Metroid Boss FAQ
Author: KFreak101<Blazingfire456@aol.com>
Version: 1.0

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This is a Metroid Boss FAQ. There are only a few bosses in Metroid, but they 
can be pretty challenging.  Please make sure to read all the FAQ I include.  
If you see any errors, or any stradegies you believe should be in this FAQ.  
Please e-mail me, and if I think it is good, I will gladly post it up on 
this FAQ.  Don't worry, I will give you proper Credit for it!  Now lets get 
on to the bosses.


_Kraid_

Okay, Kraid may or may not be the first boss you decide to beat first.  But 
he is still probably the hardest out of all the bosses.  There are many 
tactics to beating him.  First you will notice that he throws a bunch of 
pointy claws at you, and swings them like boomerangs.  He also faces his 
back on you, and then shoots the spikes on his back like missiles. I guarentee 
you cannot beat him without getting hurt some.  You need to find a pattern 
in what he is doing.  Here are a few ways of doing this:

1.One tactic is to bring the Ice Beam with you.  Now 
whenever he gets ready to shoot the spikes on his back, quickley freeze 
them.  They will not stay frozen forever, so you must hurry and try to 
shoot at him.  However you cannot freeze the claws, so you will need to 
keep jumping over them if you want to avoid them.  Shoot him with missiles 
after you freeze the spikes.  This is the one of the ways you can do this.

2.Another tactic that I found useful was instead of getting the Ice Beam, 
get the Wave Beam.  This way you most likely will beat him, and not get 
hurt at the same time!  Here is what you do. When you start the fight, 
jump, yes jump into the sand.  Make sure you have the Varia Suit because 
if you do, the amount of damage the sand takes off is slower.  But to 
not get hurt at all you need to constantly Jump in and out of the sand.   
Now keep shooting Kraid with the Wave Beam.  The Wave beam can go 
through solid objects, so you can hurt him, but he can't hurt you. Of 
coarse the Wave Beam is weaker then Missiles.  So it is annoying and long.  
After you beat him you get a gift set of 75 missiles added to your 
Max amount.  If you read this you will notice that he is probably 
the hardest boss in Metroid.  That is why I choose to fight him last.


_Ridley_

Well, this boss is sort of a Joke, I have two stradegies for him.  Each 
one will let you beat him without you getting hurt once! This is 
probably the easiest boss in the game.  Yes this boss also gives a gift 
set of 75 missiles to your Max amount!  Here are a few ways of deafeating him:

1.The first way of beating him 
is to roll into a ball, and sit on the platform on the right.  He will 
spit out Fire Balls, but just stay curled in a ball, and sit on the 
little platform on the right, and the fireballs will disappear without 
hurting you, now quickly jump on the big platform on the middle, and 
shoot missiles at him.  Then when he spits fire balls out again. Do 
the same thing, roll into a ball, stand on the right platform, and 
wait for them to disappear. Just keep repeating this tactic, and you 
shouldn't get hurt once!  

2.The other way of doing this is to just go 
ahead and jump into the lava.  It is just as powerful as Sand, so make 
sure you have the Varia Suit. Just like with Kraid, you need the Wave 
Beam.  Now get into the lava and keep shooting up at him using your 
Wave Beam.  Remember you need to keep jumping in and out of the lava 
if you want to stop yourself from getting hurt.  But this time it 
will be even more long and annoying because Ridley is on a higher 
platform.  But either way, you should more then likely not get hurt.  
But thats not a guarentee because you might mess up, because his 
fireballs come out fast. This is the easiest boss of all, and I 
recommend you fight him first.  After he is dead you are ready for the 
last boss of all.


_Mother Brain Chamber_

Here is the final boss,  In the chamber there are poles with holes in 
them so you are able to walk through, but every other pole has a tube 
blocking it making it inpassable. To destroy these things, shoot them with 
missiles. But you must be quick  because if you take too long they will 
regenerate.  But after you completely destroy a tube, it can never grow 
back. So don't worry.

After you get to the last pipe, there she is, Mother Brain. Mother 
Brain has no attacks, infact she can't even move. Just break open the 
glass case with one missile, and keep shooting the brain creature.  
But watch out, the most annoying part of this battle are those little 
fire rings that keep coming out at you.  They can even push you into 
the lava next to Mother Brain making it hard to get out. The best way 
to get rid of these guys is to freeze them. There can only be 3 on 
the screen at once, so freeze them all. Then keep shooting missiles at 
Mother Brain like crazy. When the fire rings unfreeze, just freeze them 
again.  Another way you can do it which will also save time is to just 
avoid the rings.  Keep falling off the pipe, then jump back on the pipe 
using your Screw Attack, and you might kill some fire rings.   After 
you beat her you completed the game.

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