Majora's Mask: Goht

I just finished the second dungeon in Majora's Mask, which concludes with one of my favorite boss fights of all time (definitely the best in the Zelda series): the Masked Mechanical Monster, Goht. I need to write about him.

The second dungeon of the game basically uses three items throughout: the Goron Mask, Fire Arrows, and occasionally the Lens of Truth (mostly to find Stray Fairies). Other than the lens, the other two items can be used to fight Goht. You can either stand in place as Link and wait for Goht to run around, hitting him with the occasional fire arrow, or you can do it the fun way: by using Goron Link.

You do this by chasing Goht around the arena, trying to ram him enough so he falls down, allowing you to stop and pound the crap out of him. I don't even do this, though - when he falls, I just let him get back up and start the chase again. Goht begins shooting lightning beams at you, followed by forcing stalactites to fall from the ceiling in your path, to just outright throwing bombs at you. You have to avoid all of them to continue to chase him to finally bring him down.

There is no boss fight I can think of that is as fun as this one, in pretty much any game. Goht is no pushover (at least not on your first try - I kick his ass no problem, now), and what you have to do to beat him is pretty obvious due to the set up of the arena you're in, so it's all about the mechanics of the fight. It helps that Goron Link controls very well, too, although I wish he wouldn't lose his spikes if he caught to much air - but oh well. The whole thing is awesome.

It is really too bad the next dungeon boss is so lame in comparison. Zora Link is incredibly fun to swim with, and yet most of the time you try your best to be out of the water so the dumb fish doesn't eat you. I wish that battle had been like some sort of toilet drain chase (you know, like a long pipe you have to swim through as Zora Link, occasionally getting magic pots so you can continue hitting the fish with your Zora electric shield or whatever). I suppose that would be a little too similar to the Goht fight, though... Oh! What if instead of chasing the fish, you had to swim away from him? And like, to damage him, you had to like jump out of the water and like ram a stalactite off the ceiling to make it drop onto the fish? Now THAT would be an awesome boss battle.

Anyway, who cares. Goht exists, and is fun as hell. I love Majora's Mask so much.