While The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is only available since this Friday, May 12, a speedrunner is already setting a speed record. It only took him 94 minutes to see the end credits.
How long does it take to finish The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ? This is a question that is difficult to answer, given the hyper-dense content of Link’s new adventure. Most people should get several dozen hours of play, even if they’re fast. However, a speedrunner has already done the job in 94 minutes, reports Video Game Chronicles in an article published on May 12 – the day of the game’s release.
It is gymnast86 who is the author of this first record of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, with an exact time of 1 hour, 34 minutes and 33 seconds. It’s tiny, but it could be quickly beaten by the speedrunner’s own admission. He obviously uses a whole range of techniques to go faster, which are detailed in another video.
Warning, the videos published by gymnast86 are full of spoilers.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom folded in 1h34
gymnast86 explains that many of the tricks that worked in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild cannot be reused in the sequel. Nevertheless, the new powers made available to Link make it easy to bypass certain passages. We think of Amalgam, which improves the durability and power of a weapon in a few seconds. For those who want to go fast, being able to hit hard in no time is already quite a godsend.
There is no doubt that some clever people will compete in ingenuity to find flaws in the gameplay. They will exploit the many possibilities imagined by Nintendo to provide total freedom. By being overly permissive, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom indirectly offers the opportunity to “cheat”, and gymnast86’s record, which states that it has not used any amiibo, should not last very long. In particular, he spent far too much time on the celestial island of the prologue.
As a reminder, the absolute record of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild belongs to an American speedrunner whose nickname is Player5. It only took 23 minutes and 42 seconds to see the end credits (with amiibo). Suffice to say that the margin of progress is immense concerning The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
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