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Tears of the Kingdom may have only been available for a few hours, but Zelda speedrunners are already finishing Link’s latest adventure in just 1 hour and 34 minutes.
Over on YouTube, user gymnast86 has posted their Any% completion video to their YouTube account (as spotted by VGC), reaching Tears of the Kingdom’s credits in about the same amount of time as your average movie. They’d later explain some of their methods in a separate infodump video – which of course, contains spoilers, as does the video of the run itself which we’ve posted below – so don’t click either link (pun not intended) if you don’t want to see!
Of course, as it’s launch day this time is sure to be cut down by speedrunners as the days and months go by, and there’s already three runs pending on the game’s entry on Speedrun.com – although they won’t officially go live until the leaderboards open on May 26. It’s sure to be a very popular category, with the tricks and methods players are already finding to use Link’s new abilities in the game.
The last entry, Breath of the Wild, was also a very popular game for the speedrunning community too, with new times being posted and records being set as recently as this week – with the fastest Any% run at the time of writing being a user by the name of Player 5 who’s completed the previous Zelda game in a blistering 23m and 42s.
We’re expecting to see plenty more astounding runs as time goes on. For more on the new game, check out our How to start a fire in Tears of the Kingdom or our Tears of the Kingdom Gutanbac Shrine guide to help give you a headstart.
Nintendo Switch OLED Model: The Legend of Zelda
Screen type
OLED
Color
Zelda limited edition (green)
Storage Type
Flash
USB Ports
2
