Metroid Dread - Spoilers Thread

I mean yeah but I was busy going "shoot the damn giant fat dino"

Edited by MetaflarePrime on Oct 23rd 2021 at 10:18:31 AM

What's everyone's favourite boss counter sequence? Mine's a tie between Z-57 and Raven Beak.

Edited by RacattackForce on Oct 23rd 2021 at 1:24:43 PM

Hey presumably Kraid is maybe a looker among his species possibly

Inflamed belly buttons make all the space dinos swoon.

Inflammation is big in baboon dating circles

Kraid's a neckbeard.

So I've been trying to decode what themes do the areas represent in Dread.

So far, I know I can denote a few:

Burenia: Down the Drain

Cataris: Lethal Lava Land is the most obvious, as this is just another norfair (only with a Kraid battle instead of a Ridley one)

Dairon: I'd guess Blackout Basement. I'd add Eternal Engine, but a lot of the areas on ZDR incorporate that, for obvious reasons (this one I'd say leans a bit harder, given that it's like a lab)

Ghavoran: Jungle Japes, correct?

Itorash: The Very Definetely Final Dungeon

I'm a bit stumped on Cataris. I think I saw someone say it was a bit of Palmtree Panic, but I don't see it.

The same stump goes for Ferenia and Elun. I think I'm also missing one area (the H one)

Yeah, I agree with your choices:

• Artaria - Underground Level (Okay, that's pretty much every level outside Hanubia and Itorash, but it leans so much into the underground caves vibe that the others mostly avoid It's either that or Noob Cave.)
• Cataris - Lethal Lava Land
• Dairon - Abandoned Laboratory
• Burenia - Down the Drain or Underwater Base
• Ghavoran - Jungle Japes
• Ferenia - Big Fancy Castle is probably the closest.
• Elun - Temple of Doom (Maybe? The X certainly fit the "doom" part of things.)
• Hanubia - ...I've got nothing.
• Itorash - Ominous Floating Castle

Edited by RacattackForce on Oct 23rd 2021 at 7:48:35 AM

I totally forgot that Templeof Doom was a thing. Agreed. I'll say that at least Dread seems to be less overt with its level themes - and I say that as a good thing. It makes them more complex.

Also, I find it amusing that somehow Metroid managed to get away with a flying fortress (with a throne room and everything) as a final dungeon. I certainly didn't expect that in this series.

Metroid Prime 2 sorta had one with the Sky Temple, sans the throne.

Hanubia is essentially Kamino, with a Perpetual Storm.

The metroid wiki says that Hanubia are military facilities

Yeah, I got the same vibe.

So I heard that Raven Beak can do Shinespark without having the need to charge it by running. I need to see that in a video because if it's true, then it should be added in Raven Beak's Memetic Badass entry.

That is indeed one of his attacks in the final phase of his fight.

Edited by Perseus on Oct 24th 2021 at 5:38:10 AM

I can't believe Samus got the budget Speed Booster model

Nah, Raven Beak just has more mass and wins the Shinespark joust :V

That would make it a Remilitarized Zone, though not obviously so since it’s Chozo instead of human military. Sort of “Hanubia is to Remilitarized Zone as Standard Alien Spaceship is to Standard Human Spaceship.”

Well, from a non-trope perspective, Hanubia serves as the main military base for Raven Beak's army. It's like the pirate bases Samus raids at the end of each game. It's even got a lab (just not a metroid one, for obvious reasons).

So, in a way, Hanubia IS the final dungeon.

All in all, Dread's levels are hard to differentiate thematically, and yet they still stick out to me. Except Elun, which is more of a small area designed for story purposes.

I could probably put this on the main thread, but I'll go here to be safe.

Anyway, Raven Beak is much worse at hiding himself than we realized:

Huh. I wonder if there even are Female Chozo?

I doubt the Chozo were a One-Gender Race given that if they could simply reproduce asexually on their own they wouldn't have forgotten to propagate their own species.

I think it's safe to assume that they did reproduce in a manner similar to real life birds — they mate and lay eggs to produce more little Chozo.

Edited by M84 on Oct 24th 2021 at 11:18:27 PM

I don’t think they forgot to propagate. I think they chose NOT to reproduce.

No, they forgot. It's noted in their backstory that by the time they realized their longevity had wrecked havoc on their ability to reproduce, it was too late.

Edited by M84 on Oct 24th 2021 at 11:20:13 PM

So in other words, Raven Beak was not getting all the Big Booty Bird Bitches?

I knew his memoir "Bird's the Word: The Meteoric Rise And Rise Again of Raven Beak" had some fabrications.