Why Speedrunners CANT Break Twilight Princess

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  • Here is the story why Zelda: Twilight Princess is the hardest game to break in the franchise.
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  • @Linkus7
    @Linkus7  9 місяців тому +223

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    • @EnheTook50Benadryl
      @EnheTook50Benadryl 9 місяців тому +10

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    • @DRAGON-rf1jp
      @DRAGON-rf1jp 9 місяців тому +4

      Linkus, one question:
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      Pls answer, even if it's only a "no"...

    • @BrowniePembroke
      @BrowniePembroke 9 місяців тому +8

      My day be so fine then BOOM manscaped ad

    • @SorenRamsey
      @SorenRamsey 9 місяців тому +9

      linkus, no offense but, as a UA-camr whose whole brand is playing legend of Zelda games, there is no way you get enough play that you need to be sponsored by manscaped so much

    • @Crudeliciousbops
      @Crudeliciousbops 9 місяців тому

      Glöm det!

  • @MachFiveFalcon
    @MachFiveFalcon 9 місяців тому +2612

    12:25 I feel like longer speedruns are really underrated. They're like condensed longplays where you get to see the majority of the game's "main content" with less traveling around and filler. And I get to see challenging dungeons completed quickly that I'd never see in a 5-minute game-breaking speedrun.

    • @ShinyQuagsire
      @ShinyQuagsire 9 місяців тому +100

      on the one hand I feel bad for gymnast86 being told he's great sleep material, but all dungeons just hits different

    • @arcanine_enjoyer
      @arcanine_enjoyer 9 місяців тому +173

      ​@@ShinyQuagsire being sleep material is a worthy title. I hate youtubers who are just way too obnoxious and make it hard to just chill, do work, or fall asleep with their videos in the background.

    • @hellboy19991
      @hellboy19991 9 місяців тому +38

      that is why there are a bunch of games where all dungeons is a thing. Gen1 Pokemon has a NMG category and has a Reverse Badge Aquisition category, where you get to break the game, but still see all 8 gym leader battles. If you went purely on any% with ACE those games would have an ingame time of 0:00 without a need to manipulate the ingame timer. Same with Super Mario World, where the any% ACE category is less than a minute.
      Gamebreaking glitch discoveries warrant a separate category, otherwise people who would want to play the game "as god intended" would just drop it.

    • @hylianro
      @hylianro 9 місяців тому +9

      ​@@ShinyQuagsiregymnast is a legend don't let the haters say otherwise

    • @flayncel
      @flayncel 9 місяців тому +10

      ​@@arcanine_enjoyer right?? my favorite content creators are the ones i specifically save their videos for bedtime lmao
      even funny guys like jerma and simpleflips are my favorites to watch in bed because for whatever reason i just find it really easy to fall asleep to their videos and stream highlights

  • @injuredbook9946
    @injuredbook9946 9 місяців тому +4614

    Twilight Princess is such a broken, but also unbreakable game at the same time.

    • @prod0lim
      @prod0lim 9 місяців тому +244

      I find while going through a playthrough you won’t find any glitches but if you look for glitches there’s a lot to see you know what i mean

    • @Zorgot.
      @Zorgot. 9 місяців тому +63

      fr the speedruns leave me in awe by how perfectly broken the game is with the routes but yeah ig it's not enough to get a faster time ;-; still love how cool the routes are though

    • @tarheelpro87
      @tarheelpro87 9 місяців тому +55

      It’s broken beyond the point of breaking

    • @chriswihulu
      @chriswihulu 9 місяців тому +34

      ​@@tarheelpro87can't break that which was made broken!

    • @gokublack8342
      @gokublack8342 9 місяців тому +10

      ​@prod0lim I mean Metroid Prime games are like this too a casual player would never know about Space Jump first or that you can shoot Jump Guardian while he's still unloaded

  • @GumballMachinery
    @GumballMachinery 9 місяців тому +2780

    I still remember watching Oot speed runs that were 2hrs long and being amazed they could beat it so fast. Absolutely crazy to think it's down to less than 4mins now!!

    • @midnight1064
      @midnight1064 9 місяців тому +35

      Is it through the brawl demo or n64 hardware?

    • @chaotickreg7024
      @chaotickreg7024 9 місяців тому +60

      ​@@midnight1064Pretty sure that's both

    • @GuitarHeroRocks99
      @GuitarHeroRocks99 9 місяців тому +104

      That's barely playing the game though. I honestly don't think it counts

    • @JgHaverty
      @JgHaverty 9 місяців тому +61

      yeah I remember when cosmo (yes its narcissa now, but thats not who it was at the time) found ways to bring OoT below 20 minutes; it was mesmerizing.

    • @Ronbotnik
      @Ronbotnik 9 місяців тому +27

      ​@@JgHavertyi still miss cosmo.

  • @acenull0
    @acenull0 9 місяців тому +1560

    "These two guards are just as effective as a giant magical wall" 😂😂😂 LMAO give them a raise they're doing their job right 😂

    • @lysilia7523
      @lysilia7523 9 місяців тому +112

      Considering all the others guards in TP are cowards, Yes, those two deserve a raise^^

    • @callixvision6481
      @callixvision6481 9 місяців тому +15

      I deserve raise. I make nothing lol

    • @ZT1ST
      @ZT1ST 9 місяців тому

      They're so effective, they're more effective at holding people out than 8 seconds worth of water in Lake Hylia.
      By like hours.

    • @ytsuxmuhd4998
      @ytsuxmuhd4998 9 місяців тому

      ​@@callixvision6481we've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty

    • @Fawful81080
      @Fawful81080 8 місяців тому +4

      Better than Mario toad guards

  • @alexschmitz3414
    @alexschmitz3414 9 місяців тому +391

    3:23 “twilight princess is going to be 17 years old.”
    You’re making me feel old.

    • @Ronbotnik
      @Ronbotnik 9 місяців тому +48

      its crazy how much flak Twilight Princess got for just being an "OoT clone" but now i would give anything for Nintendo to go back to this style of Zelda

    • @reboooot
      @reboooot 9 місяців тому +1

      the slow erosion of our expectations lol@@Ronbotnik

    • @MachFiveFalcon
      @MachFiveFalcon 9 місяців тому +17

      @@Ronbotnik I appreciate every Zelda art style in its own way, and I'd like to see Nintendo go back to the more dark fantasy style of Twilight and the full on cartoon style like Windwaker.

    • @nathonso_edits
      @nathonso_edits 9 місяців тому +7

      ​@@Ronbotnikyeah, what TotK felt a little more zelda like than BotW, I still hope they go back to a dark fantasy twilight style game again some time

    • @DylanYoshi
      @DylanYoshi 9 місяців тому +17

      @@Ronbotnik It actually makes me very annoyed that Twilight Princess has gotten so much crap for being "Ocarina of Time 2", and yet the same people who made those claims are now calling Breath of the Wild 1.5 the greatest game ever.

  • @ferociousfeind8538
    @ferociousfeind8538 9 місяців тому +995

    It's crazy that dungeons still have to be beaten in dev-intended order

    • @DragonNexus
      @DragonNexus 9 місяців тому +140

      Flags. The bane of any sequence breaker.

    • @qtcquestionbloc4440
      @qtcquestionbloc4440 7 місяців тому +41

      I know its like we have to play the way they intended!

    • @ferociousfeind8538
      @ferociousfeind8538 7 місяців тому +9

      @qtcquestionbloc4440 well, yeah, it's surprising that our best efforts have failed to cross the "dev-intended dungeon order" barrier and complete things out of order while preserving the game enough to still be able to get to the ending

    • @1umbreon4life
      @1umbreon4life 7 місяців тому +11

      I mean, you only have to beat 4 of the 7 dungeons you enter. Forest Temple and Snowpeak you just need the dungeon item, and you skip the final boss in Arbiter's. So while you're beating Lakebed, City, Palace, and HC, that really isn't the intended order for beating dungeons.

    • @1umbreon4life
      @1umbreon4life 7 місяців тому +3

      (Also, you can beat the dungeons in basically any order, it's just that doing so locks you out of stuff)

  • @ernesta5583
    @ernesta5583 9 місяців тому +330

    Those two guards being as effective as a giant magical wall is crazy. Those are the GOATs of the Hyrule kingdom. I hope one day they become an integral function of the Zelda timeline. They deserve it.

    • @ryo-kai8587
      @ryo-kai8587 9 місяців тому +9

      Zelda has its very own Biggs and Wedge

    • @XaviSanAAA
      @XaviSanAAA 8 місяців тому +8

      where the hell they were when Zant entered?

    • @stratonikisporcia8630
      @stratonikisporcia8630 7 місяців тому +5

      Where were they when Nintendo made the "defeat timeline" official? Not that effective eh

    • @yuvrajrajput3001
      @yuvrajrajput3001 5 місяців тому +10

      ​@@XaviSanAAAeverybody needs some rest. They were not on duty when Zant entered. Zant knew their power so he attacked only when they were not there

    • @Icemario87
      @Icemario87 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@XaviSanAAALoad State 8

  • @bobmanperson599
    @bobmanperson599 9 місяців тому +240

    I find this so fascinating, because Twilight Princess is probably the most linear 3D Zelda. You can't even try doing sidequests without the mailman informing you of the next story beat

    • @traviscunningham7062
      @traviscunningham7062 7 місяців тому +7

      And I thought Skyward Sword was the most linear Zelda game.

    • @stratonikisporcia8630
      @stratonikisporcia8630 7 місяців тому +8

      Well at least we can all agree that Zelda 1 is the least linear game

    • @zeveria7206
      @zeveria7206 4 місяці тому +3

      @@traviscunningham7062A third of it is non-linear though--the first time since Majora's Mask introduced full linearity.

    • @mjfilho33
      @mjfilho33 12 днів тому

      ​@@stratonikisporcia8630This becomes a problem when you can kill the dungeon boss and leave without exploring the entire map (or getting vital items to progress) 😬

  • @ceasarg.5158
    @ceasarg.5158 9 місяців тому +944

    Twilight Princess, my first Zelda game and my favorite to this day. It just has so much fun content and I love the combat system. The story is amazing as well. I just wish some of the bosses were more fleshed out..

    • @kota9087
      @kota9087 9 місяців тому +38

      My favourite also what a story

    • @speedcheetah1630
      @speedcheetah1630 9 місяців тому +22

      My favorite also!!!!!!! Played it when I was Itty bitty and loved every bit of it....

    • @nateleavy5189
      @nateleavy5189 9 місяців тому +47

      I’ll forever love twilight princess. Botw may be more revolutionary, but tp will always be special to me.

    • @mystraunt2705
      @mystraunt2705 9 місяців тому +14

      I havnt played the wii u edition so maybe this was completely solved with hero mode, but in my opinion tp was a nearly perfect game but struggled with how absurdly easy the enemies were, bosses and all. The difficulty being so stupid easy hurts how high I can rate it.

    • @mystraunt2705
      @mystraunt2705 9 місяців тому +5

      Oh and also the temple of twilight should have been longer.

  • @cmstr16
    @cmstr16 9 місяців тому +131

    As somebody who has a deep affection for glitchless runs (as a viewer, not a runner), I love watching TP runs. While I still enjoy Any% and the like and certainly find them to be very impressive, there is something deeply satisfying about watching someone exhibit total mastery of the game as intended. This obviously isn't a glitchless route, but the lack of a credit warp or some other total game breaker makes my heart happy.

  • @OnyxOblivion
    @OnyxOblivion 9 місяців тому +132

    While I sympathize with runners unable to crack a game down in length, these "unbreakable" games are some of my favorite to see ran. Where its soooo close to a major breakthrough but the developers made this one thing just too damn well.

    • @iantaakalla8180
      @iantaakalla8180 7 місяців тому +8

      I like how Skyward Sword was basically that game until BiTMagic and Reverse BiTMagic. There were so many thing that were well made that were bypassed but only because you could manipulate the flags in a glitched map state.

  • @antinancoofmagicant7305
    @antinancoofmagicant7305 9 місяців тому +625

    Watch: now that people have heard about how hard it is to break Twilight Princess, we're probably going to get some insane breakthrough in a week or something.

    • @orngjce223
      @orngjce223 9 місяців тому +97

      I think this is the point of making the video, lol

    • @4203105
      @4203105 9 місяців тому +11

      Like nobody heard about it before...

    • @davidclayton1670
      @davidclayton1670 9 місяців тому +6

      Use a semicolon not a colon

    • @kelseybrexit5224
      @kelseybrexit5224 9 місяців тому +35

      @@4203105 Yeah they’re called trends. A random video about a niche topic goes viral for 3 weeks and everyone’s on top of it for a month. Then it dies out and you’re left with the massacre. Very different then old ass millennials staying in the same fandom for two decades.

    • @adraedin
      @adraedin 9 місяців тому +21

      @@davidclayton1670 That's not accurate. Roughly speaking, a semicolon is used when you're saying the same thing in two different ways.

  • @arrownaut6820
    @arrownaut6820 9 місяців тому +176

    As someone who used to speedrun this game, it feels like the developers just barely kept out of our reach such massive time saves.
    So cool to see the community still working on it

  • @Jovi_97
    @Jovi_97 9 місяців тому +124

    To be honest, the best speedruns to watch (for me) is the ones that show of as much of the game as possible while still doing crazy stuff fast. Thats why categories like All dungeons, All stars, Or sometimes glitchless in many games, is my absolute favorites anyways.
    It just so happens that TP is longer but still as fast as currently possible, and it a great speedrun.

  • @sharddadragon5718
    @sharddadragon5718 9 місяців тому +478

    I love twilight princess when I was younger, everyday after school, I threw my backpack against the wall, sat down, and played for hours on end! Twilight will always have a place in my heart and it will continue to do so for the years to come! Also keep uploading amazing content Linkus7!

    • @Nippopip
      @Nippopip 9 місяців тому +3

      I Never got past the carriage escort

    • @callmezeldaonemoartime
      @callmezeldaonemoartime 9 місяців тому +3

      Ok? How’s this contribute to the discussion of the video?

    • @danielkoontz6732
      @danielkoontz6732 9 місяців тому +24

      ​@callmezeldaonemoartime it's about TP. Context, my friend.

    • @courtneycherry5582
      @courtneycherry5582 9 місяців тому +1

      My brother and I played after school too except we didn't have a GameCube memory card so it was seeing how far we could get before bed. I haven't picked up the game in years after playing the beginning so many times 😂

    • @hylianro
      @hylianro 9 місяців тому +23

      ​@@callmezeldaonemoartimeoh no it's illegal to express love and appreciation towards the game that was mentioned in the topic! Clown behavior

  • @sugarkitty2008
    @sugarkitty2008 9 місяців тому +62

    I remember how that barrier in windwaker was seen as impossible and was a huge time killer, an analysis video like this explained it.
    I watched some speedrunners trying all sorts of things to get past it.
    Then it was solved about a year or 2 later.

  • @idontwantahandlethough
    @idontwantahandlethough 9 місяців тому +113

    The YT channel 'Bewildebeest' has a fantastic commentated twilight princess 100% speedrun (which is roughly 6 hours, I think?). He goes through a lot of techniques and tricks and all that, it's very good. It's from January, so it's fairly up to date too :)

    • @katacutie
      @katacutie 9 місяців тому +14

      His commentated videos are genuinely some of the best on this site!

    • @roshivvymegido9178
      @roshivvymegido9178 9 місяців тому +8

      he made another one more recently of a glitchless 100% run a few days ago as of this comment

    • @ryandoyle3413
      @ryandoyle3413 9 місяців тому +1

      I love the video, genuinely funny with very good gameplay and commentary. It also works really well as a sleep track😊

    • @scipocelah6677
      @scipocelah6677 8 місяців тому

      He's so awesome, and his Majora's Mask Commentated 100% is amazing too.

  • @supremeoverlorde2109
    @supremeoverlorde2109 9 місяців тому +76

    Personally I've always found TP to be the most interesting speedrun to watch --- far more so than the ones that can be beaten in under an hour. I love how many interconnecting parts there are and how just one element out of place could ruin the whole thing. Plus I think it's interesting how many differences there are in speedruns for different versions of the game.

    • @milkman2808
      @milkman2808 9 місяців тому +2

      Same reason I love old Skyward Sword runs before the discovery of reverse BiT magic (which is admittedly hype in its own way). Though you can still experience that with HD version runs

    • @ZT1ST
      @ZT1ST 9 місяців тому

      You know what's interesting? I wonder if they can use the Low% speedrun trick to get through that gate.

  • @MetroidsEATYou
    @MetroidsEATYou 9 місяців тому +142

    A wrong death warp leading to a puppy test room that could be the key to the TP speedrun seems absolutely perfect to me.
    If this method ever gets a major breakthrough and becomes feasible, I hope it becomes known as the "Puppy Heaven" route.
    May the Divine Wolf find his way to Puppy Heaven and be welcomed with wagging tails!

  • @lpfan4491
    @lpfan4491 9 місяців тому +27

    Guards:"You shall not pass."
    Dogge:"I have the key, but I sadly cannot give it to you."

  • @DraXulaM
    @DraXulaM 9 місяців тому +30

    This kinda reminds me of the Hades video, where it was shown as to why a 64 heat run is nearly impossible, and then a few days after someone actually managed to do one.

  • @hylianro
    @hylianro 9 місяців тому +153

    I think the "puppy room" in State 8 will be found eventually, just depends on how many people will actively be hunting for it. Once it is found though it will change TP speedrunning forever

    • @CheshireTheMaid
      @CheshireTheMaid 9 місяців тому +38

      Yep! It'll break speedrunning because everyone will be playing with all the puppies

    • @faithcael5703
      @faithcael5703 9 місяців тому +18

      I can also imagine that theres gonna be 2 categories, one that optimizes the current route and idk puppy% then

    • @LilacMonarch
      @LilacMonarch 9 місяців тому +12

      ​@@faithcael5703puppy‰ would just be any%. the other would be like barrier% or something

    • @leihau
      @leihau 9 місяців тому +5

      @@LilacMonarch any% no barrier skip

    • @JohnnyYeTaecanUktena
      @JohnnyYeTaecanUktena 9 місяців тому +3

      @@leihau reminds me of 100% and all items for Metroid Prime Hunters as for 100% you can miss it if you do not scan the first door of the game which is the only missile door, though people don't run it as scanning things would be boring and boring to watch so there is all items instead where you get all items which ironically is more fun to watch and more fun to run than any% which is like all items as the route is pretty much the same except you don't get the items or the last item in the game which is in the final boss battle

  • @RaynmanPlays
    @RaynmanPlays 9 місяців тому +20

    There are a lot of games that had just cool any% routes that were absolutely ruined when players found ways to skip to the end. And unfortunately, sometimes those old any% routes just don't translate well to a category of their own and none of the other categories are at all similar.
    While it might be funny for some to poke fun at how long a TP any% run is compared to other Zelda games, it's actually in a really good place.

    • @NeutralDrow
      @NeutralDrow 9 місяців тому +6

      Speaking as someone whose eye twitches when I see that four-minute Ocarina of Time record, agreed.

    • @JohnnyYeTaecanUktena
      @JohnnyYeTaecanUktena 9 місяців тому +1

      @@NeutralDrow I am guessing they found out how to warp to the credits

    • @NeutralDrow
      @NeutralDrow 9 місяців тому +2

      @@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena Must be. I know about the chicken in Gerudo Valley that lets you warp to the final boss, which was bad enough...but iirc, that was still a 17-minute run.

    • @JohnnyYeTaecanUktena
      @JohnnyYeTaecanUktena 9 місяців тому

      @@NeutralDrow For a moment i thought we were still talking about Twilight Princess

  • @reshawshid
    @reshawshid 9 місяців тому +11

    I've learned a lot of weird things by messing around in Twilight Princess. If you cheat your way back up to the area in Telma's Bar where you went to Hyrule sewers as a wolf, you can find some interesting stuff. Link actually has a pickup animation for sticks and can walk with them, but it's never used ingame. You can also do the whole cutscene with Zelda giving her life for Midna as human Link's body pasted over Wolf Link, which makes it hilarious.
    There was one time where I used a cheat to get into Castle Town early from the Eastern entrance, and accidentally fulfilled Zant's wish of covering all of Hyrule in twilight. Basically all of Hyrule Field went back into the twilight state. Was cool but also scary because I wasn't sure I'd be able to undo it, but you can undo it simply by going back into the Faron region.
    Also savestates break the game and can often softlock you. Use with caution.

  • @Solar_Symphony
    @Solar_Symphony 9 місяців тому +32

    I've only just started watching some clips of TP speedruns, what a neat community and game! It's really cool to see all these crazy tricks

  • @sushisrx
    @sushisrx 9 місяців тому +25

    Great cover of Twilight Princess, I've always wondered why TP is so hard to break

  • @divinkitty9452
    @divinkitty9452 4 місяці тому +2

    ... I'm 28 years old and only just properly learned what snowballing means. I knew it meant "things get worse" but the visual in my head was always someone just throwing more and more snowballs. Like how a snowball war can start with just one kid throwing a snowball at another kid. Not... that when a ball of snow rolls down a snow covered hill it gets bigger. Suddenly everything makes sense now.

  • @Thedrizzle404
    @Thedrizzle404 9 місяців тому +12

    I honestly wish more games were built like this.

  • @Chrome166
    @Chrome166 9 місяців тому +11

    So many people believed Moon Warp in Majora's Mask was going to be impossible forever. Early Hyrule Castle will happen one day, I'm sure of it.

  • @demimii2860
    @demimii2860 9 місяців тому +18

    God I feel old. Twilight princess was the highlight of my life

    • @kota9087
      @kota9087 9 місяців тому +1

      Me too fam

  • @shadeblackwolf1508
    @shadeblackwolf1508 9 місяців тому +9

    Gymnast did a video on this years ago. Nice to see where the game stands today. I think some day we'll find HC early, which would almost definitially create the one hour run. If we can enter the castle before the barrier spawns, it gets rid of most requirements.

  • @Kira-rn9fl
    @Kira-rn9fl 9 місяців тому +4

    This is all pretty cool. It feels like a lot of major classic speedrun games are pretty much “solved” so to speak, and world record competition pretty much just comes down to who can pull off everything clean enough to save a few seconds here or there, or find a slight divergence in routing that is barely faster. In that sense, it’s crazy to see a game as old and widely played as Twilight Princess with its community on the cusp of completely restructuring the run, just searching for those last few discoveries to make everything click into place. It seems similar to the Wind Waker community searching for barrier skip, where the community had been fully aware of the exact skip that needed to be found to break the game, but the community still needed to spend a pretty huge amount of time searching for it until it was found.

  • @geminimaxxim
    @geminimaxxim 9 місяців тому +23

    Honestly I think it's a testament to what a well-put together game TP is, that even with so many skips and glitches it still isn't breakable. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see barrier skip - I remember how hype it was when they found the WW one - but until then I say we should proudly laud it as the most stable Zelda game (somehow)

  • @calebchristiansen3065
    @calebchristiansen3065 8 місяців тому +3

    Twilight Princess was the first Zelda game I ever played (not the first one I beat though) and one of my fondest memories is finding a youtube video about the infinite bomb arrow glitch using the minigames, and trying it out for myself. It's a super easy glitch, but I was so proud of myself that I was able to pull it off

  • @dax812
    @dax812 9 місяців тому +2

    Props to Zayloox for the great editing. I usually just listen to these explanations in the background, but the visual kept me totally hooked on the video the whole way through.

  • @sagacious03
    @sagacious03 9 місяців тому +7

    Shoutouts to TP for being relatively unbroken for so long.
    Very interesting anlysis video! Thanks for uploading!

  •  9 місяців тому +6

    AHHAHAHHA WHAT HAPPENED AT MINUTE 7:32
    Linkus:" you see in wind baker you can use inicxzidsi hfdhs BOMB PUSH!"

    • @aregapiatelo9469
      @aregapiatelo9469 9 місяців тому

      RIGHT!!

    • @thecactuarking
      @thecactuarking 3 місяці тому

      he says "in wind waker, you can use a technique used as a bomb push to squeeze through this incredibly small gap in the barrier's structure"

  • @rarmas17
    @rarmas17 9 місяців тому +5

    The developer who put that barrier there: It´s a simple spell, but quite unbreakable

  • @IllIlllI
    @IllIlllI 9 місяців тому +1

    I genuinely appreciate the long speedruns of twilight princes, so many cool glitches, moves and quirks & the game plays and looks amazing

  • @TheRoseReaper
    @TheRoseReaper 9 місяців тому +6

    Wait a moment, can't a version of Hyrule Field where the Ganon fight is present be accessed with a series of glitches?

    • @kota9087
      @kota9087 9 місяців тому

      We got a brainiac over here

  • @Simon-yg9np
    @Simon-yg9np 9 місяців тому +6

    Tbh the most exciting speedruns are imo the wind waker all dungeon speedruns. (Before they discovered the barrier skip)
    Doenst matter to me at all that it was a longer run. It was a test a pure skill and execution.

  • @qcard76
    @qcard76 9 місяців тому +12

    And here I was about to fall asleep. Twilight Princess content just cannot be skipped!

  • @CDbiggen
    @CDbiggen 9 місяців тому +1

    Explained it all so well, and actually i wouldn't mind watching some of these "long" but very skilled playthroughs i think. Thanks for the great vid.

  • @amanofnoreputation2164
    @amanofnoreputation2164 9 місяців тому +3

    Windwaker: the good timeline where barrierskip was discovered.
    Twilight Princess: the bad timeline where barrierskip is impossible.

  • @deanmachinespeedruns5590
    @deanmachinespeedruns5590 7 місяців тому +4

    took me 1000hrs of grinding this game to get it under 3hrs as a speedrunner. the community members are some of the best, and longest standing members of any zelda community. Thank you for putting together an amazing video linkus!

  • @Dagoth_the_rizzler
    @Dagoth_the_rizzler 9 місяців тому +3

    Twilight princess is such a odd zelda game. It was my second legend of zelda (phantom hourglass was my first of the franchise) and I remember being quite young. The game was scary in how realistic for its fantasy setting it was. Since my first taste of the franchise was the cartoon version, going to the extreme opposite in terms of style was a shock like “damn thats weird and mature”

  • @NEETKitten
    @NEETKitten 9 місяців тому +2

    Twulight Princess was my very first Zelda game and still my favorite Zelda to date, so it's really interesting seeing everything that's gone into speedrunning it over the years. And I also can't wait for the eventual puppy% category.

  • @THE_MAN2985
    @THE_MAN2985 5 місяців тому +3

    Zelda's Bizarre Adventure: Twilight Is Unbreakable

  • @Cosmic-Clod
    @Cosmic-Clod 9 місяців тому +6

    It might be because Twilit Princess is too sad and the tears make seeing impossible

  • @NeutralDrow
    @NeutralDrow 9 місяців тому +3

    I'm not a total glitchless purist...but I will cop to being irrationally happy that this game is so hard to break.

  • @bahmot9501
    @bahmot9501 Місяць тому +1

    Shoutouts to those castle guards. Probably the most effective soldiers Hyrule has ever had.

  • @kota9087
    @kota9087 9 місяців тому +1

    This was a really awesome video thanks so much for the speedrunners and glitch hunters for your dedication
    This is my favourite game of all time

  • @andres_disez
    @andres_disez 9 місяців тому +4

    I dont know if someone has tried yet, but there is a way to hyrule castle
    the bar, where you go as wolf link when midna is sick
    maybe there's a way to get there and skio the barrier?

    • @Xyler94
      @Xyler94 9 місяців тому +3

      I think the issue there is that the part of Hyrule Castle in that part of the game is not the same as the ground level you enter in. It's the same "area" but in game code, it's a different map. So while it may seem you're onto something, in code it's not the same place. And that's the issue.

  • @krASHExxx
    @krASHExxx 9 місяців тому +3

    Love Ennopp12 and those MM speedruns. Been waiting him for 8 years. Watched all the times go down more and more

  • @graceholbert2126
    @graceholbert2126 9 місяців тому +2

    I love learning about speedruns. Sure, the real thing is fun to watch, but I love hearing the history and technique behind them.

  • @Rubbly
    @Rubbly 9 місяців тому

    Always love to see progress on speedrun routes!

  • @AlexRiversMusic
    @AlexRiversMusic 9 місяців тому +6

    Best Zelda game.

  • @johnpett1955
    @johnpett1955 9 місяців тому +3

    Funny thing: the low% speedrun of this game takes like 17 hours to finish. Like 15 hours longer than any%

    • @dr.blockcraft6633
      @dr.blockcraft6633 9 місяців тому +1

      It's only A little More than 14 hours Now actually.
      Altho, I'm Pretty sure That the 17 hours Thing was Just the Time spent Doing a Single glitch. That run Was 21 hours Long.

    • @johnpett1955
      @johnpett1955 9 місяців тому

      @@dr.blockcraft6633 still pretty crazy how much longer it is than any%

  • @LukeHim
    @LukeHim 6 місяців тому

    Great script and narration, and fascinating topic too.
    Just stumbled upon this, I didn’t even know "Linkus the Speedrunner" had it like that as a content creator. Keep killing it!

  • @moladat4481
    @moladat4481 9 місяців тому

    I absolutely love watching Twilight Princess speedruns despite the length of them, so many cool glitches! Great video.

  • @SayuHatto
    @SayuHatto 9 місяців тому +7

    Basically, TP speedrun routing is a constant Uno reverse card battle between the routers and the game's code

    • @kota9087
      @kota9087 9 місяців тому +1

      Basically a Yu Gi-Oh duel 😂😂😂

  • @juanguilhermearaneda
    @juanguilhermearaneda 9 місяців тому +3

    linkus dropped this at 3:40 AM in my country time and thought i wouldn't notice it

  • @ddthegreat
    @ddthegreat 9 місяців тому +2

    I love how Linkus mentions multiple times how long the three hour speedrun is when a casual run is nearly 40 hours

  • @leomeyer7224
    @leomeyer7224 9 місяців тому +9

    They can’t break it because it’s the best game ever created.

    • @kota9087
      @kota9087 9 місяців тому

      🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

  • @jacklansdale77
    @jacklansdale77 9 місяців тому +2

    See I tried to do some of these glitches, like the wolf high jump, whatever article I read did not explain the highest point of the enemy, and I never got EMS.

  • @izuthree
    @izuthree 9 місяців тому +24

    As per how these videos usually go, I look forward to someone finding one of the big 'skip to final boss' glitches within a few days. Always seems to happen after a 'this is not possible' speedrun video, lol.

    • @TheAlmosted
      @TheAlmosted 9 місяців тому +4

      Being part of the TP community myself, I can tell you TP is an exception to this rule 😅😭

  • @Neru619
    @Neru619 6 місяців тому +1

    I was there when the Windwaker barrier skip was discovered. The hype was unreal. I hope one day they'll uncover the way to skip TP's barrier too.

  • @Pinkiecat101
    @Pinkiecat101 9 місяців тому +2

    It's interesting to see how just adding specfic conditions to points in the game just wreck speedrunners. It seems like such a simple thing yet it's so effective

  • @rzezzy1
    @rzezzy1 9 місяців тому +6

    Kinda reminds me of the laminated glass that car windshields are made of. Can actually break quite easily, but still maintains its shape rather than shattering completely.

  • @Joeyisagonnawin
    @Joeyisagonnawin 8 місяців тому +3

    Zelda: Twilight Is Unbreakable

  • @Ryo39
    @Ryo39 9 місяців тому

    I love seeing longer speedruns that show off more of the game, my favorite era of OOT speedrunning was the "cluntstovens forever 2nd place 4hr 24min". Long speedruns have so much more at stake

  • @byrondanielvilladamagana5828
    @byrondanielvilladamagana5828 9 місяців тому

    Already saw it, it was awesome, continúe the great work linkus

  • @mornyavie
    @mornyavie 9 місяців тому +12

    Can confirm, Twilight Princess is one of my favorite speedruns to watch. It's really fun.

  • @DistantKingdom
    @DistantKingdom 9 місяців тому +7

    what a coincidence - i just stated a 3 heart challenge playthrough with the 4k texture pack and revamped hack the other day. twilight princess is such an amazing game < 3

  • @manveru0
    @manveru0 8 місяців тому +2

    I hope this is one of those times again where a youtuber makes a video explaining how "it's impossible to get a better run" and then 2 weeks later someone breaks it even further

  • @mathprodigy
    @mathprodigy 9 місяців тому

    Great video Linkus, you have really good content 👍

  • @JoelSyverud
    @JoelSyverud 9 місяців тому +5

    Gotta herd those goats tho

  • @sunnyhvar1992
    @sunnyhvar1992 9 місяців тому +2

    On that last point - for sure, that's one thing about speedruns I really like, when it hits just that right sweet spot between "hackerman reaches credits" and "let's play" XD as cool as things like ACE are, actually going through the game's content, but fast/cool is always more satisfying to watch for me

  • @milkman2808
    @milkman2808 9 місяців тому

    Love videos like this. Reminds me of Gymnast's old "elusive glitches" series.

  • @Thertra70
    @Thertra70 9 місяців тому +2

    I really like where the speed run is at. There’s a sweet spot for me between a let’s play and the game is so broken you see 1% of the content. Twilight princess is in that sweet spot

  • @HGShurtugal
    @HGShurtugal 9 місяців тому +2

    Any % runs do get boring after a while, so I do like TP any % for doing a large part of the game.

  • @etimene4797
    @etimene4797 9 місяців тому +8

    I remember when twilight princess first came out and how everyone talked about its graphics this game was way way way ahead of its time In graphics story and mechanics I mean being able to transform into a freaking wolf thats bad ass af
    Nintendo was smoking crack back then when making games they still are now too
    but after playing Tears of the Kingdom im sadly hoping they don’t follow every other developer nowadays and publish remakes and remasters constantly and Slapping the number 2 on a video game with 10% more content than before

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks 9 місяців тому +1

      Entirely new gameplay focus and main mechanics, and two additional map levels - “10% extra content”, apparently

  • @laniokami1730
    @laniokami1730 9 місяців тому

    Oh god! You made me remeber the Wagon Escort quest! I died so many times to that a child. The stress of the chase and not beeing able save the zora prince was truly the worst. Still my all time favourite Zelda!

  • @Droid18Beta
    @Droid18Beta 9 місяців тому +2

    “Can’t break” as the entire fabric of the game is unraveled each run

  • @theconductoresplin8092
    @theconductoresplin8092 9 місяців тому +10

    There's got to be a way to break the game it will happen I don't know when I don't know how but I believe that the community is strong and will find a way

    • @galonski64
      @galonski64 9 місяців тому +2

      And most likely be on accident from some random person who did something by mistake

  • @GamesAndAnimes
    @GamesAndAnimes 9 місяців тому +3

    Now I like TP even more. 😁

  • @Krankify
    @Krankify 9 місяців тому

    I love videos just like this one. These keep my attention so well

  • @theodor3gabriel
    @theodor3gabriel 3 місяці тому +1

    A month later, Linkus7 releases a video named "How Speedrunners Break the HD Version of Twilight Princess"

  • @Alex-95-Gaming
    @Alex-95-Gaming 9 місяців тому +5

    There's the Midna Warp glitch, where if you try to activate your map and Midna on the same frame, the warp will be disabled, but so will any loading zones and you can walk on air and through objects. While Midna will usually try to keep you from transforming while in Castle Town, can this glitch be activated, and if so, be used to walk around Hyrule Castle and through the barrier? Or is the barrier a solid object all around? Or could it be used to reach Hyrule Castle before the barrier is even activated?

    • @firnenlegacy
      @firnenlegacy 9 місяців тому +2

      It is possible to map glitch in Castle Town yes, but there are invisible walls that extend out of bounds

    • @Xyler94
      @Xyler94 9 місяців тому +6

      Trust me when I say this.
      If you thought about this, speedrunners already tried years ago.

    • @Alex-95-Gaming
      @Alex-95-Gaming 9 місяців тому

      @@Xyler94 It probably has been. But it wasn't mentioned here, so thought I'd point it out for more info on the attempts.

    • @4203105
      @4203105 9 місяців тому +1

      As you said, that disabled loading zones. Can't really enter the castle with it.

    • @Alex-95-Gaming
      @Alex-95-Gaming 9 місяців тому

      @@4203105 Oh pfft right lol

  • @Random1567
    @Random1567 9 місяців тому +12

    I always thought Skyward Sword would be the hardest game to break. It was like a 5 hour run and just seemed closed off compared to the rest….then the community blew it wide open and now it’s joined the rest of the series in having a short speed run lol Now TP is all alone 😢

    • @4wheal
      @4wheal 9 місяців тому +5

      TP isnt all alone its simple teh last one standing

    • @MrCheeze
      @MrCheeze 9 місяців тому +9

      Skyward Sword is really interesting. For the most part, it's not a glitchy game at all. But it happens to have ONE glitch which is one of the biggest in the whole series. SSHD fixed that one glitch and so its speedrun is four hours.

    • @yinyang452
      @yinyang452 9 місяців тому

      @@MrCheeze Referring to the Lightning Dragon Song glitch? The one that required an actual *patch* to the Wii game?

    • @MrCheeze
      @MrCheeze 9 місяців тому +5

      @@yinyang452 No, "back in time" and all its many secondary glitches.

  • @IV_Boi
    @IV_Boi 9 місяців тому +2

    Twilight is in my top 5 of Zelda games…we need a switch HD release…maybe when switch 2 drops

  • @brenscott5416
    @brenscott5416 9 місяців тому

    Theres a particular tas by gymnist that i love, it shows just what was capable but still isnt far off from current tas times with commentary about whats going on. The interesting thing tho is just how much of the game even the tas sees. It goes to every major area of the game excluding a bit under half of the dungeons, that to me is just incredible to watch

  • @Cinnacorn
    @Cinnacorn 9 місяців тому +4

    I would be incredibly delighted if the puppy test room ends up being a viable method! They're so adorable, I think it would be charming if speedrunners got a little crowd of adoring pups for successfully getting there.

  • @Shutwig
    @Shutwig 6 місяців тому +1

    I can't wait for any% puppy route twilight princess runs to be possible!

  • @brittacus_
    @brittacus_ 8 місяців тому

    Hey Linkus, longtime viewer first time caller. Just wanna say I love these vids and how great you are at explaining how all of this works in a fun and entertaining way that makes sense to speedrunner fans but non-techie dinguses like me. These kinds of deep dive explanations are so friggin fascinating. Keep on keeping on My Dude

  • @belphegor8186
    @belphegor8186 9 місяців тому

    The first and only major sequence glitch I pulled off in this game is the title screen glitch. It allows you to play on the title screen, and things can get wonky, depending on what you do. It's a really fun glitch.

  • @unemilifleur
    @unemilifleur 9 місяців тому +1

    Shoutout to the guards being very effective at their job

  • @Erikuzuma
    @Erikuzuma 9 місяців тому +1

    "Which was used as a test for the AI on thee puppies"
    I fucking love it.

  • @osmondlp2811
    @osmondlp2811 4 місяці тому +1

    Windwaker barrier skip wasn’t discovered until 2019 point being its not to late for even bigger skips to be discovered