Awesome Bosses/the Legend of Zelda Series: Difference between revisions

*:* At the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]'', you get to fight Ganon in a one-on-one sword duel. Indeed, the entirety of the final battle in ''Twilight Princess'' is one big CMoA -- the first fight against {{spoiler|(Ganon in Zelda's body)}} isn't all that great (he uses the same easily beatable strategy he did back in ''A Link to the Past'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]''), but from there, Ganon takes on his Giant Hell-Pig form, and Link and Midna shoot each other a confident, "Let's-do-this" smirk before engaging in a massive, shapeshifting teamwork free-for-all in which you ''wrangle a giant charging hell-boar and hurl him onto his side, then wail on the scar on his belly.'' Then comes chasing him down on horseback while fending off the ghostly hordes he hurls back at you, giving Zelda a clear shot at him. ''Then'' comes the final [[Sword Fight]] of [[Pure Awesomeness|awesome.]] You feel like a [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Hero]] after this, and it's well-earned.

**::* Moreover, rather than simply [[He Knows About Timed Hits|waiting to press the button at the right time]], in this battle, you have to constantly try to get a hit in while simultaneously defending from Ganondorf's.

**::* You also get to Finish him off when you finally knock him down, with the classic "Ending Blow" move, triggering a seamless switch into Ganon's dying cutscene when you plunge into him.

**:* The awesomeness of the final fight is severely mitigated if {{spoiler|you distract Ganondorf with the Fishing Rod from the very beginning of the game. Of course, if you don't do that...}}

*:* After the big disappointment with Calamity Ganon in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild| Breath of the Wild]]'', Ganondorf redeems himself in spades in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom|Tears of the Kingdom]]'', with what is arguably the best Ganondorf Boss Fight in the franchise. First of all, before you can even fight him, you have to deal with the Demon King’s Army, which is like the [[Level in Boss Clothing| Monster Forces]] you’ve encountered previously, but in this case its three waves, but at least you have the Sages to help. Then, a [[Boss Rush]] of the Temple bosses appear, but you only have to fight the ones whom you didn't fight before. Finally, Ganondorf appears as the living corpse he was in the opening cutscene of the game, before assuming his true form as the Embodiment of Hate in all his [[Evil Is Hammy| arrogant and exuberant glory]]. A [[Sequential Boss]], of course, the first phase of the fight is pretty direct one-on-one where his attacks are strong, but avoidable. The second isn’t all-that different from Phantom Ganon (detailed below), except in this one the actual Sages are there. In the ''third'' phase, however, he KOs all the sages and his appearance changes to a larger version with flames for his hair and beard, looking more like Demise than Ganondorf, and his Life Bar grows until it is literally off the screen. While this part of the fight still seems like a straight-up swordfight, Ganondorf is hard to hurt here because he canhas perfectPerfect-dodgeDodge and Flurry Attack skills thatmuch like Link does and he can use as well as Link can! Naturally, Ganondorf doesand his minions do Gloom damage throughout this entire fight, which normally would not be a problem at this point of the game (unless you are a true masochist, you’ve stocked up on Gloom Recovery food and elixirs) but in the third phase of the fight, Ganondorf’s attacks actually destroy (not disable) Link’s Heart Containers, meaning the damage his inflicts cannot be healed at all. You get them back at the fourth phase of the fight, however, which is in fact the easiest part of the battle but also the most fun. Ganondorf takes a One-Winged Angel form here, and for once, it is not a giant pig-monster, it is the Demon Dragon. For this fight, Link rides on the back of the Dragon of Light far over the skies of Hyrule and launches himself onto the villain’s back in order to strike the clusters of Malice (not Gloom) again and again until finally, Ganondorf is vanquished. Most awesome of all, when the only remaining weak spot that you have to hit is the Tear on his head, the backdrop changes to the blood-red sky of the Blood Moon as Link closes in for the final blow. A thrilling - and Catharsis-fueled - grand finale to this epic part of the franchise.