Commentated Twilight Princess any% speedrun (2022 route)

[@OminousToast]

If "rolling is your fastest movement when human" why aren't you rolling on the horse?

[@Travis13g]

Skill issue

[@Beans-do6wc]

Is there a lore reason? Is he stupid?

[@ers1668]

Simple. You are playing as the horse when Link mounts it

[@Mrqwerty2109]

🐴

[@ExtraterrestrialIntelligence]

damn I have been sprinting this whole time

[@Maxx02]

this video is criminally under-viewed. this is amazing content.

[@elijahkeay3906]

I just love the absurdity of how speedrunning turns the “yeah we’ve known about this like 6 years but it’s not humanly possible” tricks like actor displacement into genuine tricks in the run

[@jedgrahek1426]

Watching this after watching your 100% commentated run over the past few days is a real treat, noticing all the differences between the runs is fascinating. Of course, it's your excellent commentary that makes this so engaging, along I suppose with my own nostalgia for the game. Thank you for making this.

[@foop145]

I like that Midna comments that the giant rock that just flew out of a volcano two seconds ago is surprisingly still hot even after being there "for a while" 😂

[@clairevoyantarachnea]

The "I'm drinking it; I'm very well hydrated" quip made me giggle. Your commentary is great!

[@dumbhead128]

1:10:03 link getting out of the water and bombing the domain while he runs away is very funny. thank you for content

[@25_Ciel]

I like how this sounds like an insanely long how its made episode but for speedrunning, and you also occasionally just break into something really comedic making it seem like an off-script bit

[@bewildebeest]

Comparing my commentary to How It's Made is about the highest compliment you can give

[@TheNo1pencil]

Thats a great comparison

[@cryptfly]

The call and response jokes with the characters have me rolling. This was great!

[@ferociousfeind8538]

Moments which make the whole speedrun: 54:39 two in one, fish ghost and howling link 1:22:16 staying hydrated 2:30:11 enjoying cookies 2:34:16 (what? I really enjoyed the "playing around with zant's very enthusiastic voice-acting") 2:47:53 the pot fort 2:51:04 having more fun with the voice-acting during cutscenes

[@FlopD0g0]

Bro what did Zant say at 2:34:16?? 😅

[@bebobebo42069]

@@FlopD0g0YEGHUUAUAGGGGH

[@mahmud7645]

@@FlopD0g0eEeEYAAAAAaaaaaaaaa

[@pushpopluvingllama5709]

You forgot purple frend 38:08

[@G3neziz]

TP runs are great. I'd never try running it myself, because i'm a noob, but watching high level runners do these strats is always fun

[@bewildebeest]

I was a noob two short years ago. You could do it if you wanted!

[@projectsmarsh]

the spinner fight skip is just incredible to see

[@TinyZu]

Your dry humor elevated this run from excellent to outstanding.

[@migelo4705]

I definitely had the “cool game” thing happen to me a few years ago. Now I know how it works. This is one of my favorite games of all time so the commentary is super cool. I finished the 100% commentary the other day and I just binged this one. Thanks for making them!

[@bewildebeest]

Dang, cool game would suuuuck to get in a casual playthrough. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@rickjames5998]

what is cool game?

[@SirLightfire]

​@rickjames5998 it's a softlock that happens when you clawshot Argorok (City in the Sky) on the first possible frame. Link gets stuck to Argorok's tail and can't move

[@DavidJCobb]

2:07:45 for the curious

[@UnknownSpooky]

I can just hear the love for this game in the way you talk about it. I've seen and heard people just refer to things and characters in this game in non-specific terms, but here you are using all of the names characters and enemies have. Thank you for showing love to my favorite Zelda game!

[@jacobmanning7983]

2:36:00 I was waiting for 2.5 hours trying to decide when I should run to make my potato. I'm glad you gave a heads-up

[@LoadingError0]

videos like these are really helpful for a beginner like me to see how exactly a speedrun of this game works and how difficult it might be, since getting into a game that is 17 years old is rather intimidating. thanks beest :)

[@bewildebeest]

Glad to help! Always feel free to ask questions in the discord server as well

[@Cataclymsic]

I only played through Twilight Princess once but spent a lot of time on OoT, Majoras Mask and Wind Waker. This run was a trip down memory lane, very enjoyable.

[@ace__8364]

a year late but i have to say this is my favorite commentated speedrun. the chill commentary and little jokes were everything. perfect commentary over my favorite game, keep it up. amazing video :)

[@Top-Bird]

nothing I love more than watching speedruns like this with a calm voice explaining everything

[@dtail74]

babe wake up new beest commentary video just dropped

[@sierrasnyder1436]

I cannot even fathom being this good at something

[@therobotfromirobot]

Subscribed, takes me back to my old habits of watching twilight princess walkthroughs when I needed to rest

[@naturetime3823]

These runs inspired me to buy a GC and TP - I beat the odds and got both my original hardware and game back❤ These are the last things my Father got me before he died of cancer 😢

[@flarth516]

Banger video dude, these are so comforting to go to sleep to

[@AniviaS]

So I'm not the only one falling asleep to these? 😂

[@VectorKnightZX]

Comments are good for the youtube algorithm. Excellent video by the way. Very informative and great content, and your wit makes it worthwhile to watch the whole thing.

[@haunted_cheese6719]

Just found this channel, and I am in love with this content

[@ninjay345]

This is such an excellently commentated run! I was riveted from the start to the end. Your delivery is both perfect for explaining things clearly and makes the jokes sprinkled throughout even funnier. I loved this watch, definitely checking out the 100% one next.

[@destinygalearies7382]

I remember seeing Linkus' and some other people's TAS run of this game with commentary, and seeing Stallord skip described as TAS only. It's crazy to me to see it executed in real time!

[@Grancop00]

I hope you’re planning on making more commentated runs. Your TP and MM runs have been some of my favorite content on KZbin recently

[@bewildebeest]

Thanks! I'm in the process of making a new TP 100% one because there's a new route and lots of new strats since I made the first one, but it takes a while.

[@JohnathanLaFey]

put this on as some nostalgia to fall asleep to and wound up watching the whole thing

[@LolaliciousSmiley]

I had to immediately watch this after the 100%. They're some of the most enjoyable speedruns I've ever watched. I'm eager to watch your Majora's Mask one next.

[@Filiolus]

You are so deserving of more viewers/subs. Great gameplay and commentary man.

[@obsidion_sings]

you have such a soothing voice! watching your speedrun commentaries is wonderful background noise (and very informative!)

[@Sinclaire-]

I've been loving these videos! I've been falling asleep to them as of late, and it's hard to find a commentator who i can sleep to. Thanks for commentating such an interesting run!

[@london2753]

Beware, all who watch this: you will become an epic PRO Twilight Princess speedrunner unless you turn back now! Bewaaaaaaaare

[@notsean9862]

Loved seeing my favorite game as a child completed so fast! Im amazed cause the fastest I ever could beat it was about 15 hours 😅

[@Royalhanburglar]

I want this video to explode like your other full TP run. Commenting & watching more of your videos in hopes that it’ll happen ❤

[@Skyreon]

"After having gotten the Ordon sword from Link's house" POGSLIDE POGSLIDE POGSLIDE POGSLIDE zfgSmug

[@bewildebeest]

NOOOO video ruined

[@bewildebeest]

At least I didn't say anything about Clock Town... maybe...

[@Yakobu_D]

Good run with excellent commentary. Love it

[@frankmagyar5532]

The narration made this really fun to watch. Thanks and great job!

[@weckar]

54:20 is one of my favorite moments. Midna has no concept of time.

[@blooptydoop]

this was amazing!! ur skills and ur soothing voice combined with having a wonderful sense of humor made this video truly enjoyable to watch tysm for all ur efforts, i really liked how much fun u had with this run

[@june_flower]

Great commentary and a very interesting run!

[@andredme]

I don't ever comment but thank you for this content its relaxing and nostalgic.

[@JoeDejacque]

Great video, thank you ! Always loved Twilight Princess and speed runs, but have never combined the two - wonderful explanations, thank you

[@awoolensleevelet]

I love your commentary

[@voltapix]

you have a nice voice. it's low and comforting

[@freescape08]

Even though I know it's necessary, my completionist nature hurts every time you warp out of a dungeon or leave enemies crawling after you undefeated. Even when I knew the enemies would just spawn back next time I entered the area, it was hard not to kill them.

[@Dragon123Sam]

Can you make a video where you show us all sort of fun fact, fun trick and commentating please? You seem to know the game really well and you voice is super relaxing:)

[@bewildebeest]

I may do this at some point, yeah. There are a lot of cool tricks in this game.

[@pushpopluvingllama5709]

0:38 That is the most unsettling glitch I’ve ever seen. Great job 🎊🎉🥳 Edit: 25:34 That gives me even more chills 💀

[@user-zq5uz9cy3u]

it was so funny how the video abruptly ended after the run completed

[@MonkeyShoulders1337]

Fantastic content! Thanks for the commentary :)

[@edicyon]

Absolutely love these videos of yours! This makes me want to learn this speedrun so bad

[@bewildebeest]

Give it a try! You can find a lot of resources for learning here, including an invite to the discord server where you can ask us any questions you have: zeldaspeedruns.com/tp

[@soundsofyore]

Great video! 👍😃Very entertaining to watch it played through like this, especially as Twilight Princess are one of my personal favorites of the Zelda games. Very good and informative commentary too. It made me subscribe.

[@aaandSCENE]

What kind of a monster breaks a pot fort?

[@egghgfe6116]

I tried falling asleep to this and the majora's mask 100% video and ended up having beryktade similar nightmares. Love the video tho.

[@Monody512]

"Link howls in human form." You know... I always assumed it was Midna making that sound. Slightly sad you never used the "boss bug"'s name, because it's great: the Twilight Bloat. The giant boars the Bulblins ride around also have a fantastic name: Bullbos. Full credit for "Squeebles" though. Actually got a laugh out of me. The ball & chain quick kills on the Stalfos and Redead Knights are BRUTAL. Love to see it. Stick directions other than up affecting your combos is something I never knew and was shocked to hear. About as shocked as when hearing Zant's Morpheel stage of all things _isn't_ RNG. Very entertaining and informative commentary. Thank you for making this! :)

[@SleeperOptic]

That hooded figure is interesting. I wonder if there is a story about them.

[@theequitableprose]

It is the mark of a master, that one specifically says: don't get hung up on one trick. Learn the entire run/art first.

[@sweatstallion8437]

Yo i listen to this to go to sleep thank you I hope you make it big one day

[@benjisurf]

how does this not have a million views

[@allanbrown9484]

Found my new driving backgroundd noise.. thank you :)))))

[@tictcha612]

Nice video !

[@snailpocky]

1:22:23 made me giggle hehe

[@marlysalt]

I've seen your 100% and Majoras Mask 100% at this point. I am looking forward to this one too.

[@karanaima]

Very good commentary

[@karanaima]

I think I just got the 2000th like on this video lol

[@drachenklnd]

I plan to replay the game ... casually of course, so i kinda dont want to watch you, so i reexperience as much as possible. Its so entertaining to watch you tho, very nice explanations.

[@viniciusrestelli1110]

How do people figure out these glitches, like the very first one into the run? Even knowing the flag is set to have tamed Epona? These things blow my mind lol nice work on this run, I'm glad I've found your channel.

[@bewildebeest]

From what I've heard, the very first one was found by accident pretty soon after the game released - someone reset while voiding out in the sand in Arbiter's Grounds, and they happened to reset on the right frame to get Back in Time. (I cannot actually verify this story.) Knowing about the flags and stuff came after.

[@CassiusStelar]

Often by accident, but also some people will load up games in an emulator (or modded console) with a ram viewer to try and force the game to break by doing random shit.

[@the9thinning1]

awesome video

[@street_resident7208]

This video is awesome

[@harlowng2592]

10/10 video i subbed

[@zer0thirteen]

1:32:04 what a thrill….

[@foxhound3956]

2:30:12 best part 😂

[@DruidTwigleaf]

1:06:00 Is there a clip of Link getting softlocked at the very end somewhere on KZbin?

[@bewildebeest]

It doesn't show off the fact that it's a softlock very well, but here's the Twitch clip of Skyreon realizing that he'd forgotten Ending Blow in 2018: www.twitch.tv/skyreon/clip/AgitatedGoldenSeahorsePanicVis

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

I'd guess the bomb resets your air because you're not supposed to be in that animation state while underwater so it counts as not being underwater. Is Squid Midna called Squidna?

[@kamex8764]

gg! - Kamex

[@volpilh]

It's very confusing to me to see the game all mirrored, having only played the Wii and HD (hero mode) versions. Fantastic commentary

[@CassiusStelar]

Hero mode retaining the flipped map and Hylian text from Wii made me happy. Though I don't know how to feel about Grezzo going back and flipping OOT Master Quest...

[@MegaRetardist]

1:32:02 What a thrill

[@neverbother9290]

Your voice is fucking fantastic.

[@ScottCastle]

Legend

[@cestandmuni3849]

1:08:10 - I would love to know your thoughts on the scream lol

[@larst4883]

Do the two horizontal bars at the top of the controller input display represent the L and R shoulder buttons? I'm curious how you time the frame-perfect skips like at 32:20. From what I can tell, the only input displayed is the left horizontal bar gradually filling up - is this displaying the L button being held down almost all the way, until the right moment? Or is something else going on? I guess I'm just generally astounded by the precision required for a lot of what goes into a speed-run like this! Amazing commentary either way! I'd definitely love to see more like this from you, if you are so inclined in the future :)

[@bewildebeest]

Thank you! Yes, those do represent the L and R buttons, but what's required for this trick ("Gorge Void") is holding L (no timing) and pressing A on the correct frame. It seems my input display didn't pick up that input here for some reason, which is odd. It sometimes doesn't show inputs that are pressed for a very short time even if they do go through to the game. If you look at the input display on the left side of my PB video, you'll see the A input because I held it down instead of just tapping it (only the beginning of the A press matters): kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYixZHqqqa2Bj7c As for timing frame perfect inputs, it depends on context. For Gorge Void, most people who run this category watch the portal leaving the top of the screen during the cutscene and use a specific part of it hitting the top as a cue. There are a number of other tricks that are frame perfect or have a small frame window that I use a metronome to time (see the bomb boost in Stallord Skip at 1:51:25 in this video), which is very useful when timing a certain number of frames between two inputs. Gorge Void is a variable amount of frames between inputs, so a metronome isn't useful. There are still other tricks that are frame perfect or have a small frame window that I just do based on feel (see the L-slide at 1:51:00 and the wall clip at 1:51:13) because a metronome would just be cumbersome to use for them and they're not too challenging.

[@larst4883]

@@bewildebeest Thank you so much for the very thorough response! I really enjoy your commentary, it is very interesting to follow along with the speed-run, and be able to understand on some level what is going on and the work that has gone into it :)

[@sweatstallion8437]

I love you

[@marlysalt]

Do you think 'no save and quit' is a commentary in your future? Does 100% have a 'no save and quit' as well?

[@bewildebeest]

It's unlikely, as I'm not really interested in that category. We don't have a 100% No Save & Quit category, but it would be less different from normal 100% than Any% No Save & Quit is from normal Any%, and those two are already very similar. For Any%, No Save & Quit means: - no Back in Time at the beginning (which 100% doesn't do anyway) - no Back in Time in Forest Temple (which 100% does do, but doesn't make a huge difference) - getting Zora Armor to enter Lakebed (100% gets Zora Armor anyway, though it does enter Lakebed without Zora Armor first; somewhat trivial reroute) - no bombs, so no bomb strats (100% would get bombs anyway) - a little more backtracking in dungeons - there's no reasonable backup for failing certain tricks (rupee roll in Any%, Coro TD in 100%)

[@marlysalt]

Thanks for the explanation, and I hope I get to see other commentated runs from you. It's more important to do what you're interested in, and I totally respect that. Also, super impressed. I though clawshot actor displacement was tas only, if I didn't know better I'd say it was easy enough from watching you not fight stahllard.

[@rickjames5998]

wow, he beat all phases of the final boss in 6 min. He defeated the dark lord of the whole game, who honeslty is pretty ez tho, in 30 seconds.

[@Links-ghost]

Start now Sat 10:44 AM, AUG 5, 2023

[@Links-ghost]

3 days and 1 hour

[@General12th]

I'm going to call them squeebles too. Squeebles.

[@bewildebeest]

How did it feel?

[@General12th]

@@bewildebeest My GPA hit 4.0. I just got a raise at my job. My grandma came back from the dead. It's all thanks to the squeebles.

[@isferbaad7367]

My dumb ass thought this meant toilet paper speed run.

[@hourglass8090]

It doesn't?! :00

[@AGreenSquidKid]

1:22:16 I lost it

[@kakashihataek]

Where is the part that you miss the early platform 3-4 times? KEKW

[@bewildebeest]

MadgeClapCute

[@burburbur7837]

Hey can you make a guide on how to speedrun this game?

[@bewildebeest]

I don't think an all-in-one video guide could be nearly as helpful as ZSR, where we keep routes, documentation, and resources for learning glitches and tricks: www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/

[@gamercave17]

When’s 2024 s coming out?

[@bewildebeest]

Even though the route is different now, I might not make one because the changes are limited to a smallish section of the run

[@carnagesoup]

This voiceover is SO hard to hear...or maybe thats just me

[@cutewolfiegirl2087]

Can you speedrun on an emulator? Namely dolphin?

[@bewildebeest]

You can! The main speedrun.com leaderboard doesn't accept emulator submissions, at least for now, but nothing's stopping you from speedrunning on emulator anyway. I did my first few runs on Dolphin. All the tricks and glitches are just as feasible. That said, if you especially want to be on a leaderboard on Dolphin, the category extensions leaderboard does accept emu submissions, and it contains a bunch of categories that I enjoy and that are great for beginners, such as Pirate ArrrTA, JotWaD, Hold a Dog, and New Game+ categories. You can see that board here: www.speedrun.com/tpext

[@cutewolfiegirl2087]

@bewildebeest Thank you so much! I love this game and have been watching your channel for a while! Really wanted to try running myself so cool that I can at least start practicing on an emulator! :) Merry Christmas btw!

[@bewildebeest]

@@cutewolfiegirl2087 no prob! For resources on the run, check out www.zeldaspeedruns.com/tp , where we have explanations, tutorials, routes, and more. There is also a link at the top to the Zelda speedrun discord servers, and I'd highly recommend joining the TP server to ask questions as you learn. Merry Christmas!

[@cplroebuck22]

are you from boston

[@cplroebuck22]

also i swear to god nothing hits like a 3 hour TP run with this commentary, lovin' it

[@cplroebuck22]

i was starting to watch the 100% run but having to watch it in segments so i figured i'd just watch this one first

[@bewildebeest]

No, are you from Boston?

[@cplroebuck22]

@@bewildebeest nah i just heard like, MAYBE once or twice hour a slightly different pronunciation of a word compared to my midwestern ass accent, so i had to inquire lol

[@rickjames5998]

why isnt this a TAS tho?

[@TheNo1pencil]

Wut

[@rickjames5998]

​@@TheNo1penciltool assisted speed run. TAS the guy even refers to this several times

[@TheNo1pencil]

​@@rickjames5998right, I know what a TAS is but this is a commentary over his PB. If you want the TAS, I think Gymnast made the most recent Any% one for this game. It's just weird to ask why a speedrun isn't a TAS.