Following The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Through Every Boss Fight: A Let's Play Walkthrough from Gohma to Ganon

The video opens with the Great Deku Tree's narration. The Kokiri live deep in a forest in the Kingdom of Hyrule, and each has a fairy of their own, but there is just one boy without a fairy. That boy is Guboy.

When he leaves his house, his childhood friend Saria speaks to him, but the narrator prioritizes the task at hand and moves on. First, Guboy obtains the Kokiri Sword deep in the forest, then shops at the Kokiri Shop to gather weapons and armor. Once ready, he visits the Great Deku Tree and learns the reason behind the nightmares he has been having.

The inside of the Great Deku Tree has been infested by monsters, and in its deepest chamber Guboy fights their leader, "Parasitic Armored Arachnid Gohma." The strategy is simple: stun it with Deku Nuts, stab its eye, and finish it off. After the fight, the Great Deku Tree entrusts Guboy with the Kokiri's Emerald and tells him to head for the castle, and he leaves the forest.

Sneaking into Hyrule Castle, Guboy meets Princess Zelda, who has the power of prophetic dreams. The narrator sums up the scene, in which the princess starts talking a mile a minute the moment she sees him, as: "Ganondorf is after the Triforce, so let's get ahead of him and defeat him ourselves."

In search of the second Spiritual Stone, a key to the Triforce, Guboy visits Dodongo's Cavern, where monsters dwell. By earning the Gorons' recognition there, he is allowed to borrow the Goron's Ruby in their possession.

The boss is "Infernal Dinosaur King Dodongo." Since attacks don't get through as it is, you throw a bomb into its mouth and land a sword thrust while it's dazed. Repeating this, the second time a Bomb Flower happened to be growing nearby, so the narrator tossed that into its mouth and defeated it.

Next, Guboy visits Zora's Domain and learns that the third Spiritual Stone is in Lord Jabu-Jabu's belly. He feeds it a fish and goes inside along with it. After exploring the interior, he finds the leader of the parasitic jellyfish.

"Bio-Electric Anemone Barinade" is introduced as a boss with many steps. First, you sever the three tentacles growing from the ceiling, using Z-targeting to aim. Next, you throw the boomerang and then Deku Nuts, repeating this two times to wipe out the small jellyfish. The enemy then shifts to its final form: you stop its movement with the boomerang, attack with a Deku Stick, and immediately bump into it to make it recover faster. The final form is done after three rounds of this. The narrator looks back on it as "a pretty hectic boss fight."

With the Ocarina of Time and the three Spiritual Stones in hand, everything is ready to pull the Master Sword, the final key leading to the Triforce. At this point Ganondorf appears. Far too young to be the Hero of Time, Guboy sleeps for seven years after drawing the sword, and during that time the Triforce is stolen. Ganondorf reigns as the King of Evil and turns all of Hyrule into a land of monsters.

Seven years later, Guboy awakens as an adult and sets out to seek the help of the seven sages imprisoned in temples across the land in order to seal away Ganondorf, the King of Evil. From here on, the video proceeds to defeat, one by one, the bosses waiting in the depths of each temple.

The boss of the first temple is "Evil Spirit from Beyond Phantom Ganon," a phantom created by Ganondorf's magic. It hides in six paintings hung on the walls of the room and sneaks out of them to launch surprise attacks.

The narrator's approach is to first stand near the center of the room and check for footsteps and its appearance. Fakes also leap out of the paintings, so you determine whether it's the real one before attacking. In this run, the real one came out from the front twice in a row. When the front was a miss, you rely on sound to pinpoint its location; in one scene, the narrator judged that the one behind was real because the sound was coming from the left and right.

In the second phase, the enemy fires magic projectiles, so you deflect them with a spin attack, land a jump attack, and finish it with a thrust.

In the Fire Temple, Guboy fights "Subterranean Lava Dragon Volvagia" amid erupting magma. It burrows into nine holes in the ground, and you hit it when it pops out, making it a whack-a-mole-like battle.

The narrator demonstrates a method that exploits the fact that the lower half of its body remains in the last hole it burrowed into. When the upper half comes out, you hit its head with the Megaton Hammer to stun it, and while it's stunned, drop bombs into the hole where the lower half is. The plan was to drop seven in total; after placing four, the narrator stunned it again with the hammer and dropped the rest one after another. Having finished placing a lethal dose of bombs, the narrator jokes, "I'm the 'Mad Bomber.'" Finally, the narrator stunned it with the hammer and finished it with a thrust.

In the Water Temple beneath the lake, Guboy works through puzzling mechanics that raise and lower the water level before finally reaching the deepest chamber. The boss slithers out of the water, and the narrator calls the camera work, which slowly sweeps around from the boss's perspective, "lovely."

"Giant Aquatic Amoeba Morpha" is introduced as a troublesome-looking boss whose body is the water filling the floor itself. Only the nucleus can be damaged, so you aim at the nucleus with the Longshot obtained in the temple, pull it out, lure it toward the wall, and finish it with a thrust.

The boss of the Shadow Temple, hidden in the village, is "Phantom Shadow Beast Bongo Bongo." The strategy in the video is short: first fire an Ice Arrow to freeze its right hand, then while the left hand is punching the right hand, hit its eye to bring down the main body, and finish it with a thrust.

In the Spirit Temple in the desert, Guboy fights "Sorceress Sisters Twinrova." This boss involves reflecting the magic of the two witches, Kotake, who wields ice, and Koume, who wields fire.

In the first phase, the goal is to successfully reflect fire magic with the Mirror Shield onto the ice witch a total of four times. The narrator first switched to first-person view to get a wide field of vision and tilted the stick to adjust the angle of reflection. The narrator explains that the range of angles you can reflect with the shield is surprisingly narrow, so adjusting in advance in first-person view is important. Also, the two move differently each time, so you need to respond, including by moving around.

At the end of the first phase, the two merge, and the narrator jokingly calls it a "Sexy Dynamite Attack," quipping that Guboy was startled too. In the second phase, the opponent uses both kinds of magic. In this run, it fired ice magic repeatedly, so the narrator let the shield absorb it three times to build up energy, moved close to the enemy's feet beforehand, and then released it. After that, three thrusts finished it off.

With the sages' help, Guboy visits Hyrule Castle, now the enemy's stronghold. It's his first time there since coming to meet the princess as a child, but almost nothing of the castle's former appearance remains, and the narrator describes it as "having been renovated with a manly vibe."

In the showdown with "Great King of Evil Ganondorf," you first press up against a wall to draw out his magic projectiles, then swing an Empty Bottle to reflect them. While he's stunned, you shoot him down with a Light Arrow and thrust your sword into him to finish him off.

Right after the fight, the castle collapses, and Guboy works with Princess Zelda to rush to the exit. Just when it seems everything has been resolved after their successful escape, an ominous sound comes from the rubble, and the final battle begins.

Ganondorf unleashes the Triforce of Power and transforms into the beast "Ganon." The evil-banishing Master Sword is especially effective against him, but it gets knocked out of the arena before the fight. So in the first phase, you equip the Biggoron's Sword in your left hand and slip between his legs to attack his weak point, the tail. After attacking, you return to the front once to make him swing his weapons, then circle around behind him again. Repeating this builds up damage.

When an opening appears, you pick the Master Sword back up, equip it, and enter the second phase. First, you land a single jump attack while he's down, and from then on it's almost the same as the first phase: attack the tail from behind, bait an attack from the front, and return behind him. The narrator says that the camera is acting up and you can hardly see anything, but if you just swing away you'll mostly hit. When fighting with normal attacks, the second phase reportedly requires eight hits. With that, Ganon is defeated, and Guboy and the others seal Ganon away and restore peace to Hyrule.

Finally, the narrator shares their impressions of the game as a whole. Despite being a typical story of a hero defeating a demon king, it has a world with a memorable, distinctive flavor. Its music, through the ocarina, draws you deep into the story. New mechanics and monsters keep appearing one after another. Citing these points, the narrator praises it as "a great masterpiece that had already reached completion at this point," despite being the first 3D entry in the Zelda series.

The narrator also says that, as a personal preference, they really love the indescribably eerie presentation peculiar to 3D games of this era, and closes the video by recommending that viewers play it.