Link`s Blacklist: Bongo Bongo from Zelda Ocarina of Time
The Phantom Shadow Beast, boss of the Shadow Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Probably my favorite boss in that game design-wise, I just love ghosts and graveyards and the haunted theme levels in video games haha. And Bongo Bongo really delivered. Link’s Blacklist for Game-Art-HQ is in its fifth round this year, and this time around I gladly claimed this boss to draw! I wanted to showcase the boss so it gets the… upper hand over Link. ..Get it. Upper… hand Good thing you can’t drop your items in the game.. imagine, heheh. The accepted fan lore about this boss is the man it once was executed by beheading after his hands were cut off for thievery. But Bongo Bongo itself doesn’t look like its head was cut off… it looks like its face was cut off. Or rather, flayed off. heheheheh It took a little longer than I would have liked to finish it. As it turns out, moving by yourself across an ocean to a new place is harder than I thought I8 Who would have guessed.
Ra-ooo is a long-time GA-HQ Contributor and drew submissions for Link’s Blacklist as well as for Link’s Friendlist already, his first LB submission was Geldman from Zelda ALTTP followed by the Bubbles from the classic Legend of Zelda
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Bongo Bongo is the boss of the Shadow Temple dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It’s a pretty unique boss even among the colorful bestiary in the Legend of Zelda games and “sings” a melody through the battle while it’s also drumming on a Bongo the whole time. Link has also to use the Lens of Truth as seen in the artwork by Ra-ooo to see Bingo Bongo after it became invisible and changed its position in the boss battle room. |