The Explosive and Delicious Finale
Link gazes up at Ganon's castle, philosophically pondering his adventure thus far, before continuing his disregard for personal safety by doing inside.
I swore to myself when I began this I would work the word ‘delicious’ in somewhere. Well, the Sages have all been restored. All the temples have been beaten. There’s just one last thing left to do, and I think the majority of you readers know that it goes without saying. But for those idiots reading this in a completely oblivious fashion, it’s time to face Ganondorf! Oh yeah, time for an epic fight, good versus evil, right against wrong, fairy boy against beefcake… wait, scratch that last one. Well, the point is that we all know what’s coming now.
Just before his death, Ganon thinks back to seven years ago and wonders what his motivation was in this scene when he let Link live.
As I’ve stated above, OoT has many traditions that have been kept in future installments, one of which we shall discuss here first. I speak of course of that time-honored tradition of playing baseball with Ganondorf. Now, my first experience with this form of combat came in A Link to the Past with Agahnim, but it is restored and enhanced for the first time with three-dimensional physics. Using the old American pastime, Link defeats Ganondorf for the first time, then finally finishes off the Gerudo King in a much easier battle outside of Ganondorf’s castle. That’s the thing about the final boss fight in Zelda, it always seems to be cake compared to the first fight.
So Link saves Hyrule and rescues Zelda. But you already knew that. Now that the analysis of the game’s plot is over, it’s time to get into the dirty, nasty truths about OoT. People with heart conditions are advised to stop reading right now and simply say how awesome they found this analysis to be.
