The Hardest Boss Fight From Every Metroid Game

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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[CrazyGamerDragon]

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

[annonjames]

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

[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 😖

[l.n.]

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.

[wingooswalterrocks]

"The wait."

You're not wrong, my friend. You're not wrong at all.

[jimbolic]

A lot of lists' "number ones" are often debatable, but this may be the first time a list got it 100% correct.

[lonekirin]

Wanna know what's worst? The Wait from Metroid Prime 4 is just the first boss of the game

[Shikatsuyatsuke]

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.

[akiranara]

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.

[StarScapesOG]

Mercury Steam really needs to be commissioned to remake metroid fusion. After Dread I would trust them with it!

[Changanator]

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

[LuisRamirez-kvun]

Seriously that wait has beat me like 30 times already. 😔

[thestMoyatia]

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.

[OTGamer]

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.

[BlitzBlacktail]

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.

[mattstanford]

The boost guardian was crazy but for me it was the spider guardian that was ridiculous

[hyperdrive]

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.