Cheesing Boss Fights

As I wrote in a prior blog post, I suffered greatly in Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword to master the control scheme and caused poor Link to get wrecked and taunted and Demon Lord Ghirahim blocked his and by proxy my attacks again and again.

But that came to an end the other day.  For I had my rematch with the (spoilers) Sword Turned Demon Lord.  This time, the one playing around was me as I cheesed the fight.

For those of you who do not know what that means, to cheese a fight is to do some unusual or gimmick strategy.  In this case, like in the first fight, Ghirahim uses his hands to block Link's sword swings, but this time, I used my shield as well to slightly alter my swing making it much harder for him to fight me.

Later in the same fight I also used that same shield to bash him in the face to stun him and get some free attacks.

He was not the only boss I cheesed.  The Imprisoned (aka Demise) is normally hard because to hit his feet requires dodging shock waves and the fight cannot be taken slow.  You can ignore these mechanics if you fly up to the top of the room and just land on his head where that wonderful spike is just asking to be shoved into his skull.

I may not be a speed runner, but it is satisfying when you can use those players tactics in a practical sense.