A 22 Minute Breath of the Wild Speedrun Explained

This is NOT a valid speedrun! But it's a good indication of how fast the current strats can go when taken to their limit. I figured it had been a while since I last attempted to make an any% explained video (which had bad audio issues) so I wanted to redo it with a fully commentated run. And since I lowered my sum of best to under 23 minutes I figured this would be a great way of doing that while keeping the footage fresh. Here's a few resources to check out if you want to start speedrunning the game yourself:
BotW Speedrunning Discord: / discord
Tony's Tutorial Series: • 2023 BOTW Any% Tutoria...
Vivoxe's Windbomb Tutorial: • Breath of the Wild Com...
0:00 Intro
1:08 Bombs
4:53 Magnesis
7:45 Stasis
10:02 Cryonis
12:11 Paraglider
13:41 Castle
17:03 Blights
20:01 Calamity
21:34 Dark Beast
twitch: / player5
twitter: / player5sr
discord: / discord
#speedrun #botw #breathofthewild #glitch #gaming

[@Player5SR]

This is a theoretical speedrun made using my best segments to show what it would take to get sub 23 using the current strats. It's also a fully commentated run so if you've ever wondered why we do something in the run this will likely answer those questions, but if it doesn't then feel free to ask in the comments!

[@WaterFudge69]

Because it's faster

[@colinmagaming]

now try to speedrun just like that >:)

[@TrevorTreefortShorts]

Beautiful thumbnail

[@Sigmundr]

Its so strange to watch you blss without hearing your controller joystick hitting over and over

[@sleepy_Kirby]

5:55 (He is also the one with the NO AMIIBO Any% world record)

[@09jesusm]

I think he has every WR category of this game

[@eileen1020]

@@09jesusmHe does not, but he does have records or former records in a ton of categories.

[@justsomeguywhoneverdies9210]

@@09jesusm for a few popular categories only. there are other categories that are quite long or weird that he doesn't have

[@EmseyDaisy]

Thank you for the suggestion of trying bomb arrows in rudania. I will definitely go try that, and surely will have an explosively good time

[@Player5SR]

Yeah when I first learned about it I had my mind blown

[@ameliezhou8887]

@@Player5SR Doing speed run commentary AND dropping bombing knowledge. You are on fire!

[@ztirom2267]

My mind (and my face) are blown away

[@elliottave46]

18:44 nice troll 😂

[@Aussieshepherdowner]

I kinda wonder though. If you get like a thousand bomb arrows and do the constant explosion flying thing until ur close enough, would the shield break?

[@Danielonius]

​​@@Aussieshepherdownernah i don't think it should work, they'd blow up in your face

[@gabrieljohnson6304]

@@Danielonius yes, and he's talking about whether bringing your face to fireblight would make the explosion also knock it down

[@fernando47180]

Story time: My first time doing the final fight, I did so by accident while exploring the castle, and I had to fight thunderblight without Urbosa giving me directions. This resulted in me never figuring out that you're supposed to use magnesis on the metal poles to stun the blight and punish, so instead I'd climb the nearby stairway and do a jumping attack to break the shield, to then shoot it with arrows until the shield came back. I repeated this til the blight died, which is something I believe could not be done in the Divine beast arena, as the terrain is different By the same coin, I'd bet that the same goes for fireblight, in that you could use bomb arrows at the castle fight, and not at the Divine beast fight, to make it drop the shield.

[@couchpotato7119]

“Loads of fun” 😂

[@Piggy24]

🪦

[@TheSaksutin]

18:43 sneaky peaky

[@qntlrosa]

omg i needed this, i felt like ive missed so much new stuff in botw speedruns with how updated it is

[@denisefrenette9206]

It’s kinda crazy to think on how good player 5 is considering he took his own world record back after a month after he returned from a 10 month absence of BotW speedrunning. Player 5 reminds me so much of GreenSuigi in the Super Mario 64 speedrunning community, both truly are the Goats of speedrunning their respective Nintendo game. Can’t wait for you to break the 23 minute barrier Player 5

[@thatonefrenchguy937]

Tyron18 (i think its 18) is like that too! But for SMO speedruns!

[@MAVA-1805]

as an italian i can confirm that the italian old man's voice is the best i've ever heard. I want to thank you man for your excellent job, you are the one who got me into speedruns, i love your content, keep going.

[@eclipse_zeta]

7:03 The video about loading times will be loads of fun? Yeah, I guess that makes sense.

[@BloomPrism_]

Excellent video breaking down an amazing speedrun. Thanks for making this!

[@Player5SR]

Thanks for everything you've done for BotW!

[@storewideboss6910]

Excellent video! This is probably the best explanation video I’ve seen for this run!

[@denisefrenette9206]

It’s kinda crazy to think on how good player 5 is considering he took his own world record back after a monthafter he returned from a 10 month absence of BotW speedrunning. Can’t wait for you to break the 23 minute barrier

[@niels3653]

one of the only speedrun where i can enjoy the game in my native language :xD

[@onyx_ebony7153]

CLEAN vid Player5! The commentary was great and all the explanations to the tricks were very to the point.

[@djtrig6576]

This is EXACTLY what record speedruns posted on KZbin should aspire to haha, amazing well organized commentary

[@fedorablewill]

Such a great job explaining things while always keeping the video interesting! Well done!!!

[@IntingPig]

I don't often watch the streams and always watch the runs on KZbin. Loving the all dungeons run and main quests runs you're currently doing. Keep up the grinds and gl on your world records.

[@Waisonian]

I've watched a number of these speedruns (mostly by you). But to hear the thoughts and strats and glitches (and purpose/how-tos) was very helpful! Thanks for doing this!

[@TheGoldenBean-jb2fh]

This was sick. I started trying this out because of you. Thanks for the awesome speedrunning content!

[@ZackInTheBoxx]

Great video man! Super informative, I love the pace you talked at and how you managed to play the whole run in real time without any long breaks or cramped commentary :) And ofc, gg again on the 23:23!

[@Liamax754]

This is an incredible video

[@lukeplaisier8636]

My GOAT (also I love the overall improvement of quality of your videos)

[@not_that_one]

absolutely wild. Good stuff my man!

[@ponche974]

I swear that some day they are going to find a way to skip great plateau, it’s like barrier skip in wind waker, it took so long but they Medea it, the day they make it I’m doing a speedrun, and I don’t care how long it is at the end, because seeing this dude make a world record is all I need to be happy

[@noahjanssen3030]

Your commentary is so good, keep up the good work

[@johnathangoldsmith563]

Never heard of the quick rush before! I always wondered what that bomb was doing out during calamity.

[@longlivecrow]

Player 5 you might be the greatest Breath of the Wild player I've ever laid my eyes on

[@LaYedra]

This video and explanation are so incredibly nice

[@whaletrail_src]

wolhaiksong just subscribed baaaat

[@purplelord8531]

tower of god reference? huh

[@Bogo_MC]

It's crazy what's possible today but I miss the bullet time bounces a bit...

[@KaitouKaiju]

I like that each of the games have unique strategies for speedrunning

[@RedMoonArcade]

Wow! This almost feels like I'm watching a TAS.

[@Oddeyt]

BRING BACK BOTW!!!!!!!

[@wallyonetwo]

LOVED this run! P5 is my goat 👍 (You should do an ESC tutorial as a short or something btw)

[@manwiththeafro]

Mighty fine video

[@timtabutops4611]

Banger video

[@s3eriousbl9ck26]

Great video

[@Celkittens]

Sick vid!

[@totkfan]

i find it crazy how simple everything up to magnesis is

[@tarfarr]

great video

[@Mathochist112358]

LOADS OF FUN!!!!!

[@evanplays7923]

This was a very good video p5!

[@issokei]

Hearing your puns definitely made the loading screens loads of fun

[@zombieinjeans]

The irony is, new minute barriers are rarely, if ever, broken because of absolute perfect optimization like this. Every minute barrier break I’ve seen is extremely optimized but never perfect, just using newer and newer strats that chip away at the barrier until it finally falls.

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Very nice

[@noneyabidness9644]

Darn, I'll get him next time.

[@b.clarenc9517]

Is there a reason why you did not call it any% segmented? Did this name die in early 2010's or something?

[@melvinluisdelacruz8722]

Congrats on explain it every step for no speed run players , sometimes we never know what's going on with this category 😅

[@mjc0961]

LOL at the pro tip to use Bomb Arrows against Fireblight in the Divine Beast

[@Neo_514]

hell yeah

[@daveberry3741]

This is actually ridiculous man

[@skyjumper4097]

now i wanna finish the game so i can watch this without sploilers

[@thatonefrenchguy937]

5:26 Translation : Old man: I see that you have successfully found a spirit orb... Before everything, let me congratulate you. Link: And my glider? Old man: One second please. I said "before everything" I think! So wait for the rest! You know, these towers who came out of the ground, these shrines who lighten up again... All of this is thanks to the sheikah slate that you wear on your belt. Link : How so? Old man : Sheikah slate... It has been so long that I've not said these words that I almost forgot them... Long ago these lands were inhabited by the great sheikah civilisation. Some tell that their wisdom and their power have, at several times, pulled these lands out of the crisis they've been through. It seems that they disappeared a long time ago. But these shrines contain maybe some evidence of their presence... Hear what I'll say. You will find shrines like this one on the whole territory. Just on the Plateau, theres still 3 who awaits you. Give me the spirit orb of each of these shrines, and I'll give you my glider. Link: And our agreement?! Old man : I never said that I'll be satisfied of only one treasure! And 1 or 4, it's basically the same thing! Come to see, I will show you a trick to find these shrines! And not only the shrines! Anything you search for, it's always a good idea of seeing around us from a high point. Hmm...(We'll see) What would you think of climbing this tower again? Link: here we go! Old man: Calm down, my boy! Let me show you something first... Look at the map on your sheikah slate. You see these blue symbols on the tower and on the shrine you came from? Apparently, the power of the sheikah slate, lets you teleport to these precise places. It's something that I've heard a long time ago... I can't assure you that it's the truth!

[@thatonefrenchguy937]

Also sorry for poor translation! I can write in english and in french very well but translating something is a whole other story...

[@totkfan]

its spirit orb btw might be a translation error from nintendo tho

[@thatonefrenchguy937]

@@totkfan ok thanks

[@MikaGerecke]

nice video

[@mobes8876]

Still waiting until Great Plateau can be skipped. Then BotW will truly be broken

[@graybedsheet6910]

I think You already can with wrong warp, but youd need to smuggle weapons into the final bossfight too

[@User1924-se]

This is so impressive! Imagine a 100% btt

[@houssamassila6274]

This has to be cannon.

[@AgockenXylophon]

Oh oh oh

[@colinmagaming]

18:48 NICE JOKEEE

[@shellpoptheepicswordmaster755]

It's a jok-- *explodes*

[@colinmagaming]

@@shellpoptheepicswordmaster755 lol

[@aifactscentral]

Oh, new video. Looks like I won't sleep tonight:)

[@Player5SR]

Please make sure to get enough sleep :)

[@shellpoptheepicswordmaster755]

No

[@colinmagaming]

I tried speedruning great platau, took me two days

[@brianfox340]

Has anyone modified their switch to get crazy cooling to reduce load times?

[@wherethegravelsthin]

commenting for that algorithm 💅💃 nice pb video p5 Kappa

[@CodeF53]

5:54 lmao

[@xist6138]

100% using bomb arrows on rudania 💯

[@UltimateVideos12376]

this is a good attempt for a beginner run, and you seem really promising in the community! Keep it up!

[@sickofit95]

at 4:36 in, im just astounded on how many tries does it take to get to this level of precision.

[@User1924-se]

2:03 why is that the case when you don’t get the cutscene and why’s it 5:15 but when you get the tower it’s 11? I don’t get how time do day gets stuck

[@Player5SR]

They want certain cutscenes to play at specific times of day so they just lock time of day until you've watched those cutscenes (you wouldn't want your first look across Hyrule to be at night time or cloudy). I don't remember exactly how it works, but I think the tower is also tied to the start of the time of day cycle so maybe it's also required to play the cutscene at a specific time.

[@LukeSRowan]

Noice

[@LevinJanzen]

Wow gg❤❤❤

[@TheThirdPrice]

This video better blow up >:(

[@User1924-se]

Player 5 is the goat of botw

[@fulltimedadtom3170]

I played this game several time, and my best record is 6 hours. So pround of this until I watch this video.

[@Efeverscente]

Quick question, why do you have to shield clip twice (once to get inside, another one to get into the portal) on Bombs and Mag but only once on Stasis? Like, why can't you crouch into the portal on Bombs and Mag?

[@Player5SR]

The elevator is higher off the ground for bombs and magnesis compared to stasis.

[@Efeverscente]

@@Player5SR Nice, thanks a lot!

[@dme3907]

12:40 The Italian old man: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoCVaZWKeZ6rorc idk how this recording ever made it into the game but i love it.

[@ryanspratt4161]

“Loads of fun” smh p5 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@davii_ms]

18:45 Bro...💀😭

[@IPlayGames2000YT]

Hey Mr 5

[@tako-sensei6072]

I forgot how fast p5 blss is.

[@poochycosme]

Differences between WR and SOB : Shrine loads, Amiibo rng, world loads, atk up claymore, perfect windbomb landings This honestly doesn't look very different from your pb Also nice Player 5 channel logo hiding the final time

[@JBaughb]

Yup, he’s got the skill already, it’s strictly about RNG at this point.

[@Player5SR]

It's the same route so it should look the same other than faster execution/RNG on everything. Also my pb did get the attack up claymore I just didn't get instant laser which is a bigger time loss. And thanks for pointing that out I moved the logo at the end.

[@zoomyprodev]

Now we just need the Summoning Salt video...

[@williamstech9314]

5:32 rush reference?!?

[@zeldaconnection9945]

I never thought about it, but the clipping out of the shrine of resurrection, would it run somewhere else too? And i mean not only for Speedruns, but for fun stuff?

[@isaiahkepner8078]

Yeah it works for a casual playthrough too, although it locks you out of some time of day based quests. You can always go back to the opening archway to play the cutscene and reactivate time though.

[@Ikari-Link]

Also scheduled blood moons won't happen regularly, so you can only get limited resources (unless you somehow manage trigger a panic one, which is very hard and inconsistent in BotW). It's possible to clip into SoR without triggering the cutscene though, so you can still complete DLC2 without having to start time of day.

[@chuckels3490]

😮

[@anonym5160]

What about a TAS?

[@Player5SR]

There is no full game TAS for botw, the closest we have is the Best Theoretical Time which is a heavily spliced together run that does all the fastest known stats that are often too difficult or inconsistent to do in a real run. Look up the botw btt v2 if you want to see what it looks like, it's a 21:44 iirc

[@AroundWayOther]

would TAS make a significant difference?

[@Player5SR]

The closest thing we have to a TAS for BotW any% right now is the best theoretical time which is a heavily spliced video using all the fastest known strats. You can look it up to see the crazy things that can be done, but I think v2 was a 21:44 so it would make a huge difference.

[@benstowerdefense]

It seems to me that you are only getting voided out if you Touch the ground. What if you would stay in the air during the ganon fight with blss for example.

[@Player5SR]

No, you void out even if you're in the air. And even if that wasn't the case you'd have to touch the ground to trigger the boss fights.

[@lbupris]

Do you plan on doing any more TOTK any% runs now that there are some newer glitches and

[@Player5SR]

I'm not sure I'll go back any time soon since I don't really feel like watching the intro anymore. I'll probably do runs again but idk when.

[@comashi6000]

mate where the glitch with ump on mobs withh sheild

[@EthanKaiser-hq1lk]

Ist es möglich einen Weltrekord zu schaffen in wenn man jetzt erst starte Breath of the wild zu speedrunnen

[@UltraBland78]

Erm actually it’s called a boomie zoomie

[@AJ-productionsCO]

How many hours do you have on botw? 🤔

[@user-xn3ho5tl4g]

Don't use bomb arrows in a volcano

[@Ikari-Link]

13:20 What about OoT Any% 😉

[@Player5SR]

If you include glitches that statement is wildly inaccurate

[@evancgt69]

18:42 is this irony? wouldn't u just explode because of the fire in rudania?

[@nineplusten]

You should put Breath of the Wild or BotW in the video title for the algorithm and for searches...

[@bvoyelr]

Editorial suggestion: lower game volume while you're talking. I'm 2 minutes in and I've already missed what you said like 3 times because game audio grew louder than your voice.

[@Player5SR]

Thanks for the tip! I tried lowering the game volume at certain points (mainly late game stuff since castle, blights, calamity get really loud) but I'll try and do a better job next time.

[@medalgearsalad1419]

Now do ToTK

[@perseusgaming365]

18:42 if u know u know lol.