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Guide Metroid Dread: Flash Shift Location - How To Dodge Enemy Attacks And Enter Sensor Doors
Don't dodge this important upgrade
The Flash Shift upgrade is one of a handful of fancy new abilities that Samus will find during Metroid Dread. This slick new move uses an Aeion Gauge in order to allow you to dash a small distance to avoid enemy attacks. This dash can be performed in the ground or air and it will enable you to travel through...
Guide Metroid Dread: Speed Boost Location - How to Run Through Walls And Break Speed Blocks
Let's pick up the pace
Another very useful ability — and one you'll have used before in previous Metroid titles — the Speed Boost in Metroid Dread allows Samus to take off at supersonic speeds by clicking in the 'L' stick while she's running. The trick here is that you need a good distance of clear space in order for Samus to get right up to...
Guide Metroid Dread: Super Missile Location - How To Destroy Green Door Shields
More power to your elbow
Our next Metroid Dread upgrade is the Super Missile which can destroy green Super Missile door shields as well as do lots more damage to foes. Metroid Dread - Where is the Super Missile?: In order to grab the Super Missile head to the location indicated in the map below once you reach the sixth area of the game, Ghavoran...
Guide Metroid Dread: Storm Missile Location - How To Open Green Light Doors
There's a storm coming
An extremely useful tool, the Storm Missile allows you to lock on to several targets at once by holding in 'R' to begin charging and then pressing 'Y' once all targets have been selected for a devastating flurry of homing rockets. Metroid Dread's Storm Missile can be used to blast single or multiple enemies, are effective...
Guide Metroid Dread: Spin Boost Location - How To Double Jump
Everybody jump, jump
The Spin Boost upgrade in Metroid Dread enables Samus to jump once more when performing a regular spin jump, which is a jump diagonally forward in either direction. This can be used to reach lots of high ledges that have been previously out of bounds but is limited underwater to only keeping the same level of height as your...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
Guide Metroid Dread: How To Counter An E.M.M.I.
Never give up in these tense encounters
E.M.M.I.s are the big new addition to the series' traditional core gameplay in Metroid Dread and we're not gonna lie, they're absolutely terrifying. During your stealth-flavoured encounters with these clever robotic foes (which we've written a handy guide to here), you'll often find your best efforts to run...
Guide Metroid Dread: Tips And Tricks For Getting Started
Eight tips to ease the dread
The Metroid series, by its very nature, can be a really challenging experience. These games are labyrinthian puzzle boxes of death and dead ends that require you to explore, use your map, backtrack and get very well acquainted with every nook and cranny of their worlds. Metroid Dread has all of this and it brings plenty...
Guide Metroid Dread: All Power Bomb Tank Locations
Power mad
There are lots of different powerups in Metroid Dread and some of the most elusive of all are the Power Bomb Tank upgrades. We've hunted them all down and listed them below! Metroid Dread: All Power Bomb Tank Locations: Our first Power Bomb Tank can be reached after taking the elevator from the very north of Artaria (where you got the...
Guide Metroid Dread: All Energy Parts Locations
Get energized
Another primary collectable in Metroid Dread is Energy Parts. We've put together the following list of all Energy Part locations in the game to help you on your adventure! Metroid Dread: All Energy Parts Locations: Artaria Our first Energy Part Collectible can be found at Artaria's red teleportation device, as indicated in our map...
Guide Metroid Dread: All Energy Tanks Locations
A full guide to each and every energy tank location in the game
One of the most immediately useful items in Metroid Dread are the Energy Tank upgrades, which give you a nice big boost to your health and make the game that little bit more possible. We've put together a list of all the Energy Tank locations in the game below: Metroid Dread: All...
Guide Metroid Dread: All Missile Tank Locations
A walkthrough of every missile tank upgrade location in Metroid Dread
As with any Metroid game, Metroid Dread is stuffed to the rafters with missile tank and missile tank+ upgrades for you to discover. In order to make this as easy as possible we're going to picture the map locations alongside a screenshot of these items as we come across them and...
Gallery Nintendo Switch OLED Vs Standard Switch - The Key Differences In Pictures
Which Switch should you buy?
Nintendo has finally released the Switch OLED, an upgrade to the base model that offers a number of improvements over the original console and the handheld-only Switch Lite. In this pictorial guide, we'll give you a rundown of the basic differences between the two hybrid Switch models. The most obvious difference is...
How to move Animal Crossing islands and residents between two Switches
The ability to transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons resident and save data from one Nintendo Switch was a much-requested feature and finally arrived in late-2020. It's not the simplest process, but if you follow the steps you'll have your precious island transferred to a new...
Switch up your Switch
System transfers have been a thing for a goodly amount of time now for Nintendo consoles. Gone are the days when all your lovely gubbins was held on a game cartridge or (gasp) memory card. Now when you get a new version of a console — be a regular Switch, a handy Switch Lite or a Switch OLED model — you've got to ferry all...
Guide Nintendo Switch Cloud Games List
Every Cloud Version game on Switch
Updated with the newly-released The Medium. Nintendo Switch has a slow and steady number of 'Cloud Version' games available — titles that don't run natively on Nintendo's console, but are streamed to the Switch over the internet while they run on servers elsewhere in the world. Below is a full list of every...
Gallery Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Full Kirby Transformations List
Every Kirby copy ability in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Looking back at the full character roster for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, there's certainly been no shortage of video game icons joining the fray in gaming's ultimate crossover brawler. Adding all these fighters (plus the accompanying music, spirits and assorted extras) wasn't just work for game...
Guide Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Full Character Roster List
Gotta Smash 'em all!
When Nintendo announced that the Switch version of Smash Bros. would be called Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it wasn't kidding about the title; every single character that has ever appeared in any previous Smash Bros. game is available on the Nintendo Switch incarnation. Crikey. Along with updated moves and final smashes,...
Guide Nintendo Switch Pro: Everything We Know - 4K Visuals, Nvidia Tegra And 2021 'OLED Model'
All the rumours regarding a more powerful Switch
Editor's note: We'll be updating this guide with news of a potential Switch 'Pro' variant as it occurs. Nintendo is no stranger to updating and iterating its hardware. Ever since the days of the NES, the company has seen the value in refreshing its consoles to maintain consumer interest, introduce...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Pumpkins - Spooky Furniture DIY Recipes And Pumpkin Crafting
We're pump-ed
The month of October brings spooky pumpkin-themed crafting recipes to collect and decorate your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In this guide you'll find every pumpkin crafting recipe you need to craft the spooky furniture and have a very happy Halloween in on your deserted island. Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Complete...
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For October And November 2021
MetrOLED!
Hang on — where did September go? Yep, that's right, another month has flown by and it's time to get stuck into the really juicy months of the year. Early in October we've got the heavy hitters of a new Metroid game and new Switch hardware, which would be more than enough to keep us occupied in the summer months, but there's a whole lot...
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Pokétch - All The Apps And Where To Find Them
Gotta tap 'em all
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl for Nintendo Switch are a pair of remakes of the original DS games. One of the new features that the games added back in the day was the Pokétch — and that came back in the remake, of course. For those who didn't play the original, the Pokétch was a device on the bottom screen of...
Guide 50 Best Nintendo 64 Games Of All Time
The top 50 N64 games ever, as ranked by you
As with all our Top 50 library lists, this ranking is based on User Ratings in the Nintendo Life games database and is subject to fluctuation, even after publication. So, if you haven't rated your favourite N64 games, feel free to exert your influence and potentially switch up the order of the games...
Guide Pokémon Unite: How To Share Save Data Between Nintendo Switch And Mobile Devices
Carry on where you left off in Pokémon Unite for Switch and mobile
Pokémon Unite is available to download on both Nintendo Switch and mobile devices, and the free-to-play MOBA features cross-progression across platforms. This means that you can pick up where you left off in either version of the game. It's a simple process and in this guide we'll...
You think fashion's your friend - my friend, fashion is danger
It's Fashion Week in Pokémon GO and Fashion Challengers have sprung up in the game ready to battle. But what are Fashion Challengers? Where are Fashion Challengers? How many things will this guide feature the words 'fashion' and 'challengers'? This Pokemon GO Fashion Week guide will...
Guide Kitaria Fables - How To Make Money, Find Materials, And Complete Quests
Plus tips & tricks for beginners to late-game players
Kitaria Fables is here, and we loved it — but it can be quite tricky to learn the ropes, especially when every upgrade costs tons of cash, and your pockets are perpetually empty. Or, perhaps, you've got all the money you need, but no idea where to find some of the required materials. We can...
Guide How To Connect Bluetooth Headphones To Nintendo Switch - Use AirPods With Switch
Can you connect Bluetooth headphones to Switch? Why, yes, you can
Does Nintendo Switch have Bluetooth? Can you use Bluetooth headphones on Nintendo Switch? It took a firmware update to enable, but the answer to those questions is yes. Switch allows for the use of wireless headphones directly with the console without the need for an external...
Guide WarioWare: Get It Together Full Character Roster, Moves List, Beginner Tips
A guide to Diamond City's finest
WarioWare: Get It Together! is finally here and this time around the denizens of Diamond City have jumped from the sidelines and joined in the action. Yes, this latest addition to Nintendo's madcap microgame series lets you take direct control of a roster of twenty characters, each of whom has their very own attack...
Back Page Ranking Every Version Of Fairy Fountain From The Legend Of Zelda
Pick of the pixies
You may have noticed that we're doing a video game music festival while the summer months are still here — but you may also be wondering why we haven't included the most important music of all. Fear not! I'm here to save the day by ranking EVERY SINGLE VERSION OF FAIRY FOUNTAIN FROM THE LEGEND OF ZELDA. That's right, it's a...
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For September And October 2021
What's that coming over the hill? Is it a Metroid?
Well, we've made it through the quieter middle months of the year and we're now on the downhill slope speeding towards Holiday 2021 and the busiest time of the video gaming calendar. Switch owners have plenty to look forward to over the coming months — things are starting to heat up, with the...
Guide Best Wii U-To-Nintendo Switch Ports
Upwardly mobile
Sure, the Wii U was a commercial bomb for Nintendo, but let's not act like it didn't have any good games. In fact, the Wii U had some of the best games of its generation – it's just that not enough people bought the console to find out. Still, not to worry, because Nintendo is fixing this issue by putting pretty much every decent...
