Random: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Speedrun World Record Now Belongs To Koroks

I have played BOTW for around 500 hours, split between Wii U and Switch.... and I've never been inside Hyrule Castle. True story!

@OorWullie I went in there to take a look around in the back way and came out with a really nice Shield. 😉

Then I didn't go back till I was ready to really finish the game which was about 30 to 50 hours later.

I honestly didn't even know that shield was in there and just got a bit lucky in finding it.

I can occasionally pull off a windbomb...

@OorWullie Wow! Is it because you're saving it for the very end, it's intimidating, or just enjoying the overworked too much? Hyrule Castle in BOTW is probably my favorite location in any Zelda game. I've spent countless hours running around between my two playthroughs, just playing around, looking for secrets and absorbing the atmosphere.

@Spoony_Tech You've got me curious about that shield. I might sneak in the backdoor and nab it too the next time I play it.

Good to chat with you my old Splatoon bud, it's been a while. Looking forward to 3? I am, I've being getting back into 2 again recently.

@Jmjfrank Probably a bit of all 3 but mostly because I want to save it till the very end. The problem is I never reach that point. Something else arrives that takes me away from it, then too much time passes without playing it, that I start over again and repeat the same process. The funny thing is, I bought the DLC for both Wii U and Switch but other than some items from chests, I haven't seen any of it.

speedrunning BotW is as dumb as speedrunning your childhood

Here we go: “I wouldn’t do a speedrun, I don’t like them therefore they’re bad.”

I think these are cool as heck. And they certainly don’t prevent me from playing the game as I like.

@OorWullie Yes and no really. When Splatoon first released there wasn't much to play. When the second released I quickly fell off because there became too much to play. I want to play the 3rd for sure but don't want it to take all my gaming time up. I also work a lot now and back then not nearly as much.

I love how at first during the Dark Beast fight they don’t even move. Just shows what a joke of a fight it is.

On a side note, this is extremely impressive. It’s great that people are still finding new ways to break the game.

@OorWullie really curious why you haven't entered the castle? Once you have the master sword, good armor, and plenty of hearts and stamina, it's really not difficult in there. The guardians are as piece of cake. Stasis them then run up and cut their legs off and smash the hell out of them.

Hope I'm still above ground when BOTW2 finally comes out.

If the game was 24 minutes I would have actually finished it.

Put it around 20 hours and was forcing myself to play each time after my initial start up...biggest disappointment of my entire gaming history. So boring. So empty.

I have to say, shaving 30 seconds off of a world record Any % time run in a major game is REALLY impressive. Usually these times are shaved off a second (or even fraction of a second) at a time. That's looks like a VERY nice improvement over the previous time.

@OorWullie Honestly, I felt the ending was kind of anticlimactic, and since the game starts you back before the final boss after the credits and doesn't have any real postgame, I didn't feel the incentive to keep playing. I say, keep doing what you're doing, lol. (But snag that shield--kudos to you if you've really made it this long without being spoiled by the castle's secrets.)

@OorWullie

Wow!

@clockworktwink How does a Metacritic score invalidate their personal disappointment with the game again?

Impressive! Although I love a good speedrun that actually takes skill, I never cared for those that use glitches to finish fast, like the ones in Ocarina of Time where they use glitches so you end up fighting Ganondorf with a stick as young Link. It has always felt too much like cheating, to me. I do appreciate how people who do speedruns like this find those glitches. I mean, how do you even manage to figure that stuff out?

@Pillowpants Glitches still take skill to pull off. Just because it's a glitch doesn't make it easy to do. It reduces the time to complete the game, sure, but many glitches are harder to do than the intended route. It's still an "actual skill" to pull off the precise inputs needed to make glitches happen. As far as how they're found, glitch hunters literally sit down with the game and try different things to break the game. People also will sometimes stumble upon a glitch and spend time trying to recreate it.

@RPGreg2600 It's just always been my intention to save it for last. But I spend so much time in the overworld that I eventually move onto something else, with the intention of going back to finish it later. But then too much time passes, so I start over again and repeat the same process.

@OorWullie gotcha! You might as well go in and have a look! I like to climb to the top of the castle and see how far I can glide. One time I came down right at a shrine I hadn't found yet.

@SteamEngenius empty? There's stuff literally everywhere!