Critical Point

A Critical Point is a narrow space of time where Link has the opportunity to inflict major damage on a dungeon boss, usually with the aid of the Ordon Sword or the Master Sword; only seen in Twilight Princess. Critical Points occur in every temple boss battle except for that of Blizzeta in the Snowpeak Ruins. 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. Critical points in boss battles are denoted by a change of music, shifitng from the common mysterious boss music to that of a more triumphant nature.

Critical Points in Ocarina of Time: Critical Points in Wind Waker Critical Points in Twilight Princess:
 * 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: stun him with the Megaton Hammer when he pops out of his hole, then attack
 * Morpha: Hookshot the ameoba onto land and attack it while its flopping around
 * Bongo Bongo: shoot his hands, then his eye with the Hero's Bow, then go for his eye
 * 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, go to the center of the flower to attack the main part
 * Helmaroc King: when his beak is stuck in the ground, attack his head with the sword when his mask is off
 * Jalhalla: throw him into a spiked pillar. once he pops take out as many poes as you can
 * Molgera: Hookshot its tongue to hurt him from the inside
 * 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.