There is no power on earth that is more patient than a video player. At the end of January, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild kunige joedun become the first person to ever complete a 100% speedrun of the game without inflicting damage, and although it was an achievement in itself, the road to it was grueling.
A 100% speedrun really means everything. You have to beat the game, yes, but you also have to collect all the upgrades from the cargo … like knocking down every sanctuary.
And you should do it all without taking a single hit to your health points. In a game where it is very easy to hurt yourself by just trying to stop a random object in the air, such a challenge sounds impossible.
For a while it was. Yedun told Polygon that it took months of failed tries to get his first official clear. When he finally pulls it off, his conversation breaks out into a sea of ”EZ Clap” messages.
“The most challenging aspect was to never give up,” he said in an email. “You see, I did not run more than 100 times, and three times it was 30+ hours. It was definitely the hardest thing to keep myself from giving up and not letting the game beat me. “
Imagine spending tens of hours on a storage file just to stop it because of an accident. There was once, according to Yedun, about 33 hours in an attempt, where he tried to get some dragon pieces from Farosh. The farming area is full of Chu Chus, who dropped led after being killed. This gel can be loaded with an element. In this scenario, Joe Dun neatly defeated the Chu Chu, but then he was in a cave with Electric Keese in it. You can probably see where this is going.
“So some of the Keese start chasing me,” he recalls. “It’s not a big deal, I’m just shooting it and going on. Well, it just so happens that they float over the jelly, which then changes to electric jelly.
‘Then with the strange BOTW laws it causes the jelly to send an electric arc as soon as I kill the Keese, which joins my arrow, then on my bow and then finally on Link. ”
Link lost only a quarter of a heart. But that is all it takes to be disqualified.
In the clip, Yedun immediately stops the game and grabs his face. It equates to unbelief; the chat is terrified. He collected more than 800 Korok seeds at that time and killed nearly 70 bosses, and it did not matter. Back to the beginning it was.
Why experience such problems? This is a great way to spend time now, he told Polygon.
‘I got a lot of time because of the pandemic, and I’ve learned a lot of things about the game, so why do I not put myself in the extreme? Breath of nature test? He said.
Yudun is not the first person to take on the challenge; he picks it up after other runners have tried to do it. He hopes that someone can now challenge him for the crown now that a record has been set – 31 hours, 58 minutes and 9 seconds. But he does not sit idly by waiting for that to happen. Instead, Yedun is already planning a more grueling version of the speedrun. He will try again with The Master Trials downloadable content installed, which is more difficult than the base game.
Finally, Yedun wants to try his hand at completing a 100% harmless run without any mistakes. One can only wonder how long it can last, as problems are a big part of his current world record. Despite the use of things like duping items and moon jumping – which make infinite altitude possible – the 100% harmless run lasted for tens of hours. But hey, that’s part of the fun.
“If people want to set me up once, it’s going to be great!” he said. ‘I would like to see more and more people get on the speedrun side BOTW. The community is wonderful and always open to new people. ”