Metroid Dread: 9 Tips & Tricks The Game Doesn’t Tell You

4. Secret Boss Methods

Metroid Dread’s bosses are the best of the year, hands down, period, no competition.

Fantastic melds of old-school Nintendo rulesets with new-age bombast and rewarding in-game cinematic sequences where you maintain control for extra damage, there’s nothing better this year.

*Anyway*, know that the hulking Kraid actually has a secret defeat method for his second phase. You’ll need to sequence-break the standard rollout of items and head to Dairon rather than Cataris where he’s located, but after going through the furnace room you can nab the Bomb Upgrade early.

From here, during the fight, crouch and use a bombs to detonate the bottom-right tile, and you’ll get a very slick cinematic of Samus dispatching Kraid in unique morph ball bomb style.