Can I beat Breath of the Wild BLINDFOLDED? (Great Plateau)
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2021
- This is the story and gameplay of how I ended up beating Breath of the Wild's Great Plateau BLINDFOLDED--without seeing the game at all.
HUGE thanks to CrystalSaver who helped IMMENSELY with this run, check out their other blindfolded runs here: / frozenmelody
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Blind folded no damage coming soon?
Mom: "stop looking at your screens, its bad for you!"
Pointcrow: "Sure"
11:10 “victory would be within sight” no it’s not lol
I meant 31:10
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Lol
@@sethgratz5400 Just edit it
Wait you memorized all those steps?? That's insane dude I can't remember what I did an hour ago
what have you done when you posted the comment
Same pat
The list he showed on stream made my brain hurt
Your name is literally almost patterns
Hi
Missed opportunity to take off the blindfold and say: 'wait, is that king Rhoam Bosphramus Hyrule!?"
Still, incredibly impressive run my guy! Seriously well done!
Yes 😂
Yeah lol
Lol I’m imagining it rn
@@chillkillisded same
he had no idea King Rhoam Bospharamus Hyrule was right in front of him
Crow's way of memorizing directions and # of hops as well as his chart of the days and weeks sounds an awful lot like Spatial Sequence Synesthesia. While I don't have it myself, my aunt and cousin both share this and it's crazy to see someone online who shares the experience!
I was thinking that too (I have it) esp when he said he couldn’t describe the colors but they just have them
He also has grapheme color synesthesia! I have it too
Is that why I see math as red?
Sameee I have synesthesia also and I was thinking this while he was talking about it, I can especially relate to his concept of time.
@@PlayerZeroStart probably not, for some reason most people just associate subjects with color
Crow mentioning the beauty of the game:
Also crow not even looking at the game the whole time:
ur pfp is a blessing
@@LenoxVeleno Jimmy
AH. A fellow enlightened person.
look at his profile he is eating the games looks no huge tho
@@ericvandenavond8748 ye i know
Imagine Zelda seeing Link hopping all over the place and think
“Did the Resurrection Shrine turn his brain into one of a frog?”
Imagine zelda kissing the link, but link turns into a frog instead
It was the frog she made him eat in that one memory, the data got stored in his brain
@@caspersmith3922 was just thinking that
nah it just made him blind lol-
This is what happens when you give a frog the triforce of courage
Thanks for the shout out! Glad to see the majority of my route being replicated by another person (and snickering at all the hidden "gotcha" moments). Super happy to see you finally pull it off after many weeks of training!
Absolutely love how you explained each strat during the route, speeding up repetitive sections and retries, while focusing on the unique parts of progress.
Is there any chance to get a separate VOD of the full run to post on the blindfolded website?
I’ll make a point to post it on the PointCrow VOD channel this week!
phenomenal stuff youre doing blindfolded, can’t wait to see what you’re working on next
huh
Just went to your channel and saw all your blindfold stuff, that’s amazing!
@@wolfwings1693 Thank you! I will be doing more games in the future!
Crow casually explaining what to me sounds like synesthesia is so fascinating.
What a great video
As soon as he starts describing memorization as shades of color, I got so confused. That's such a unique way of doing it. Memorizing sequences is always sound for me. I used to be able to go for a crazy long tong on simon based on the sounds alone.
Everyone has their own ways of processing and visualizing information. Point just used what was best for him
His technique is pretty common. But association is great for memorization. Colors and shapes I believe is a common method of association but it can be Pokémon for heaven sake! Like Archean period of earth history is named after the Pokémon Arceus and is when life first emerge.
But it can be totally random with no real association. The letter “A” is red to me and also well behave, while “B” is blue and is a sassy bitch.
It also sounds like my man has synthesia. It's when your brain associates different sensory inputs with things that aren't usually put together. Colors and numbers is actually a fairly common one, especially those in STEM fields. Him mentioning "conceptually this color cause I couldn't find the right shade if I tried" matches what I've heard other people with Synthesia describe. It's really cool to see it utilized this way!
@@jtbrown7716 I think if you don’t naturally have it it is possible to train your brain to do it, same for photographic memory. I could be wrong though...
@@jtbrown7716 if he can't separate the two concepts, then yes, he probably has synesthesia
Pointcrow blindfolded: descends the Sheikah Tower like a boss, with all the great timings
Pointcrow normally: fails to survive this exact sequence in almost every video.
Spongebob driving vibes
He's actually trying in this, in most of his videos he just looks at spaghettis link and "goes haha funny"
@@kathvg hah yes that one episode where he drove with a blindfold XD
😭
@@zawardo2229 yeah, Pointcrow is usually more content/fun , than skill focused, so this (what feels like) new tryhard mode from him is interesting to see. :)
I can just imagine Zelda looking at Link and thinking “that is the guy who will save Hyrule?”
Well when the cycle of peace and demise goes on and on for eternity, gotta try a different approach!
I love how he casually describes his experience of synesthesia (a fairly rare condition) and doesn't seem to realise lol
this is so cool!
When you have it, you don't realize that it's weird until you say something real casual and no one knows what you mean.
anyone has the timestamp?
@@c4tt0_ 10:37 its when he talks about how he memorized everything
@@jacobjenkins7362 looks like SOMEONE has synesthesia..
@@jacobjenkins7362 not relatable at all. You may have it too! Cool!
Fun fact: The whole "tying a color/shape to an idea" memorization strategy is also how people are able to do things like memorize and recall the order of a shuffled deck of cards. The human brain remembers ideas like this a lot better than just raw data
is it just simple association then? As in have as many cues on recall that can relate to the thing you're trying to remember so that at the time of recall you have a higher chance of remembering things?
@@kariemelhanan8878 Kind of, yeah
In the specific case of the deck of cards, one way to do this (or at least the way that I once learned to do this) is to break the cards up into blocks of 3 cards each, and tie each card in that block to a person, an event/action, and a place ("Elvis ordered drinks at the Bar" might translate to, say, king of spades/6 of clubs/4 of hearts), which would give you 17 scenarios to remember and leave you with one single card left over to keep track of on its own.
It takes a fair bit of practice to get good with it, and Crow's color/shape strategy honestly sounds better if you can get the hang of it, but it's surprisingly easy once you get it down.
There's a book on this that I read a while ago on the concept of the "Memory Palace" (which is one of the techniques used like you're describing), called "Moonwalking with Einstein". It's a pretty neat read!
@@onlysmiles4949 dang when you break it down like these it sounds fairly simple but I know from experience that’s easier said than done.
It sounds like grouping to minimize memory chucks + a mix of retrieval cues to corroborate info incase you don’t remember something. Crows way of doing it is sorta wild though
I have synesthesia and I thought everyone did this anyways. Granted, I'm not gonna be playing BotW blindfolded anytime soon
“Your resourcefulness in overcoming this trial speaks to the promise of a hero…”
Omg i was thinking the same when this sentence came up lmao
Love how he struggles to really explain what's going through his mind, and the best way to describe how he thinks of his days, weeks, etc. Is with literal pictures that I 100% understand.
I'm so confused with how he visualizes days, weeks, etc.
You know what, even though i still dont get the color shape memorizing concept thing, i still find it COOL AS HELL and THE FACT THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO REMEMBER IT, pure admiration
It's so insane Crow is able to memorize all these specific movements to complete this, it's incredibly impressive! Pro gamer moment🙌
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@@tarrare337 indubitably
The way you memorise things/visualise things is really interesting! I’ve heard of similar things where some people hear a musical note and they sorta see/feel a certain colour associated with it, so I presume it’s to some degree similar to that.
That's called synesthesia, and I thought of that immediately too. It's a neurological thing so it can't be learned. That's what it sounds like he's using
@@noabinnendijk361 yes I thought of that. Though everyone does that at a certain level, right ? Not ar the same lvl but we all associates concepts i think. I was surprised by the days of the week described by Pointcrow though !
@@theblob7470 I mean everyone can associate concepts with colors, but with synesthesia it goes automatically without any effort or thought, or so I've read
@@noabinnendijk361 I mean I naturally associate numbers and letters w/ colours but nothing comparable to Pcrow. Synesthesia is pretty insane honestly. And yeah you’re right I’ve read that too
@@noabinnendijk361 I feel like I kinda have that but with music notes on a staff since I can't play by ear or have perfect pitch. Because I think of D as green, E as blue F# and F as yellow and so on. But I don't know if I've seen them colored as that in a piece of media or just made it up myself. But seeing G as purple definitely came from music class and playing with boomwhackers. But the A and C notes are definitely red in my mind.
This is not only a challenge, but a step-by-step guide for our Sunblight Warriors (blind) in the gaming community. You make us proud!
I'm an actor and am constantly memorizing things every day. I have to say this memorization technique is like nothing I've ever heard of before. Amazing work and amazing video!
the fact that you MEMORIZED all of that monstrosity just for the fun of doing this is absolutely insane
Actually, associating colors and shapes with specific things, often abstract concepts is a form of Synesthesia. I have that as well, as soon as he said "I'm not sure what the shade of the ideas are and I couldn't reproduce them if I tried" I was like, yup that checks. A lot of mine are colors that don't exist and are hard to describe
Eric’s resourcefulness in overcoming this trial speaks to the promise of a hero…
Stopppppp 😂
The way you used shapes and colours to remember all of these steps, really reminds me the way if how synaesthesia works. It's basically an association of sense like smell, taste, sight... with other sense which allows people to have taste when they hear a certain sound or to associate colours or shapes to certain numbers, days of the week or months. Maybe Eric has synesthesia and it would be pretty cool
I was thinking the same thing. That has to be a type of synesthesia
such a fun stream! the importance of audio is insane with this run
Really makes you apprectiate the sound design more
Eric, when people say "it's so easy, I can do it with my eyes close", I don't think they meant literally.
My mom took ten hours to beat the Plateau WITHOUT a blindfold and you managed to do this in under two. Mad props and another amazing video!!
this guy is a lot smarter than we give him credit for
Zelda: Put him in the shrine of resurrection
Sheikah soldier: Wait, but how would that affect his mind?
Zelda: He'll be fine, I'm sure of it.
Link, the first minute he gets out of the shrine: 0:50
this blindfolded run has better times than my normal plateau runs :(
Stop being bad then
@@gmdrandom6287 🗿
*unbads myself* oh I fixed it easy
@@gmdrandom6287 bruh imagine being so bad you tell others not to be like you
@@gmdrandom6287 dude wth is wrong with you
Nice work!! For everyone interested, this has been done through the master sword and all main quests by me and Saver. There is an entire blindfolded speedrunning community that i encourage anyone to join if they find running games blindfolded interesting. Its wicked fun!!!
name checks out :p
😂
As someone who does marching and pep band for my high school, i can say without a doubt that THIS is much harder to memorize than music, Wonderfully done Eric, and to everyone else who does blindfolded runs of any game.
you know this is genuine because even if he was able to see through the blindfold he didn't have his glasses on so he couldn't see anyways - this is insane !!
A way to get around that is prerecording the game play or reaction. Not saying he cheated just that thats a way around that that people have used.
@@Fentnihilator I'm curious does that actually exist?
@@ytrewqfdsacxz3181 It does not, that's ridiculous
@@autonomousAcquaintances There are tons of times where it's clear he didn't do that
The way I would’ve cheated is had a text to speech bot read me the movements so I wouldn’t have to memorize it.
Certified gamer moment here ladies and gentlemen!
I cannot believe I just sat here and watched a 39 minute video of someone playing this game blindfolded, but man alive, was I on the edge on my seat lol. insanely impressive!
it was so cool seeing that someone else uses synesthesia to memorize stuff, as well as their personal shapes/colors! like for me, right is red and left is blue, so when you said left is yellow i had to double take haha
Haha same actually! Left is just blue, and it will be till I die 😂
@@Jo-dk9my no left is red
Nahh right is grey and left is orange. Does that make me have synesthesia?
Challenges like these highlight how much time and effort Eric puts into making his content and it's truly amazing and entertaining to watch
wow the memorising system was so cool! Would love to hear more about it, I haven't thought about people memorising stuff differently!
There are so many neat memorization tricks like the one Crow uses. Check out the one called Memory Palace or look up magicians explaining the methods they use to memorize card decks for certain tricks.
Great job Eric!
Now defeat ganon, all 4 divine beasts, all 900 koroks, all map locations, all shrines and all the DLC.
If you think about it, Eric's run will be almost identical to another blindfolded run. Not in the same-ish pathing sense, but in the sense of his footprints lining up with another run's footprints almost every move.
There is something SO rewarding about listening to this video while cooking. Listening to the sounds of the game without actually seeing it (like you) made me appreciate your effort so much more. The sound cues are SO small all around. Big shoutouts Crow - what a run my man!
I could barely do this in the game with my eyes open lmao. This is just next level! Point Crow's power of memorization is amazing!
bruh what?
I love that while doing this Crow picked the most fabulous blindfold possible
This is literally the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen in my life what a mad man
With how you explain how you memorized all this all I could think is that that's how I think about everything. Only not just visuals, also sounds, textures, scents, and flavors. Pretty weird ngl.
That’s pretty cool imo !
Look into synesthesia! You probably have it :)
@@irisp5927 just looked into it and, while I can see how you could think that with my description, I do not perceive numbers and letters as inherently colored, but rather whenever I think of any concept, I subconsciously associate it with sensory stimulus, which is apparently a symptom of autism or something, which would make sense seeing as I've been diagnosed as autistic.
@@trueblueflare That still sounds like a form of synesthesia to me(auditory tactile and/or lexical gustatory is what I’m thinking but I could be wrong). Synesthesia just means that multiple senses or concepts are involuntarily linked in your head/body, and the most commonly known form is probably the one you found, which is ghrapheme color, but it’s definitely not the only one. You can be both autistic and have synesthesia(like me :D), and actually I think it’s fairly common if I remember right, which is why synesthesia or descriptions of synesthesia can be seen as a trait of autism. It’s pretty interesting to look into imo
@@KofiBeanie ah, okay, I only found the one result so I didn't know there were even multiple variations.
“Without taking any damage”
The thee and a half missing hearts: Am I a joke to you?
Absolutely insane talent you have, Eric. This is so amazing to watch. Your voice over quality is unmatched. Your getting the Paraglider blindfolded is the most amazing thing in BOTW I've ever seen. Although I will say that the title is misleading. I was expecting you to face off against the blights and Ganon!
Even blind folded this man still beat the great plateau faster than me
Dude it sounds like you have synesthesia!
It’s a neurological thing where senses overlap and people perceive numbers/letters as being associated with sounds/colours etc. For example I hear different musical notes as different colours. My memory is nowhere near as OP as yours though haha, amazing job!
that's exactly what I though aswell. I doubt his explanation made any sense to anyone except him lol.
it sounds to me that he doesn't have it, but he like, induces it i guess? and he sort of has it.
I feel that the sheer post commentary is severely underrated. As a normal viewer of this channel, much of this stuff (at least with the mechanics part) I understand, but he makes sure that anyone can understand, even if they live under a rock and haven't heard of this game. GREAT JOB DOODLE MASTER!!!
I love how the beauty and attention to detail of this game can make this possible. That's why this is my favorite game.
This is amazing! I also love this kind of edited content where you walk us through a run, great job Eric!
For everyone who doesn't know: This is also how being blind works in real life.
Thanks God
God is blind confirmed
Wow very funny and original. Definitely not a copy-paste of a comment higher up. (I am actually serious this person is the first one
“Crow! How’d you memorize all those movements?”
“Oh thanks for asking! You see, what I did was take plain old numbers, and convert them into the fuckiest thing you’ve ever seen in your god damn life!”
These style of videos with voice overs are really good content. It’s awesome to see how you’ve been growing and I’m looking forward to each video you put out. Keep up the good work!
Insane. Absolutely insane. I caught one of the streams near the beginning of the journey but didn’t keep up with it, but I knew he would figure out how to do it by the end, and I was not disappointed. Phenomenal job Eric!
The whole consept of how he memorized and kept track of where he was is so cool 10:30
Yeah kind of. But people actually have beat the whole game like this. Now thats impressive.
As a vod phrog I can say that even though Eric is able to memorize parts of this giant list of movements only after a handful of tries this was something that took many hours.
Great job Eric, you make us proud, keep at it.
I love this walk-through and the challenge. It is very unique how you thought through it all and actually made it work. I was fascinated the whole time!
As someone who finished an MSc looking at the Audio Description of streamed video games earlier this year - and having referenced your content as part of that final project - I'm both thrilled to watch this, and BLOODY ANNOYED that it's all done with and I can't work this in.
Yo, awesome video! I love "seeing" more people do blindfolded stuff! And the explanations and step-by-step at the side are amazing. I might have to steal them for my own blindfolded runs.
Do you think you'll try to do the whole game at some point, all the way to the end?
Ba dum-tsssshhh
not entirely sure how well it would work for the boss fights as those are different everytime and you would have a hard time know where it is and getting there in time
"For those of you wondering how I memorized all of these steps, I did it by making it even more complicated than it already was!"
Not really, it seems that for Pointcrow it's easier to visualise numbers, for others it's easier just to remember numbers. Everyone has a different learning stategy, for me it's the easiest to remember things that create a logical sequence and (in best context) encloses for example it's very easy for me to remember the cycle of a red blood cell since it repeats and operates in an enclosed environment (single organism) and it influences other processes and it all works together (the reason why I study biology and maths lol)
My mind works on sequences, Pointcrow's may work more on established ideas, someone else may memorise based on sentences and so on
It's also fascinating how my main hobby is creative work (mostly digital art) even though it may seem as my brain is more analitical than creative, brains are crazy
I feel like people underappreciate how incredibly hard this is. Many people can't beat parts of the game as is, and doing it completely blindfolded is an extraordinary feat. Sure, you have a memorization technique, but even remembering this as of itself is already incredible. Kudos!
Watched whole VOD before this, but post commentary and seeing steps as you move on makes it even better! Great job!
30:14 This safe is insane!
No clue how you memorize all those steps, respect though.
Figureing out the route sounds like a nightmare to be honest.
This was one of the coolest things to watch. The memorisation and the dedication to the run was so epic
This video caught me total surprise. The skill involved, the memorisation, the off handed comments of perseverance, knowing there was a TREE wtfff.
Man the amount of invisible work, determination, obsession and commitment to making this video happen including all the incredible work from those who carved the path, made me so damn proud of the efforts you put into it.
He’s so humble about this like this is something easily done. Im over here in absolute shock because i cant even play the game with my eyes open lol!
Thanks for explaining how you memorized this route in your head, it adds a lot of depth to this run
Oh my gosh, this was incredible!!! It’s always fun to see the different ways you can beat botw, but I’ve gotta say, this ranks right up there with the dancepad! I can’t even begin to imagine all the prep work that went into this-Kudos to Pointcrow and CrystalSaver, it was absolutely amazing. :D
"Our last line of defense will be link."
*Link leap frogging Hyrule*
"In case you're wondering how I memorised all this in such a short amount of time, here's how: Just remember it all and then also make up and remember two other things for every step, too. Remembering three times as much is so much easier than remembering just the one thing." - PointCrow making logical sense.
Crow since your new video schedule I've been waiting for the next video, getting impatient over it, wondering if it'll happen or not, but this is some next level shenanigans! Quality gaming.
crow looks so good with that unicorn blindfold ngl
very impressive and you absolutely need more views :-) super amazed by your system and you executing it practically flawlessly. even when making mistakes, you corrected them so cleverly. i’ve never seen anyone play breath of the wild quite the way you do. Nice work!
Imagine being an npc and seeing this random guy in underpants just back flipping across a field
Amazing-!!
Can't believe that you are smart to know what you are doing while being blindfolded, i am impressed ^^
Eric, I'm sure other people have pointed this out, but you have spatial sequence synesthesia and grapheme-color synesthesia. That's what makes you think of times, dates, and numbers with colors and shapes involuntarily. I have that as well and it's actually super common (sss about 10% of western population)! Really cool that you're sharing this with us!
It might be common among us with synesthesia, but trying to explain it to people who don't have it can be really frustrating. I have had people get mad when I bring it up, like I'm making it up. It makes me feel like I'm crazy sometimes.
It really makes me feel less weird when I see someone else just casually say they have something like it
....I thought everyone had that train of thought? Interesting
Oh god he was blindfolded so he didn't saw that the old man is king Rhoam Bosphoromus Hyrule!
That is by far the most frustrating part of a blindfolded run.
The way you memorize stuff sounds like a type of synesthesia. Like people who do math by seeing the numbers as colours or shapes. I have mild synesthesia, but it's more related to sounds having colours and patterns. Very cool!
i would love to experience synesthesia; that sounds so awesome especially with music
im so happy that there isnt any music in this one. Being able to hear the small sounds helps put me in your shoes here. Good fucking choice and good fucking job
I love how he threw the subscribing part out there
The way you explained everything just shows how amazing the human brain is
I love hearing Crow describe his experience with synesthesia, it’s always so interesting to me to learn about
Hearing you explain your mental process for this was really interesting. It's confusing as hell and I'd never be able to do anything similar, but it's so cool
0:58 That second window telling you how to switch weapons can also indicate that it was the axe, the butterfly doesn’t make that pop up appear
11:34 that's called synesthesia! Both identifying numbers and words with colours and identifying time with shapes are forms of synthesia
this is insane, i love your channel so much. amazing job on this, it had to be so precise but it was worth it! go do something special for urself after this u deserve it
Glad you added the steps on the side so we could see it. Made it so much more enjoyable and understandable
Brings new meaning to the phrase “hop, skip and a jump away”
Incredible video man, so impressive! Seriously congratulations
Hahahaha the most abrupt ending ever love it
I didn't think I'd like this run, but I love the way you did it. It's so hype!
This is the first time I've seen someone describe how I visualize time also, as a line that makes a shape like a circle or hill. Same with any number line or sequence really.
Good now do the whole game! 😅
This guy is a true gamer
This is so impressive not only memorizing it but executing it so well!
This is so interesting, I love all the creative and different ways you've found to play this game!!
I love how Crow sounds like a DreamWorks protagonist narrating his own movie during this video lmao it's great