wind waker: earth temple boss

[JoshMan]

how do u hurt him? after you shine light on him he just sits there and does nothing and when i attack him nothing happens, can someone help me out?

[[N]eto]

Earth Temple's Big Fat Ghost. :P

The silliest supernatural entity I've ever seen. This is an
over-weight, over-sized ghost who floats around semi-transparent, carrying a lamptern. It wears a mask and is made up of many smaller multi-coloured phantoms, who spends all their time panicking and doing not much else. It haunts a room filled with spikes and spiked columns around the edges - for you to impale it ON, ofcourse.

This boss has 2 attacks:
(1) Shooting giant fireballs at you. You can't miss them since they're so huge - just watch carefully and get out of the way.
(2) Turns purple, and flops on you. If you get flopped on, your
controls will be scrambled (there is a mask sign on your head) and for a while you'll be running in the wrong direction until you figure it out. Run into the spikes or wait a while for the effects to
disappear.

The ghost can't be harmed physically, you'll have to use the mirror shield to reflect light onto it for a while to make it "real". For some reason, there is a handy spot of light right there for you to send the ghost to second hell. When the ghost has been set on light, it will sit there, too fat to move, until you pick it up and roll it into a column of spikes. Once "spiked", it'll revert back to a crowd of multi-coloured phantoms, ideal for using the second spin-attack on. Until you pick off every last one, the ghost will reform itself and start again.

After a while, you'll find the spot of light disappearing and
reappearing rather quickly. How it does that is a complete mystery, but you'll have to be quick with your maneouvering to shine the light on the giant ghost. The good news is that once you get into the right position and is reflecting the shield onto the target right, the spot of light won't disappear until the giant ghost is in solid form. Get it wrong during the process and the spot of light will move. Repeat until all the mini-phantoms are gone.

[JoshMan]

ive already beaten him, but thanx for the very detailed walkthrough on how to beat this horrible excuse for a boss
btw, the mini-phantoms are called "poes" and the big guy is named "jalhalla"
matter resolved, thread can be closed

[[N]eto]

Alright. :)

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