Armogohma

Twilit Arachnid: Armogohma is the boss of the Temple of Time, Twilight Princess's sixth dungeon. Armogohma is also slightly similar to its Ocarina of Time counterpart Queen Gohma at first. In this version, Gohma gives the appearance of a frighteningly huge hunter spider. Her name is a portmanteau of "Armos" (as in Armos Statue), and Gohma. While her first form can be tricky, her second form is widely considered to be one of the easiest boss fights in the entire game.

It appears that the creature is wearing some kind of armor on her main body around her eye. Such an assumption gains strength after the first form of Armogohma is defeated, revealing the "eye" to be a small, independent creature. In addition, the outer shell has a stone-like texture, as well as numerous "engravings" all over it, similar to the other statues throughout the temple of time. It is quite possible that the armored outer shell is simply controlled by the eye, and is somehow related to the Armos or Beamos, given the name of the creature and the similarity of the laser beam attack to the Beamos. This version of Gohma is hairy and has eight legs, heavily resembling a huntsman spider or tarantula.

Her classic single eye can shoot a fiery laser, and of course, to stun it, Link must shoot the eye with an arrow. To further damage her, Link must fire the Dominion Rod at one of the massive statues in the room; doing so allows Link to make the statue swing its fist onto Armogohma's carapace. Armogohma can also lay dozens of eggs, which hatch to reveal small spider-like enemies, known as Baby Gohma. After three hits by the statue Armogohma's body will implode. Upon getting its body destroyed, Armogohma's eyeball reveals itself to be a small spider on its own, and humorously tries to escape along with some of its spawn. It is killed after a single sword strike, three arrow shots, or a single bomb arrow, and releases the third shard of the Mirror of Twilight.

If one of the Dominion Rod-controlled statues is employed in smashing Armoghoma's eye, a brief and humorous sequence takes place in which the entire cluster of spiders is crushed instantly and Armoghoma's eye is crushed flat to, quite literally, the thickness of paper. The battle concludes with Link and Midna acquiring the third Mirror Shard and a Heart Container.

Armogohma's eye is similar to Arrghus and Vitreous from A Link to the Past; she uses Arrghus' pattern of surrounding herself with her offspring to defend herself, while her eye resembles Vitreous without the lightning bolt attack.

Trivia

 * Originally, a more conventional form of Gohma was set to appear in Twilight Princess, but was scrapped for Armogohma.


 * The early form of Armogohma is most likley what inspired the mini-boss from Spirit Tracks, the Rocktite. This is possible, considering that many elements from Twilight Princess are reused in this game.


 * Armogohma's intro is similar to Queen Gohma's from Ocarina of Time.


 * The song that plays during Armogohma's second boss phase is slightly similar to the fight against Majora's Incarnation in Majora's Mask.