October2021
Guide Metroid Dread: Gravity Suit Location - How To Enter Cold Areas And Survive In Lava
Now we can go anywhere
We're getting deep into Metroid Dread and still unlocking vital equipment. Samus' Gravity Suit hugely reduces damage taken from enemy attacks and it also, more importantly, enables her to travel through extreme cold and even red hot lava and move around freely underwater. Obviously, this gives you access to a lot more places...
Guide Metroid Dread: Ice Missile Location - How To Freeze Enemies
Everybody Freeze!
The Ice Missile upgrade is an absolute classic weapon and in Metroid Dread Samus is — surprise, surprise — gonna be using it to freeze her foes in place where she can then shatter them with missiles. Simple! More importantly, however, this weapon can be used to remove the many fiery barriers you'll find in your way later in...
Guide Metroid Dread: Pulse Radar Location - How To Scan For Hidden Areas
Now we can find all the secrets
The Pulse Radar makes a return in Metroid Dread, and it takes a fair while before you get your hands on it. However, once you do, you can really start hunting down the game's upgrades and tanks in earnest as it sends out a nifty pulse revealing all breakable surfaces and blocks hidden in your immediate vicinity when...
Guide Metroid Dread: Cross Bomb Location - How To Upgrade Your Bombs
We're gonna need a bigger bomb
The Cross Bomb upgrade in Metroid Dread enables Samus to create far more powerful Morph Ball Bomb explosions that extend in horizontal and vertical lines — great for blowing up stacks of breakable blocks or propelling yourself in either direction with force. Metroid Dread - Where is the Cross Bomb?: In order to...
Guide Metroid Dread: Plasma Beam Location - How To Open Green Plasma Doors
Captain Plasma
Our next upgrade in Metroid Dread, the Plasma Beam is another one for your primary weapon, this time allowing you to also tear the green plasma from around doorways, giving you even more freedom to roam. This powerful power-up also tears through multiple enemies at once and can damage robotic foes without the need for a charged shot...
Guide Metroid Dread: Power Bomb Location - How To Power Bomb
The big boom
The last of Samus Aran's upgrades in Metroid Dread, the Power Bomb, turns your regular Morph Ball Bombs into devastatingly large explosions that can obliterate nearby enemies and destroy any Power Bomb Blocks nearby. Metroid Dread - Where is the Power Bomb?: In order to get the Power Bomb you'll need to fight the final Red Chozo...
Guide Metroid Dread: Corpius Boss Battle - How To Beat Corpius
How to take down Metroid Dread's first boss
The very first boss in Metroid Dread and he's an absolutely massive opponent for a rather underpowered Samus. However, Corpius isn't anywhere nearly as tough as his giant stinger and ability to cloak himself may at first suggest. Let's take look at how to take him down in double-quick time. Metroid...
Guide Metroid Dread: Kraid Boss Battle - How To Beat Kraid
He's back and we're going to batter him all over again
Yes, as we all know by now, Kraid makes a return in this latest adventure and as the second boss you'll encounter in Metroid Dread he's actually a bit of a big softie. Let's take a look at how to defeat him all over again. Metroid Dread Kraid Boss Battle Strategy: Kraid: Phase One During the...
Guide Metroid Dread: Drogyga Boss Battle - How To Beat Drogyga
This big smelly blob is going down
The fourth boss fight in Metroid Dread sees Samus take on this great big tentacled mass in Burenia and, while Drogyga may look pretty intense, it doesn't stand a chance against our superior takedown techniques! Let's have a look at how to beat this underwater terror. Metroid Dread Drogyga Boss Battle Strategy:...
Guide Metroid Dread: Robot Chozo Soldier Boss Battle - How To Beat Robot Chozo Soldiers
Let's cut these hunks of junk down to size
Once you reach Ferenia, the fifth location in Metroid Dread, you'll encounter your first Robotic Chozo Soldier enemy. These guys are fast-moving assailants with weapons who like to perform fast slashing attacks. Metroid Dread Robot Chozo Soldier Boss Battle Strategy: In order to take these enemies out as...
Guide Metroid Dread: Chozo Soldier Boss Battle - How To Beat Chozo Soldier
Sir Lances Alot
A tough variant on the Robot Chozo Soldiers we've fought already in Metroid Dread, this big guy is pretty fast-moving, wields a long lance and does some nasty attacks that can cause a lot of damage quickly. Get your attacks right though and he's not too hard to take down. Let's have a look! Metroid Dread Chozo Soldier Boss Battle:...
Guide Metroid Dread: Escue Boss Battle - How To Beat Escue
Let's swat this bug
Our next Metroid Dread boss, Escue, is found on Ferenia. It's a fast-moving electrical bug that can cause you problems with its speed initially but, once you get how to dodge its three attack varieties down, it should cause you very few problems. Metroid Dread Escue Boss Battle Strategy: Escue: Phase One The first phase of...
Guide Metroid Dread: Twin Robot Chozo Soldier Boss Battle - How To Beat Twin Chozo Soldier
Congratulations, it's twins!
Well now. This Metroid Dread boss encounter takes the regular Robot Chozo Soldier who you've already encountered and destroyed and makes it a delightful pair. These two soldiers have the exact same moveset we've seen already: two fast dashes, one a fiery red affair that needs to be avoided at all costs and a white...
Guide Metroid Dread: Red Chozo Soldier Boss Guide - How To Beat Red Chozo Soldier
New moves, same old enemy
You'll encounter this red variation on the Chozo Soldier on your return trip to Artaria once you've gained the Gravity Suit. This guy carries a lance just like his earlier counterpart, but this time he also has a large shield and some different black goo attacks to hit you with. Let's take a look at how best to take him...
Guide Metroid Dread: Experiment No. Z-57 Boss Battle - How To Beat Experiment No. Z-57
The X-Factor
Metroid Dread's Experiment No. Z-57 is an absolute monstrosity, a huge hulking behemoth who's wrapped around a thermal power plant in Cataris. This thing needs taken down to restore heat to other areas of the world and defrost the currently frozen doors that are blocking our path forward. This may be a huge beast but, with the right...
Guide Metroid Dread: Golzuna Boss Battle - How To Beat Golzuna
Get back in your shell crab...thing
Metroid Dread's Golzuna is a great big, hard-shelled electro-beast. This boss battle takes place in Ghavoran quite late on in the game and consists of not one, not two but three different beasts to kill. Fear not, however, as only Golzuna himself is much of a challenge here and he's actually not that bad once you...
Guide Metroid Dread: E.M.M.I. Guide - How To Evade, Escape And Kill An E.M.M.I.
To the Control Units!
Metroid Dread's stealth-based E.M.M.I.s are the big new addition to the franchise's core gameplay in this latest outing. There are a total of seven of these quick-witted robots, they each patrol their own allocated zones across the various regions of the game and Samus will gain some pretty neat abilities from a few of them...
Guide Metroid Dread: Wave Beam Location - How To Destroy Purple Door Covers
Purple Power
The Wave Beam in Metroid Dread is a powerful piece of kit that enables Samus to fire energy waves through solid objects and terrain. She can also now destroy all those purple Wave Beam covers that have been blocking your progress in the latter part of the game. Metroid Dread - Where is the Wave Beam?: In order to nab the Wave Beam...
Guide Metroid Dread: Space Jump Location - How To Jump Continuously
Getting high
The Space Jump ability upgrade in Metroid Dread enables Samus to jump repeatedly during spin jumps, giving her the power to continue to barrel upwards for as long as she wishes. Pressing 'B' during a spin jump activates another and you can, of course, change direction as you go in order to get into all manner of little hidden areas...
Guide Metroid Dread: Raven Beak Final Boss Battle - How To Beat Raven Beak
The final showdown
This is it, the final epic showdown of Metroid Dread and hooooboy, it's a tough one. Raven Beak is a fast and powerful opponent with hard-hitting attacks who can cover the full battle arena very quickly, so going into this one prepare to have your Flash Shift and Space Jump skills tested to the max. There are three very definite...
News Metroid Dread Has Been Leaked Online Ahead Of This Week's Launch
Update: Footage followed by the full game
Update [Tue 5th Oct, 2021 05:30 BST]: Well, it seems more than just footage of Metroid Dread has been leaked online ahead of this week's launch. Here's a bit more information courtesy of the Nintendo dataminer OatlmealDome: Original story [Sun 3rd Oct, 2021 08:05 BST]: It seems M
September2021
Random The Song In This Metroid Dread Japanese Commercial Is A Certified Banger
Nintendo is "so cool"
Nintendo Japan has released a new commercial for Metroid Dread and the song in it seems to be getting a lot of attention on social media. Don't be fooled, this isn't some fan-made clip with popular music over the top of it, it's actually an official advertisement for the upcoming Switch release. Twitter user @ScrewyClassic...
August2021
News New Metroid Dread Footage Shows Links To Samus Returns
Update: Japanese Metroid Dread: Report Vol. 4 goes live
Update: Nintendo's Japanese Twitter account has reposted the video and, as we speculated, it ties into an article detailing past entries in the series on the series' 35th anniversary — specifically, 'Metroid Dread Report Vol. 4', an online series of developer articles the company has been...
July2021
Guide Metroid Dread - Release Date, amiibo, Story, New Features, Everything We Know So Far
Dread pirate robots
Revealed as part of the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct presentation, Metroid Dread is the first brand new entry in the classic 2D Metroid series for nearly 20 years. This upcoming Switch game promises to tie a bow on the story of Samus and the Metroids which began 35 years ago with Metroid on the NES. In this guide
What's next for Samus?
Metroid Dread is the fifth entry in the original Metroid series and it's coming to the Nintendo Switch this October. As already detailed, this is the first Metroid game with a new story in roughly 19 years and continues the tale of the interconnected fates of the famous bounty hunter Samus Aran and the Metroids. It also...
