"I'm not a big fan of BLSS… We use it cause it's good, I just find it irritating in my personal experience to use," Tallest Thomas says. Tallest Thomas echoes those feelings, saying he is excited to figure out the new speedrun techniques. Six years in, the community is excited for a fresh start to experience the early days of Zelda speedrunning all over again. "Because I can just play Breath of the Wild if I want to use those glitches… Getting to figure stuff out at the early stages of the game should be fun, before there's an established route." "I'm hoping that none of get carried over so that we have kind of a brand new set of techniques to use," Player 5 says. I'm hoping that none of get carried over so that we have kind of a brand new set of techniques to useīLSS is a staple of Player 5's record-setting runs, but the speedrunner doesn't want it to return in Tears of the Kingdom. If you step onto a ledge with the right timing and perfect button inputs, the item will start pushing Link across the map at high speed. In very basic terms, Tallest Thomas explains that BLSS has players essentially trick the game into picking up an item while holding a bow. In the video seen at the top of this article, Link is basically flying across the map at way higher speeds than he can naturally move. It's called BLSS, and it stands for Bow Lift Smuggling Slide. In fact, a BotW game breaker - not a speedrunner - discovered the game's most groundbreaking speedrunning technique. They're not speedrunners, all they do is they go ahead and try to find new ways to break the game. "We have people in our community that literally play the game to break it. "I've never seen a glitch hunting community as dedicated as Breath of the Wild," Tallest Thomas says. But the runs rapidly grew more and more efficient over time thanks to a community of players determined to break Breath of the Wild in any way possible. He describes it as the "wild west" of Breath of the Wild speedrunning before they had all the current tricks and strategies. When Tallest Thomas joined the speedrunning scene, the record times weren't nearly as efficient as they are now. Compare that to a 100% run, where a player has to complete every objective the game has to offer as fast as they can. Any% is a speedrun category where the only goal is to reach the end of the game as fast as possible. Player 5 is the current Any% world record holder (and the player who beat BotW 50 times in a day), while Tallest Thomas was in the top ten at one point. A Return to the 'Wild West' of Zelda Speedrunningīoth Player 5 and Tallest Thomas started speedrunning Breath of the Wild about three years ago. IGN spoke with Player 5 and fellow Breath of the Wild speedrunner Tom "Tallest Thomas" Rasmussen about how the community is preparing to hit the reset button when Tears of the Kingdom launches next month, and how the new Fuse ability and other mechanics shown have a chance to radically shake up the scene. The Zelda speedrun community is turning its attention to Tears of the Kingdom, the Breath of the Wild sequel that's due out in less than a month. But Breath of the Wild Any% speedrun world record holder Player 5 can.Īfter years of making discoveries and optimizing speedrunning strategies in Breath of the Wild, the game is about to change. That's right - you can collect all four Sheikah Slate powers, leave the Great Plateau, and destroy Calamity Ganon in less time than it takes to do a load of laundry. In the six-plus years since BotW's 2017 launch, a hardcore group of dedicated Zelda speedrunners have whittled down Link's biggest adventure yet to just 23 minutes and 50 seconds. Welcome to the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild speedrunning. Games Done Quick ? #SGDQ2023 January 8, 2023
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