Demon Dragon
Title | Draconified Demon King | |
Games | ||
Rewards | none | |
Attacks | Gloom Fire | |
Effective | ||
Demon Dragon is the final phase of the final boss battle against Demon King Ganondorf in Tears of the Kingdom. It is effectively the game's analogue to Dark Beast Ganon from Breath of the Wild.
Tears of the Kingdom
"The form that Ganondorf, the Demon King, attained after swallowing a secret stone attaining his true power. No trace of the original form remains.
Its overwhelming magical strength would shake the skies. The jet-black scales covering it repel any and all attacks, save for those of the one and only Master Sword."
Upon consuming his secret stone, Demon King Ganondorf's eyes turn to a dragons as he lets out one last evil laugh and is changed by the effects of draconification. He explodes into a furious gloom-filled dragon that snaps Link in its unseen jaws and rockets upward towards the surface. Now transformed into the Demon Dragon, he exits from the top of Hyrule Castle in a manner very similar to the circular ascent of Calamity Ganon in Breath of the Wild, with Link trapped in between his jaws. From out of the sky the Light Dragon appears, causing the Demon Dragon to open its jaws to attack. This allows Link to break free, and for the Light Dragon to intercept his freefall. From here, the final fight of the game begins.
Link is not allowed to return to the ground from this point in the game onward; if Link falls a certain distance, a cutscene will play of the Light Dragon automatically intercepting him and carrying him back up to the altitude of the Demon Dragon. The Light Dragon will also manually attempt to catch Link as he falls before that point.
The fight against the Demon Dragon functions very similarly to the first encounter with Naydra in Breath of the Wild, in which Link must target and defeat the eyes along that dragons body to free the dragon from the curse of Malice. Here, the Demon Dragon has a similar set of eye clusters in small craters along its body, and Link will have to descend directly towards its body to attack them while being careful to avoid the Demon Dragon's assault of Gloom Fire. Link will again permanently lose one of his hearts upon coming into contact with this fire, but the Demon Dragon moves and attacks slowly enough for this to not be a serious threat.
Link can land and walk directly upon the Demon Dragon's body, where he will take gloom damage if he stays on for too long, and attack the eye clusters with the Master Sword until they explode, dealing the Demon Dragon approximately 1/5th of his health. After each cluster is destroyed, the Demon Dragon accelerates in its flight to knock Link off of him, and the Light Dragon will return to collect Link for another pass at the Demon Dragon's back. When all eye clusters have been destroyed, the Secret Stone will become visible and glow directly upon the Demon Dragon's head as the sky turns a deep crimson. Link will then have to descend upon it and land there, dealing the final blows directly to the Secret Stone, which will cause the Demon Dragon's final defeat. A cutscene will play, where Link delivers the decisive impaling blow upon the Secret Stone, shattering it, and causing the Demon Dragon to bleed light from its head and perish in a massive, earth-shattering explosion.