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What are your favorite overall cinematic depictions and boss fights against Ganon/ Ganondorf in order from best to worst? Only 3d Zelda games for home consoles count. Demise can also be counted in even though he's not exactly Ganondorf.

CINEMATIC:

1. Tears of the Kingdom.
This is easily the most menacing depiction of Ganondorf. The voice actor does a perfect job and Ganondorf's design is just awesome. Some of the memories such as Awakening and Birth of the Ganondorf are so cool it's absolutely peak epic fantasy media.

2. Ocarina of Time
It's just a classic. The story about the Triforce and how Ganondorf got it and used it in the end was awesome back in the day and it still holds up perfectly.

3. Breath of the Wild
Calamity Ganon in his swirling black form above Hyrule Castle is truly menacing. The cutscene of his awakening was also great. The final form was pretty weird, though.

4. Twilight Princess
Although Ganon was introduced pretty lately, the cinematics about him were good at the time. Not on the level of TotK, but good nevertheless.

5. Wind Waker
Ganon doesn't have too many feats in this game and he seems like the weakest version, but his cinematic presentation is still pretty good. The setting and his speech for the final battle is decent but not one of my favorites, despite the fact he seems a bit more human in this game.

6. Demise
Yeah, I didn't dig this one. The Imprisoned one looks kind of funny, and while the true form of Demise is pretty cool, he just feels like a braggar based on the dialogue and has no visible feats.

FINAL BOSS BATTLE

1. Tears of the Kingdom
It's the most perfect final boss battle in series' history, and actually feels challenging. The combat has three bases, and I loved all of them. Ganondorf can even use flurry rush and switch weapons on the fly just like Link. He can also use magic that DESTROYS your hearts permanently. The music is incredibly epic.

2. Ocarina of Time
It's the most classic depiction. The evil King tennis match is awesome and the final battle against Ganon iconic. The music is absolutely perfect and both forms are the most challenging boss in the game.

3. Twilight Princess
It's a four- phased battle. The music was slightly disappointing, and every phase was pretty easy. I think 3 phases would have been better, because now it feels like they stretch the battle just because. I enjoyed the horseback battle most.

4. Breath of the Wild
It's challenging if you go with bad weapons and gear. His form is weird and I think there should have been a second phase before the easy victory run battle.

5. Skyward Sword
It's a decent sword fight. Infusing your sword with lightning was pretty epic, but the setting for the fight had nothing to do with anything. It's not the easiest fight, but still too easy and simple with just one real phase.

6. Wind Waker
The old man Ganon loses a sword fight against a little kid. Ganon goes down with a few quick time events. Definitely the easiest and most disappointing final boss in the series. Then again, the whole game was super easy. I'm glad Dark Souls affected to the developers for making more challenging boss fights.

Just for clarification, this is not recency bias. The developers really nailed the TotK Ganondorf.

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