Generally speaking, what players spend the most time in RPG games may be making money or farming equipment, or it may be challenging BOSS or specific achievements. However, if there are no above-mentioned incentives, are you willing to play in “The Legend of Zelda: Kingdom”? “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” (The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) Collect “Po” to the limit? A Japanese player “Squall@大剣士” took half a year to achieve his goal out of curiosity and love for games.
In the vast underground abandoned mine area of ”Tears of the Kingdom”, players can obtain many useful equipment through underground golem trading, including the well-known “Shadow Suit”, and the currency for the transaction is obtained by fighting monsters underground, which looks like The soul-like “so”.
The Japanese player Squall is a fan who loves the entire “Legend of Zelda” series. With the mentality of hoping to play “Tears of the Kingdom” for a long time, he continued to challenge various “full strategies” last year, such as map completion. The rate is 100%, or the weapons and armor are fully enhanced, and the game time has exceeded 500 hours.
Map completion rate 100%! The last one was Minami Hateru Sky Islands lol #The Legend of Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/9EMHuNejjM
— Squall@Great Swordsman (@MH_1225_squall) June 9, 2023
The armor has also been fully strengthened. This is a complete collection system!
You can finally play freely! #The Legend of Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/h7S5cJJLR4— Squall@Great Swordsman (@MH_1225_squall) June 10, 2023
According to Twitter records, after achieving full armor enhancement on June 10, Squall also reached the final ending and was deeply moved. However, his collecting adventure has not stopped yet, and he continues to recover all treasure chests.
Until mid-July last year, seemingly for future updates, Squall shot an additional 30,000 souls in the underground waste mine area, which was basically enough. This action seemed to have opened up his curiosity and found new ones. Target.
Pou 30000!If this is all there is, I won’t have any problems even if the replacement materials increase with an update. #The Legend of Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/GHdnfO1XY2
— Squall@Great Swordsman (@MH_1225_squall) July 16, 2023
After 256 hours in footprint mode, the old footprints have disappeared, so I posted it for preservation. #The Legend of Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/LPXfDLtREX
— Squall@Great Swordsman (@MH_1225_squall) August 17, 2023
According to Japanese media AUTOMATON During the visit, Squall was collecting treasure chests in the underground world and gradually accumulating “Po”. He found that there was no guide website that introduced how to quickly collect “Po”, so he thought he might as well try to develop his own route.
So, from the initial 2 hours of collecting about 3,000 “Pos”, Squall slowly improved the route to 4 hours of 5,000 “Pos”, and even worked hard for 9 hours a day to collect more than 15,000 “Pos”.
From that time, he was determined to collect “Po” until the upper limit. Until the end of 2023, in his spare time outside of work and daily life, Squall devoted himself to the ascetic life of collecting “Po”.
Today, it took me 9 hours to collect 10,000 points from 4am to 1pm lol.
A simple calculation of 999999 means it’s about 900 hours lol I can understand why there aren’t any complaints.— Squall@Great Swordsman (@MH_1225_squall) August 20, 2023
For recording 900000 points 1740 hours elapsed #The Legend of Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/GXNz4IiTIi
— Squall@Great Swordsman (@MH_1225_squall) December 30, 2023
Until January 7 this year, the last day of Squall, more than 23,000 “Po” were collected in one breath, and finally reached the six-digit upper limit of 999,999.
And Squall also saw his finish line, the system message:“I can’t pick up any more.”。
After completing the challenge, Squall shared his collection process and methods, and was lucky enough to be interviewed by the Japanese media. He also revealed that the most difficult thing in the entire challenge was not time, but staying in the underground world for the past six months, listening to the same It’s quite hard to listen to the BGM for too long.
Poukanst! ! The upper limit was 999999. I’ve been collecting it since June last year and it took me 1855 hours. I’m already tired and can’t move at all… #The Legend of Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/8HW81BUGt1
— Squall@Great Swordsman (@MH_1225_squall) January 7, 2024
Pou circuit route and points
If you follow the footsteps in the video, you can collect 5,500 items per lap.
Grandpaw’s repop takes an average of 4 hours.
It does not repop in the red moon.
Keith, Kogama, and Stull-type small fish don’t appear after collecting 20,000.
It freezes after running 20,000 times.
#The Legend of Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/rI4FmFFXNc— Squall@Great Swordsman (@MH_1225_squall) January 8, 2024
Perhaps this is the most sincere dedication of players who truly love games to their favorite games. Yes, the “Po” will not exceed 1 million. Squall knows the result, but he still enjoys it because it is his love for “The Legend of Zelda”.
There was no audience or applause at the moment this self-challenge was completed, only Squall’s irreplaceable sense of accomplishment.
