
@@Fredcat11
Hopefully Metroid Prime 4 will correct that... that, and giving us that giant four armed boss they also were planning originally...
@@a.liguria2698 Indeed. As well as another appearance of Ridley... NOT!
@@Fredcat11
Ridley has already got plenty of love, and ultimely got in smash, let's have others have some more moments!
On my clean-up in the first run I found this weird pipe, but couldn't think for a use for it. This is actually mindblowing and really useful for speedruns!
Love your profile pic
Unfortunately not. It takes longer to get bombs early and come back than it does to just beat him while you are there the first time. I don't know how far along it is yet, but glitch hunters are working on ways to bypass diffusion beam (and therefore kraid entirely).
I saw It immediately after the fight as I checked the map for where to go next and.. "morph ball launcher? In kraid's... Waaaaiiit... Bomb attack, where?". Seems like a pain to go get it.
@@futurehistoryarchaeologist4480 They've nearly done it with a technique called pseudo wave beam. Placing the arm cannon at specific angles and precise timing lets you shoot through destructible walls to hit their triggers and skip stuff.
@@jesseallen3109 It's an unfortunately long trek to bombs, yeah. Two passes through the EMMI zone and a precise jump to bypass needing Grapple Beam, but you then have to go through all of Dairon again.
It's faster to just kill him normally, as mentioned above, than need to make an entire extra round trip.
The fact this secret exists shows how much they care.
I found that bomb slot in Kraid's room while backtracking and looking for upgrades and was so confused. Glad I now know what it's for!
This may just be my favorite game. Not only did they account for sequence breaking, they dedicated a whole cutscene to it!
Holy crap this is amazing!! I love it when developers add things like this, they knew some people would figure out how to get certain items earlier than intended and rewarded them with things like that!
I haven't started trying sequence breaking myself but I will soon and it'll be really fun to figure things out. I love this game so much, like, I love everything about it. it literally surpassed my expectations for a sequel to Fusion which were imposssibly high and yet they did it. MercurySteam are unbelievable man, they love Metroid and it really shows!
So spoiler:
How cool was the ending? With the metroid suit, that huge kraid raven beak monster and finaly the nice x parasite that helped samus? I have only beaten it once and not 100% but i will do that in the future, there is one thing i didnt quite understand though. Was that at the end the real adam that told samus to obey or was it a ilusion of raven beak? Im guessing ilusion but im not that sure
@@theoneandonly9775 The ADAM at the start and the end of the game is the real one, meanwhile the ADAM throughout the game is Raven Beak impersonating as ADAM.
As for X scene during the the end of escape sequence, not really sure what happened there. Some people theorized Thoha tribe's nature kind of helped Quiet Robe to suppress the X parasite's takeover, at least to some extent. Other people said X made the decision based on Quiet Robe's memory and intention. And that's only to mention few.
@@dindapriska ah ok thanks. Though im still curious to see where they will go from here. I mean the absorbtion and metroid suit are inherant abilities tied to her dna its not something they can easily take away at the start of a game. Implimenting it could be dificult aswell considering how powerful it is, aside from the hyperlaser and one touch kill the suit provides, her absorbtion at the end literally hit the entire sky castle they where in
@@theoneandonly9775 I also want to know how they'll handle the Samus later on. Although since Quiet Robe X brings Thoha genes back to her body to re-suppress the metroid DNA within her, I doubt we will see her Metroid Suit and stronger abilities unless situation demands. However, I can see the devs using that reason to strip her from her powers lol.
@@dindapriska true possible but at the same time that would mean that everytime she gets cornered she gets stronger/her abilities back or even if just at the end of the next game that would still mean she cant leave cause she would be stuck in the suit and cant use her ship. I like metroid games but the powerups are mostly predictable and if the finale starts to always end in metroid suit it could end up borring. I have an idea how to potentialy write it out. Though its kinda lengthy in explaining and i can only type on mobile. If you wanna hear it im down to write it out as best as i can in sone free time
Funny that Kraid last finger is like the middle finger when he goes down into lava.
Lmfao was thinking the same thing. Cheeky Nintendo.
Metroid Games were famous for sequence breaks and speed running. The devs respected that in Dread
I always love how samus just...stood their...lifted her cannon...and just fired a charged shot into his mouth XD!
Clearly an apology for her out of character reaction to Ridley in an, um...the *bad* Metroid game.
@@RychschaX your opinion but okay, also saying "the *bad* metroid game" doesn't really narrow anything down, atleast to me, I've loved all the metroid games that I've seen and played. lol.
Kraid had bad breath, so that was Samus's way of cleaning out his foul mouth. 😆
@@SaviourV when you can smell someones breath, in an air tight, water tight, vacuum tight suit, thats meant to keep everything from toxic air, to magma and much much more, I think you need more than what samus can give for that odor XD!
@@Laughing_Dragon
I rest my case.
Fact is, Ridley's only got a fiery version of halitosis. Here, Kraid's probably had a diet of toxic bugs and the like.
In other words, his breath is *ABSOLUTELY GHASTLY.* 😅
It would have been hilarious if we saw Samus get launched out by one of kraid's spikes.
I think the bombs would have destroyed the spikes tho
Y’know I saw that bomb block there and thought to myself that there must be a way to get bombs early.
This is why i fucking love metroid! I remember seeing that bomb launcher before but thought it was useless. Now i know what it's for.
I saw it after killing Kraid, and was like : "...that's useless, I already have the Varia and Screw Attack."
Then I checked the map and realized I was in Kraid's room after it blew up.
"ooooh"
Um there are parts of the game that require the bulb launcher. It was never useless.
@@stonecold5373 In the context of where that particular one was placed yes it appears useless if you play that game as intended and come back to it.
@@iceloveanime yea , it still would have been great to find out the first time haha. would have saved me a half dozen deaths lol
@@DelanoSeven7You had screw attack before killing Kraid?
that first kraid secret was SO COOL. like it rewards you for being so clever but also is a risk as you take damage inside his belly. very creative. I like that there are options in a bossfight in how you approach them
It's exactly the kind of thing that could give a Trophy/success in other platforms. Switch really needs a system like that.
Switch would benefit from an achievement system, but I don't think there would be an achievement for this. It's like dropping the chandelier on one of the Watcher Knights in Hollow Knight, just a neat speedrun trick to make your life easier in the boss. I'd put oneshotting the Experiment boss with a shinespark in the same cathegory
The switch doesnt need epeen points. Why do you need a trophy to acknkowledge you did something cool?
@@LordZanas because it must be in the participation trophy generation lol
So basically, if you have bombs going into the fight with Kraid, he's absolutely fucked. lol
"AAAAH! ITS INSIDE ME! GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!!!!"
-Rough translation of Kraidese to English.
You take damage inside him, so you still have to have enough health to outlast him. (About a tank full is usually plenty)
It like queen metroid in the original 2
Makes me wonder if there are other secrets the devs put in for sequence breakers.
There are, a good example is getting the screw attack early and then using it on the bug boss to almost instantly kill it
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@@awesomefan935 yes, if you get the gravity suit early and trigger that sequence (which ends in acquiring the screw attack), or get just the screw attack early by some other means, it dismantles Escue (storm missile boss in Ferenia) in 10 seconds flat.
Not really sequence breaking, but you can Shinespark the core X bosses to heavily damage them, or in the case of Experiment No. Z-57, finish it off completely.
That pivot at 2:10 killed me at the end of this fight. Like she's thinking afterward, "How many times do I have to beat you?" and got the stare down.
“How many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man”
Metroid dread... Has to be one of the best games I’ve ever played in my life and believe me I’ve played a lot of amazing games through the years.
God Samus shooting Kraid in the mouth in the cutscene always makes me laugh because it shows she is sick of fighting him so much!
"Oh, Kraid. You're all chained up"
*charges cannon*
"Shame"
She comes in charged up, then when she sees him she calms down, just… “oh, it’s you”. Like GlaDos
“how many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man”
I thought to myself that this spots would require bombs to be dmg, but I didn't had the bomb upgrade. Later on I visited that room to notice that bomb pipeline and suspected there was more to that bossfight. I would definitely try to get the bombs early in my next playthrought now. Thx for the clip :D
The devs are 4 timelines ahead of us... They knew we would try to get something early on in the game as that happen in other metroid games... And they reward the player for doing so
Yes, they admitted to making the game with sequence breaking in mind.
The team at Mercury added these boss fight endings on purpose, intentionally and knowingly, this game has 20 years in development literally, they designed it this way. The director kept putting it on the shelf until he was satisfied with the technology.
Theres an easy intended path and an alt path of the players choice.
Thats the biggest and only "secret" in the game no one believes, there is no sequence breaks, no secret endings, just actual smart game design BUILT that way.
Hopefully more people find this out and spread the word.
Pseudowaves were built in?
@@patsayjack402 As in a device that can read minds? Haha no. (Fail) As if its impossible to look this stuff up or follow a games development here and there for a few years at least with some info on the game or even watch one youtube video on the history.
I have to say my two favorite things about this game map design (for obvious reasons) and how cool the bosses are, they are terrifying, all of them are fairly different fights for an all 2d game with limited mechainics, its beautiful creativity
I just got the bomb and made it back to Kraid before work. Looking forward to destroying him when I get home thanks for the videos.
I like how Samus really just couldn’t give any less of a damn in most of the cutscenes for bosses… casually just walking around or standing there with her cannon lowered charging it up before firing.
Suppose when you’ve been through what she’s been through throughout her career and become as skilled as her, you wouldn’t really be phased by much anymore either 😂
She's just a badass… She's like "Cmon, you think a boss fight is a surprise to me, no eat his charge beam (which in the kraid boss fight should be a wide beam, idk why it shows her shotting a normal beam, since by then you should have the wide beam)
Bro, I hope there's like 10 more things like this one hidden throughout the game. This is so awesome.
This is the only cutscene, but there are tons of sequence breaking opportunities, and 2 other bosses can be made easier with some of them
This blows my mind that this was added as a sequence break. Holy fuk. Bravo Nintendo
Pulled this off on my second run thanks for making such a comprehensive video on it!!!
It’s so cool to have Kraid back after all this time and looking better than ever! I kind of hope he returns In prime 4 as well
I love how this is a tradition started all the way back in Metroid 2 on the Gameboy.
And just like bombing the Metroid Queen after rolling up her gullet, you take damage inside Kraid’s belly and have to kill him fast.
It more from the first game kraid is super easy if you use the bomb to kill it
I noticed the ball launcher after the fight, but never realised it was for a sequence-breakers!
Very nice!
I was wondering about that the first time I went back there, I was like "Was I supposed to shoot myself into craig's belly?" But then on my second playthrough I realized I needed bombs which I didn't have. Neato.
That was exactly my thoughts, except I was sure I didn't have bombs so I was more wondering if I got my bombs late
Dude just showed us how to do the sequence break. Then sequence broke the sequence break
I like how Samus is like : this guy again? Nah I ain't doing that shit once more
I discovered this after I defeated Kraid and came back to the area looking for hidden items 😂. I was like "ooo a hidden area!" *spits me back out* "huh? ... WAIT A MINUTE!"
The way you take a hit and use it to reach the higher platform looks so much easier than the slide jump other sequence break videos are showing. Thank you!
That sequence break for getting the grapple beam earlier got me trying like an hour until I mastered it! Now I wonder if it's an effective method for speedrunning.
If you go for the bombs, then the flash shift first, it makes the second early graple jump easier
If you opt to get the bombs without the graple beam, 1 you can slide jump off the ledge below that bot (which is how I do it), and 2 it opens up the flash shift, which makes the second jump for the graple sequence break much easier.
Really cool easter egg but in practice I think it's faster to kill Kraid without bombs because that's a long detour and there's a teleporter right after Kraid that takes you to the corridor that leads to bombs anyway.
You just don't get it bro. 🤦♂️
Thank you! I wanted to try this after beating the game and now I've done it with this guide! Not so Hard Mode now
I managed to get some upgrades early due to the fact that you can actually bomb jump in this game. Brought back super metroid flashbacks.
I’m still working my way through the game, but are you aware of just how many Power Bomb storage upgrades you can get before you get power bombs? I have six and haven’t even gotten the damn things yet.
I’m pretty sure like 7 or 8
I love how unfazed Samus is by seeing Kraid. She’s just like “oh it’s you again…”
So the devs already knew that people will sequence break? Impressive!
Yes, they admitted to making the game with sequence breaking in mind.
I love how this Samus is just over everything.
I died a handful of times trying to do the two slide jumps over the lava pool, but I discovered a good way to perform it gooder: Mash the jump button immediately after using the slide, hurr. X3
Thank you so muchhh
It’s the second jump that got me so many times
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Ditto.
Adam: Samus you need to turn on the generator in-
Samus: Already did it.
Adam: Does not compute.
Okay I believe you
Wow, Nintendo really accounted for this. Take that, Other M.
It actually reminds me of how the Queen was killed in Metroid 2, being able to roll into her mouth and attack her from the inside.
Not Nintendo. MercurySteam made the game, and aren’t associated with Nintendo. Nintendo just paid them to make it.
She usually ends up inside giant creatures because they try to eat her. I am actually wondering what her mindset is that today she just decided "you know what? I'm going to shoot myself inside Kraid's belly button"
Speed runners are going to love this.
How nobody is Talking about how discusting adventures samus going thouth without anyone paying her or something? She was INSIDE kraid
That was hilarious!
I love how badass samus is in this game
Wait theres another way to beat him???!!!! This Game is freaking amazing!! Took me 15 hours to 100% it n I can't wait to re-run it in Hard mode!!
You’re supposed to get the Morph Ball bomb upgrade AFTER you defeat Kraid, not before.
Quick way to defeat kraid but have to waste Energy
This reminds me of how you can electrocute Draygon in Super Metroid to kill it faster. Metroid Dread is quickly proving to be the best in the franchise since the days of the SNES.
What was Kraid even doing there? Why was he locked up?
Maybe he survived his death in Zero Mission and was later captured by the Mawkin, or that wasn't Kraid, but Kraid - X... Probably unlikely this early in the game though...
@@Gazing-09 Kraid also appeared in super and unlike exploding, it just sunk to the ground, perhaps it collapsed but it never truly died.
Raven Beak likely cloned him, but it wasn't a perfect copy since this Kraid needed restraints to help him remain upright.
@@Gazing-09 If you look closely at Raven Beak-X at the end, you'll notice the monstrosity is also Kraid. It seems that the X-parasite absorbs him sometime following Samus's encounter with him here.
It's most likely an X Parasite.
The only reason why we didn't revert back because it most of died off in the lava.
I can't help but think this was either a cool secret the developers made for debugging purposes or that they were aware of the sequence break and accounted for it by rewarding the player.
It's 100% on purpose as a good amount of time would've been needed make it all.
Considering the specific cutscene here.. it's on purpose. Unlike that map marker glitch. Remember to remove all markers before stepping into the itomas (raven beak's floating fortress) save room .
That's a cool shortcut. Never would've thought to do that.
*You'd think after the first time Samus acquires certain abilities, they'd be standard issue for her armor from then on, and she'd NOT have to reacquire them every single game.*
In this game and Fusion, at least the loss of her abilities is justified.
I love Samus being so badass in this game.
god the fucking genius of this game is so impressive
Okay this just made this game a 10 for me. I beat it 100% on hard yesterday and now I wanna do this.
Cool. I was wondering why that Morph Ball Launcher was there when I went back to the arena. Crazy that they put that in.
THANK YOU! I didn't have the timing/reflexes to beat Kraid the hard way, and this opened the game back up for me. Took about 47 deaths before I got both jumps to reach the elevator, but I did it!
Hey how to find the bomb?
I love how done Samus was in the beginning
I only discovered that morph ball loop long after the fight. I had no idea it was used during the fight.
That’s insane.
I’m so glad I was able to pull off this sequence break 😄
This is great! Phase 2 of Kraid is making me wild. It's my first Metroid and I wanted some hints to the boss. Now I'm in training to jump over that lava xD
WoW this is genious level design!
Into Kraid's belly hole. That has been in my mind for awhile before it was used in this game.
I was wondering if that was possible! The camera hinted at it, I just couldn’t figure out what to do. Awesome video!
I don't get how the lava killed him.
You mean to tell me Kraid was submerged to his waist in a deep fryer for God knows how long, yet still alive, but being broken free and having to walk across like Godzilla kills him?
Also I appreciate that you also play a bit after bc there isn’t many ppl with plathroughs yet
Really cool how they embraced the sequence break with easter eggs!
During that kraid fight that sure does bring some memories of Nintendo Land's challenge, Belly of the beast
Credit goes to MercurySteam devs. Not Nintendo. MercurySteam devs need some recognition for making a great game
I love how they highlighted it too.
I Was Shocked To Figure It Out Myself!
As soon as I saw that belly hole I expected the morph ball to be an intended strat, I was surprised you weren’t intended to go in normally.
I could be mistaken, but I had heard there’s another sequence break where if you get to the part where the X parasites run rampant and haven’t killed Kraid yet, they basically killed him already
That's fucking awesome. I went back to the Kraid boss fight section to find items and I found the Bomb block and was confused about it's use.
In every Metroid Game, you could sequence break the game, it's not new so, it's awesome they keep the tradition alive
I love how they made Samus an unceremoniously bad ass stone cold killer in this game, and it's probably most evident in this fight when she bitch slaps Kraid with a charge beam at the start of the fight and then cold-shoulders his last ditch belly spike at the end of the fight while she watches him slowly die.
But god damn if that sequence break morph bomb attack wasn't bordering on cruel lol.
Holy shit.. I had the bombs and didn't even realize you could do that
Funny, I went back to the boss area after the fight and came across that ball launcher, I wondered what it was for, and now it makes sense. Hats off to the devs for allowing and even encouraging sequence breaks.
If you are sequence breaking the game in the first place, why would you not get the Grapple Beam? I don’t see a reason to not get it.
I just love the sheer amount of disrespect as she dodges Kraid’s attack at 2:07 lmao