Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – How Are Speedrunning Beating The Game in Under an Hour?
Doing everything in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will take you hundreds of hours. Most casual players won’t even be able to get through the starting island in less than 3 hours, but speedrunners are already doing the whole thing in under an hour. Here’s how.
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The best Breath of the Wild runners have already begun to use new and old tactics to get to the end of Tears of the Kingdom. The current world record for an any% run is a 53:55 by Gymnast86. To get this time, Gymnast was playing on the unpatched 1.0 version of the game, which puts this run in a different category than the latest patch.
Gymnast and other speedrunners use exploits that have since been patch out of Tears of the Kingdom to get this insanely fast time. In a funny twist of fate, half of the run is spent on the Great Sky Island tutorial zone.
In Gymnast’s world record run, he uses unexpected routes to get the Ascend ability first, Fuse second, and Ultrahand third – opposite of the intended order. This makes up 35 minutes of the run. After this, Gymnast makes a b-line for Hyrule castle.
From here, there is a major glitch that will drop you into the Demon King’s
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