Usurper King ZANT Boss Fight - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD 

Can we all just appreciate that someone stood in front of a mic and made these noises for zant's voice?

Zant.....went from a calm, cool, collected villain.....too a complete mad, crazy and psycho villain

I need more of Zant's swimming animation cycle in my life

10:16 Zant, calm down. Smashing pottery is Link's job.

This fight was interesting just because it actually showed how unskilled Zant is even in basic combat, especially in the last portion of the fight. He relied so much on the magic that Ganondorf granted him.

I actually feel so bad for Zant. He worked for a long time in the twili royal family, and got skipped from being the next heir. He wasn't gonna do anything except throw a little tantrum and then get over it later. But Ganon had to step in and corrupt him to do his bidding giving him seriously bad powers. Even though Zant had the impatience and behaviour of a child, that also means he has the naivety and innocence of one as well. Thats why he was so easily misled by Ganon.

8:10 Music is actually pretty sick here.

I'm absolutely convinced that his helmet is some sort of way for Ganon to control him. Whenever that thing comes off he goes absolutely batshit insane.

You can see how this whole fight is a downward spiral for Zant, slowly losing his mind. 4:10 Zant is attacking you very mockingly, like you can’t do anything. He is essentially trying to toy with you. 4:56 You’ve shocked Zant a bit by smacking him around. He goes for something different, but you can tell from his next approach that you’ve put him off balance. 6:01 This is where Zant becomes rattled, and starts throwing the big stuff at you, knowing full and well he actually has to try to beat you. He starts blasting attacks left and right, trying hard to confound you with a flurry of projectiles. 7:20 Zant truly begins to lose it here, resorting to more... unorthodox tactics. He’s shaken up, trying so hard to do SOMETHING that will get in your head, while trying to keep his cool in the process. 8:06 At this point, you’ve just plain old pissed him off. Zant is LIVID. He’s throwing EVERYTHING he’s got at you, literally attempting to squash you like a bug. 9:04 Zant’s got nothing left. He’s exhausted his arsenal, and begins flailing around in a desperate last attempt to do some kind of damage. You can tell he is frightened, and has just gone off the deep end. This is emphasized by the increased tempo and frantic clips of theme from each previous stage, giving a sense of total panic.

The ice room phase and the phase after that had such cool music. This game's atmosphere is fantastic.

You know, I just came to realize something. I'd always found Zant's entire boss sequence to be more thematic than, well, impressive. He's obviously only a pawn to the real big bad, a simple tool, but in his position of power, with how he's toyed with you from the beginning, you'd think him to put up a better fight. Even as he descends into desperation, he never quite appropriately attacks you. He heavily relies on keeping his distance, using the magic he'd been granted. When he dares to approach, he's literally flailing. He's a delegate. He's a royal figure. He's no fighter. It's taken me way too long just how much he relies on Ganon's power to fight for him, and that he's painfully pathetic one-on-one. Without it, fueled only by his vindication for the dishonour he bore, he'd have fallen at the first exchange of swords. He stood no chance against Link.

This is what happens when Darth Vader turns out to actually be Jar Jar Binks.

I gotta say, I wasn't expecting Zant to go absolutely bananas. I liked his character design to begin with, but after this, I really came to appreciate him as a villain.

10:24 Okay but for real, that was one slick dodge

0:59 Oh wow, he's pretty serious. 1:28 oh nevermind

It pisses me off that there hasn't been another Zelda game that focuses more on the Twili. You can't just introduce a cool fucking race and world like that and then act like it never happened. Breath of the Wild showed us more regarding the personal lives of the Zora, Goron, Gerudo, and Rito and that's awesome! Now we need a game that tells us more about the Twili. I would love to explore a Twili village/city.

My favourite Zelda villain, and easily my favourite fight in the series. To see this once threatening figure, who once loomed over you, reduced to this crazed and unpredictable loose cannon who has nothing left to lose, knowing that he is merely a pawn in all this. And while he may once have had noble cause or greater ambition, all that is left is this mad outburst, full of sound of fury, signifying nothing.

Seeing him pop like a balloon in HD just makes the experience even better.

12:24 when you see something really really really cute

Me: I wonder what kind of powers Zant will have. Zant: All of them.

12:24 When you find an extra piece of pizza in the fridge.

6:33 me:....why are you swimming away YOU CAN FUCKING TELEPORT

11:00 what did he say

Zant is such a favorite boss of mine, lit soundtrack, lit boss, lit everything. I need to replay this game soon

such a fun boss, i loved this fight more than the last 4 battles from ganon

11:01 Zant:nigga Me:wtf

" As long as my master, Ganon, survives, he shall resurrect me without cease! " So that was a f*cking lie.

I find zant oddly adorable

10:00 Zant is as scary as hell

I love how absolutely wild Zant's animations are

Zant: as long as my master, Ganon, survives, he will resurrect me without cease! Midna: then parish

You’re SO powerful Midna. You killed a man on his death bed. SO POWERFUL, great job.

So I came here hearing that Hyness in the new Kirby game was like Zant... gotta say they were spot on

He looks like a freaking penguin with those swords! 😂😂😂 He's trying to kill Link like: "EEH-AHH-EEH-AHH"

It's amazing how faithfully they recreated his moveset in Hyrule Warriors.

Gotta love Zant! Am I right?

1:50 Zant to Link: Let's Tango!

Just imagine Zant as a boss in Dark Souls...

He returns in Kirby Star Allies

12:58 Link seems pretty scared of Midna now, seeing he's shaking.

This was my favorite boss in this game ! I mean the last part of the fight, when the action speeds up a lot. It gets so hectic, his moves, the music, the fact that you have to constantly move ; all of this really translates his madness perfectly ! To me the developing team did such a good job on this one !

Gotta love how Midna went full on Parasyte the Maxim on Zant at the end...

Z-zant buddy? You o-ok there? *ZANT!! TALK TO ME!! OH GOD WHYY*

Whoever vooced Zant better have gotten paid alot like sweet Jesus Christ

11:00 Zant is racist and calls Link a N-

whats most frightening to me about all this is that throughout the entire fight zant gets desparate hes an insane man driven by power and hate but above all else, hes a cornered animal hes desparate hes afraid hes going to do whatever he can think of to kill you any trick he can pull, no matter how wild or unnatural, no matter how dangerous to himself it is _No plans. No menacing schemes._ _just utter unhinged madness and rage_

The score for this boss is genius as it uses elements of every other boss battle’s theme music and remixes it onto the Zant beat!

8:27 makes me laugh he's hopping around holding his foot like owwww MY TOE! XD hahahah

The 'Insane' Zant cutscene simply lives through time & the ages. Throw any game's cutscene at this - there's something about this one that is just mesmerising & Iconic.

ZANT SWIMMING IS THE CUTEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN OMG XD

"Nothin' personal, kid"

I beat this game when i was younger and jesus christ this scene/boss fight scared the shit out of me. such a cool fight.

I think the best thing about this fight is that you got to use the items you collected along the way.

he's a lovely and handsome man. i support him

0:53 when switching camera angle zant's helmet changes from open to close and open again

It's one of the best battles in any LoZ game imo. I love how there are throwbacks to the boss fights that you've done so far.

1st phase: crazy 2nd phase: even more crazy 3rd phase: bonkers 4th phase: insane 5th phase: batshit insane Final phase: madness After final phase: a black person because 11:01

Man the combat in this game was made with so much love.. you can hook shot the boss and bring him to you? Chef’s kiss.

Idk about y'all but I've had breakdowns in my room like this

The one dislike is Zant

Zant's fighting style is basically what happens when all of your direction and tutoring is taken from shounen anime.

The music is always so on point in all Zelda games, I always really appreciate it!

made me feel bad for zant every time I hit him and he yells

Zant and Majora would get along really well. Imagine Zant wearing the mask containing the crazed god…. utterly terrifying.

12:24 the noise me and my friends make in primary school when somebody got in trouble

The poor person who made the sounds for zant...

Seldom do I watch other people play games I could play myself, but there’s nothing like watching a part of your childhood with such ease, simple gameplay, 100% nostalgia

2:58 I can't help, I always get Majora's Mask Flashbacks here.

Twilight Princess has the best story of any Zelda game to date.

Even when I was younger, I was glad he didn't turn out a generic villain and was actually psycho.

1:17 Praise Us Gloriously Dark Lord- Hyness 2018

Zant forgot to take his Ritalin that day.

Zant is an usurper in a deeper level than I thought, he not only usurped the throne of the twilight but he also usurped the previous boss fights and their mechanics!

Ah, Zant. One of my favorite villains and followers of Ganon. He may have been “used” by the Demon King, but he is a follower of Ganon until the end of time. And Hyrule Warriors and its rereleases (Despite being non-canon) shows Ganon treating him as an actual follower, even having him fight alongside Ghirahim. Even in the VA, he struck up a friendship with Hyness (Cause, you know, both of them are devoted to a higher evil, they may seem calm but are actually insane, and their fighting styles are erratic, but deadly).

Speech bubble: Zant. Midna: *A X E*

When ur mom saids clean ur room: (1:33) When ur mom took ur Xbox *one* or PS4 bc u don't wanna clean ur room: (2:26)

3:28 and 12:24 XDXDXD

Ah, that music for the cutscene....I remember first playing this game when I was 10, going through that scene and feeling like my brain was melting because of that music and just how tense and stressed it made me feel lmao

I know a lot of people don't like him because he seemed too goofy in this cutsceneand fight, I actually like it because it shows how unhinged and insane he is, and how your actions in thwarting him have driven him out of his mind.

@3:55 the way he slowly starts floating up, and then the battle theme begins will ALWAYS be super cool to me. by far one of the best bosses in legend of Zelda games.

8:41 did anyone else see the trajectory of the ball and chain and immediately grimace in anticipation for where it was about to hit but then immediately remember that this a video game and forget about it

Zant swimming... Something I've never ever seen before since I use the claw-shots on him (& yes, I yell "Get over here!" while doing so) & quickly hit him a few times with the sol powered Master Sword.

Ok, so this might be a REALLY stupid question, but I don't trust myself to figure it out... Are the people of the Twilight Relm the interlopers who were banished?

Quite possibly my favorite boss fight

ZANT is bananas. I love him. This and the Dark Beast Ganon music are amazing too!

And now he’s a cultist in Star Allies 😂

8:42 right in the twilight zone!

ZANT is a great boss. Especially from a ludonarrative synchronicity standpoint. I feel a lot of people don't like what he turns out to be, personality-wise, at this point in the game, but I feel they misunderstand the whole idea of the character of Zant. For when we learn that Zant did not gain his power through training, trials, or study (like, say, Ganon, Link, or Zelda), we see him for what he is when cornered. Zant is a little man-child that feels he is entitled to power simply by being there (basically, he's like an incel who thinks girls owe him sex because he behaved like any other normal nice person). And when Ganon's power shows up mid-tantrum, suddenly he acts all cool and menacing (as he was throughout the game), confident in the power he feels is truly his, only for the one who gave him that power to betray him, having used his greed to lure him into being his puppet. But we see his character return to form when, like a child who can no longer bully the small kids, he no longer has a position of obvious dominance. Because Zant's power was not his own. And this is played out beautifully in the fight itself. In standard before-the-final-boss form for many games, it's a boss rush-style fight. And that's usually something I kinda find lazy (I thought those black-and-white fights in Wind Waker were sort of pointless, for instance). But in the case of the Zant battle, the boss battles are perverted in some way or another. Because Zant lacks any originality or creativity. He is not someone with the abilities to create his own challenge, but must instead rely upon the abilities of others. In terms of his own ability, Zant himself seems surprisingly unsophisticated. He has few tactics to use, mostly just changing the stage and shooting energy balls at you. He is oddly clumsy. And, when the stages are exhausted, and he finds himself in a stage representing the location of the upcoming final battle (unknown both to the player and, based on Zant's behavior, Zant himself), Zant takes out his swords and, once again, is lacking in any finesse whatsoever. Because all he ever aspired to be was someone who mimicked power, and never truly gained his own. With the curtain pulled back, he is revealed to be nothing but a greedy, gullible, tantrum-throwing puppet.

Ah, you even hear a sound when he smash his head on the floor.. 2:38

That music is fire.

10:59 ......Did you guys hear that....???.....

Zant was such a good boss fight, you can't beat the staple ganondorf fight, but his boss fight was almost all the boss fights together, their has never been a boss fight as unique as Zants was.

One of the best Zelda villains. Only second to Majora's mask.

Best side villain in legend of Zelda Zant=1 like Ghirahim=1 reply! ITS POLL TIME

Joker and Pennywise: And people say we’re crazy?

This fight and all of King Bulblin's fights are my absolute favorite moments of the game, which is kind of a bummer since they were so goddamn fleeting.

Zant can literally do the WRYYYY pose

7:33 I think we all felt that...

9:35 my man Zant said "Beyblade. Let it rip."

10:09 Me when I'm chopping up vegetables while cooking