I myself am not and have never really been into Metroid, but the enthusiasm of the community over Dread is definitely infectious and just makes me smile.
I highly recommend checking it out if your budget permits, I’ve never played a Metroid other than super on nso but when I saw the hype of dread I’ve played every mainline game and remake. Very high quality series
Well Prime 4 was just not heard from in years so the series looked kinda doomed and then just outta nowhere "here's a mainline Sequel to Fusion from 19 years ago!" It was shock and awe
Super Metroid is truly one of the best games ever made. I never played it, didn't really know what it was. And it just hooked me in its first opening hour. I definitely recommend it! 😁
My one complaint with prime's ridley fight (and prime's fights in general) is that it's sooooo long. The health bars feel really padded in that game, and ridley spends so much time miles away, where you can hurt him, and he can't hurt you.
Oh man, I'm _so_ glad you mentioned Diggernaut. Definitely a stand-out. Samus Returns has some of the best bosses in the series (I really think Proteus Ridley is Ridley's best boss fight and I will fight people on that) and Queen Metroid is a great update to an already clever battle. I think Samus Returns has unfairly gotten the short end of the stick from the community, but I'm glad (more or less) Dread is helping repair good faith with MercurySteam.
My favorite Metroid boss fight is the fight against Ridley in Prime 3 where you fight him in free fall. It's not the most difficult, but there's a lot going for it with it being timed and you climbing all over him as he tries to shake you off to shoot him in his mouth, and the fact that although it's fairly early in the game (in a game chronologically relatively early in the timeline) so you know the stakes aren't *that* high, Samus jumped into this fight honestly not expecting to survive but knowing someone needed to take that fucker out, which does add some gravity to it (no pun intended).
@@vyor8837 From what I understand, Prime takes place entirely between Metroid and Metroid II. I could be wrong about that, but I believe II rolls into Super Metroid which rolls into Fusion (with a side journey into Other M, depending on whether Nintendo says it's canon this week. Or says Prime is, for that matter).
The craziest thing about the motherbrain super metroid fight is it feels like its had 3 games of build up. The baby from 2, the familiarity and subverting expectations from 1. And just the power trip from how strong that final beam it gives you is. Its glorious.
An idea for a list: Top 5 Missed Opportunities. Maybe that sounds too generic, but I'm thinking of things like how it took until the N64 for a major home console to have four controller ports built in. Or how, even though the Virtual Boy - I repeat, the *Virtual Boy* - had twin d-pads, Sega had Virtual On, and twin stick shooters, flight simulators, etc. but *neither* company thought to do twin analog sticks. I mean, Sony was late to the party as well, imagine if the PSOne had launched with Dual Shock...
I think the concept of twin stick control was too novel at the time. The PlayStation analogue controls were ridiculed when they first came out. How times change!
Beating Quadraxis on low% with 99 energy was and is to this day the greatest challenge I've endured in a Metroid game. Those safe zones were sorely missed..
I completely agree with all 5 Bosses in the list. Personally? I believe Kraid from S. Metroid is amongst my favorite. When that bad boy rose from the ground to reveal his true size, I’ll never forget it…..
5. Let's not forget the amazing chase sequence that you participate with Diggernaut beforehand too, where it ramps up the tension quite a bit. The boss fight is long and hard, but I can respect that aspect a lot. 4. Instant classic and memorable as well. 3. A real puzzle boss that tests every aspect of your arsenal (That said, I have not played Prime 2 yet) 2. It's the big bad space dragon that doesn't die and leaves one hell of an impression (Need to get to this part in Prime but not there yet) 1. It's kinda easy but still intensely memorable. Part of it has to be through the horror strings music and the triumphant reprise of the theme when you first touch down in Super Metroid. Great list rabbid.
Experiment No. Z-57 was a lot of fun, easily one of the better fights in the franchise, maybe a little too easy once you figure it out but the same is true for most other Metroid bosses
I can already imagine Dread's Chozo Warrior being a good candidate for a list like this. God I hope. As for my own favorite, I would have to go for either Gandrayda in Prime 3 or Ridley's Samus Returns fight. Oh, er, spoilers btw
I like how they designed him to only have a little of his cybernetics left as a way of showing he's transitioning from Meta Ridley in the Prime trilogy to normal Ridley in Super Metroid as a result of his healing factor. That's some nice attention to detail.
I KNEW IT!! I knew you would do a Metroid Month!!! Ok, my favorite boss fights in the series: -Nightmare, of course! So memorable! -Definitely Quadraxis! So well thought! -I love the Ing Emperor from the same game! If you just try to finish the game, it's hard as balls. But if you collected all the upgrades, the feeling of power is just off the charts in this fight!! -Zeta Metroids are my favorite Metroids to fight in Samus Returns! -I kinda like Phantoon. Don't know why, aside from Ridley, he's my favorite from the Pirate Lords...
@@TheXtremeBoltGuy Of course the feeling is important of a game. You wouldn't mind then if you were fighting a pink pony shooting rainbows, if the battle mechanics were the same? For the record, yes it's a great boss fight, I'm not denying that.
Agreed completely. It was frustrating learning the fight, but once I got it, I fell in love. It feels incredible being able to do the whole fight without much trouble now; makes me feel like a total boss. Amazing fight, and one of my favorite parts in all of Dread.
Samus, my scans indicate that all these bosses would shrivel before the might of Dread's final boss, whose Awesomeness cannot be measured and you couldn't beat even at full power and if there were like 10 of you. Accept your helplessness.
How could one NOT have Mother Brain from Super Metroid as number 1? It's the perfect boss battle for the series. You have the bog standard fight, followed by a subversion of expection. Then you fight her new body, and then get the absolute crap kicked out of you. You sit there, worrying, "did I screw up? How do it win this?" Suddenly, the Baby Metroid you rescued previous game eats Mother Brain's face for a minute, seemingly killing her, settles on you to replenish your energy. NOPE, Mother Brain isn't dead, and she just savages Baby Metroid while it protects you sacrificing itself. Then you get the ultimate weapon and just burn Mother Brain down to ashes! Don't be ashamed of your choice, it's perfect!
My one gripe with Mother Brain is her difficulty. As long as you have enough health to survive the first rainbow death laser (which requires minimal skill), you win. But the cinematic and dramatic ending makes up for it easily
Really should have done a little shout-out to the first Ridley fight in Prime 3. Just Samus & Ridley fighting as they fall down this large shaft. Don't even care about the bottom, just care about killing each other. I'm a sucker for good visual atmosphere to a boss fight. That's why the final Link vs Ganondorf in Twilight Princess is one of my favorite fights
Despite the... many many flaws of other M. There are two fights in it that I think are just absolutely wonderful. The secret phantoom fight at the end of the game. It requires your attention or you will die. Then the final boss in hard mode. Ridley. The counter timings are tight. The hits are punishing if you let them hit you. This is Ridley the reincarnated clone of the destroyed space pirate armada. In his last canonical fight against Samus. And he will kill you for killing him.
For me, only serries and ridley x were good. All the other bosses were either just ehhh, or not good. Even SA-X and Omega metroid felt ehhh story wise and gameplay wise. IMHO.
@@newageretroplayer4856 Idk, I thought Nightmare was a pretty great boss both gameplay-wise and story-wise, as its foreshadowed as a deadly threat before facing it and you even see it looming in the background at times. And once you finally do fight it, it can use its gravity to render your missles useless and takes skilled maneuvering to avoid taking damage from it.
@@DarkScherzo94The omega metroid, while it technicaly doesn't come out of nowhere, feels more like a left over plot thread that they didn't know how to resolve and just decided to treat it simmalirly to the mother brain "second phase". But not as impactful IMHO. As for the SA-X, the plasma beam SHREADS it to atoms and, IMHO, it feels underwhelming as a result. I actually think the power trip was the wrong way to do it and should have been at least a little more tougher during the second phase of the fight. But again it is my honest opinion.
@@amirgarcia547 Technically, I didn't say Nightmare was bad storywise, just kinda ehhh gameplay wise. Though I will give you that it flying in the background was good foreshadowing. But personally, I feel the gravity mechanic wasn't set up well previously before the fight and I feel the fight has a bit to much going on for it. Your asking the player to, potentially learn a new way to fight, deal with sudden water like physics and manage different movement patterns from the boss. Yes, upon replay you can learn all that and I'm not saying that it's a bad boss but, IMHO, I feel other bosses have done "suddenly multiple different aspects you know have to learn" much better. Also, in my honest opinion, Nightmares design doesn't do it for me. Personally, it feels more like a cartoonishly "scary monster" than a Metroid monster.
The Mother Brain fight in Super Metroid is a masterclass of wordless storytelling. I wish more games learned from its example, including other Metroid games.
Maybe it was a bit too "over the top" but I honestly love the absurdity of the first Ridley encounter in Prime 3 where you fight ridley while falling tens of thousands of feet down an elevator shaft. Like its definitely an absurd situation, but I fucking love it.
I honestly think the final Metroid Queen in the orginal Gameboy game M2 could be 5th on this list. You fight through all it's children across the planet. The earthquakes that let Samus move from area to area are caused by her. The passageway to her is lined with the most dangerous recently hatched Metroids. Then there is the boss itself. It has 4 speeds of attack as it dies, and only gets tougher as the fight continues. But most importantly, a feature missing from every other boss fight on this list... There is two ways to defeat her. The first is the obvious one, spam missiles at it until it dies. The second is crawl in it's mouth, down it's throat and bomb it from the inside. I had played the game 18 times in 12 years before even finding out about this method. I don't know if you are planning on making a list of top 5 music tracks from Metroid, but that fight has a fantastic charm to it too. I completely forgot about Quadraxis in Metroid Prime 2 (or 3?). Even you couldn't recall the actual game the boss was from. Lol
I think some other channel is spying on your surveys as it released exactly the same themed video as you did, but I know for a fact you had come up with this way before this... Yours is better, by the way. Your style is unique!
I totally forgot that today was Sunday tbh, so seeing RabbidLuigi upload not just a new video, but a *Metroid* themed video as well when Dread is only 5 days away? Extra epic.😎 Anyways, my personal favorite Metroid boss is Proteus Ridley from Samus Returns (hopefully the final boss in Dread can come even close to him), with Phantoon from Other M and Mother Brain from Super Metroid being not far behind.
I remember Fighting Quadraxes back when I was young, and Having an Really Fucking bad time with him, as I just didn't know what to do for the longest time before being able to beat the boss. :D Also.. Samus to mother brain. ''Taste the RAINBOW MotherF***er''
Only played Fusion but can remember almost every boss fight in it. Got the armadillo creature that gives you the morph ball. Fighting the security robot, twice. Ridley, the water snake/dragon thing. Nightmare, jumpy junk spider, S.A.X, Omega metroid at the end, the plant in the reactor. Probably a couple more I have missed. Just remembered the X impersonating a scientist trying to blow up the station, then he turns into some floaty spikey ball thing, same with the bird statue and you also face a much bigger version of it in the Nocturnal Sector, I think that is Sector 6 on the station.
I thought about Super Metroid a lot in the past few days and it really has aged so damn well. I only played it for the first time a few years back on my 3DS, and I knew all the big plot twists...and STILL! The atmosphere drew me in so hard I could be surprised by all of it. An apt comparison would be Alien(how fitting); I've seen it a dozen times, but I can always go back to it and have a thrill. And then there's Prime and mama mia that's another beast entirely. I honestly can't name many other 2D to 3D transitions done as well as Prime.
True, the fight may be scripted, but man, is it still an amazing and cinematic scripted fight. The final boss of Fusion against the Omega Metroid tried to do something similar, but kinda missed the mark imo since you can’t hurt the Omega Metroid at all until it hits you, and then afterwards you just blast it to death pretty easily.
The mother brain fight was quite the experience the first time playing Super Metroid. After going back to this game so many times throughout the decades, Phantoon is definitely my favorite boss fight in that game. He's the only one that can still kick my ass sometimes, and is incredibly satisfying to defeat. That's the reason I would put him above mother brain. You have to actively try to lose in the second phase of the Mother Brain boss fight in order to die, because the fight is pretty much scripted in order to deliver the climactic ending. On your first playthrough ever it definitely knocks it out the park, but from a replayability stand point you end up just going through the motions, so it doesn't retain the same sense of accomplishment when replaying it. Still my favorite game of all time though.
I’ve personally always had Super Metroid Ridley as my favourite Ridley fight namely becuase of just how difficult it is from other fights in super, every other boss minus Torizo had had a gimmick and weakspot, but Ridley you shoot him in the face UNTIL HE DIES
How about something on the fascinating moments of boredom in Metroid? You’re alone, you’re lost, not a lot of enemies around… and that often can be when Metroid is the most fascinating. And there’s plenty of possible spots. Even in the game we don’t talk about.
I'm just curious whatever happened to his subscribe interruptions. When was the last one? I don't think they happened in a while and they had so much charm.
You could a case for most of the boss fights tbf but Quadraxis is definitely my favourite. MetaRidley a close second and then Mother Brain 3rd. She's #1 for iconic but as a boss fight? Kinda lacking
😤 Controversial opinion time I actually really don’t like the meta Ridley fight in Metroid prime 1, I feel that Ridley in the 1st phase is up in the air with a bunch of nothing happening for a bit to long while second phase his weak spot is to hard to hit while his set of attacks is way to simple and small. I can dodge all of attacks fine but actually hurting him is arduous making the fight monotonous and drag on and on. Also the Metroid community hyped this fight up way to much so disappointment was probably inevitable, on the flip side you guys undersold the fight against Metroid Prime itself I had a blast with that fight
Call it a hot take, but I think Other M actually has a rather solid roster of bosses. The deadliest catch of the Vorash, the bullet hell against Phantoon, even Ridley had a pretty awesome fight despite happening after the most controversial moment in the series.
I've never been into Metroid, but I've always wanted to pick it up. I'm looking forward to Metroid: Dread. Maybe it'll be my first game. Besides Prime, I've played a bit of of Metroid Prime.
@@TheBrutalSax Thank you for that recommendation! I'd like to play them all some day, I'm just thinking I'll start with Dread, since it's new and therefore easy to get, it's conventionally-styled instead of 3D, and everybody else is playing it and I have the console, so why not me?
(SPOILERS for Dread) Well, not only did Dread end up not terrible (it's quite awesome, I'd say) but Raven Beak is one of my favorite boss fights now. Not quite as emotionally poignant as Mother Brain's fight, but still a different kind of awesome. Turns out Adam isn't Adam at the moment; he's been telling you to avoid fighting Raven Beak, he didn't ask for your opinion, and even more suspiciously, he told you not to go into a lava room without your Varia suit! That's not the Adam I'm familiar with! So you blow up the curtains and find out he was letting you prove your badassness so that he could clone your bad ass. He didn't expect you to turn into the namesake of the series (by the way, yes, Samus is Metroid now. The ancient joke has paid off. You're welcome, internet.) but he's flexible and sees an opportunity. All after investing some of his mojo into her blood for a fraction of his badassness. And because that now makes you his enemy, he better be able to back up Adam's subtle taunt that you're no match for him. Turns out, he can. For the time being, he's the final boss of the whole saga, able to tap into more Aeion than you can, flash shift, shinespark, blast supernovas, and even fly, because what's a Chozo without wings? Well, you eventually blast them off and find out; he's still formidable and even defeats Samus. He actually wins... only for Samus to FUCK HIM UP WITH A FULL ON METROID MODE ABSORBING BOTH HIS ENERGY AND THE ENERGY OF THE SHIP!!!! IT'S SO AWESOME I LOVE IT!!! And that still isn't enough to kill him so we get one more phase... sort of. Kraid-X eats him and turns him into a hybrid between them. Considering we see Quiet Robe-X is still a nice guy despite being John Carpenter'd, that implicates quite the disturbing scenario. If you assume Kraid Beak retains some of Raven's personality, that means real bad things for the galaxy if he's allowed to live. So how do you win? Charge up one death ray and melt his freaky ass. She even destroys rather than absorbs it X because fuck that guy! It's a boss fight so awesome that I started up the Awesome segment of Dread's TV Tropes page to gush about it... I'm quite surprised I was the first to do so.
I myself am not and have never really been into Metroid, but the enthusiasm of the community over Dread is definitely infectious and just makes me smile.
I highly recommend checking it out if your budget permits, I’ve never played a Metroid other than super on nso but when I saw the hype of dread I’ve played every mainline game and remake. Very high quality series
You can use the current reactions from Metroid and Advance War communities to see how would F-Zero community would react.
Well Prime 4 was just not heard from in years so the series looked kinda doomed and then just outta nowhere "here's a mainline Sequel to Fusion from 19 years ago!"
It was shock and awe
Super Metroid is truly one of the best games ever made.
I never played it, didn't really know what it was. And it just hooked me in its first opening hour. I definitely recommend it! 😁
Similar to DMC5 really
Just hearing you delve into that Meta Ridley fight makes me wanna throw everything on the back burner and just go to PrimeLand for a week.
Don't we all?
Which unfortunately you can’t do because Dread will be out in 3 days… but hey, you can always do that after you beat Dread right?
Try randomizer dude you’ll love it
Tim? Fancy seeing you here, man!
I still remember you Wavebusting him into oblivion.
God, Fusion has fucking amazing boss fights.
It really does.
For what it's worth, the "Super vs. Fusion" debate is one I hope goes on forever. Their boss fights are outstanding.
@@smartboy201
Fusion's better.
Fusion, imo has the best boss fight in the 2D series.
@@therangerindisguise5280 Dread is a strong contender.
I love how the whole fandom is just so genuinely affectionate towards Kraid. Our boy indeed.
"I not planning dying as much on E.M.M.I."
Good one
None of us were. We were young and naïve
I kind of hope he says something along the lines of “I’m looking forward to this list being outdated.”
The funny thing is just how hard Dread has immediately invalidated this video. The bosses in it are insane.
This was such a good episode! The writing, the editing... the punching a tree part really made me laugh 😂 I am so here for Metroid Month!!
To quote a brilliant man: My body is ready!
And the tree bit killed me too.
What???
You like metroid too?
My one complaint with prime's ridley fight (and prime's fights in general) is that it's sooooo long. The health bars feel really padded in that game, and ridley spends so much time miles away, where you can hurt him, and he can't hurt you.
*Flashbacks to Prime 3's Mogenar on Hyper Mode intensify*
This is pretty much why I prefer both of the Ridley fights in Prime 3 over the one in Prime 1.
Oh man, I'm _so_ glad you mentioned Diggernaut. Definitely a stand-out. Samus Returns has some of the best bosses in the series (I really think Proteus Ridley is Ridley's best boss fight and I will fight people on that) and Queen Metroid is a great update to an already clever battle. I think Samus Returns has unfairly gotten the short end of the stick from the community, but I'm glad (more or less) Dread is helping repair good faith with MercurySteam.
My favorite Metroid boss fight is the fight against Ridley in Prime 3 where you fight him in free fall. It's not the most difficult, but there's a lot going for it with it being timed and you climbing all over him as he tries to shake you off to shoot him in his mouth, and the fact that although it's fairly early in the game (in a game chronologically relatively early in the timeline) so you know the stakes aren't *that* high, Samus jumped into this fight honestly not expecting to survive but knowing someone needed to take that fucker out, which does add some gravity to it (no pun intended).
I love how she leaps after him and keeps firing as they fall, as if to say: "Gravity, you are NOT taking this kill from me!"
Prime 3 would have been right before Fusion tho?
@@vyor8837 No, before Fed Force and Samus Returns
@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822 citation?
@@vyor8837 From what I understand, Prime takes place entirely between Metroid and Metroid II. I could be wrong about that, but I believe II rolls into Super Metroid which rolls into Fusion (with a side journey into Other M, depending on whether Nintendo says it's canon this week. Or says Prime is, for that matter).
The craziest thing about the motherbrain super metroid fight is it feels like its had 3 games of build up. The baby from 2, the familiarity and subverting expectations from 1.
And just the power trip from how strong that final beam it gives you is.
Its glorious.
An idea for a list: Top 5 Missed Opportunities.
Maybe that sounds too generic, but I'm thinking of things like how it took until the N64 for a major home console to have four controller ports built in. Or how, even though the Virtual Boy - I repeat, the *Virtual Boy* - had twin d-pads, Sega had Virtual On, and twin stick shooters, flight simulators, etc. but *neither* company thought to do twin analog sticks. I mean, Sony was late to the party as well, imagine if the PSOne had launched with Dual Shock...
I think the concept of twin stick control was too novel at the time. The PlayStation analogue controls were ridiculed when they first came out. How times change!
"One dead baby later."
RIP Video's Monetisation, 2021-2021.
Beating Quadraxis on low% with 99 energy was and is to this day the greatest challenge I've endured in a Metroid game. Those safe zones were sorely missed..
Boost Guardian is way harder :P
Not a word from Samus in the last fight in Super Metroid, but you can still feel more emotion from her there than in any part of Other M.
Yeah, even Other M putting narration over that scene just kinda ruined an otherwise impactful monent.
I completely agree with all 5 Bosses in the list.
Personally? I believe Kraid from S. Metroid is amongst my favorite. When that bad boy rose from the ground to reveal his true size, I’ll never forget it…..
5. Let's not forget the amazing chase sequence that you participate with Diggernaut beforehand too, where it ramps up the tension quite a bit. The boss fight is long and hard, but I can respect that aspect a lot.
4. Instant classic and memorable as well.
3. A real puzzle boss that tests every aspect of your arsenal (That said, I have not played Prime 2 yet)
2. It's the big bad space dragon that doesn't die and leaves one hell of an impression (Need to get to this part in Prime but not there yet)
1. It's kinda easy but still intensely memorable. Part of it has to be through the horror strings music and the triumphant reprise of the theme when you first touch down in Super Metroid.
Great list rabbid.
I hope Metroid Dread has bosses that live up to the standards of the Prime games.
We can only hope
Prime 2 especially
@@ryanm.7147 Except the Boost Guardian. That one can rot in hell...
I think we can say it does. Especially the final boss
Experiment No. Z-57 was a lot of fun, easily one of the better fights in the franchise, maybe a little too easy once you figure it out but the same is true for most other Metroid bosses
Got a feeling the number 1 would change after dread now lol
HYPED FOR METROID MONTH
Great video as always!
Happy Kraid is back in dread, hoping he holds up just as cool as he was in the past!
What an awesome start to Metroid Month. Nice to see Fusion get some love.
I can already imagine Dread's Chozo Warrior being a good candidate for a list like this. God I hope.
As for my own favorite, I would have to go for either Gandrayda in Prime 3 or Ridley's Samus Returns fight. Oh, er, spoilers btw
Ravenbeak, Kraid, and Experiment No Z-57 are all really popular. Dread had a lot of cool boss fights it seems.
@@thesnatcher3616 Not Drogyga though. That fight sucked ass.
Hope we do Top 5 Metroid villains, if only just to hear:
"BRING THE FUEL TO STACK THE FIRE, PILE THE BODIES EVER HIGHER!!!!"
MOTI's darkest song
From what metroid game is this?
@@stormwolf5848 It’s from Man on the Internet cover of Ridley's theme, the SSBU remix.
Samus Returns' Ridley fight is still the GOAT to me
I like how they designed him to only have a little of his cybernetics left as a way of showing he's transitioning from Meta Ridley in the Prime trilogy to normal Ridley in Super Metroid as a result of his healing factor. That's some nice attention to detail.
I KNEW IT!! I knew you would do a Metroid Month!!!
Ok, my favorite boss fights in the series:
-Nightmare, of course! So memorable!
-Definitely Quadraxis! So well thought!
-I love the Ing Emperor from the same game! If you just try to finish the game, it's hard as balls. But if you collected all the upgrades, the feeling of power is just off the charts in this fight!!
-Zeta Metroids are my favorite Metroids to fight in Samus Returns!
-I kinda like Phantoon. Don't know why, aside from Ridley, he's my favorite from the Pirate Lords...
Glad to see quadraxis get some love. It's been years since I played metroid prime 2 but he always stood out to me.
Raven Beak from Dread. Now that it's out it easily takes the no. 1 spot without question
Technically it has well designed fight mechanics, but it feels more Dragonball than Metroid...
@@theMagos who cares what it 'feels like'? I'm here for a great boss fight and that's exactly what we got
@@TheXtremeBoltGuy Of course the feeling is important of a game. You wouldn't mind then if you were fighting a pink pony shooting rainbows, if the battle mechanics were the same? For the record, yes it's a great boss fight, I'm not denying that.
Agreed completely. It was frustrating learning the fight, but once I got it, I fell in love. It feels incredible being able to do the whole fight without much trouble now; makes me feel like a total boss. Amazing fight, and one of my favorite parts in all of Dread.
Samus, my scans indicate that all these bosses would shrivel before the might of Dread's final boss, whose Awesomeness cannot be measured and you couldn't beat even at full power and if there were like 10 of you. Accept your helplessness.
The boss fight with Quadraxis is definitely one of my favorites.
How could one NOT have Mother Brain from Super Metroid as number 1? It's the perfect boss battle for the series. You have the bog standard fight, followed by a subversion of expection. Then you fight her new body, and then get the absolute crap kicked out of you. You sit there, worrying, "did I screw up? How do it win this?" Suddenly, the Baby Metroid you rescued previous game eats Mother Brain's face for a minute, seemingly killing her, settles on you to replenish your energy. NOPE, Mother Brain isn't dead, and she just savages Baby Metroid while it protects you sacrificing itself. Then you get the ultimate weapon and just burn Mother Brain down to ashes! Don't be ashamed of your choice, it's perfect!
My one gripe with Mother Brain is her difficulty. As long as you have enough health to survive the first rainbow death laser (which requires minimal skill), you win.
But the cinematic and dramatic ending makes up for it easily
I wonder how excited Rabbidluigi was to find out that Kraid was in Dread
Lot of great visual and audio edits. Great start to the month!
Dread’s final boss has everything Mother Brain has, and enhanced with a more ups and personal battle
Really should have done a little shout-out to the first Ridley fight in Prime 3. Just Samus & Ridley fighting as they fall down this large shaft. Don't even care about the bottom, just care about killing each other. I'm a sucker for good visual atmosphere to a boss fight. That's why the final Link vs Ganondorf in Twilight Princess is one of my favorite fights
The slow music start and that glass break sound is so damn good!
My biggest (humorous) question is:
WHO THE HECK HAS AN ELEVATOR SHAFT THAT TALL?!
"Planning not to die as much though"
*Benefit of having played Dread in its entirety*
Yeah, good luck with that... XD
Despite the... many many flaws of other M. There are two fights in it that I think are just absolutely wonderful. The secret phantoom fight at the end of the game. It requires your attention or you will die. Then the final boss in hard mode. Ridley. The counter timings are tight. The hits are punishing if you let them hit you. This is Ridley the reincarnated clone of the destroyed space pirate armada. In his last canonical fight against Samus. And he will kill you for killing him.
You probably should’ve released this after Dread. That game’s bosses are awesome.
Metroid month.....never thought I would hear that while celebrating for something to look forward to something New!
Fusion has the best bosses
For me, only serries and ridley x were good. All the other bosses were either just ehhh, or not good. Even SA-X and Omega metroid felt ehhh story wise and gameplay wise. IMHO.
@@newageretroplayer4856 Why story-wise?
@@newageretroplayer4856 Idk, I thought Nightmare was a pretty great boss both gameplay-wise and story-wise, as its foreshadowed as a deadly threat before facing it and you even see it looming in the background at times. And once you finally do fight it, it can use its gravity to render your missles useless and takes skilled maneuvering to avoid taking damage from it.
@@DarkScherzo94The omega metroid, while it technicaly doesn't come out of nowhere, feels more like a left over plot thread that they didn't know how to resolve and just decided to treat it simmalirly to the mother brain "second phase". But not as impactful IMHO. As for the SA-X, the plasma beam SHREADS it to atoms and, IMHO, it feels underwhelming as a result. I actually think the power trip was the wrong way to do it and should have been at least a little more tougher during the second phase of the fight. But again it is my honest opinion.
@@amirgarcia547 Technically, I didn't say Nightmare was bad storywise, just kinda ehhh gameplay wise. Though I will give you that it flying in the background was good foreshadowing. But personally, I feel the gravity mechanic wasn't set up well previously before the fight and I feel the fight has a bit to much going on for it. Your asking the player to, potentially learn a new way to fight, deal with sudden water like physics and manage different movement patterns from the boss. Yes, upon replay you can learn all that and I'm not saying that it's a bad boss but, IMHO, I feel other bosses have done "suddenly multiple different aspects you know have to learn" much better. Also, in my honest opinion, Nightmares design doesn't do it for me. Personally, it feels more like a cartoonishly "scary monster" than a Metroid monster.
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I think if this list was made now, the Top 3 would just be bosses from Dread.
The Mother Brain fight in Super Metroid is a masterclass of wordless storytelling. I wish more games learned from its example, including other Metroid games.
Maybe it was a bit too "over the top" but I honestly love the absurdity of the first Ridley encounter in Prime 3 where you fight ridley while falling tens of thousands of feet down an elevator shaft. Like its definitely an absurd situation, but I fucking love it.
Why does anyone need an elevator shaft that deep?!
10:36 Well do I have news for you!
Metroid month?
Where i live we celebrate metroid
Every Decade
*Every Year*
**Every Month**
***EVERY DAY***
I honestly think the final Metroid Queen in the orginal Gameboy game M2 could be 5th on this list.
You fight through all it's children across the planet. The earthquakes that let Samus move from area to area are caused by her. The passageway to her is lined with the most dangerous recently hatched Metroids.
Then there is the boss itself. It has 4 speeds of attack as it dies, and only gets tougher as the fight continues.
But most importantly, a feature missing from every other boss fight on this list... There is two ways to defeat her.
The first is the obvious one, spam missiles at it until it dies. The second is crawl in it's mouth, down it's throat and bomb it from the inside.
I had played the game 18 times in 12 years before even finding out about this method.
I don't know if you are planning on making a list of top 5 music tracks from Metroid, but that fight has a fantastic charm to it too.
I completely forgot about Quadraxis in Metroid Prime 2 (or 3?). Even you couldn't recall the actual game the boss was from. Lol
oooh. metroid month, nice.
I just started Zero Mission on my built SNES mini
Raven beak is now number 1, in fact, he is one of the greatest boss fights in gaming.
Dread came out already. You should reconsider this list.
Fusion/Dread has the best bosses in the mainline games.
Echoes has the best bosses in the Prime games.
Well I did not expect you Rabbidluigi to make a full Metroid month in this October.
Definitely a big surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Very good entries, I agree that all these are very memorable. Glad to see I'm not the only one that took quite a few tries with Diggernaut 😅
"Pour one out for my dead, chunky boy."
I want that on a t-shirt.
I have never played a Metroid game but I’ve ordered Metroid dread and I am so god damn hyped
I think some other channel is spying on your surveys as it released exactly the same themed video as you did, but I know for a fact you had come up with this way before this... Yours is better, by the way. Your style is unique!
Metroid Samus Returns 'Last Boss' without a doubt.
The ones who played it know who he is and it was damn good.
I totally forgot that today was Sunday tbh, so seeing RabbidLuigi upload not just a new video, but a *Metroid* themed video as well when Dread is only 5 days away?
Extra epic.😎
Anyways, my personal favorite Metroid boss is Proteus Ridley from Samus Returns (hopefully the final boss in Dread can come even close to him), with Phantoon from Other M and Mother Brain from Super Metroid being not far behind.
You look like Nick Frost and Simon Pegg's secret child.
Or hbomberguy's homemade, imperfect clone.
😘 Love the videos
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So...
Updated list when?
I remember Fighting Quadraxes back when I was young, and Having an Really Fucking bad time with him, as I just didn't know what to do for the longest time before being able to beat the boss. :D
Also.. Samus to mother brain. ''Taste the RAINBOW MotherF***er''
Murdoc from Gorillaz: "Ya shoot the damned thing and ya melt its face!"
Thankfully Metroid dread is good... oh damn is it good
and your faith was rewarded
Looks like Metroid month videos are going to be interesting in October.
As for this video, any Ridley battles (Prime, Super, Fusion etc.)
Only played Fusion but can remember almost every boss fight in it. Got the armadillo creature that gives you the morph ball. Fighting the security robot, twice. Ridley, the water snake/dragon thing. Nightmare, jumpy junk spider, S.A.X, Omega metroid at the end, the plant in the reactor. Probably a couple more I have missed.
Just remembered the X impersonating a scientist trying to blow up the station, then he turns into some floaty spikey ball thing, same with the bird statue and you also face a much bigger version of it in the Nocturnal Sector, I think that is Sector 6 on the station.
The only thing I remember from samus returns is the counter, and how much I hated it.
I wasn’t a fan of how much the game demanded it, even for fodder enemies.
I personally enjoyed it, but I can admit that it could’ve been executed better (and thankfully is in Dread, which puts far less emphasis on using it.)
I thought about Super Metroid a lot in the past few days and it really has aged so damn well. I only played it for the first time a few years back on my 3DS, and I knew all the big plot twists...and STILL! The atmosphere drew me in so hard I could be surprised by all of it. An apt comparison would be Alien(how fitting); I've seen it a dozen times, but I can always go back to it and have a thrill.
And then there's Prime and mama mia that's another beast entirely. I honestly can't name many other 2D to 3D transitions done as well as Prime.
Ridge.
Where do I keep my change?
In nature’s own coin slot
Here from twitter
In your prison wallet... Lol
You sound like your from Surrey dude.
I'm sutton
The Mother Brain sequence is so well-realized that no one really cares that the fight is almost impossible to lose.
True, the fight may be scripted, but man, is it still an amazing and cinematic scripted fight. The final boss of Fusion against the Omega Metroid tried to do something similar, but kinda missed the mark imo since you can’t hurt the Omega Metroid at all until it hits you, and then afterwards you just blast it to death pretty easily.
@@amirgarcia547 It's one of those things that can really only yield diminishing returns when repeated.
Pretty sure there's going to be a top 5 Metroid upgrades video, and I am perfectly ok with that.
We really need an episode dedicated to Prime Hunters
Can’t wait for the inevitable sequel:
Top 5 Kraid Boss Fights
Kraid hasn't even been in 5 Metroid games
Bro you're the one that got me into doing my top tens, I wanted to do them for a bit, bit you're the one that got me into it, thanks 👊
Very true on that last one; Mother Brain was a cop-out, but not a wrong one.
LOOKING AT YOU, RIDLEY
Find somebody who gets as excited to see you as Rabbid does when he sees Kraid
7:46 "Pretty, pretty ffff--- massively" I agree.
I'mma be real with y'all.
Diggernaut is the most fun I've ever had with a boss fight in a 2D Metroid game.
RabbidLuigi on Dread:
“Planning not to die as much.”
Oh, you poor, naive, and sweet summer child😂
I am loving Metroid month already!
Got me laughing out loud with that "one dead baby later (i can't say that)" like just wow.
The mother brain fight was quite the experience the first time playing Super Metroid. After going back to this game so many times throughout the decades, Phantoon is definitely my favorite boss fight in that game. He's the only one that can still kick my ass sometimes, and is incredibly satisfying to defeat. That's the reason I would put him above mother brain. You have to actively try to lose in the second phase of the Mother Brain boss fight in order to die, because the fight is pretty much scripted in order to deliver the climactic ending. On your first playthrough ever it definitely knocks it out the park, but from a replayability stand point you end up just going through the motions, so it doesn't retain the same sense of accomplishment when replaying it. Still my favorite game of all time though.
"I don't think Nintendo has had a franchise as scary as Metroid."
The Legend of Zelda's Wallmasters/ReDeads/Dead Hands: "Am I a joke to you?"
I’ve personally always had Super Metroid Ridley as my favourite Ridley fight namely becuase of just how difficult it is from other fights in super, every other boss minus Torizo had had a gimmick and weakspot, but Ridley you shoot him in the face UNTIL HE DIES
How about something on the fascinating moments of boredom in Metroid? You’re alone, you’re lost, not a lot of enemies around… and that often can be when Metroid is the most fascinating. And there’s plenty of possible spots. Even in the game we don’t talk about.
Imagine if nightmare was in dread
Oh yeah...that would be awesome!!
5. Pre-EMMI
4. Literal Hellspawn
3. Metroid’s equivalent of the Omnidroid from Incredibles
2. Most epic and fun boss fight in Metroid history
1. 🦖
Oh yeah true. Mother Brain is so frikin good. Just thinking about that fight and remembering it gives me chills
I'm just curious whatever happened to his subscribe interruptions. When was the last one? I don't think they happened in a while and they had so much charm.
I really liked every boss here
You could a case for most of the boss fights tbf but Quadraxis is definitely my favourite. MetaRidley a close second and then Mother Brain 3rd. She's #1 for iconic but as a boss fight? Kinda lacking
I personally loved the omega metroid fight in fusion
@@stevenn1940 Really? I used to hate it but I'm warming up to it. Why do you like it?
My 5 favorite Metroid boss fights:
5. SA-X
4. Metroid Prime
3. Raven Beak
2. Mother Brain (SM)
1. Meta Ridley
Honorable Mentions:
Kraid from SM, MZM, or MD
Crocomire
Nightmare
Quadraxis
😤 Controversial opinion time I actually really don’t like the meta Ridley fight in Metroid prime 1, I feel that Ridley in the 1st phase is up in the air with a bunch of nothing happening for a bit to long while second phase his weak spot is to hard to hit while his set of attacks is way to simple and small. I can dodge all of attacks fine but actually hurting him is arduous making the fight monotonous and drag on and on. Also the Metroid community hyped this fight up way to much so disappointment was probably inevitable, on the flip side you guys undersold the fight against Metroid Prime itself I had a blast with that fight
I think the popular opinion is that prime 1s bosses are all too long and repeat attacks too much
Call it a hot take, but I think Other M actually has a rather solid roster of bosses. The deadliest catch of the Vorash, the bullet hell against Phantoon, even Ridley had a pretty awesome fight despite happening after the most controversial moment in the series.
Never played metroid cuz I'm a wimp-
But I really love the lore and the gameplay
I like to watch speed runs while I draw
I've never been into Metroid, but I've always wanted to pick it up.
I'm looking forward to Metroid: Dread. Maybe it'll be my first game.
Besides Prime, I've played a bit of of Metroid Prime.
If you enjoyed dread, I’m pretty sure you can play Super Metroid on the switch as well. It still holds up very well today
@@TheBrutalSax Thank you for that recommendation! I'd like to play them all some day, I'm just thinking I'll start with Dread, since it's new and therefore easy to get, it's conventionally-styled instead of 3D, and everybody else is playing it and I have the console, so why not me?
(SPOILERS for Dread)
Well, not only did Dread end up not terrible (it's quite awesome, I'd say) but Raven Beak is one of my favorite boss fights now. Not quite as emotionally poignant as Mother Brain's fight, but still a different kind of awesome. Turns out Adam isn't Adam at the moment; he's been telling you to avoid fighting Raven Beak, he didn't ask for your opinion, and even more suspiciously, he told you not to go into a lava room without your Varia suit! That's not the Adam I'm familiar with! So you blow up the curtains and find out he was letting you prove your badassness so that he could clone your bad ass. He didn't expect you to turn into the namesake of the series (by the way, yes, Samus is Metroid now. The ancient joke has paid off. You're welcome, internet.) but he's flexible and sees an opportunity. All after investing some of his mojo into her blood for a fraction of his badassness. And because that now makes you his enemy, he better be able to back up Adam's subtle taunt that you're no match for him. Turns out, he can. For the time being, he's the final boss of the whole saga, able to tap into more Aeion than you can, flash shift, shinespark, blast supernovas, and even fly, because what's a Chozo without wings? Well, you eventually blast them off and find out; he's still formidable and even defeats Samus. He actually wins... only for Samus to FUCK HIM UP WITH A FULL ON METROID MODE ABSORBING BOTH HIS ENERGY AND THE ENERGY OF THE SHIP!!!! IT'S SO AWESOME I LOVE IT!!! And that still isn't enough to kill him so we get one more phase... sort of. Kraid-X eats him and turns him into a hybrid between them. Considering we see Quiet Robe-X is still a nice guy despite being John Carpenter'd, that implicates quite the disturbing scenario. If you assume Kraid Beak retains some of Raven's personality, that means real bad things for the galaxy if he's allowed to live. So how do you win? Charge up one death ray and melt his freaky ass. She even destroys rather than absorbs it X because fuck that guy! It's a boss fight so awesome that I started up the Awesome segment of Dread's TV Tropes page to gush about it... I'm quite surprised I was the first to do so.
Now that Dread is out, I wonder if any of their bosses change the list up.
Metroid Dread has a lot of really good contenders.
The strange thing is, despite playing prime 2 to completion multiple times, i have no memories of the Quadraxis fight...