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Vs. Meta Ridley is a theme heard when fighting the boss of the same name in Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Vs. Meta Ridley is a remix of Vs. Ridley, Ridley's signature theme since Super Metroid. Owing to Ridley's cybernetic state in Metroid Prime, the song is done in techno-style beats.
Bars of the song can also be heard in the cutscene playing after Samus makes it out of the doomed Frigate Orpheon as she witnesses and pursues Meta Ridley to Tallon IV.
An arrangement is also heard in Metroid Prime Pinball, appropriately played during the Meta Ridley battle.
Despite his absence from the game, Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt contains an arrangement of the Meta Ridley theme as well, titled Survivor.
The original theme from Prime and Corruption is used in Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Frigate Orpheon stage and in an Event Match on the Norfair stage. It is also heard when escaping from the Isle of Ancients in Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary, although, ironically enough, not during the actual boss fight against Meta Ridley (which instead used the Vs. Ridley theme). It returns in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U on the Pyrosphere stage.
In Nintendo Land, the minigame Metroid Blast has an orchestrated remix of Vs. Meta Ridley theme. It plays on stages where Miis must fight against Ridley as a boss.
A remix of Vs. Meta Ridley was featured in the Metroid: Samus Returns Overview Trailer, hinting that he would have a role in Metroid: Samus Returns. In the game itself, it is heard during the final battle with Proteus Ridley, with there being three phases to the song: the first phase (titled Boss Battle 8 in the Sound Test) being the standard theme; the second phase having a edgier tone; and the third phase having a more dramatic tone, with a slower tempo similar to that of the Neo-Ridley theme from Metroid Fusion. The second and third phases each begin with a tense opening.
The theme from Prime, Corruption, Brawl and Wii U can be heard here: [1], the theme from Pinball here: [2], the theme from First Hunt here: [3], the theme from Nintendo Land here: [4], the first theme from Samus Returns here: [5], the second theme from Samus Returns here: [6], and the third theme from Samus Returns here: [7]
Meta Ridley
A version of this theme given in Metroid Prime Trilogy, simply called Meta Ridley, was first featured in New Play Control! Metroid Prime and a UK trailer for Metroid Prime Trilogy. This Soundtrack Gallery variant is slightly different from the score played in-game, sounding more metallic.
Trivia
- The theme was originally included as a multiplayer theme in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, although it was later removed but for a single mention in the demo's data.[1] A slower, darker version of the theme still exists in the internal files and may correspond to this reference. It can be heard here.[2]
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