The Hardest Boss Fight From Every Metroid Game

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Published 2021-11-12
These "Metroid" bosses make us want to run back to Mario games. For this list, we’ll be looking at the greatest threats Samus Aran has ever faced be it in terms of lethality or utter annoyance. Oh and there’ll no doubt be some final bosses included here, so consider this a series-wide spoiler warning! Our list includes Ridley from "Super Metroid" (1994), Nightmare from "Metroid Fusion" (2002), Omega Pirate from "Metroid Prime" (2002), Diggernaut from "Metroid: Samus Returns" (2017) and more! Which grotesque beast emptied your moral energy tanks? Let us know in the comments!

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All Comments (21)
  • 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.
  • @ZeldaRooster
    The wait. Truly the unbeatable boss of any title
  • @proteamdirector
    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 😖
  • @annonjames2433
    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
  • @boredmonkee
    10:51 I believe someday we will beat this monstrous beast.....together.
  • @l.n.3372
    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.
  • @lonekirin905
    Wanna know what's worst? The Wait from Metroid Prime 4 is just the first boss of the game
  • @jimbolic0809
    A lot of lists' "number ones" are often debatable, but this may be the first time a list got it 100% correct.
  • @akiranara6404
    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.
  • 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.
  • @StarScapesOG
    Mercury Steam really needs to be commissioned to remake metroid fusion. After Dread I would trust them with it!
  • @benthecat4345
    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
  • @OTGamer95
    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.
  • @len1ams
    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
  • @AtomicBleach
    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.