Nintendo announced on May 12th thatThe Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom]was released. The corresponding platform is Nintendo Switch. An RTA (Speedrun) runner appeared who cleared this recently released title in about 94 minutes.Please note that this article contains a video that includes a play video of the final stage of this work, so please be careful when viewing.
“Tears of the Kingdom” is the latest work in the “Legend of Zelda” series. In the new work, the land of Hyrule is suddenly hit by a natural disaster. The castle floats in the air, and mysterious ruins rain down from the sky. In the world where the earth and the sky spread out, Link, who has power in his “right hand”, confronts Hyrule’s disaster.
This time, an RTA runner has appeared who cleared this newly released work in just about 94 minutes. It will be a record in the “Any% (regardless of achievement)” category. The RTA record was immediately set by gymnast86, who has done RTA for various works in the “Legend of Zelda” series. You can check the whole story in the video below, but please note that the video includes the contents of the final stage of this work.
In the event scene at the start of the game, a fierce dash with Princess Zelda alone. After that, in the early stages, while steadily acquiring abilities such as Ultra Hand and Torre Roof, he skillfully advances the capture. “Manufacturing” by Ultra Hand is also utilized, and gymnast86 seems to be already mastering the new elements.
In this article, I will hide the details about the development after that, but what I want to pay attention to is that I am heading to the final stage with no armor at all. Half-naked, he climbs into the stage at the end of the stage and fights, demonstrating his crazy bravery. What I would like to pay attention to here is Mr. gymnast86’s skill in battle. He skillfully activates the combat technique “Evasion Just” and slaughters the enemies in the final stage with a counter rush attack. It is also impressive that the new ability Torre Roof is showing great success.
Even after that, gymnast86’s combat skills were fully demonstrated, and he was running at full speed with his accurate bow aiming and evasive just-oriented vivid fighting style. The record is 1 hour 34 minutes 33 seconds.In addition, Mr.Commentary video(This also contains spoilers, so be careful when watching) is also posted. In this video, he explains that the strategies in this RTA will be out of date within a few days of its release. It indicates that the time may be further shortened in the future.
In the previous work “The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild”, various glitches such as whistling infinite dash were used in RTA. On the other hand, such glitches are no longer available, at least in the same way as in the previous game (related article). Perhaps because of this influence, it is interesting that the time has been shortened by using pure combat skills and new systems without using glitches at the moment after the release. In the future, glitches that can be used for RTA will be discovered in this work, and attention will be paid to whether the time in the “direct attack” will be broken. In addition, it seems that research will be conducted on combat techniques that incorporate the new system Scrabuild, as well as designing vehicles that will lead to shorter times.
And although it goes without saying, this work itself is a large-scale work, designed so that you can thoroughly enjoy a wide variety of play. Clearing in a short time is just one way to enjoy it. In this work, the vast field has been greatly expanded in height difference, and the possibilities of playing with Ultra Hand and Scrabuild have also expanded greatly. Enjoy this work at your own pace.
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