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I like the little segment at the end "And finally the one you've all been waiting for: Metroid Prime 4 the Wait." I like little touches to these videos like that.
Something you missed about the Boost Guardian from Prime 2: Not only do you go into the fight with only a few energy tanks, but your health is unavoidably ticking down the entire fight due to dark Aether’s atmosphere. As if this fight needed an additional aspect of difficulty 😖
The dark aether atmo makes practically no difference as soon as you get the dark suit. The problem is that the boss itself does a ton of damage when it hits you and that there is a lot of RNG for many things in the fight.. Althought I believe it's difficulty is very overrated. Alpha blogg is so much worse.
I love the raven beak boss fight! Especially because when samus first faces him he does the same moves he does at the end of the game. Just thought that attention to detail was great
This is the first boss that took me about 30 minutes that I actually enjoyed beating. Of all games. In the end you often rush to get to the credits, bur Raven Beak was perfectly balanced in difficulty and enjoyment.
For Samus Returns, I think the final boss is actually a bit harder than Diggernaut. But Diggernaut is a more technical boss fight. You need to figure out each phase. The final boss is more obvious without any confusion, but he hits like a truck and you have to start from phase 1 if you lose on phase 3.
yeah I agree. diggernaut is technical like you said in that much of the difficulty comes from working through his behaviors as if they are puzzles you need too find solutions to, while the fight against Proteus Ridley is a proper slugfest against an especially aggressive foe that is fast and does crazy damage.
@@BradTheDead Yep, I agree. Also, most people don't even figure out how to beat Diggernaut until their 5th try or more. Ridley isn't a confusing battle, just an insanely rough match against an enemy that refuses to die.
@Boss Hoss I think the Metroid Queen is the 3rd hardest boss, behind Ridley and Diggernaut. But sometimes the Omega Metroid feel more difficult than the Queen as well. It just depends on the player.
@Boss Hoss If you want a tip for the Metroid Queen, use the spider ball to cling onto the wall and use power bomb to shoot yourself at her whenever she uses the green plasma ball attack. If you hit her during this attack, it will clear the plasma away and she'll start a different attack. Also for Diggernaut if you didn't know, use spider ball to cling to the floor. That way, it cannot suck you up during those phases.
Honestly, I think Yakuza's harder than Nightmare. Yes, Nightmare is more *difficult,* but there's a save room right near the boss fight. With Yakuza, since the power's out, there's no nearby save point: every single time you lose, you will have to run all the way back from your ship to the boss to challenge it again, and that gets old very, *very* quickly. Especially when you're playing it on 3DS via Ambassador Program, and therefore don't have save states to circumvent that.
@chrispork1443 it's the second phase where it is a bouncing head that makes it very difficult because of the random seeming patterns and when it drops its projectiles shooting either missiles or charge plasma beam can make them disappear
@@swampert564 He's harder than the other bosses in the game. Spider is just tedious due to physics messing up your Bomb Jumps in the final phase, which Trilogy doesn't have because of Spring Ball.
Raven Beak is probably one of the highest quality boss fights Nintendo has ever produced in one of their video games. Nice and challenging, and really rewards the players who have mastered the controls and abilities of the game. It felt so good getting creative with how to fight him and deal with all the different attacks he throws at the player. It's not very common when a game that revolves around acquiring tons of different skills and abilities actually allows the player to use the majority of them all in a single fight, and for their usage to be advantageous. I'm the kind of player who usually manages to beat bosses, even on higher difficulties, within the first 1-2 tries (except in Elden Ring/Souls games). So when it took me 4 tries to beat Raven Beak, I was very satisfied with the overall experience. I wish more game had boss fights as intricate and engaging as Raven Beaks. He's easily the highest quality boss fight in the entire series in my opinion and likely up there as one of my all time favorite boss fights from any video game I've ever played. Superb game design right there.
No more remakes, please. Let's just continue the series as a whole. New games, new entries. Metroid I and II were outdated so the remakes made sense, added lore and gameplay fixes. Fusion needs no such thing, nor does Super, nor does Prime. At most Nintendo just needs to add all those games to the store on Switch so new fans can play them.
Metroid as a series was challenging, but a certain Spanish Game Developer known as MurcurySteam pushed the limits of it's difficulty to new heights. They're known for making games that demand the player to counterattack.
Yeah, there's definitely a bigger emphasis on challenge in MercurySteam's Metroid games, which I'm totally fine with. I think Samus Returns and Dread both benefit from being more difficult games, and I wouldn't mind if future 2D games maintain a similar level of challenge as those games, regardless of whether or not MercurySteam is still developing them.
Phantoon should have been on there. Dude was a nightmare to beat when I first played Super Metroid. He still gives me a bigger challenge than any of the other bosses in Super Metroid, including Ridley.
Ridley in Super Metroid (and in Zero Mission too) is just missile spamming. I think Phantoon is way harder, and Draygon as well even though you can make quick work of him thanks to the Grapple Beam.
Actually accurate to what I'd consider the hardest from each game. Literally the only one I'd swap out myself is Mogenar and have the final boss be the hardest, but thats only purely on Hypermode difficulty. The thing with that game is that the mechanic literally makes everything a cakewalk except that last fight, so...yeah.
Someone else mentions it, finally. Hypermode makes most bosses a cakewalk even on, well, hypermode, but the final boss suddendly works like any other metroid games and it's fucking hard for some reason.
While I’ve yet to do hyper mode on Corruption, none of the fights have ever been difficult for me except the Defence drone, beating Gandrayda by a bit of a wide margin.
In Dread, I actually had way more trouble with the golden Chozo soldier you fight before Raven Beak than I did with Raven Beak himself. No idea why, but it took a couple hours, and all of that warmed me up for Raven Beak so he wasn’t as hard.
@@theamazingj7172 Escue is absolutely (IMO) the toughest boss in Dread and I’ve beaten that game like 50+x at this point. The Chozo soldiers and Raven Beak are great fights but once you know their patterns, it’s no sweat!
The Omega Pirate really isn't that hard, I defeated it in 2 attempts, and that's only because I didn't know what I was doing the first attempt, all you really need to do is make sure you have plenty of missiles to blast away the 4 phazon joints, then when it goes to heal, use your x-ray visor to find it and send super missiles at it, you don't need to worry too much about the lackeys that spawn in since you really only need to fend them off until it goes to heal, the Omega Pirate when healed will just straight up kill the spawned in enemies for you
Raven Beak was really hard for sure, especially for me who isn't a veteran Metroid Player (I finished Zero Mission and got to the last boss of Prime 1, otherwise I've only played a little bit of each game), but still I found his movement pretty easy to predict and avoid. By my 3rd or 4th go I could get to stage 2 no problem, and I only needed two goes in stage 2 to get the hang of how to progress to stage 3. Add another 4-5 times in stage 3 and that was it. I spent at least twice that time on Kraid, and even the Chozo Elite Warroir took me more tries to get past due to the smaller arena, harder to avoid attacks and more damaging blows. Also I'd have to say Metroid Prime is the hardest boss of Metroid Prime, as I never could beat that. I tried for several hours a day for like a week, with 100% items collected, so MAX Energy, and by the end I just gave up and left the game unfinished.
Prime is a pain especially if it summons fission metroid's. Power bombs are your friend at that point and the hyper beam can wipe them out so if your in that mode and have the time use that on the buggers
...Ok. That's weird. Kraid in Dread is really damn easy because you can farm infinite health drops. I suppose he's difficult if you don't know that. But Metroid Prime in Prime 1, really??? The first phase is kind of difficult(still not nearly as much as Meta Ridley or Omega Pirate, if you ask me), but the second phase is a joke, it's basically impossible to die.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 Wow, thanks for that confident boost. I didn't look up any strategy guides for Dread until very late in the game when I struggled real hard with a couple fo bosses, so at first I didn't know about health farming for Kraid, but I found that out as I was trying. My biggest problem was the aiming, and that is true for the entire game. I could never get used to the free aiming, and while I got slightly better at it towards the end, by the time I got to Kraid I was lucky if one in 4 "free aimed" shots hit and I found that I was often to slow to react to all his attacs, so I would take more damage than I could easily farm back. Maybe it's just because I suck at first person games (Prime is the only one I've actually stuck with for more than 30 min), but I remember being all over the internet looking at youtube videos, reading GameFAQs, looking for tricks and strategies, but I could never beat it. I could get to the last phase, often at the cost of 1 or 2 energy tanks, but rarely more then so, and still could not defeat the last stage. Now, that was 7 or 8 years ago and if I were to try again today I would have to re-learn all the controls and all the visors and beams and whatnots and I just can't be arsed. I bough the Wii Trilogy a couple of years ago and thought I'd try a full new playthrough, but I found the motion controls impossible for me, I couldn't even get passed the Hive Mecha. As for Ridley I remember him being hard, but very doable and I don't even remember the Omega Pirate, but I guess I must have beaten him since I got all the way to Prime.
@@kirillheroes98 Yah, and besides, at least Draygon has a save spot right near it. The closest save spot to Ridley is WAY TOO far from the boss itself!!!
I think they're both difficult in their own ways. Draygon has a more comprehensive pattern, but she'll screw you over with her mucus if you don't learn her pattern quickly. Ridley's an easier target, but his massive health pool just makes him more of a DPS race.
Honestly, while Boost Guardian is a pain in the ass and probably one of my least favorite fights, I'd genuinely argue Emperor Ing (the entire fight, not just one phase) is more difficult, You don't get any health replenishment during the entire battle, the second phase is a waiting game and if you get to the final phase with minimal Energy Tanks, you're starting over for sure. Boost Guardian has some of those problems, but at least it can hit into pillars spawning 100 energy orbs, giving you the chance to continue (plus if you use like two or three Super Missiles on it and launch fully charged Light beam at it for the last bit, you can melt him. the only problem is having to get him out of puddle form (reminder that you don't have to be in morphball during that, and honestly it can make the entire fight a whole lot easier than being IN morphball as you can double jump, and if you are in morphball, [Trilogy only] you have spring ball to possibly jump out of the way of the dash it does) but that's my take, probably because for the longest time i've had trouble with Emperor Ing and I've also learned to surpass Boost Guardian on all difficulties after enough trial and error
You do get health replenishment in the first two phases. The first one you get health and ammo drops from the tentacles, in the Spider Ball phase the Inglets and the destroyed Tentacles give you drops. In the final phase the little groups of Light and Dark energy "bugs" as I like to call them give you drops for ammo but the second phase gives you crap ton of blue and yellow energy drops. Although Emperor Ing on Hard Mode is still arguably one of if not the toughest boss in the franchise, I've played through the game like 10 times but on Hard Mode the last phase kicks my ass a lot even when I'm at almost full tanks.
i find those two are easy they have alot of health but its fairly simple to dodge their attacks, i was getting out healed by primes orbs dropping health too, omega pirate however does loads of damage especially on hard mode when he spawns in his goons, their attacks are very hard to deal with
I never had much trouble with the Boost Guardian, even on hard mode in the GameCube version. Not to be rude or anything but just unload the Light beam on the f*cker and be good with dodging its attacks and you’ll be fine. Granted I have played the game many times so I’m adept at fighting it. The Alpha Blogg is hard but not overly so, again same strategy but substitute Light with Dark and try to hit the Dark burst combo if you can. Again just unload everything you got onto the bitch and get good at dodging and you’ll come out on top (unless you intentionally handicap yourself for more challenge then I can’t help you). But the Spider Guardian…
Emperor Ing is way more dangerous yes the save point is more generous for Emperor Ing but he goes crazy in P2 and does fucktons of damage Edit: Sorry meant P3
As someone who has played every one of these games, I wholly agree. ESPECIALLY the Boost Guardian. Every time I replay Echoes, I dread facing him the most.
I’d say meta Ridley in Metroid prime 1 is harder. It’s just a marathon of a fight. The last phase in particular. Omega pirate you can slaughter if you just ignore the minions and stop him from getting armor regen. And while boost guardian is difficult, spider guardian in Metroid prime 2, with the original GameCube controls, was a nightmare. Having him chase you while struggling with bomb jumps was easily one of the hardest boss fights in the prime series
For me meta ridley was one and done. Omega took me countless attempts back in the day, and it was the adds that always killed me whether I ignored them or not.
@@WolfHack Omega gets demolished by PBs and Super Missiles Ridley is RNG (on Gamecube version on newer version its better) in how much he spams the charge(pretty much cant shoot his weakpoint because he blocks it with his arm and getting hit by that charge hurts alot
Well, guess what? I actually beat Raven Beak on my first try. I was literally at 39 energy with one energy tank left in the final phase. It made my anxiety levels go through the roof, for sure, but somehow, I did it.
I WAS hanging on in a corner, dodging metroid prime 4's wait .... Then I risked one little video.... and suddenly, there are spikes on all the walls and my corner isn't safe anymore. Thanks my guy.
The final boss from Metroid Prime 2 made me take a 5 year hiatus before I attempted it again. Lmao. I remember dying so many times I replayed the game again before attempting to beat the final boss.
I had a harder time with Chykka in Prime 2 than the Boost Guardian. Constantly moving, small platforms over a poisonous bog, the variety in its attacks, and the fact it takes over 20 minutes to beat.
Chykka, really? It can take a lot of time if you don't know what you're doing, but your chances of dying are very low. In fact, I don't think I've ever died to it in all of my playthroughts. Alpha blogg is what I choose for this game. I just don't understand this boss at all.
I’ve finished all of them except for Other M, Prime 3 and Samus Returns remake and I’d say without a doubt Omega Pirate from Prime 1. Not even Raven Beak stood close for me.
You're trying to tell me that wasps are the most dangerous thing in MP1 not the Giant Space dragon that spams dash and blocks his weak point with his arm so you cant punish it?
Omega Pirate definitely represented a difficulty spike in the bosses, but I'd say Meta Ridley and Metroid Prime were slightly harder. As for Raven Beak, I actually enjoyed his fight a lot. Challenging, but nowhere near as hellacious as Escue or the Twin Chozo Robots.
@@Quackra you have to keep a bead on them with the storm missiles, which is difficult since you have to be constantly dodging their shots or it de-locks. And in hard mode, they only need two hits to kill you.
Metroid Prime 4 will launch at the end of 2023 exclusivly for Nintendo Switch and will feature an online multiplayer mode! No Cross gen as the sucessor will arrive by march 2025! My prediction!
The reason Metroid prime four hasn’t come out yet is because four isn’t a prime number. The devs have been trying to find a loophole around this for months
If you're talking about the one where he's got golden armor, here's a tip: as long as the golden armor's up, he's invincible. There *is* a means to make him drop it temporarily, though...
I died about 50+ times to him, now he's not so hard. Just really focus on staying airborne to avoid the Gatling gun thing, shoot during the big pink beam, slide under the flying attacks, and make sure you've got at least like 150 missiles for that phase and using storm missle
Oh yeah and don't waste your time in phase 1 trying to hurt him outside of shooting after a parry. That's when the shield is down, otherwise it's a waste of missles
There's a nice trick to Omega Pirate which I just learned and that's to not let him escape x-ray mode. You should have enough health to somewhat ignore the single soldiers (roll into a ball to drawn them in and release a power bomb) but don't lose sight of OP and keep shooting him with super missiles before he can recharge. Easy-peasy.
Super Metroid- personally I find Phantoon hardest....and that's acid in Ridley's lair not lava. The Gravity Suit negates damage in lava in addition to making it easy to move underwater. Metroid Prime 2- it's always a toss up for me between the Boost and Spider Guardians....they're both just frustratingly obnoxious
Yeah, I agree with you on Prime 2. I always hate going into those 2 fights. Boost is annoying as you have no safe zones, so you have to rely on the fodder to get health. Spider is annoying too because of the fact you are in the Morph Ball the whole time and one mistimed bomb jump can ruin the entire battle for you, especially in that fourth area.
@@MajorTeag Spider is hugely improved in the Wii version but it's still irritating to deal with....at least the Wii versions of Prime 1 & 2 added the Spring Ball ability ( just flick the Wiimote in Morph Ball form like you can in Prime 3 and voila, Spring Ball jumping )
On trilogy I found Boost and Spider more annoying than hard, although Boost was the only thing that managed to kill me. Emperor Ing felt the hardest to me.
It's been so long since I played Prime 2. I remember the difficulty spike with boost guardian, but don't remember it being too bad. The final bosses of the game are what I struggled with, Emperor Ing followed by Dark Samus right after. I remember playing that like a good 15 or 20 times before finally beating it.
@@speedude0164 just focus in omega using super misiles whn he is in cloak mode, dont pay attention to the mobs, most of the time omega pirate will take care of the for you
Remembering deep this series went into engaging boss fights has made me all the more excited for Metroid Prime 4 and trusting the wait will be worth it, 🤞
@@gadrielvanorion9872 yeah it is a great feeling when you finally beat him. I actually died when he becomes infected because I didn't know what to do haha. I was so gutted 😂
Mecha Ridley is definitely harder than MB because he killed me several times the first time I played Zero Mission. It doesn’t help that I like to 100% Metroid games, and Mecha Ridley is harder the more power-ups you have.
Wouldn't say RB is the hardest in Dread. It just takes longer to kill him than the other bosses. He's also only a threat in phase 2 since you can continually recover your health and ammo in phase 1 and 3. I thought Experience Z-57 was more annoying until I got the timing down.
I think for experiment Z-57 it comes down to using Flash Shift. RB imo is the HARDEST, his counters are ridiculously small and none of your attacks works until the last phase.
For metroid zero mission, if you count optional 15% runs of the game you need for unlocking all endings, I'd say Ridley. He's a real ass when you only have 5 missiles & a couple energy tanks
Ridley in Zero Mission is easier than Mecha, but all bosses in ZM are easy even on Hard Mode. Ridley you need only like 8 Supers to kill on Hard and that is kinda sad.
I am not arguing that Raven Beak isn't the hardest boss in Dread, but... 5 phases? He only has 3. Sure, there's that bit near the end that could count as a 4th phase, but that is more or less a short cutscene that if you die, brings you right back to the beginning of said cutscene. Not sure where the 5th one comes from though.
DREAD and PRIME had really hard and almost unfair last bosses, espeically DREAD where i had to backtrack for more missles and health, and Prime it was just almost broken.
i was sitting here wondering what the hardest boss in mp2 was, thinking all of them were pretty easy but then realizing it wasnt a boss, it was a mini boss that was the hardest thing in that game. i never finished mp2 on hard mode because of the boost guardian. it was INSANELY difficult because even if you do beat it, if u dont have enough energy, you die. fun game nonetheless
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Man Metroid has some crazy bosses!!!
God damn raven beak was the hardest one I had to fight against.
2:23 that's not Lava.. its acid
I like the little segment at the end "And finally the one you've all been waiting for: Metroid Prime 4 the Wait." I like little touches to these videos like that.
Hey, we got Metroid prime federation force, and Metroid Samus returns and Metroid Dread.
@@Spider-Man-257 Everyone has wanted Prime 4 for years and to get such a horrible game like Federation Force was disappointing.
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@@colingamer5073 Federation Force isn't a bad game, The game is innvessive, it's not gonna lite the world on fire, as long as you have friends.
Was not expecting that lol
The wait. Truly the unbeatable boss of any title
Pranks gone wrong
The wait is now over
Something you missed about the Boost Guardian from Prime 2:
Not only do you go into the fight with only a few energy tanks, but your health is unavoidably ticking down the entire fight due to dark Aether’s atmosphere. As if this fight needed an additional aspect of difficulty 😖
Also the boost attack hits like a fucking truck
The dark aether atmo makes practically no difference as soon as you get the dark suit. The problem is that the boss itself does a ton of damage when it hits you and that there is a lot of RNG for many things in the fight.. Althought I believe it's difficulty is very overrated. Alpha blogg is so much worse.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 The trick to that fight is to shoot the super missiles before its mouth opens, since there's a firing delay
@@AzureMoebius22 I don't feel like it matters when I fire. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. To me, it's luck.
I never had difficulty with the Boost Guardian, even on hard (hyper mode for trilogy players), the Spider Guardian on the other hand…
I love the raven beak boss fight! Especially because when samus first faces him he does the same moves he does at the end of the game. Just thought that attention to detail was great
I think he’s so fun to fight I literally went back to fight like 4-5 times
@@yuriyavdeev1105 same!
This is the first boss that took me about 30 minutes that I actually enjoyed beating. Of all games. In the end you often rush to get to the credits, bur Raven Beak was perfectly balanced in difficulty and enjoyment.
@@sidewinder2057 totally!
Facts, the whole campaign was hard and enjoyable the whole time. I managed to beat it on dread difficulty also
10:51 I believe someday we will beat this monstrous beast.....together.
I’d say 2 years
We survived the 16 years for dread we can survive prime 4 no problem
@@kiryu5499WAIT WHAT
@@Dylan-n3v funny
@@Dylan-n3v funny
"The wait."
You're not wrong, my friend. You're not wrong at all.
For Samus Returns, I think the final boss is actually a bit harder than Diggernaut. But Diggernaut is a more technical boss fight. You need to figure out each phase. The final boss is more obvious without any confusion, but he hits like a truck and you have to start from phase 1 if you lose on phase 3.
yeah I agree. diggernaut is technical like you said in that much of the difficulty comes from working through his behaviors as if they are puzzles you need too find solutions to, while the fight against Proteus Ridley is a proper slugfest against an especially aggressive foe that is fast and does crazy damage.
I think both are difficult for me
@@BradTheDead
Yep, I agree. Also, most people don't even figure out how to beat Diggernaut until their 5th try or more. Ridley isn't a confusing battle, just an insanely rough match against an enemy that refuses to die.
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I think the Metroid Queen is the 3rd hardest boss, behind Ridley and Diggernaut. But sometimes the Omega Metroid feel more difficult than the Queen as well. It just depends on the player.
@Boss Hoss
If you want a tip for the Metroid Queen, use the spider ball to cling onto the wall and use power bomb to shoot yourself at her whenever she uses the green plasma ball attack. If you hit her during this attack, it will clear the plasma away and she'll start a different attack.
Also for Diggernaut if you didn't know, use spider ball to cling to the floor. That way, it cannot suck you up during those phases.
Wanna know what's worst? The Wait from Metroid Prime 4 is just the first boss of the game
Honestly, I think Yakuza's harder than Nightmare. Yes, Nightmare is more *difficult,* but there's a save room right near the boss fight. With Yakuza, since the power's out, there's no nearby save point: every single time you lose, you will have to run all the way back from your ship to the boss to challenge it again, and that gets old very, *very* quickly. Especially when you're playing it on 3DS via Ambassador Program, and therefore don't have save states to circumvent that.
Yakuza's third phase is also really random.
Nightmare you can loop into a pattern with space jump.
Yakuza is easier, the slow crawl towards the boss makes it harder to memorise its patterns.
Hitless wise Yakuza is definitely harder, that boss is unpredictable
Morph ball into the corners to avoid it. But beware the fireballs
@chrispork1443 it's the second phase where it is a bouncing head that makes it very difficult because of the random seeming patterns and when it drops its projectiles shooting either missiles or charge plasma beam can make them disappear
A lot of lists' "number ones" are often debatable, but this may be the first time a list got it 100% correct.
It didn't
Spider Guardian is more messed up then boost.
@@swampert564 spider is easy
@@novustalks7525 yeah kinda but boost ain't hard either.
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He's harder than the other bosses in the game. Spider is just tedious due to physics messing up your Bomb Jumps in the final phase, which Trilogy doesn't have because of Spring Ball.
Raven Beak is probably one of the highest quality boss fights Nintendo has ever produced in one of their video games. Nice and challenging, and really rewards the players who have mastered the controls and abilities of the game. It felt so good getting creative with how to fight him and deal with all the different attacks he throws at the player. It's not very common when a game that revolves around acquiring tons of different skills and abilities actually allows the player to use the majority of them all in a single fight, and for their usage to be advantageous.
I'm the kind of player who usually manages to beat bosses, even on higher difficulties, within the first 1-2 tries (except in Elden Ring/Souls games). So when it took me 4 tries to beat Raven Beak, I was very satisfied with the overall experience. I wish more game had boss fights as intricate and engaging as Raven Beaks. He's easily the highest quality boss fight in the entire series in my opinion and likely up there as one of my all time favorite boss fights from any video game I've ever played. Superb game design right there.
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Mercury Steam really needs to be commissioned to remake metroid fusion. After Dread I would trust them with it!
Fusion doesn’t really need a remake. But a remastered re-release would be nice
No more remakes, please. Let's just continue the series as a whole. New games, new entries. Metroid I and II were outdated so the remakes made sense, added lore and gameplay fixes. Fusion needs no such thing, nor does Super, nor does Prime. At most Nintendo just needs to add all those games to the store on Switch so new fans can play them.
Hell, in that case Zero Mission also! Maybe, maybe even Super!?!
The only thing I would want added to Fusion would be a scanner that gives background info on creatures and areas of the station
If they remake super then that would be the saddest thing that ever happens
Seriously that wait has beat me like 30 times already. 😔
It's cooldowns are so slow I haven't gotten a chance to attack yet 😭
Haha, it's made me rage quit.
11:03 the wait is almost Over....
The wait is now over.
Metroid Prime 4 "Beyond" drops in 2025.
Check for official trailer today
Just about any boss from Dread...
Yeah they are hard but I figured out that when you memorized their patterns it's not impossible.
Kraid and Corpious are easy, but the rest are at the very least somewhat difficult.
@@Quackra Final boss was definitely a challenge for me took me a good amount of tries
All of them are memorization based. They will take many tries on your first playthrough but are pretty much never a challenge after that.
They were all super easy honestly. The only one I'd say I struggled a bit more with was Experiment No. z-57
Metroid as a series was challenging, but a certain Spanish Game Developer known as MurcurySteam pushed the limits of it's difficulty to new heights. They're known for making games that demand the player to counterattack.
Yeah, there's definitely a bigger emphasis on challenge in MercurySteam's Metroid games, which I'm totally fine with. I think Samus Returns and Dread both benefit from being more difficult games, and I wouldn't mind if future 2D games maintain a similar level of challenge as those games, regardless of whether or not MercurySteam is still developing them.
Phantoon should have been on there. Dude was a nightmare to beat when I first played Super Metroid. He still gives me a bigger challenge than any of the other bosses in Super Metroid, including Ridley.
Metroid other m phantoon secret boss is harder than metroid queen as well.
Ridley in Super Metroid (and in Zero Mission too) is just missile spamming. I think Phantoon is way harder, and Draygon as well even though you can make quick work of him thanks to the Grapple Beam.
Phantoon is only a problem if you don't realize that super missiles are a bad idea.
@@michelenick22 Yeah, but SM's Ridley is a lot of spamming. ZM can be harder if you're low%, however.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 I figured that out easily and he still was a bigger challenge than Ridley to me
Actually accurate to what I'd consider the hardest from each game.
Literally the only one I'd swap out myself is Mogenar and have the final boss be the hardest, but thats only purely on Hypermode difficulty. The thing with that game is that the mechanic literally makes everything a cakewalk except that last fight, so...yeah.
Someone else mentions it, finally. Hypermode makes most bosses a cakewalk even on, well, hypermode, but the final boss suddendly works like any other metroid games and it's fucking hard for some reason.
While I’ve yet to do hyper mode on Corruption, none of the fights have ever been difficult for me except the Defence drone, beating Gandrayda by a bit of a wide margin.
10 years from now we will be waiting for metroid prime 4.
The boost guardian was crazy but for me it was the spider guardian that was ridiculous
In Dread, I actually had way more trouble with the golden Chozo soldier you fight before Raven Beak than I did with Raven Beak himself. No idea why, but it took a couple hours, and all of that warmed me up for Raven Beak so he wasn’t as hard.
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Yea, I thought they were alittle too similar... but whatever. It was still alright.
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I never died to the solo chozo soldier fights, just didn’t have an issue. But the twin solider whatever fights?? Oh my god those took me forever
The Lazer little alien thing in Ferenia used to annoy me.
Edit: The creature was Escue. Absolutely hated that boss with a passion
@@theamazingj7172 Escue is absolutely (IMO) the toughest boss in Dread and I’ve beaten that game like 50+x at this point. The Chozo soldiers and Raven Beak are great fights but once you know their patterns, it’s no sweat!
Yeah but I think Escue is the hardest boss
The Omega Pirate really isn't that hard, I defeated it in 2 attempts, and that's only because I didn't know what I was doing the first attempt, all you really need to do is make sure you have plenty of missiles to blast away the 4 phazon joints, then when it goes to heal, use your x-ray visor to find it and send super missiles at it, you don't need to worry too much about the lackeys that spawn in since you really only need to fend them off until it goes to heal, the Omega Pirate when healed will just straight up kill the spawned in enemies for you
Is there a harder boss for mp1?
@@WolfHack Metroid Prime P1 or Meta Ridley if you dont use the boost ball exploit
Heres my honourable mention, Neo Ridley because GOOD FUCKING GOD MY EARS
Raven Beak was really hard for sure, especially for me who isn't a veteran Metroid Player (I finished Zero Mission and got to the last boss of Prime 1, otherwise I've only played a little bit of each game), but still I found his movement pretty easy to predict and avoid. By my 3rd or 4th go I could get to stage 2 no problem, and I only needed two goes in stage 2 to get the hang of how to progress to stage 3. Add another 4-5 times in stage 3 and that was it. I spent at least twice that time on Kraid, and even the Chozo Elite Warroir took me more tries to get past due to the smaller arena, harder to avoid attacks and more damaging blows. Also I'd have to say Metroid Prime is the hardest boss of Metroid Prime, as I never could beat that. I tried for several hours a day for like a week, with 100% items collected, so MAX Energy, and by the end I just gave up and left the game unfinished.
Prime is a pain especially if it summons fission metroid's. Power bombs are your friend at that point and the hyper beam can wipe them out so if your in that mode and have the time use that on the buggers
...Ok. That's weird. Kraid in Dread is really damn easy because you can farm infinite health drops. I suppose he's difficult if you don't know that. But Metroid Prime in Prime 1, really??? The first phase is kind of difficult(still not nearly as much as Meta Ridley or Omega Pirate, if you ask me), but the second phase is a joke, it's basically impossible to die.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 Wow, thanks for that confident boost. I didn't look up any strategy guides for Dread until very late in the game when I struggled real hard with a couple fo bosses, so at first I didn't know about health farming for Kraid, but I found that out as I was trying. My biggest problem was the aiming, and that is true for the entire game. I could never get used to the free aiming, and while I got slightly better at it towards the end, by the time I got to Kraid I was lucky if one in 4 "free aimed" shots hit and I found that I was often to slow to react to all his attacs, so I would take more damage than I could easily farm back.
Maybe it's just because I suck at first person games (Prime is the only one I've actually stuck with for more than 30 min), but I remember being all over the internet looking at youtube videos, reading GameFAQs, looking for tricks and strategies, but I could never beat it. I could get to the last phase, often at the cost of 1 or 2 energy tanks, but rarely more then so, and still could not defeat the last stage. Now, that was 7 or 8 years ago and if I were to try again today I would have to re-learn all the controls and all the visors and beams and whatnots and I just can't be arsed. I bough the Wii Trilogy a couple of years ago and thought I'd try a full new playthrough, but I found the motion controls impossible for me, I couldn't even get passed the Hive Mecha. As for Ridley I remember him being hard, but very doable and I don't even remember the Omega Pirate, but I guess I must have beaten him since I got all the way to Prime.
I was able to beat Beak with only 40% items collected 😂
Raven Beak is a Dark Souls boss put into Metroid that’s literally what he is!!!
If you don't use the Grapple Beam electrocution Draygon is far harder than Ridley in Super Metroid.
i disagree. Draygon without Grapple Beam was easier for me than Ridley
No, Ridley is still harder. Althought neither are that bad. SM is one of the easiest metroid games in terms of combat.
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Yah, and besides, at least Draygon has a save spot right near it. The closest save spot to Ridley is WAY TOO far from the boss itself!!!
Draygon is in no way harder than Ridley
I think they're both difficult in their own ways. Draygon has a more comprehensive pattern, but she'll screw you over with her mucus if you don't learn her pattern quickly. Ridley's an easier target, but his massive health pool just makes him more of a DPS race.
Honestly, while Boost Guardian is a pain in the ass and probably one of my least favorite fights, I'd genuinely argue Emperor Ing (the entire fight, not just one phase) is more difficult, You don't get any health replenishment during the entire battle, the second phase is a waiting game and if you get to the final phase with minimal Energy Tanks, you're starting over for sure. Boost Guardian has some of those problems, but at least it can hit into pillars spawning 100 energy orbs, giving you the chance to continue (plus if you use like two or three Super Missiles on it and launch fully charged Light beam at it for the last bit, you can melt him. the only problem is having to get him out of puddle form (reminder that you don't have to be in morphball during that, and honestly it can make the entire fight a whole lot easier than being IN morphball as you can double jump, and if you are in morphball, [Trilogy only] you have spring ball to possibly jump out of the way of the dash it does) but that's my take, probably because for the longest time i've had trouble with Emperor Ing and I've also learned to surpass Boost Guardian on all difficulties after enough trial and error
You do get health replenishment in the first two phases. The first one you get health and ammo drops from the tentacles, in the Spider Ball phase the Inglets and the destroyed Tentacles give you drops. In the final phase the little groups of Light and Dark energy "bugs" as I like to call them give you drops for ammo but the second phase gives you crap ton of blue and yellow energy drops. Although Emperor Ing on Hard Mode is still arguably one of if not the toughest boss in the franchise, I've played through the game like 10 times but on Hard Mode the last phase kicks my ass a lot even when I'm at almost full tanks.
@@ExtremeAce Emperor Ing is still far more dangerous imo not so much P1 or P2 but P3 he goes crazy and will demolish your health
Prime 4?!? WE ARE SO BACK BOYSSS
Really interesting that so many people think omega pirate is the hardest in prime 1, i had much more trouble with Meta Ridley and Metroid Prime
i find those two are easy they have alot of health but its fairly simple to dodge their attacks, i was getting out healed by primes orbs dropping health too, omega pirate however does loads of damage especially on hard mode when he spawns in his goons, their attacks are very hard to deal with
No love for spider guardian in Prime 2? You know, the fight where you couldn't even stand up. 🤣
Spot on with the "hardest boss of all" haha.
Ridley is a cakewalk compared to Draygon
Nah Draygon's easy, just shoot one of the components and grapple to it and insta kill
Raven Beak almost made me break by controller, but God damn was it satisfying to finally take him down.
The wait's weakness is being in 2024
The boost guardian was harder on the GameCube version. They made it a little easier on the wii.
Yes, I believe they slightly nerfed it's damage or hp, something like that. Plus, jumpball can make this potentially a bit easier.
I never had much trouble with the Boost Guardian, even on hard mode in the GameCube version. Not to be rude or anything but just unload the Light beam on the f*cker and be good with dodging its attacks and you’ll be fine. Granted I have played the game many times so I’m adept at fighting it. The Alpha Blogg is hard but not overly so, again same strategy but substitute Light with Dark and try to hit the Dark burst combo if you can. Again just unload everything you got onto the bitch and get good at dodging and you’ll come out on top (unless you intentionally handicap yourself for more challenge then I can’t help you). But the Spider Guardian…
Definitely a tough boss for sure dude
Emperor Ing is way more dangerous yes the save point is more generous for Emperor Ing but he goes crazy in P2 and does fucktons of damage Edit: Sorry meant P3
I definitely agree that Raven Beak is hard, but Escue is just SO ANNOYING.
Experiment No. Z-57 from Dread was also very annoying
You can shinespark it to kill it.
@@chrispork1443 i never could
Yep there’s no rival for that last one… i think im gonna have grandkids by then
Honestly good list
As someone who has played every one of these games, I wholly agree. ESPECIALLY the Boost Guardian. Every time I replay Echoes, I dread facing him the most.
Metroid Prime 2 was actually incomplete when it came out.
Same here. Such a difficult fight!
Metroid Prime remastered must be a sign that greater things are going to happen soon. It's a lead-up towards Prime 4.
I’d say meta Ridley in Metroid prime 1 is harder. It’s just a marathon of a fight. The last phase in particular. Omega pirate you can slaughter if you just ignore the minions and stop him from getting armor regen.
And while boost guardian is difficult, spider guardian in Metroid prime 2, with the original GameCube controls, was a nightmare. Having him chase you while struggling with bomb jumps was easily one of the hardest boss fights in the prime series
For me meta ridley was one and done. Omega took me countless attempts back in the day, and it was the adds that always killed me whether I ignored them or not.
@@WolfHack Omega gets demolished by PBs and Super Missiles Ridley is RNG (on Gamecube version on newer version its better) in how much he spams the charge(pretty much cant shoot his weakpoint because he blocks it with his arm and getting hit by that charge hurts alot
Well, guess what? I actually beat Raven Beak on my first try. I was literally at 39 energy with one energy tank left in the final phase. It made my anxiety levels go through the roof, for sure, but somehow, I did it.
That must have been frikkin epic
@@mookymookymooo I'm honestly sad I wasn't recording it at the time.
Died so many times! Well done
I WAS hanging on in a corner, dodging metroid prime 4's wait ....
Then I risked one little video....
and suddenly, there are spikes on all the walls and my corner isn't safe anymore.
Thanks my guy.
The final boss from Metroid Prime 2 made me take a 5 year hiatus before I attempted it again. Lmao. I remember dying so many times I replayed the game again before attempting to beat the final boss.
Prime 2 had a lot of difficult fights for me. I had this happen a few times and didn't beat it until the trilogy version
Damn.. The hardest boss of all. METRIOD PRIME FOUR ....THE WAIT. .
Mic drop.
I had a harder time with Chykka in Prime 2 than the Boost Guardian. Constantly moving, small platforms over a poisonous bog, the variety in its attacks, and the fact it takes over 20 minutes to beat.
Chykka, really? It can take a lot of time if you don't know what you're doing, but your chances of dying are very low. In fact, I don't think I've ever died to it in all of my playthroughts.
Alpha blogg is what I choose for this game. I just don't understand this boss at all.
I never had difficulty with all the bosses in Echoes except the Spider Guardian. I don’t think I need to explain why.
That was a hard boss for sure!
Emperor Ing is far harder than either of those
Raven beak only has 3 phases lol not 5. But he's definitely the hardest boss in the series. For me anyway.
Well, no spoilies, but there is that "little" extra stage at the end there! ;D That said, he sufficiently kicked my butt too, such a great fight!
He took me a few tries to but it was great to finally beat him.
Possibly one of the best boss fights from the series
He has:
Initial phase
Couter damage only phase
Flight phase
Final phase
Cinematic phase
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The counter only part is just another section of the first phase, and the so called “5th phase” is a glorified cutscene.
Brilliant video dude. Subbed!
I’ve finished all of them except for Other M, Prime 3 and Samus Returns remake and I’d say without a doubt Omega Pirate from Prime 1. Not even Raven Beak stood close for me.
Power bombs literally wreck him lmao wdym? It pretty much insta breaks all his armor xD
@@gokublack8342 maybe he doesnt know
Diggernaut was such a bitch to fight, that fight constantly destroys me whenever I replay samus returns
Awesome video! Thank you for making it
Metroid - Kraid
Metroid 2 - Queen Metroid
Super Metroid - Phantoon
Metroid Fusion - Security Bot 2
Metroid Prime - Hive Mecha
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Boost Guardian
Metroid Prime Pinball - Ridley
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Mogenar
You're trying to tell me that wasps are the most dangerous thing in MP1 not the Giant Space dragon that spams dash and blocks his weak point with his arm so you cant punish it?
@@gokublack8342 Yes, that is exactly what I am telling you.
the wait killed me more often than raven beak... damn
The wait is so hard even the devs needed to restart the game to beat it.
Totally agree with the final most hard boss in Metroid saga :'(
"Metroid prime 4 the wait" absolutely killed me
Omega pirate ain't shit. Meta Ridley was harder
Metroid is an amazing saga
One of the best!
Omega Pirate definitely represented a difficulty spike in the bosses, but I'd say Meta Ridley and Metroid Prime were slightly harder. As for Raven Beak, I actually enjoyed his fight a lot. Challenging, but nowhere near as hellacious as Escue or the Twin Chozo Robots.
The Twin Chozo Robots is not as hard as you think, Storm Missiles make it too easy imo.
@@Quackra you have to keep a bead on them with the storm missiles, which is difficult since you have to be constantly dodging their shots or it de-locks. And in hard mode, they only need two hits to kill you.
@@Quackra Yep I agree on the storm missiles!
I agree on Escue, and I found Experiment Z-57 harder than Raven Beak. Fun fight though. I think Raven Beak is also a hard but fun fight.
They all had awesome themes especially Omega Pirate. Need to cover it some time!
Metroid Prime 4 will launch at the end of 2023 exclusivly for Nintendo Switch and will feature an online multiplayer mode! No Cross gen as the sucessor will arrive by march 2025! My prediction!
That will be awesome! Can't wait :)
Surely, that last one is the hardest of all. Here's hoping we finally beat it.
Omega pirate was fun and easy tho.
Diggerbot was such a pain
The reason Metroid prime four hasn’t come out yet is because four isn’t a prime number. The devs have been trying to find a loophole around this for months
They could be referring to the fourth prime number and not the number 4 😂
Omega Pirate is pretty easy if you just shoot super missiles at him while he’s invisible
The adds are what make it difficult. Beam pirates do so much damage
@@WolfHack if your know what your doing they are more of a nuisance than threat in the battle. If anything Ridley can be more of a threat in the game.
I'm still fighting Raven Beak, I haven't been able to get past the second phase!
I couldn’t beat him in my first play through so I started again. 2nd time around I absolutely destroyed him. And I’m pretty terrible at these games
If you're talking about the one where he's got golden armor, here's a tip: as long as the golden armor's up, he's invincible. There *is* a means to make him drop it temporarily, though...
I died about 50+ times to him, now he's not so hard. Just really focus on staying airborne to avoid the Gatling gun thing, shoot during the big pink beam, slide under the flying attacks, and make sure you've got at least like 150 missiles for that phase and using storm missle
Oh yeah and don't waste your time in phase 1 trying to hurt him outside of shooting after a parry. That's when the shield is down, otherwise it's a waste of missles
Mobility is your friend
There's a nice trick to Omega Pirate which I just learned and that's to not let him escape x-ray mode. You should have enough health to somewhat ignore the single soldiers (roll into a ball to drawn them in and release a power bomb) but don't lose sight of OP and keep shooting him with super missiles before he can recharge. Easy-peasy.
Super Metroid- personally I find Phantoon hardest....and that's acid in Ridley's lair not lava. The Gravity Suit negates damage in lava in addition to making it easy to move underwater.
Metroid Prime 2- it's always a toss up for me between the Boost and Spider Guardians....they're both just frustratingly obnoxious
Yeah, I agree with you on Prime 2. I always hate going into those 2 fights. Boost is annoying as you have no safe zones, so you have to rely on the fodder to get health. Spider is annoying too because of the fact you are in the Morph Ball the whole time and one mistimed bomb jump can ruin the entire battle for you, especially in that fourth area.
@@MajorTeag Spider is hugely improved in the Wii version but it's still irritating to deal with....at least the Wii versions of Prime 1 & 2 added the Spring Ball ability ( just flick the Wiimote in Morph Ball form like you can in Prime 3 and voila, Spring Ball jumping )
@@newageBoundhippie Ah, yeah that does help a bunch. I still have the Gamecube version, so don't have that ability heh.
On trilogy I found Boost and Spider more annoying than hard, although Boost was the only thing that managed to kill me. Emperor Ing felt the hardest to me.
Unpopular opinion, but Boost Ball and Spider Ball guardians are probably my favorite mini-bosses in the game.
The only one I disagree with is other M. The hardest boss is figuring out the pixel you need to look at in those stupid first person segments.
The Wait is so OP, man...
quadraxis and omega pirate are the hardest in prime series
It's been so long since I played Prime 2. I remember the difficulty spike with boost guardian, but don't remember it being too bad. The final bosses of the game are what I struggled with, Emperor Ing followed by Dark Samus right after. I remember playing that like a good 15 or 20 times before finally beating it.
you got to be kidding, omega pirate isnt hard at all, mecha ridley is a lot harder
Thardus was a nightmare for me but Omega Pirate took a beating in 1 try lol
@@thatoneguy3309 I too think tardus is harder, in ant difficulty
Mecha Ridley also gets a triple the health and Double the damage when 100% items are collected.
I played the trilogy on Wii U and Omega Pirate was by far the hardest boss for me.
@@speedude0164 just focus in omega using super misiles whn he is in cloak mode, dont pay attention to the mobs, most of the time omega pirate will take care of the for you
the only one i would disagree with would be diggernaut... i find proteus ridley lightyears harder to be frank
Yeah, especially because lightning armor is busted in the Diggernaut fight. Ridley is definitely the hardest boss in Samus Returns.
Remembering deep this series went into engaging boss fights has made me all the more excited for Metroid Prime 4 and trusting the wait will be worth it, 🤞
The wait ... A boss that appears in many games , and is the bane of every gamer in the world
raven beak killed me at least 30 times on my first run
Like 50 times for me dude haha
@@gamestrument i will say even though i died ALOT vs him
i pulled through and felt rly good afterwards
@@gadrielvanorion9872 yeah it is a great feeling when you finally beat him. I actually died when he becomes infected because I didn't know what to do haha. I was so gutted 😂
How do people think Nightmare is hard? I beat him second try why that stupid spider boss took me forever!
Still WAITING
bold of u to assume we get metroid prime 4 in the 2000s
Mecha Ridley is definitely harder than MB because he killed me several times the first time I played Zero Mission. It doesn’t help that I like to 100% Metroid games, and Mecha Ridley is harder the more power-ups you have.
I think the SA-X is WAY harder then nightmare
Wouldn't say RB is the hardest in Dread. It just takes longer to kill him than the other bosses. He's also only a threat in phase 2 since you can continually recover your health and ammo in phase 1 and 3. I thought Experience Z-57 was more annoying until I got the timing down.
I think for experiment Z-57 it comes down to using Flash Shift. RB imo is the HARDEST, his counters are ridiculously small and none of your attacks works until the last phase.
For metroid zero mission, if you count optional 15% runs of the game you need for unlocking all endings, I'd say Ridley. He's a real ass when you only have 5 missiles & a couple energy tanks
Ridley in Zero Mission is easier than Mecha, but all bosses in ZM are easy even on Hard Mode. Ridley you need only like 8 Supers to kill on Hard and that is kinda sad.
Hes the hardest boss in Fusion Rando too if you dont have charge and plasma and you need something off him like say....gravity good luck
One time i did the no energy tank challenge. It took me months to beat boost guardian...... but yet somehow i beat quadraxis first try.😂😂
I am not arguing that Raven Beak isn't the hardest boss in Dread, but... 5 phases? He only has 3. Sure, there's that bit near the end that could count as a 4th phase, but that is more or less a short cutscene that if you die, brings you right back to the beginning of said cutscene. Not sure where the 5th one comes from though.
Some consider his invulnerability part in phase 1 its own phase.
@@TheTriforceDragon Strange. I mean, I can see why, but I don't agree with it.
10:29 "I won't spoil the whole fight [...]"
But you still did spoil the final boss of a newly released game by putting it in the thumbnail.
Uh, what? Was there any doubt in your mind that this was the final boss after seeing the trailer? Or even literally the intro of the game?
Also technically it didn't spoil that Raven Beak was the "final" boss, something objective, but that he was the "hardest" boss, something subjective.
I mean you see him like a minute and a half into the game
DREAD and PRIME had really hard and almost unfair last bosses, espeically DREAD where i had to backtrack for more missles and health, and Prime it was just almost broken.
I considered the Ridley fight in Samus Returns to be infinitely harder than Diggernaut. Diggernaut was fun, Ridley was just a pain in the ass.
"The Wait" ah yes, the hardest final boss that prevents people from even seeing Half Life 3.
Laughing hard enough to interfere with my ability to breath or think after that end bit. ffs. Golden.
Totally agree with the last one !! The wait is too hard !!
I believe the tentacle experiment boss was harder than Raven Beak
That was actually a sad ending...
Can you do Hardest Boss fight from every Donkey Kong game?
DK 64 King Kut Out 😂
i was sitting here wondering what the hardest boss in mp2 was, thinking all of them were pretty easy but then realizing it wasnt a boss, it was a mini boss that was the hardest thing in that game. i never finished mp2 on hard mode because of the boost guardian. it was INSANELY difficult because even if you do beat it, if u dont have enough energy, you die. fun game nonetheless
Boost Guardian was an absolute nightmare!
Try doing Boost Guardian without the Dark suit. Ahh Good times. I doubt thats possible in hypermode tho, havent tried that version yet.
Horrible boss haha
0:35 doesn’t count. Just as an analogy for why not, “Hardest Bosses from the Sonic Series”. (Proceeds to include gameplay from Sonic Spinball).