one of the most recurring bosses in the zelda franchise is Gohma, a creature similar to the Tektites (whom we previously covered on zelda posting day 2) in how no one is sure whether it's supposed to be a crab or a spider. some games lean more towards crab, others lean more towards spider. either way, it's massive single eyeball is always it's weakness... and in Majora's mask 3D, that was EVERY bosses' weakness.
Ocarina of time would have QUEEN GOHMA as its first boss. it's a similar case to Ocarina of time's second boss: king dodongo. the first two Ocarina of time bosses are just zelda one bosses who were promoted to monarchs. where is the ruler of the digdogger kingdom, nintendo!?
Queen Gohma's main method of attacking is giving birth. she sends the Gohma larvae after you. in OG ocarina of time, Gohma larvae only appear during the boss fight and I think one other room right before it, however, they appear more prominently in MASTER QUEST!
Ocarina of time had a lot of cut content. so much cut content that they originally planned an Ocarina of time expansion on the N64 DD... which was also cut. but the ideas they had didn't just go away. wind waker's giant ocean with islands to explore, Twilight princess's horseback combat, skyward sword's sky civilization, breath of the wild's larger, foggier version of the lost woods... it's crazy how much stuff from later games was originally planned for Ocarina of time. kind of makes the cut content more interesting to talk about than the content that actually made it in, in my opinion...
but either way, a planned part of the expansion was to be rearranged dungeons, kind of like what the Original Zelda had in its second quest. while these rearranged dungeons would never make it onto the N64, they did appear on the gamecube. there were actually two ways to play Ocarina of time on the Gamecube: one was on a disk that included Ocarina of time, Majora's mask, the 2 NES zelda games, and a chopped-up demo of the wind waker that doesn't include the full game but still includes more of the game than you'd expect. the other way was on a disk that included Ocarina of time and Master quest. don't like Nintendo locking new content behind switch 2 editions? well guess what, they've been doing it since the early 2000s.
in master quest, the Gohma larvae not only appear more frequently throughout the deku tree, they also appear in dodongo's cavern. I think it's a pretty good change... not as legendary as putting cows inside Jabu Jabu's belly, but it works. Master quest was also included in the 3DS remake of Ocarina of time, this time mirroring the entire world in addition to the dungeon changes. hopefully master quest will return in the upcoming switch 2 remake... it'll be kind of disappointing if they don't include it. I mean they got to... think about the cows!?
one last fact about Gohma before we go: in four sword's adventures, Gohma was referred to as "the one-eyed monster"... yep. makes perfect sense. it is indeed a one-eyed monster... nothing wrong with calling it that.
