Evolution of Kraid in Metroid Games (1986-2021)
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Evolution of Kraid in Metroid Games (1986-2021). This video shows you all Kraid battles in all Metroid games and spin-offs.
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00:00 - Metroid (1986 - NES)
00:43 - Super Metroid (1994 - SNES)
01:44 - Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001 - GameCube)
03:03 - Metroid Prime (2002 - GameCube)
03:17 - Metroid: Zero Mission (2004 - GBA)
04:13 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008 - Wii)
04:34 - Nintendo Land (2012 - Wii U)
07:20 - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018 - Switch)
10:05 - Metroid Dread (2021 - Switch) - Hry
Love how in Dread, Samus keeps her arm cannon ready...until she sees who's in the room. Then she lowers it as if she's like "Oh nevermind it's just Kraid."
Finally, someone else she recognizes
It makes Kraid a good contrast to Ridley too.
@@Mac14329 Yeah, she most always perceived Ridley as a threat. I wasn't a huge fan of how Other M had her react to seeing Ridley since she'd already killed him a dozen times by that point, but if they'd stuck with their original idea of making OM a prequel to the original Metroid then it would've been great.
@@L1LegoAnimations I meant that Ridley was a much more personal matter.
As for the "killed him a dozen times bit", those times where Samus defeated Ridley, he never really died until Super Metroid. Before that, he would either disappear in a fiery display, drop to the ground motionless or fall down an abyss. In Super Metroid, his body combusted and crumbled like an alien pterosaur cookie. And with the later explosion on Planet Zebes, anything that remained of him was no doubt dematerialized. As in, nothing left. So Ridley as we knew him was gone, and wouldn't be coming back. So you can imagine what must've been going through Samus' mind when he saw that the monster that killed her family and ruined her life was somehow STILL alive even after his body breaking apart and a planetary explosion was supposed to have erased him from existence. If I was in Samus' place, I'd probably drop dead of a heart attack.
@@Mac14329 Idk man, lotta those boss fights ended in fairly convincing deaths to me. I know that can probably be blamed on the fact that they're video games more than anything, but still. She's fought and beat him a dozen times, every time walking away borderline scott-free while doing enough damage to Ridley to know she at least _could've_ killed him if she somehow didn't. By Other M's time, I think I'd be more annoyed with him than scared.
I like how samus stands there like kraid isnt a threat since she has fought it so many times
technically she only fought kraid twice before that (since 1986 Kraid and zero mission Kraid are storyline the same (zero mission is just a remake of the 1986)) unlike Ridley who appears in almost every Metroid game (still sad he wasn't in dread then again he was infected by an X and you absorbed said X in fusion unless there's a small piece of him that the space pirates could just remake him)
She's like: Oh, its you.
@@bulcsukalmanchey8503 Raven Beak: You KNOW her!?
@@wildboi1979 Kraid: She's a friend from work.
I always thought that she was reacting to him as if she was expecting Ridley and she's like "oh kraid you're still alive? Well ok"
It’s great how they both recognize each other in dread
Even though it's implied that Kraid in Dread is a different individual than the ones we seen previously.
@@thevenomspino really omg I didn’t know
@@rypto9428 yeah the kraid on Zdr was probably pissed via no food and being in lava while Seamus has killed many kraid so was probably not to scared
Kraid: “Remember me?!”
Samus: “Kraid! How could I forget?!”
@@Potato_tomato47if I'm correct it was a clone right?
The difference between Metroid NES and Super Metroid is so amazing, he’s smaller than Samus, and in Super Metroid he’s 5 or 6 times bigger !
Yes!!! This is a nitpick I have with Zero Mission. It spoils the impact of Kraid’s size for Super.
I like to think that in Metroid you fight little Kraid because you are fighting the one is outsidr the boss room in Super Metroid.
@@lh9591 in both games kraid is mostly the same size but I think than zero mission's is wider and super's is a little bit taller
@@puniopenetrante Only problem with that headcanon is that the Kraid outside the boss room in Super already shows up in a different spot in Kraid's NEStroid lair. It's weird how they left him out of ZM though.
@@macnzee7572 Kraid in Super is actually a bit wider than shown here - TVs stretch the SNES's image to a wider aspect ratio (just a bit narrower than a 4:3 aspect ratio - same applies to the NES as well), with rectangular pixels. This video, on the other hand, leaves the aspect ratio untouched, so while it's narrower than how it would actually look, it bypasses any issues that uneven stretching would bring.
I feel like the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit, people just don’t understand how enormous it was. This video helps.
honestly, love how super metroid had a very cool gotcha moment that i feel alot of people dont recognize or appreciate, which is that just before fighting kraid, you fight a tiny version of him thats very similar to the kraid from metroid 1.
It goes even further since mini kraid feels very anticlimatic and just kind of there, very static, similar to metroid 1's, and since on your first playthrough, without sequence breaking, this *should* be your first boss, the fake mini kraid is kinda meant to make you think oh so this is how its gonna be, until you find out about the real kraid, who's far bigger, and sets an expectations for how the rest of the bosses are gonna be.
@@jitsauce522 It’s moments like this, the return of the croc mini boss, finding the glass case after the Ridley boss, and the progression through Torian that remind us that Super Metroid is one of the best organically told video game stories ever
@@dellapj I honestly agree, it uses a lot of visual story beats you normally never saw back in the day, it always works amazingly well, it makes me wish other games in the series emulated that, or at least tried following what it set up, zero mission just having big kraid always felt like such a letdown to me due to how it broke this part of super metroid, even just having a kraid sized like the zero mission ridley would've worked well.
We're talking about Kraid, right?
@@jitsauce522Kraid is a giant, why do you want to make him Ridley size?
What I can really say about Kraid in the Metroid franchise is that it's great he's in Metroid Dread. Kraid's one of the best recurring Metroid bosses in the Metroid series that's full of continuous lore.
I thought it was even better that he was even used at the end of Dread too. Really puts to size how powerful he was.
@@salsaspartan7 *SPOILER FOR METROID DREAD*
Although technically it wasn’t Kraid, it was an X version of Raven Beak and Kraid.
@@wildboi1979 And the creature that clogged up Cataris. I had a feeling that particular X parasite would show up again, but I didn't expect that. Still... what ability could we have gotten from that fight?
@@atomicreactor6033 It would just be the wave beam, since it was one of its attacks
@@wildboi1979 No, it’s not. It’s Kraid. May not be the same one, since Kraids are a type of monster, but at the time you encounter him, the X haven’t been released on ZDR yet. They’re still contained.
It was cool that you used both if the sequence breaks in Dread.
Wut
@@linksolo2678 morphball and dash
@@wolfwarrior1176 are you supposed to have them or are you not?
@@bredoffender technically no, there is a standard path of progression for the items. But the devs did put in little things like this because they knew people would sequence break to get those items early. Thus the morphball instakill and the dash grab. They fully intended for sequence breaks to occur.
@@wolfwarrior1176 yeah, I got some items way before others, like a shinespark that led me to a missile+ tank before I had the space jump. I know how sequence breaks work, and I love them so damn much.
I just didn't know if he Got the items early or the kraid fight early, thats all.
The change from the first to second was...large
Literally
He's too big for Sma... wait..
@@EdKolis shut
@@EdKolis Just like Ridley!Hopefully next Smash Bros. has Kraid.
@@PhotonKobold Dude what did he do wrong
Just beat Kraid in Dread yesterday. Fantastic boss fight really enjoyed it.
Have you tried the morphball bomb method? 😎
I just noticed the secret bomb attack in Dread is probably a reference to the 1986 game, seeing that you can place bombs inside Kraid
It is, actually
I feel like Kraid would be a great boss in Smash Bros to represent Metroid (now that Ridley's a fighter now)
If Ridley was too big before no way kraid is getting in, Someone more menacing like raven beak would make more sense.
@@ruccsacc he said as a boss not a fighter.
@@ruccsacc Raven Beak as a boss or even a fighter would be sick ngl
@@ruccsacc problem with him being a fighter there's already Samus, Zero Suit Samus, and Dark Samus that all have very similar attacks ( samus and dark samus mostly because they are more of a reskin than an actual new char
@@Shakon_Krogen RB would probably be very different, I imagine him having say a command grab, a Flash Shift thing, and he could use his claws as well as his cannon
I love how Kraid stole Titanosaurus roars in Super Metroid (along with Crocomire and Phantoon), and in Zero Mission he just using free copyright roars from old monster movies, so that's ok.
I like how he flips you off before he dies in Dread lol
I love how in metroid dread samus doesnt give a crap about anything, by that point that she has seen everything so to no surprise she is already as strong as can be no matter what
She's not scared of anything anymore, all she can feel in the face of danger is anger.
She even goes fuckin feral on the final boss.
Doom guy vibes
@@readyforlol i actually intensely *hate* this version of samus because of that. They literally just copied Doom. Samus was never an angry character, shes supposed to be maternal, benevolent, a tiny bit mysterious and 100% selfless. This new version literally just made angry her personality. Nerds are so out if touch with women they don't even know how to write them anymore, they just turn these characters into their weird anime fanfic tsundere waifu fetish.
@@colelawton4901 What? Samus is shoot first, ask later.
@@colelawton4901 what
Does anyone else feel bad for Kraid in Metroid Dread?
A little
Not really when you have to remember this guy used to work for an organization who wants to take over the universe and would gladly kill anyone, even innocents to do it simple out of fun.
@@jacobfoxall5633 Kraid himself was never seen committing war crimes, especially not on Ridley or Mother Brain’s level.
I did until the fight started and he thrashed me badly
He’ll be back, don’t worry. We never did see him die, he just sank into the lava like he always does
Seeing how easily you took down Kraid in Dread was painful cause legit spent days on that 😭
replaying dread makes alot of bosses a little easier once you get that pattern recognization down and learn a few boss tricks, kraid killed me quite a few times my first run but now i can basically no hit him and it feels damn good
The funny thing is, is that, in order to do the phase 2 insta kill, you need the morphball and the bombs, and if you actually took the seq-cut, YOU CAN ACTUALLY BEAT KRAID THAT WAY!
i forgot how much the music of the kraid battle stage in smash bros kicked ass
I did not know you could launch into his belly wound in dread! Imma play through one more time and try that action out. Thank you!!
You have to sequence break to do it
When it comes to the Metroid prime concept art I could see them revisiting this idea for 4
I really appreciate how you didn't spoil what kraid gives you in Metroid NES but still waited until the item jingle was over.
Also, once again, you are literally the only person who puts things like SSB and concept art into the videos.
Also, Nintendo land. That is really impressive.
Another thing I want to mention is how you used the four different Metroid characters in SSBU. It's just the small details in here, these make me enjoy these videos so much.
3:03
I bet it would have worked better in Other M, but modeled after the Great Mighty Poo fight from Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Samus would use the third person view to dodge and counter his attacks, and the first person view and Free Aim mechanic to damage him when she finds an opening.
2:08 Ah yes my favorite metroid game: Smash Bros Melee
And Nintendo land, a truly classic Nintendo game for all the ages
I like how Samus reacts in Dread when she sees Kraid. It reminds me of the TerminalMontage something about series Samus.
Funfact about Prime: it's speculated that Kraid would've been fought in the arena that the Omega pirate ended up in. The only evidence of this being that the concept art has the same phazon mushrooms, and the Omega pirate reuses a lot of attacks from the Elite pirate. A somewhat similar situation happened with Thardus replacing the Ice Titan, but there are less developmental details that can serve as evidence for the change.
Raven Beak was headquarted in ZDR’s orbit, and I think 13:38 is the reason why. It was because he knew that unlike Samus, he was not immune to the X parasites.
Ridley: too big
Kraid: T O O F A T
Super. Mil gracias por el video
I love how the thumbnail includes the Prime 1 Kraid that was never used
Very cool!
I love how by the time of Dread, Samus's reaction to Kraid is just "you again? You must _really_ want more missiles in your mouth..." She's so done with this fucking guy.
Damn I had no clue you could aeon shift into kraid's mouth in Dread. The game really rewards exploration.
I was literally against kraid in Metroid dread
What do you mean?
@@dantetouchdown9030 i where playing, and when he uploaded the video was short after i defeat kraid in the game
So let me get this strate Kraid and Raven Beak were fused together with the X parasite to create Kraidven Beak hafe Kraid and hafe Raven.
Its just called Ravenbeak-X :/
Kraidvan Beak is phenomenal
Straight* half* half*
Kraiven Beak X I say (KBX) everyone else just says Raven Beak X (RBX).
The X got his DNA from the spike he shot.
@@sherbertshortkake6649 It's actually Kraiven Beak X-57, because there's also Z-57 DNA in the mix, from the Core X that escaped.
I just realized Kraid’s boss theme in Metroid: Zero Mission is the Big Boss theme from Super Metroid but in the GBA’s soundfont!
Surprised I never noticed that before…
Okay the image if Samus just unloading at that things jaw if you successfully parry its swat in Dread is waaay to satisfying... took me about 10 rounds to realize I could parry it and that was so rewarding. Haha
I am the Great Mighty Kraid, and I am going to throw my claws at you!
I am honestly questioning why there is Lava in these Brinstar Stages
There's lava everywhere, at least on Zebes. Run around Brinstar- lava. Norfair- lava. Heck, fly up into the *sky* in Crateria and you find lava.
That's just a place that gets a lot of lava.
@@danieldavis2055
Well, the "Lava" on Brinstar rather looks like Acid to me, because that form of Acid can be repelled by the Varia Suit, even the description said that the Varia Suit protects you from that acid
Even on the other Brinstar Stage with that Giant Brain is Acid, which doesn't look like Magma l
3:06 What am I looking at here!? I know it’s just concept art, but man that iteration of Kraid looks horrendous.
It would fit perfectly into a Doom game or The suffering franchise....poor kraid looks like a mind controlled freak
Imagine playing Smash and seeing THAT rise out of the lava
What about it looks "horrendous?" Ridley was brought back in Prime as a cyborg after his defeat in the original Metroid, so obviously that would've been the explanation for Kraid's appearance as well, thus the cybernetic helmet. He's got blue veins on his stomach because the plot of that game involves the space pirates experimenting with a mutagen called Phazon, which they inject into anything and everything.
@@ZebboGeesucks i believe the horrendous part comes in that unlike Ridley, who had prosthetic parts that fit into his body and looked anatomically fitting to his original design, Kraid has half of his skull missing and just replaced with a dome. I highly doubt those space pirates care about looks but one cannot help to wonder if he is himself or being controlled by that "enhancement".
@@RodH-pj1py Phazon enhancement makes that a moot point, since it can control him anyway. Ridley was just more intact, due to his cellular regeneration being more effective. He's also apparently able to transfer his consciousness between clone bodies, if necessary. However, it's never explained how he does it. The only thing that is explained is that all Ridleys are the real Ridley, and not just copies. Kraid is not the same: he has a whole bunch of miniature copies that are shown in SM, and anyone of these copies can grow to the full Kraid size, as they are natural children of the Kraid race.
When Kraid appears in Dread, Samus is more surprised that he finally came back from the dead after Ridley's constant reappearances for one reason or another than she is afraid of him.
Kraid 🤝 Ridley: *Villains in Metroid that keep coming back*
Kraid from Metroid dread was one of the hardest bosses for me to beat
Kraid throws up because of the missiles you feed him so he vomits and you shoot the vomit for health and rockets
Kraid: this guy again… like every single time I have to die for the heck of it!
Never noticed that Raven’s X form mimicked Kraid
Kraid was established as having a monstrous roar in every game up until dread, so why in dread did they make him sound like a goddamn bird
I just thought it was a special sound effect for hitting him...
TBF, the "screeching when damaged" started in M:ZM, but Kraid did have a death screech in SM, so it's not too unusual.
Never heard of metroid blast till now. Interesting. Graphics were actually pretty solid
Yeah, you can also fight Kraid on foot too in that game which involves a lot more platforming
Can't beat SNES Kraid with that unsettling music.
Eu achei que estava louco, mas assistindo seu video notei que voce colocou a utima forma de raven beack que a muito tempo eu ja havia notado semelhança com kraid, mas porque será, voce teria alguma teoria?obrigado pelo video!!!
Me encanta los arañazos que le da al escenario en Smash! 😅👌🏽
in the past games, Kraid looks more insectoid in form, but in the following he looks more draconian like, and in metroid zero mission he looks like a ceratopsian
I always thought of him as a more crocodile-like beast, hence his V-shaped maw and the many protruding upper teeth.
Man NES Kraid just hits different
i love how samus barely bats an eye at kraid in dread
I love that Samus charged up her arm cannon and shot Kraid in the mouth so casually.
Pretty much the equivalent of Samus giving a bitch slap to Kraid; the subtlety with her utter disrespect to Kraid was rather funny.
I didn’t know those tricks for Kraid boss fight 😂😂😂
Ive always loved how in super metroid the bosses colour changes as sort of a health bar
Yeah, in zero mission and fusion they do too
It shows up in Samus Returns as well
10:34 Samus - AHHHHHH SHADDAP!!!!!!
I didn't know that the yellow boss in the first metroid game is kraid!
Love how Kraid gets bigger every game
Ah,yes my favorite metroid game super smash bros
I Noticed that Kraid Shoots those Spears out of His Stomach
Kraid's Super Metroid theme is actually pretty awesome, and I'm surprised it didn't get more recognition. I wish it at least got a remix in Smash Bros, maybe in Brawl.
He looks so animated in Zero Mission!
Here’s my question- how the everlasting hell did Kraid get off Zebes? I headcanon that the Space Pirates evacuated him after Samus defeated him in Super Metroid (but obviously before she destroyed Mother Brain) and Raven Beak captured him later, but a ship big and strong enough to carry Kraid would be really, really noticeable. The Pirates are really lucky Samus spends most of Super underground, or they would have lost even more soldiers in that operation.
Tbf, Zebes is a big ass planet, and it takes a WHILE to go from murking Kraid to even just brawling with Ridley for the second time, so some dude was like "yo Lord Kraid's unconscious and complaining about a belly ache in his sleep I think the hunter got him" and he got carried away
Or something like that
The only games we’ve ever seen both Kraid and Ridley in together are Metroid NES, Super Metroid, and Metroid Zero Mission.
It's amazing this character.
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
He Looks Like Bowser In The First Game
I love how for the sake of the video they didn’t use super missiles in the super Metroid fight. That fight wouldn’t even get to the 2nd phase
Do you guys have any idea why Kraid is restrained in Dread?
I have a feeling that it was to do stuff to him like the other trapped creatures and Test Z57 (or whatever it's called). Or maybe to get him out of the way? Or maybe imprisonment for being mean?
The Chozo warriors of ZDR contained him.
I’ve been asking the same question. That’s the one thing I can’t seem to piece together.
アザーエムのリドリー➡何故ここに居るんだ！？
ドレッドのクレイド➡何だお前か。
At 3:03 what is the name of the music?
Damn Kraid, on SNES you was the man Kraid!
I feel bad for Kraid or this alien of the same species and how the worrier chozo captured it and enslaved it for a purpose then Samus kills it when it’s been tortured
Super metroid is the 🐐
Haven’t Kraid and Ridley ever truly died? I mean usually they literally explode and leave behind their life essence.
underrated alien
He looks so tiny in the original Metroid
Wait how were you able to record your gamepad for Nintendo land?
Can you imagine how difficult this guy could be if he watched his weight? 😂
Kraid giving her the middle claw is the comedic highlight.
The first time i had ever seen Kraid was in melee as a kid and thought what the hell is that now definitely as an adult one of my favorite nintendo villans
Evolution of THICC Drago Boi.
Yo solo espero que para el proximo Metroid en 2D si haya musica por zona, no solo musica ambiental
4:39 how to forget when Nintendo paid more attention to metroid,now it's pure pokemon and tlozzzzz
He shown up 11 times
I miss Super smash bros melee so much
The first kraid is like bowser with no shell
King K. ROOL vs Kraid?
King Kay gets to eat a magical mushroom though. Who wins?
You can flash shift into Kraids mouth to get the grab sequence??????
Didn'r know super smash bros was a metroid game. The more you know
10:05 is great
My question is, how do they get it inside?
I can't believe how you beat me 5 times.
10:05, 13:51
The twin plot holes.
Honestly Kraid is a cool boss and they should've added him in metroid prime cause I feel like the game would be a lot more better
He would have been cool as the boss of Magmoor Caverns, as I don't think there was a final boss like the other areas
@@chrischin_94 Thardus (the rock monster) was supposed to be the boss for Magmoor. The boss for Phendrana was supposed to be a six limbed giant gorilla but it was cut. Kraid would've been in the Phazon Mines but they ran out of time to include him.
@@ianfinrir8724 Thanks for the info, I wonder how Thardus' weak spots would have been exploited in Magmoor. Thermal visor sounds awful down there
@@chrischin_94 Probably the X-Ray visor or just simply blasting away.
3:10 Why Is He Not In Metroid Prime?
I'll be honest, ouch with Dread
Kraid was meant to be in Metroid Prime, which would have been his only appearance in a 3D Metroid game, but he got cut because he was just too much of a hassle.
Love how in dread samus goes like
"What's that?"
Kraid appears
"Oh it's just you"
When Kraid died in Dread, it kinda looked like he gave Samus the finger.
Kraid Shadow Legends