Yakuza
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| Yakuza | |
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 Samus battling Yakuza. | |
| Featured in | Metroid Fusion |
| Location | Main Deck (Reactor Silo) |
| Weakness | Ice Missiles |
| Reward(s) | Space Jump |
Yakuza is a large spider-like creature. It lurks in the Main Deck's Reactor Silo and is one of the more difficult bosses in the game.
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[edit] The battle
Once Samus has fallen into a large pit, three bolts of fire will be shot to the ground, and Yakuza will come climbing down to battle Samus.
[edit] First Phase
Yakuza X will move around in a straight line around the room crawling all over the back wall, and occasionally touching the ground if it aligns itself correctly. If you are unfortunately near the spot where it touches the ground, it will grab you and quickly siphon off a large amount of your energy. To escape its clutches, struggle by moving left and right. To minimize danger of this, stay in the Morph Ball in the corner when the creature is moving around. While in the corner, there is a very little chance of being caught(it's still possible though; the left corner of the room is usually the corner that the Yakuza X comes into contact with). It will slowly move so the high point of its scuttling is over you. This greatly decreases the difficulty of the battle.
After moving around enough, Yakuza will stop and open its mouth. When it opens its mouth, it will begin charging a volley of three fireballs to launch at you. As soon as you see the creature stop, you should immediately come out of your morph ball and position yourself either beneath it, or at an angle to where you can fire it diagonally. When its mouth is open and charging, shoot as many Ice Missiles into its maw as possible before it releases some fireballs at you. It would also be helpful to crouch in a corner, (Only if you're in no danger of being grabbed) and charge the Wide Beam to fire and get in an extra shot. A Charge Beam can be launched by arming the missiles, so you can transition directly to firing missiles.
The process will continue as Yakuza changes color as its health decreases, until you destroy its legs, and the creature will turn into its second form.
[edit] Second Phase
Now Yakuza will Space Jump around the room erratically, dropping slug-like projectiles on the ground below him.
It can only be damaged while it is not Space Jumping. There are two ways you can do this:
- One, you can run around the room and drunkenly fire missiles everywhere, proving to be quite effective (only if you have a lot of health, as you will run into a lot of projectiles)
- Two, you can actively avoid the projectiles and follow Yakuza's movements while firing at strategic intervals.
Once you deal enough damage, Yakuza will turn into a regular Core-X. Deal with as necessary.
Once you beat it, you will obtain the Space Jump.
[edit] Hidden Tips & Tricks
In the beginning of the battle, once Yakuza fires the first volley of fireballs before it climbs down, it is vulnerable to attack. This isn't a well-known fact, but Yakuza is actually directly above the viewable screen of the battle chamber when the battle begins, and his opened mouth is highly vulnerable to attack. Jumping up from between two of the now-landed fireballs will give you a good position to fire Missiles diagonally into its mouth. Exploiting this secret well can cause you to bypass nearly half of the first phase of the battle, causing Yakuza's color scheme to transition directly to purple from the start.
[edit] Trivia
- Although Yakuza resembles the similar species of Earth, it is in fact not a spider. Yakuza has three pairs of legs and an odd number of eyes, along with a non-segmented body. A true spider would have four pairs of legs, an even number of eyes, and a body with two body segments. Although it may be similar, Yakuza is an unrelated species from a world other than Earth.
[edit] Gallery
 Yakuza's motions. |
 Yakuza's color change due to Samus damaging it. |
 Yakuza's head spinning across the room. |
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