BOTW Speedrunner Breaks World Record With Incredible New Time
A speedrunner has set a new world record for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with an impressive run utilizing the game's many tricks. Perhaps unusually, the developers of BOTW allowed someknown glitches to remain in the game for added entertainment value, which has become a great boon for speedrunners who often take advantage of such bugs to save time.
Speedrunning is a unique pastime that has only grown in popularity over the years. Participants from around the world will compete against each other to see who can complete a given game the fastest, while at the same time sharing tips and tricks to improve each other's times. The community is both competitive and very welcoming to newcomers, with users only needing to record their playthrough and share it online in order to attempt a record-breaking speedrun, or show off newly-discovered tricks. Furthermore, the community at large is not afraid to have some fun with new and unusual challenges. The latest mainline adventure of Link and Zelda has spawned a range of different challenges, including one in which BOTW speedrunners raced to bake bread.
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Much like in athletics, even a single second can represent a major improvement in speedrunning. By that metric, speedrunner Player 5 has just made a gigantic leap forwards, having managed to break Breath of the Wild's Any% world record by a full 34 seconds. The record, seen on Speedrun.com, now stands at an outstanding 24m 15s. An Any% run, for those unfamiliar with the term, simply means that the only objective is to complete the main game. Side quests and the like are purely optional; hence the term Any%, which refers to a game's completion rate. In BOTW,
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