The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has just released on Nintendo Switch and speedrunner gymnast86 has already completed it in just over an hour. I’m stunned, mostly because it took so long to download DeadK.
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The sequel to the smash hit of 2017 breath of the wild, DeadK begins not long after the events of the first game. Reviewers showered the game with rave reviews, which essentially means Nintendo has another masterpiece on its hands. noted 3D zelda Speed runners and streamers gymnast86 shrugged The suggested playing time is 40 hoursposted a YouTube video the same day DeadK came out of him as he flashed through to the game’s closing credits.
I’ll do my best not to spoil things here, but keep in mind that what you’re about to see are spoilers as gymnast86 beat the game. you have been warned
Not the best DeadK way, but it will do
In a YouTube video from May 12gymnast86 started booting up DeadK. By default, when he reached the start menu, the cursor landed on the text “Next”. But for that speedrun, he decided to start a new game and overwrite his current progress – whatever that was, no matter how far he got. A timer will then run at the bottom right of the screen. After skipping the intro cutscene and storming through the opening section with Link and Zelda in an underground crypt, Link then came into contact with a dehydrated Ganon who gave our androgynous hero of the wild a rather sick tattoo on his right arm. There are still a few cutscenes left, but after about seven minutes, gymnast86 finally made it through the tutorial dungeon to reach the Great Sky Island. This is where gymnast86’s speed running adventure really began.
After 10 minutes, gymnast86 received the Purah Pad multipurpose object, the in-game version of the Sheikah Slate that looks completely like a Nintendo Switch. From there, he explored and used the environment to kill a soldier construct while picking up a branch to eclipse another. After some more exploration and learning Link’s core rune abilities like Fuse and Ultrahand, as well as some appropriate gear like a claymore and a shield, gymnast86 then scoured a handful of caves to collect things like elixirs, mushrooms and rubies. At this point, about 45 minutes into the game, he descended into the kingdom of Hyrule to meet with the eccentric genius Purah.
Gymnast86 then made its way to Hyrule Castle, where a rehydrated Ganon has holed up. But first he made a pit stop at Lookout Landing Skyview Tower to grab three different broadswords for the battles to come. After a few cutscenes and killing a few Moblins in the ruined castle, gymnast86 slipped into the crumbling walls and used the Ascend ability to fend off the brakes on other enemies and a tough, rotten-looking Lynel. After a little over an hour and a little exploring of the castle later, gymnast86 encountered its first boss: the Demon King’s army, consisting of Bokoblins and Moblins. He then embarked on a boss-killing streak, battling the flying, armored, bug-like enemy Colgera, the stone monster Marbled Gohma, the tiny alien enemy Mucktorok, the bug-like jerk Queen Gibdo, a confiscated construct, and several Phantom Ganons before moving on descended into the deep castle to reach the Demon King himself. Two minutes later, Ganon was defeated, triggering his second phase, which took gymnast86 another about two minutes to defeat. Heavens dude, relax.
But Ganon doesn’t give up easily and by this point has turned into a demonic dragon. Link, on the back of a holy looking sky serpent, drew the master sword from his skull and began the very final battle with the Great King of Evil. About four minutes later, gymnast86 sent Ganon to the grave and caught Zelda falling through the clouds and hitting his own DeadK The speed run lasts only one hour and 34 minutes.
Breakdown of how to do speedrun DeadKat present
In a follow-up video posted May 12 on YouTubegymnast86 described how he had achieved his goal DeadK any percentage speed run. In his opinion, many glitches are used by speedrunners OTWincluding BLSS, which lets Link levitate indefinitely and sprint while whistling, a trick that keeps Link’s stamina indefinitely seems to have been fixed. He explained that the basic path was that he had to go through the tutorial dungeon and acquire the most important rune skills before descending to the castle to fight Ganon. At the moment there doesn’t seem to be a way around this, but gymnast86 noted that as more people play the game, new things could be found to reduce the time it takes to get to the Kingdom of Hyrule. Since gymnast86 hadn’t completed any of the dungeons, he had to fight all the dungeon bosses before the final fight against Ganon.
But before he got to that point, gymnast86 explained why he took the items and equipment with him while exploring Hyrule Castle. Things like the Electric Keese eyeballs and wings made for good fuse parts, especially during the Queen Gibdo encounter. He also battled the Lynel for his bow, which “is very powerful and allows him to complete many dungeon boss stages in one playthrough”. Gymnast86 then went on to detail some of the other items he had collected, such as bombs and horns to connect to weapons to increase their damage and durability. After all of that, gymnast86 then went over his strategies for dealing with the boss gauntlet, including using slow-motion Flurry Rush after perfectly dodging an attack to finish off Colgera quickly, and using the Recall ability during Marbled Gohma to get through both phases lawn. Then he came to the fight against the demon dragon and explained that this fight is not difficult and that if you die you can easily repeat that part of the encounter.
From then on, sailing went smoothly. However, gymnast86 acknowledged that if more people get their hands on it, his speed run record will likely be surpassed DeadK.
“These strategies will probably become obsolete pretty quickly,” gymnast86 said as the video ended. “So if it’s been a few days since this video was posted, be sure to check for more recent information.”
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And there you have it. Not even a full day on the road, and gymnast86 has already set a speed run record Tears of the Kingdom. It was such an instant hit that Speedrun.com, a website that tracks speedrunning times around the world, hasn’t even posted his performance yet still. I’m sure things will get faster in the coming days, weeks and months. But right now that’s the record to beat and it’s certainly not something I could ever do.
