Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Speedrunners Are Setting Benchmarks, Yet Miles Behind Breath of the Wild’s Record

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was released last month to a universally positive reception. The game is currently one of the biggest sellers of Nintendo Switch and has broken a bunch of sales records, and is already being called a game of the year.

All this is thanks to the reports of this game’s development team. They ended up making it even larger and more expansive than its predecessor. Adding a bunch of new and exciting mechanics to make this game exciting to play. But these new mechanics have given players even more tools to do some record-breaking speed runs.

Fastest speed run record in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom created!

Speed runs have become increasingly common in gaming nowadays. Fans have started completing new and classic games in record-breaking times. For such speedrunners finding shortcuts and exploits is very important. One such fan has done something that normal players thought impossible till now, completing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in under an hour.

A Japanese speedrunner called Zdi6923 submitted his 59 minutes and 22 seconds score on speedrun.com. This is pretty interesting given the fact that most players spend this much time playing the game on the starting sky island alone. It is being said that this Youtuber took advantage of the numerous glitches and bugs present in the game.

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When fans start the game, they first have to explore the sky island in high emergence in order to gather starting abilities that are pretty crucial to advance to mainland Hyrule. Then they go ahead and break the game and glitch through the floor.

The video of Speedrun surely looks like the work of a master. It appears that Zdi took their time mastering the abilities and find a way to complete this game at the soonest. And the result is that they have become the first Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player with a record of completing this game in under an hour.

People are still trying this and even faster glitches in order to break the record set by Zdi, it might even end up getting broken someday. This is indeed impressive. Yet, this is nothing compared to the record made during Breath of the Wild.

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