#Echoes of Knowledge – Destructoid

Gohma is without doubt one of the longest mainstay bosses in your entire Zelda franchise, relationship again to the unique 1986 title. Usually, the technique has all the time been to focus on its massive, apparent eyeball, however The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge will get a smidge extra sophisticated.

I say “smidge” as a result of the technique of capturing it within the eyeball remains to be there. Actually, the quickest option to render the boss weak is to observe for it to open its peeper and put an arrow in there. This solely occurs whereas it’s on the wall, and sometimes is simply earlier than and after it fires a reasonably brutal laser. Nonetheless, when you handle to land an arrow whereas its eye is open, it would fall to the bottom and be weak to direct assault.

Backing up right here, proper after the battle begins, I recommend getting out an electrical monster. Your finest wager is an Electrical Wizzrobe. One usually doesn’t want a lot supervision and may be left to its personal units. You largely simply have to create a brand new one each time the one you’re utilizing get knocked out. Nonetheless, if, for no matter cause, you don’t have an Electrical Wizzrobe Echo, you should utilize Electrical Keese or perhaps a spark, however these are lower than ultimate.

No matter your alternative is, you’ll have to direct them to the gems that adorn Gohma’s legs. When the crystals are hit with a lightning assault, they’ll gentle up. If you happen to handle to gentle all three of them, it’s simply pretty much as good as hitting Gohma within the eye, however you don’t have to attend for a gap. Gohma will drop to the bottom, and you may change to swordsman mode and begin whacking it within the eyeball.

Gohma usually begins the assault by climbing up on the wall, littering the bottom with webs, and dropping a couple of eggs. If you happen to assault the eggs earlier than they hatch, they’ll break simply, and also you received’t must cope with any monsters. They’ll additionally usually drop hearts or different helpful goodies, so, whereas protecting away from assaults is the place you ought to be a precedence, you must also commit some focus to hitting the eggs.

When you’ve knocked Gohma to the bottom, it would change its technique. It is going to largely slash and spin. At this level, your solely choice is to work on hitting the gems. Whereas I nonetheless suggest sticking with Wizzrobe, a couple of Buzz Blobs work fairly properly as they’ll gravitate towards the creature, and its assaults will typically inadvertently trigger the crystals to hit the electrical slimes.

Whereas it’s on the bottom, I like to recommend simply making an attempt to maintain a distance from it. Let your echoes do many of the work, however, when you’re geared for swordsman mode, mopping up the smaller enemies and eggs spawned by Gohma is value it, because it lets your electrical pals do their work undistracted. As soon as it falls, bounce on and get to work.

For me, it solely took Gohma toppling over thrice to take it down. When it’s on its again, simply whack on the eye as a lot as doable. Chances are you’ll wish to watch out when you don’t have a lot well being left, as a result of it would counter-attack when it will get again up, however when you’ve acquired hearts to spare, simply concentrate on touchdown as many hits as doable at each alternative.

That’s all there actually is to it:

• Purpose for the attention when it’s open.
• Use electrical monsters to hit the gems on its legs when the attention isn’t open.
• Assault the eggs each time you may.
• As soon as it’s knocked over and its eye is uncovered, bounce on high and assault it till it bursts.