{"id":124899,"date":"2022-05-17T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-131600"},"modified":"2022-05-17T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:30:00","slug":"random-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-speedrunner-slices-34-seconds-off-the-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/random-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-speedrunner-slices-34-seconds-off-the-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Speedrunner Slices 34 Seconds Off The World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4de2a1f9c6639\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4de2a1f9c6639\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"5iVrLMDynsQ\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What does it take to be a world-record-holding speedrunner for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a>? Well, being French helps a lot. The current world record holder for BOTW, Player5, says that the French dialogue shaves about 4 seconds off his run, compared to English \u2014 and with a time of just 24 minutes and 15 seconds, 4 seconds is <em>quite<\/em> significant.<\/p>\n<p>Player5&#8217;s record-breaking run was posted on Sunday, May 15th, and beat the runner-up by over 30 whole seconds, putting him well in the lead. &#8220;I actually don&#8217;t do a lot of practice off-stream,&#8221; he said while streaming the run. &#8220;Mostly it&#8217;s just the on-stream runs I do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The run is an Any% one, which means that the only required goal is to get to the end of the game. Other runs \u2014 like the &#8220;All Dungeons&#8221; one, the &#8220;All Main Quests&#8221; one, and &#8220;All Shrines&#8221;, are self-explanatory and take much longer; usually a matter of hours. The 100% speedrun record \u2014 which requires runners to complete all Shrines, all Divine Beasts, all quests, all upgrades, all Koroks (!), and all towers \u2014 is currently just over 16 and a half hours.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4de2a1f9c6639\/speedrun.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Speedrun\"><\/figure>\n<p>Using a combination of glitch tricks, Player5 whisks Link across the map, grabs the powers from the Great Plateau, chats to King Rhoam a bit, and then <em>zooms<\/em> his way over to Hyrule Castle for the final fight with Ganon, who is unsurprisingly a pushover despite Link only having two hearts. And that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Player5 described the world record run:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Very good run with most of the timesave being in paraglider (loads) and castle. There&#8217;s still small amounts of timesave in the other plateau splits and blights, but overall I&#8217;m happy with the run. 24:0x is definitely doable, but sub 24 will probably require some riskier strats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Player5 is no newcomer to the Breath of the Wild throne \u2014 he&#8217;s currently sitting on a first-place run for All Main Quests (2 hours, 21 minutes, 59 seconds) and All Dungeons (1 hour, 31 minutes, 49 seconds), as well as a first-place 28 minute 16 second run that&#8217;s entirely &#8220;Damageless&#8221;. He&#8217;s just <em>very<\/em> good at Zelda.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"MRV4HfmJFaE\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But 24:15 is only the best time&#8230; <em>so far<\/em>. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1WIKhpS0JyAhrIMt3jraoNikqRmvqvZCvIg5LK1xNG8Y\/edit#gid=1222982889\">Best Theoretical Time<\/a>, which combines all of the best segments from all of the best players, it&#8217;s humanly possible to complete Breath of the Wild in just 21 minutes and 20 seconds. So&#8230; stay tuned?<\/p>\n<p>If you love speedruns, don&#8217;t forget that speedrunning and charity fundraising event <strong>Summer Games Done Quick<\/strong> is happening soon, beginning on Saturday, June 26th and wrapping up on Sunday, July 3rd. It&#8217;ll be in person again this year, and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/gamesdonequick.com\/schedule\">check out the schedule by vising the GDQ website<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you learn any speedrun tips from Player5&#8217;s run? Tell us in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube What does it take to be a world-record-holding speedrunner for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Well, being French helps a lot. 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