Ganon
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
After taking care of Vaati at the Tower of Winds, it looks like the game is over. Zelda greets the quartet of Links and congratulations them for a job well done and the whole group tries to leave, but not before a strange force causes the Tower to collapse and everyone has to get out before it's too late! Sound familiar? It should... but if it doesn't, that's another article for another time.
Unlike that other game, you don't make it out in time and everyone falls into a crevice, where you have to face none other than... Ganon, the true form of Ganondorf, King of Thieves!
Ganon is not all that difficult to attack. When he's not moving you can swipe him with your sword and he'll take damage. He will, however, jump around and try to crush you. He will also use his trident to strike you with lightning bolts. Of course, you do not get hurt if you get hit by these bolts, but it will teleport you to the Dark World, where you must fight a bunch of easy enemies before you can escape. The skeleton baddies there leave hearts when killed so it's worth it anyway, and it's pretty difficult to avoid Ganon's bolts when you're standing still swiping at him endlessly.
After around a hundred hits, he'll start throwing his trident at you. You just hit him some more. Then Princess Zelda appears, and gives you an arrow upgrade while she tries to seal Ganon away with a ball of light. Like the Phantom Ganon battles earlier, Ganon throws green energy balls at you which you must swipe back at him with your sword (like tennis!), which will damage him. After doing that a half-dozen times Zelda will throw the ball around Ganon, and you must launch an arrow at him while timing it just right to hit the ball of light as well. Once you do this, Ganon will be cast away by the six maidens you rescued and Zelda will seal him away... forever?
With it all said and done, Link places his sword back in the Four Sword Sanctuary where it will never be used again, as he becomes one again. The land of Hyrule is at peace, and during the credits you can see all the places you visited and all the people you met, before the big "The End" takes over the screen.
Pictures courtesy of Ganon's Tower
