After many a long battle I've finally unlocked Zant and boy does he delivers in spades.
Zant has a bunch of combos that will lead him into doing an extended and humorously mash worthy attack that builds up his secondary meter, so you'll say bring out a wallmaster and keep swatting over and over to build the bar up. If you go over the limit then Zant gets stunned and the attack ends early and the bar power is lost to boot. However ending the move when the bar is full lets you enter a brief mode where he drops the mask and can go full on Tasmanian devil with a controllable rapid spin or just sit back and blast rapid orb projectiles, seeing a King Dodongo attempted to roll over my face at one stage you may also be invincible.
You can turn giant and give new meaning to the term stomping a mudhole and walking it dry, Jim Ross would be so proud. Even going back to the Wallmaster move the final string of the attack has the hand smacking back and forth against Twilight barriers and a lovely little touch is Zant controlling the hands erratic movement with the sharp movements of his own head.
As you may be able to tell I'm pretty chuffed with how they've handled Zant, he feels suitably unhinged and the various attacks are full of callbacks to his own TP battle even including the Forest Temple totem pole. And to think some people still think Zant going from his façade of generic evil villain to tempter tantrum insanity towards the end of TP was a bad thing, Hyrule Warriors is more evidence to that revelation being the best possible thing.
Speaking of villains, Ghirahim has a pretty great moveset as well and it's already become one of my favourites, I love how they implemented his ability to create flooring and barriers so you can just elevate a whole group of enemies into a ceiling he's just whipped up, they even threw in his final form look for the temp power up. The hidden highlight is his chest opening animation, even the way he pops it open has this distinctly Ghirahim like flick of the rest.
So basically this game is indeed glorious Zelda fan service.
Trying to get A rank on that Zelda map with the Wind Waker level 2 so I can unlock Link's final weapon...
Just wow, I don't kill enough ennemies, then oops, you got too much damage, finally yay A for KO and damage but.... B for time because I did it in 15mins 39 0_o
Just my luck~
Anyway, my Zelda is getting quite OP with all that training x)
Tried this earlier, yeah there was no way I was getting that A rank, headed into my main base at one stage to see Volgamania was running wild and my health got absolutely blitzed.
