Critical Point

A Critical Point is a narrow space of time where Link has the opportunity to inflict damage on a dungeon bosswith the sword. Usually after required steps have been completed, the temple boss will become tired, expose a weak spot, or faint, giving Link a much needed chance to strike with his sword. In Twilight Princess, critical points in boss battles are denoted by a change of music, shifitng from the common boss music to a more triumphant-sounding theme.

Critical Points in Ocarina of Time: Critical Points in the Wind Waker Critical Points in Twilight Princess:
 * Queen Gohma: when Link stuns her with a Deku Nut, making her eye vulnerable
 * King Dodongo: after he swallows the Bomb he is left laying on the ground, vunerable for attack
 * Barinade: after stunned with the boomerang
 * Phantom Ganon: once he has been hit by his own attack, he will land on the ground trying to catch his second wind
 * Volvagia: when stunned him with the Megaton Hammer after he pops out of his hole
 * Morpha: when the ameoba is Hookshotted onto land and is flopping around
 * Bongo Bongo: after his hands have been shot with the Fairy Bow, and his eye has been struck
 * Twinrova: in her second form, hit her with her own elemental attacks and she will come down to the ground
 * Ganondorf: like Phantom Ganon, you must hit him by deflecting his own attack at him, but you must also hit him with a Light Arrow immediately thereafter to make him vulnerable
 * Gohma: use the Grappling Hook to bring her eye down to make her vulnerable
 * Kalle Demos: after detaching all its vines with the Boomerang, the plant in the center is vulnerable
 * Helmaroc King: when his beak is stuck in the ground
 * Jalhalla: after he is thrown into a spiked pillar
 * Molgera: When its tongue has been Hookshotted
 * Diababa: when the largest mutated Baba plant falls, exposing its vulnerable eye
 * Fyrus: when he falls after Link had forced him to trip using the Iron Boots as leverage
 * Morpheel: in its second form, when Link grapples onto the eye of the serpent with the Clawshot
 * Stallord: in its head form, when Link strikes the skull with the Spinner, after getting close enough on the adjacent wall
 * Armogohma: using the Dominion Rod, when the statue crashes the spider after nailing it from the ceiling with the Hero's Bow
 * Argorok: in its second form, whenever Link is able to grapple to the dragon's back using the Double Clawshot - to deal damage with the Master Sword.

Blizzeta in the Snowpeak Ruins does not give Link a chance at a critical point because in order to destroy the Twilit Ice Mass, only the Ball and Chain can be used, not the sword.