Can You Beat Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Early?

Can You Beat Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Early? This video answers the question if it's possible to go straight to the ending after the intro of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
►Game Information:
▪ Title: The Legend of Zelda - Tears of the Kingdom
▪ Developer: Nintendo
▪ Publisher: Nintendo
▪ Platform: Switch
▪ Gerne: Action-adventure
▪ 30+ hours
#ZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom #NintendoSwitch

[@skins4thewin]

That was a nice touch, having Zelda's Torch be at the very bottom of the Chasm, aka the one she was holding when she vanished.

[@mrtaco1834]

Omg I never thought abt that

[@mavriiick]

I WAS WONDERING WHY THAT WAS THERE

[@ChampionLinkle]

DUDE I WAS WONDERING WHY A RANDOM TORCH WAS DOWN THERE I DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF IT

[@unclebuns5286]

Ah yes, the true master torch.

[@v01d_207]

The funny thing is that you could just go to Ganon once you get the paraglider in BOTW. I like it how these two games are connected by the fact that once you get the glider, you can go to the final boss, no questions asked

[@CK-iv1lq]

I think this game does it better though. You can go to the final boss but it’s much tougher to get there than in BotW and it’s not explicitly told where the final battle even is. Harder to cheese unless you really know what you’re doing.

[@IvyM0125]

@@CK-iv1lq And plus the final boss is a bit harder this time around. Sure you could beat Ganondrof at the start of the game but prepare for pain in doing so. Nintendo learned from their mistakes in BOTW

You don't even need the glider to reach Ganon. It's very painful to do so though...

[@cielararagi3195]

@ You do need it

@@cielararagi3195 you don't, I know because I've done it. All you need is a bunch of wings and a lot of climbing down.

[@theirishscouser1155]

The first time I saw those creepy hands in the overworld instant travelled to the nearest shine and took a break. Floor masters used to give me nightmares as a child. Now they're back as a 1st phase of phantom ganon. What a game

[@shattre6087]

what are these hands called in totk?

[@mynameisleave]

​@@shattre6087 Gloom Spawn

[@shattre6087]

@@mynameisleave thank you

[@kurocat471]

@@mynameisleave they're officially called Miasma Lords in the code and OST, i haven't seen Gloom Spawn used anywhere

[@danielthecake8617]

There's a guy who calls them that near Hyrule Castle.

[@UnreadyBelief]

Speedruns of this game are gonna be terrifying

[@jukeboxjimmy8722]

Its funny cuz Nintendo went directly out of thier way to patch out speedrunning tech

[@Tjerty]

Idk, I know it's early but I feel like BotW was built better for speedrunning. TotK I think will all depend on if you can abuse the craft system really hard or not.

[@UnreadyBelief]

@@Tjerty yeah that's what I mean lol

[@pianocovers5226]

Speaking from experience, it was

[@zerorose4011]

I feel like people thought the same thing about breath of the wild early on. Early speedruns of that game were BORING.

[@danielstokes5332]

Crazy how the final boss is literally where the game starts off I like it and the real pain is finding it in the first place.

[@cato3277]

I always kinda felt it would be there, or the sky directly above somehow. Fighting Ganondorf on a sky platform wouldve been so cool

[@silentlore2458]

​@@cato3277 we got a much cooler sky fight

[@theartillery9724]

I immediately knew ganon was down there, I mean where else would he be?

[@danielstokes5332]

@@theartillery9724 he could have came up to the surface and tried to takeover why stay down there when u been there for thousands of years.

[@theartillery9724]

@@danielstokes5332 true, I don’t know why he stayed in the pit

[@debi4781]

So I tried to beat ganondorf early, and not only do you have to fight the gloom army, you have to fight EVERY SINGLE BOSS in the game. The hard part isn’t really fighting against the bosses, it’s trying to find out how they work and their weaknesses while using as little resources as possible, since you’ll need them for the next fight

[@debi4781]

I finally did it, biggest mistake ever, I had no idea wtf was going on at the ending but at least it looked cool

[@jaz3766]

​@@debi4781 Nice job! That all sounded like such a pain

[@keirdeformado9135]

You can just do a bug and Skip all that fights i dont know how to explain how to do It but you can check It out in the speedrun wr tho

[@itsSmiv]

The video literally says this

[@jakecicle08]

This was a thing in BotW too. If you didn’t beat all of the divine beasts you’d have to fight their respective blight ganons

[@KyloZach]

Honestly i was confused where to go when i entered Gloom's Approach for the first time. It feels relieving to go exploring around, even at Hyrule Castle without Guardians suddenly appearing and blasting you!!

[@mep1455]

The fact you find Zeldas torch from the beginning of the game is funny

[@DeathUsagi]

Speedrunner Link: "My time has come"

[@CrossGuy2020]

7:22 Player 5: "Call An AMBULANCE! But not for me."

[@jamaalfridge]

We are about to see some God-tier speedrunning in the coming days. I'll have my popcorn ready.

[@jovaughnlaing7171]

Zelda said they descended for a while but no idea they went that deep

[@theakiwar9118]

Yeah 1,4 km is insane. It surely took many many hours

[@bottlerocketgaming1025]

@@theakiwar9118 it couldn’t have been that long, I mean look how fast link did it by himself

[@bottlerocketgaming1025]

@@theakiwar9118 but I guess hyrule castle wasn’t floating at that point

[@theakiwar9118]

@@bottlerocketgaming1025 I think that’s the point. The depth is measured based on sea level. So they really had to descend for a couple hours. Question is where tf is the entrance. I tried finding the entrance Link and Zelda used but I simply cannot find it. Either Hyrule Castle rising destroyed it or its somewhere I haven’t looked. No way did they use the chasm as it didn’t exist back then

[@bottlerocketgaming1025]

@@theakiwar9118 there is a cave system from the castle gatehouse all the way to lookout landing, and it does lead in to the chasm, so the stairs or whatever probably got destroyed

[@ChibiKisu3]

Why are ppl complaining because of the thumbnail? How Ganondorf looks like was released by nintendo weeks ago...

[@kusanalithedendroarchon]

Exactly!

[@justadragonnamemarcus1751]

People just being over protective

[@bananadaily2317]

cause they’ve been living under a rock

[@jasonmg99]

True but his later forms are big spoilers

[@electronicengineer]

Because people just have to complain about something. There is really no way to win with those people...

[@Falcovsleon21]

So basically this time you're literally plunging into hell itself to fight Ganondorf. Fitting.

I actually managed to reach the final boss area before getting the paraglider, it was such a pain... I couldn't beat the big gloom army though...

[@Zaxjz]

All you need is a Zonai panzer lol

[@skins4thewin]

LOL no.... No you didn't. It is absolutely not possible to reach the final boss without the Paraglider.

@@skins4thewin you absolutely can, everything you can do with the glider you can do with a zonai wing. Except climbing down the long gloom shaft because there is no space to deploy a wing, but you can just climb that down manually (plenty of spots to rest). I don't care if you don't believe it, it's not like it's an achievement or something, it's pretty dumb in fact. I died a lot.

[@pumpkin7446]

@@skins4thewin Actually you can. LOL You sure sounded confident though. congrats

[@pumpkin7446]

@@skins4thewin Well original poster said area not the final boss itself

[@tomdaturtle5792]

Speedrunners have to find a way to get past a ton of monsters. Thisll be really exciting!

[@alexledet]

I imagine they’ll glitch in royal guard claymores and silver lynel saber horns out of the blue because they just CAN. I’m very excited to see what they will do since they can no longer wind bomb to travel quickly!

[@SHOOPY2021]

They probably got rid of all the other BotW speedrun glitches such as BLSS, Whistle Sprinting, and Shield Skew

[@tomdaturtle5792]

@@SHOOPY2021 did either of us say those were in the game?

[@Jygerthe2nd]

...So basically, it's possible, but the risk involved puts rushing to the end of BOTW's risk factor to shame.

[@smarthuman7083]

Zelda : "there's only one way to end this....." The game : "get paraglider"

[@andrewbeck990]

The ambience and story of this game makes it the best zelda game in my opinion.

[@theultrasceptile]

The moment I got to the beginning area, I had already forgotten about the torch, I couldn’t concentrate after finding it so I called it a day then and there XD

[@austin5259]

You actually don't even need the paraglider, just attach 2 Zonai wings one on top of the other facing the opposite direction and float down

[@jamestdfm]

How do you beat the first boss in the boss rush without the paraglider tho?

[@austin5259]

@@jamestdfm the mob? I just used ice arrows and bullet time

[@catalyst539]

@@austin5259 No, Colgera.

[@austin5259]

@@catalyst539 I didn't, I fought the horde and decided that was enough for me and left to actually experience the game, I went because I could immediately after the tutorial, I didn't even have the paraglider yet hence why I ended up figuring out you don't need it to get there.

[@catalyst539]

@@austin5259 You asked if they meant the army of monsters (mob), when they meant Colgera. That is what I meant.

[@The-EJ-Factor]

What’s stopping you from going there without the paraglider? If you land while climbing on a falling object you will take no damage. And you can still kill colgera with arrow fusions and zoni devices.

[@BUBBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE]

I love how people are complaining about the thumbnail of a character we have known about for a month

[@A_Random_Rat]

Some people avoid spoilers

[@unfazed1363]

A month? Try 30 years bro.. This is how Ganon looked in OoT (90s graphics aside ofc).. only new Zelda players get shocked seeing how ganon looks 🙄🙄

[@xavierkittreles2711]

Defeating Ganondorf won't be enough just because Link's hearts containers are low.

[@jamestdfm]

You can easily kill him without taking a single hit, that's how I beat the game early when I went there, just need some good weapons and dodges

[@xavierkittreles2711]

That... would be impossible!

[@Wr0ngW4y]

​​​​@@xavierkittreles2711 nah there's speedruns up where they basically skill issue gannondorf, and you can actually afford to get hit by his gloom attacks since they just delete your heart container instead of actually doing damage to you, which is especially nice since you'll probably be at 1 heart from wading through gloom for the past half hour with no items.

[@xavierkittreles2711]

You say that like it's not that hard.

[@nazek4216]

@Xavier Kittreles It's hard but certainly not impossible, people have done no hit runs of stuff like Dark Souls and that's way way harder I assure you

[@bigtone7824]

Damn thats a long scary ass trail to Ganon, ive been taking my time taking in this game so i wont be doing this till im hearted up and decked out in the best gear 😅

[@Blue-mp5qc]

I've heard he can break the hylian shield in 2 hits so good luck

[@NoxtureTheGoat]

@@Blue-mp5qc speaking from personal expirence, he broke every single one of my 60+ shields including the hylian shield with only 20 hits or less to break each one, also the timings of his attacks are so weird plus my man can flurry rush you

[@Blue-mp5qc]

@@NoxtureTheGoat so flurry rushes is the only way alr then

[@NoxtureTheGoat]

@@Blue-mp5qc he can also flurry rush your flurry rush

[@Blue-mp5qc]

@@NoxtureTheGoat bs I'll flurry rush him again

[@acejumper1681]

I love the parallel to botw thar after getting the paraglider, you can just go straight to ganon.

[@TheCheese332]

What speedrunners do is they clip through the wall and go straight to ganondorf skipping the intense boss rush that you would normally have to do in this situation

[@Knifymoloko]

The soundtrack before the gloom depths is one of my favorite musics. Like a light industrial drum and bass

[@gferrol118]

I accidently went to the end on my second day of playing. I figured there would be good loot under the castle, and it wasnt until I got to where the game began when I realised Ganon would be down there. I managed to get all the way to the rock boss, but I died and decided to come back later :P

[@michaelchen9705]

how did u Get pass the army

[@gferrol118]

@@michaelchen9705 I just killed them?

[@michaelchen9705]

No like how with no master sword it's hard

[@gferrol118]

@@michaelchen9705 not really. The hardest part was the bokoblin wave cos of how many of them there were. But all I had to do was rocket shield to gain height and blast em with bomb arrows and muddlebuds

[@Rio15421]

How were you not terrified? I was shivering hearing that theme of the beginning but slower and scarier (mind you I had good gear and all sages and the master sword)

[@lenap319]

Can you hear that? Its the sound of every speedrunner ceying out in joy

[@MeatObelisk]

ah yes thank you for telling me i can speedrun now

[@BashyBob101]

i believe that torch at the bottom of the pit where in the beginning ganon broke was totally zelda's torch dropped after she got teleported

[@ravoniesravenshir3926]

@BeardBear Why didn't you uncover the rest of the Mural when you were in the room? I get you were showing us how to get to the end, but still... I think that might be a priority?

[@theakiwar9118]

I can tell you what the murals depict. Spoilers obviously if you want to proceed One Shows how Rauru is fighting/sealing ganondorf One shows how Zelda received the broken mastersword One shows the dragon of light being born

[@jamestdfm]

Bombing it literally does nothing, other than show it

[@nexyshiranuinu1987]

I wonder what pointcrew will say when he find this out

[@Ornitorrincopozolero]

What would happen if you had 2 sages? Like lets say you had Riju and Sidon? Would you only fight the temple bosses you havent done? Also, would that cut scene where the sages show up change? If you have all 5, tulin shows up first and shoots an arrow at the goblins. If you dont have him, what happens?

[@strix3688]

I wonder if the speedrunner manage to: - Beat the Gloom Monsters four time - Beat the Boss Monsters four time - Beat Ganondorf three time without Master Sword and good armor...

[@TheCoyoteGray]

There’s actually 6 bosses, cause there’s 5 temples instead of 4 and an additional boss from after you do the 4 regions

[@jamestdfm]

I stocked up on weapons in hyrule castle and just dropped down there, since it was my first encounter with all of the bosses it took a few tries but yeah, it's very doable from the start of the game, you just need a bit of prep before you go in, and the final boss is pretty easy all things considered

[@beesmongeese2978]

For the four Gloom Monsters, just spam puffshrooms and/or the other one that makes them fight each other.

[@bobosmith101]

I'm surprised the leakers didn't figure this out sooner, they thought you had to do every dungeon.

[@unfazed1363]

How does one accidentally stumble onto a path like that lol.. i nvr once thought to test out ascend after beating the lynel and was honestly scared cuz i didnt know where ganon was and knew that the lynel room was underneath the castle and thoight Ganon would be at the bottom floor of the castle 🤣🤣

[@Uneke]

Lmfao! They really changed it up from the last games “go straight to the end” If this isn’t a deterrent, I don’t know what is lol

[@rngsomeone1003]

What happens if you go to the finale without the paraglider? You theoretically can use Zonai items from your inventory, lots of Max HP+ food or fairies to get down the drops without gliding, but with no glider, what happens to the dragon fight?

[@AliceAtaraxiaYT]

You can't die of fall damage in the Dragon Fight, you'll just be teleported back at 'Zelda's head and you can jump down again and kill the dragon, that's it.

[@jamestdfm]

​@@AliceAtaraxiaYT And how do you beat the first boss without a paraglider? it's pretty much an entire fight in the air

[@nickchan4462]

@@jamestdfm eyeball attached arrows can reach the boss from the ground level with long shot bows during bullet time. So you can just shield jump bullet time it. Would take a lot of materials but is technically possible. Not to mention you can use auto build to get a flying machine setup to get additional height if but yeah the setup would take so much time.

[@jamestdfm]

@@nickchan4462 Feels like it's just WAAAAAAY faster to just get the paraglider

[@nickchan4462]

@@jamestdfm I mean like the only reason you wouldn't be using the paraglider is a minimum percentage run or a no paraglider run in specific.

[@KGhaleon]

I did this after only beating one Temple, saw the Ganon army and noped out. Apparently if you beat the Army you still have to fight all of the Temple bosses without your allies to help.

[@tyroglyphid5769]

Current speedruns actually beat it without the paraglider to save time. It's possible, just a bit ridiculous to actually do it at that point.

[@ReeceTheTroll]

Spoiler thumbnails for views are a massive L.

[@ismailhashem2]

Holy damn that's some nice parkour

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

7:45 Never Underestimate speedrunners. The Water Temple boss Quick defeat Uses Zonai Water Nozzles and a spinner to spray the entire Arena clean. I imagine one cpuld do the same for the army. Honestly, Zonai tech strats will be insane

[@jamestdfm]

I just used chuchu arrows, was hella fast and pretty easy

[@Indignation211]

I did try going down there early but when I got to the bottom of the pit under the castle I saw the wall with the fire like but from my angle and distance didn't see that the cave continued under there so was like "huh nothing down here after all"

[@andrewchrun]

Speed runner path: obtain weapons from top of Hyrule castle then make their way to final boss.

[@keirdeformado9135]

You dont need the paraglider you just can fall driectly and revive with a fairy

[@guv_therngchad2170]

Thanks for the spoiler frame thumbnail. I was just scrolling thru my recommendations and saw this but I'm not watching this video till I beat totk.

[@nanunanu7880]

5:58 is that the torch of zelda from the begenning of the game? 😭

[@Gone4Everx]

Ive been stuck on the War in the Depths boss fights not knowing i was skipping everything... im on the seized construct fight..

[@corybrown2197]

“Some preparation”? Bro are you kidding? You must be insane at this game I can’t imagine beating this without all the help you get from the sages. And fighting the bosses? The sages have abilities that directly make it so you can fight them. Fighting them without sounds absolutely insane. Not to mention that the actual fight with ganondorf was tough.

[@kenpurchase819]

Now thats impressive,great video as always,love all yourstuff,subed ages ago

[@Quinder]

Speedrunners: hold my beer

[@raimu4467]

By chance, will there be a tutorial on how to get the Tunic of the Wild?

[@beesmongeese2978]

In the outermost corners of the Hebra, Gerudo and Eldin regions, reach the heads of the dark skeletons in the Depths.

[@fishactivation5087]

I went down here before I was supposed to because I thought you had to go under the castle and ascend up to it.

[@noahmartin5239]

When the torch appeared while i was playing it, i was like: oh god its zeldas torch

[@garouchieflol]

Terminalmontage: WELL EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSMEEEE princess.

[@superbigtime]

how kind of the _GREAT DEMON KING GANONDORF, SCOURGE OF HYRULE_ to leave us a torch in case we can't see

[@Mariocat99]

When the game over music played, thought it would be the same

[@Music2Anime]

The legend of zelda: Sky diving game

[@Belarius0404]

But this split the timeline in 3 again XD : one timeline where you reunit all sage And win . One where you go alone fight ganondorf and win . One where you lose to ganondorf .

[@carlosdelaguerra8302]

I did the exact same thing in BOTW get as much strongest weapons i can carry die before facing the army and continue on regularly until i get stronger with more hearts until its time to go there very prepared again

[@hachiii2774]

I did finish the game by accident when i was exploring the depths because i saw castle bits on the maps

[@TonyX448]

4:05 bruhhhh that saveeee

[@ShadowAf1]

You could have just hit the big guy with 1 mud shoorm and made him kill the others

[@DarkKnightOmega]

Man I’ve got 8 hearts and a lot of items and got to Colgera and got 1 shotted on his 2nd phase. I might be done for the night.

[@NoxtureTheGoat]

Might wanna upgrade your armor then

[@DylanIsChillin08]

Yeah, the bosses hit crazy hard in their rematches/ war in the depths of hyrule fights

[@fuzya8636]

Spoilers : Zelda : Turns herself into a dragon to restore the master sword for link. Link : Spawns a master sword at will anyway

[@thenewmissinglink8501]

4:43 I was right here when I tried to run in just to see what all was down here 😭 I didn’t have no arrow so I stuck a bomb to my spear and threw it at the rocks and tried to run through. Only to be met with another layer. So I was like this 🧍🏾‍♂️ until I got killed 💀💀💀

[@gferrol118]

Couldnt you use zonai devices to stop fall damage, to go fight Ganon without ever getting the paraglider?

[@thebeepman6059]

Theoretically would it be possible to make it without the glider through some form of mobility? Like maxing out stamina as much as possible with food, using a zonai construct of some kind, or otherwise exploiting a glitch? Or is the path just straight up blocked, I imagine the Demon Dragon Fight would be a lot harder lmao

[@chaosenforcerdhm969]

Yes you could just climb at the end

[@AyntFreaxx]

Nightmare fuel , why must they make this shit terrifying

[@mrtaco1834]

I don’t like the way they play off you getting the master sword right at the end it’s weird

[@SD-MB-BB-CR]

Beating totk early is way challenging in a horror!

[@omarkhalili6948]

Isn’t ganon impossible to beat without the master sword?

[@DylanIsChillin08]

No? It’s difficult but definitely doable

[@terrance_huang]

you can go to ganondorf before paraglider.

[@EricKingOfWithers]

Gloom% How fast can you die from gloom? Speedrun idea

[@WarningStrangerDanger]

I think the canonical experience of NuZelda is going too far too early, getting humbled, and coming back often, each time feeling stronger.

[@Redribbo]

how are you not taking constant gloom damage? i take peridoic damage everytime i'm near the gloom

[@firelordbob1524]

I tried to fight the army with 4 hearts, i was on my last heart and a pebble covered in gloom killed me

[@michaelchen9705]

That's sad if u try to attempt it again make sure u have atleast 6 or more hearts and have master sword. If it breaks use a 30 base weapon like fierce diety sword and lastly I reccomend getting all 5 sages

[@keirdeformado9135]

You can go even if you dont have the paraglider

[@WarioWorld2000]

such a nightmare like Majoras mask Masked quest romhack

[@skins4thewin]

If you beat it early then why didn't you upload a video of it? I don't understand that.

[@ReachMySkill_]

thunbs up , i had more live and better armor and i was killed on the half way . btw i play it only 4 days and this is so many different from botw :D

[@EricKingOfWithers]

The song actually says help us please!

[@Ultimate_-jk5sg]

Make this comment pinned: It will be the best If you keep getting more blood moons so monsters can upgrade and get better monster part to kill these army faster (especially with zonai machines)

[@nealmorse6787]

Tested it but doesn't show us the testing, cap

[@Iamcapybara_vr]

Man I hate the Lynel down here

[@benjaminbaranoff8334]

Can somone tell me why I didint get the master sword after phase 2 ganon was half hp and the cutscene happened?

[@blockedjuser1272]

5:54 Super serious music and atmosphere broken.

[@Urlastnerve]

Can you?? Technically yes….. WILL you? Most likely not.

[@Gingee_9]

I beat him without even completing the map or dungeons

[@ThanatosZero]

I get for some reason Romancing SaGa vibes from this final dungeon.

[@Pikpikcarrot]

After the army you fight all the bosses

[@RemiDv]

ok i will try to get to it i have 3 dunjons done and i have 12 hearts and 2 more stamina, so i can try

[@probablyasleep5026]

Question (contains spoilers): If I were to beat the game early, would I still be able to do the main quest and find the 5th sage?

[@daKorok1]

Yea you just get a star to your save files and a cutsene

[@probablyasleep5026]

@@daKorok1 Thank you so much!

[@MR_GHOSTETHAN]

this is speedrun proof

[@jamestdfm]

Not in the slightest

[@skins4thewin]

Lol oh how little faith you have.

[@keirdeformado9135]

If you want yo do it without paraglider just fall down with a fairy

[@xtremeog8421]

There's a way to complete it in 10mins.

[@Liverpool-axeman]

Don’t believe you for 1 second. Prove it