Don't remember.
I just remember I hated fighting Phantom Ganon, because the first time around that I faced him, I was completely out of arrows. What I mean is that the first time I beat him
I used only the hookshot, no arrows. It was
excruciating for me, because the first half of the fight was
far more difficult than it should have been for multiple reasons:
#1) First of all, the hookshot's range is terrible (it's no longshot), and this fight clearly maximized for me just how much of a handicap that short range could be. Let me say this: the hookshot's range is
so horrid, that the only place in the room from which you can shoot it and
actually reach
all the portraits, is the
center of the room. I'm telling you, if you stand on the sides, you won't have more than
three portraits within your range. How bad
is that? Though, this wouldn't have been a problem if it weren't for one particular aspect of the fight: since every time Phantom Ganon jumped out of the portraits, he would shoot out power waves from the center of the room, you could
not stand in the center if you wanted to avoid being hit. You had to stand in the corners or at specific angles around the room that were exempt from being hit. So basically, you're
forced to stand in spots where you're only in range of a few portraits. What happens when the two portraits that Phantom Ganon might jump out of are each on opposite ends of the room?
Hahaha the hookshot laughs in your ears for only allowing you to be in range of ONE!
#2) Hey, why not add another handicap ontop of that last one to make things
just a little worse! Oh joy...the hookshot's reaction time is
abysmal. You only have an instant to land a hit on Phantom Ganon when he's jumping out of the portraits, so if you want to land a hit with our sloth-y little hookshot here, you'll have to take into account its lag time beforehand, calculating with precision how far in advance you need to shoot it to make contact. And don't even think about trying to land a hit while he's jumping through the air--that's a
completely lost cause. Argh...now I'm starting to remember just how frustrating this fight
really was at that time.
Ugh, I hated it so much. -.-
Granted if you're looking for extra challenge, this is the kind of thing you might like to try on a later playthrough (hey, if anybody feels like trying it now, go right ahead~ ^^) but seriously, this was during my
first, and I was
not up for extra challenges, though I went through with this one anyway. It also didn't help that I hadn't even known about
fairies at the time, so had none on me either, neither any potions or any kind of health replenishers. I guess I just made it unnecessarily difficult for myself. Whoops :silent:
Though I must say, I found fighting normal Ganon to be a
relief after going through
that~
