6. Ganondorf - Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx0Yfg6EasQ So, surprise surprise, it's time for another fight between Link and mainstay baddie Ganondorf, but fans of the series will be well-versed in exactly what a boss fight with the Man in Black entails; it's usually a case of deflecting his giant fireballs back into his face with your epic sword. Eventually, he'll probably transform into something else, and then it'll end with an epic mano-y-mano sword fight in which you finally vanquish him. Sound simple enough? It's a formula that's tried and tested, but in Twilight Princess, Nintendo opts for something entirely different, in basically depriving us of a fight that is in any way interesting. Though it does fleet about on a number of different forms (including horseback), the end of the fight is easily the least inspired of the lot, as Link takes on Ganondorf in probably the most tiresome and redundant swordfight of all time. The majority of the "action" consists of blocking, before you're able to wear the big bad's defences down sufficiently to finally stick one in him.
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