We often describe The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as the game that keeps on giving, with new tricks, glitches, speedrun revelations and plenty more besides still regularly being found almost three years since the game first launched. Today, we have another one to share with you, and this one's a biggie.
As you'd expect, the game's final boss, Calamity Ganon, isn't usually the easiest of foes to take down. With one very precisely timed pull on your bow, however, that can all change.
The video below shows the trick in action; essentially, shooting an Ancient Arrow just before Ganon's cutscene begins will finish him off the moment the battle begins. Check it out (the arrow is fired at the very beginning, and Ganon suddenly falls to his doom as soon as the fight starts at around 3:20):
So why on Earth does that happen? Well, according to the video's creator, Gaming Reinvented, it would appear that bosses can take damage during cutscenes. We imagine this was completely unintentional on Nintendo's part, but characters - including Link - seem to take continuous damage during cutscenes. So that single arrow was slowly but surely taking away Ganon's health the whole time.
Here's another example, this time against Windblight Ganon. Notice how he just explodes the moment the fight begins.
That certainly makes things easier, huh?
[source gamingreinvented.com]
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Oh boy, this is going to cause headaches for the speedrunning community if it's not a consistent trick.
Who would win?
A Demon with otherworldly power that can destroy all of humanity with one strike
OR
One glowy stick boi
Cool article. I love this game, it is my favorite game of all time.
However, I haven't replayed it since switch launch (and then dlc)
I want to replay it, but either my backlog is too big, or I wonder if it has been long enough of a gap since the first time.
How many times have you all replayed it? Did you do it significantly different the second time?
Another one I have to try
@dugan I recently started it again after not touching it since the DLC dropped and had a blast!
Backlogs are large alla round - just jump back in and have a run around - you'll love it
i would love to go back to this but blood moon is stupid. once you complete the game the blood moon should stop and you can just go around killing all enemies and rid hyrule of them all
@jockmahon i like the idea
@jockmahon that is what I thought since the beginning and then we would have a second end (or an achievement) with all evil banished from the face of the world.
One shot trick to defeating Gannon he doesn't want you to know about.
@Seananigans I would think that as areas are cleared the original inhabitants would come back. At least if you left it up to me.
@ryancraddock Come on now, if you're going to start actually headlining with "This one simple trick" we can't even lampoon you properly!
@dugan I 100% it, other than seeds, twice. Although I’ll admit the world loses a lot of its appeal the second run through and some of the content becomes a grind. Probably would do it sooner rather than later if you plan on playing the sequel so you’re not burnt out on Zelda when BOTW 2 rolls around. Especially considering the map will very likely be the same with layout and content remixes.
I replayed it almost immediately after my first completion, choosing Master Mode difficulty. I actually didn't find the second time a grind at all - I was much more efficient (to be fair, you have to be, given the mobs all regenerate health) and also decided not to prioritise Korok seed hunting too much. Additionally I knew how to handle the tougher enemies from the get go, and so could navigate the world more freely.
On the whole I'd say I enjoyed myself a lot more overall that second time around. I intend to replay it again before BotW2 comes out.
This is harder to pull off than defeating the pig form, which is really sad considering they’re the very last boss.
@Seananigans
I don't think it would be that hard. The enemy AI probably has some configuration like view distance and aggro. Force those to nothing and swap out to a nice looking model. It would still be an enemy, with huge health who never notices you. So as far as the game is concerned it is just a stats swap after the boss battle.
Seems useful for speedruns, at least for various categories aside from Any%.
@dugan It is way different if you plate for example the Master Mode. You have to approach the battles differently and the game has more to give when you already know well its mechanics. That was the case for me at least... As a third play-through, I played it on Master Mode and I beat it with no stamina upgrade and only 3 hearts with no durian fruits meals; when I say 3 hearts, I mean it, 3 hearts only. The bad thing with that is that you cannot take the Master Sword (you can if you swap stamina vessels at the statue in Hateno Village and then swap again to have 3 hearts, but as I already said, no stamina upgrade is included either).
wow...now I can enjoy exploring and then using this Trick kill the whole fun of this game... lmao. But hey now it makes it worth while to go back to play it because I still need one more Guardian and the MotorCycle.
@dugan Your not the only one I think there lots that need to get back to it including me.
Imagine if you do this by accident, as a newby. Is that all Calamity Ganon has to offer, pathetic!
I'm not going near BOTW until release date of BOTW-2 is know and near. Otherwise I will end up doing a third run and if I have a release date to work to I will not spend 200+ hours on it this time.
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