The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD by Linkus7 in

[@nikanj]

Oh how Any% has changed in such a short time. It's cool to think that this run took place right before the Any% changed forever. They knew barrier skip was possible just not how to do it consistently.

[@Lewis...]

I occasionally watch Linkus on his stream, he has made it so far since he started streaming

[@monkey3171]

it took me several days to watch it all but awesome run! thoroughly enjoyed all the commentary and banter, congrats linkus and co.

[@CJTheExpert]

That donation comment about the LoZ timeline fucking killed me. Seriously. Goddamn.

[@Eudaimonia7564]

CJ The Expert where is it?

[@guydooeinfinity]

2:22:14

[@SahilPlaysGames]

I really enjoyed this speedrun! The commentary was spot on!

[@ivaldi13]

The trick at 1:29:30, the instant death trick for that plant boss, has completed my life. I'm mildly disappointed in the fact that no one there commented on the notation of the magic ball slashy-bouncy tennis-dodgeball, which is called "Dead Man's Volley." In Phantom Hourglass, it's actually explicitly called as such for the first time in-game. Phantom Gannon's (not Puppet Ganon's) Sword is a meta-material object of potent illusory force, much like Phantom Ganon itself, yet oddly, apparently independent of PG's presence. As such, it has strange interactions that don't follow the conventions of ordinary, material physics when encountering other objects of such dark magic. That "brick wall" is a wall of Ganon's magic, not bricks, so when you throw the sword at it, the explosive result is as close to sensible as we can get. You can think of the two objects colliding as a catalyst to them disappearing in a "poof of logic," but in a flashier, more violent manner. I don't have a citation for this because my explanation is more detailed than the bits that I read initially, and I don't recall exactly where I read the initial bits, but I will say that I'm fairly confident that this is the canon explanation. Honestly, I always found it fascinatingly creepy how the devs conjured this whole matter of illusory metaphysics and wondered, "Would Phantom Ganon be destroyed outright if slashed with its own sword?"

[@jarrettng8544]

3:39:57 Literally the best donation at AGDQ this year

[@kinosira]

Never thought WW HD speedrun can be this exciting. I thought WW speedrun is dead on HD

[@duwang3195]

I thought so too after barrier skip was discovered.

[@Icemaniak]

This was such a good run! And an amazing commentary with a little bit of goofyness of Spike, amazing :)

[@Icemaniak]

Oh and of course the amount of money donated :o

[@ProfessorBear404]

This run had more donation reader interactions than I've ever seen. Awesome.

[@Maijo33]

2:22:10 for best donation joke ever. Crowd went nuts, I was there

[@loftwyng131]

"We generally don't pause alot" HAH-

[@metouw]

237k dollars raised in 4 hours.. not bad. Nice run Linkus7

[@losttribe3001]

47:45 is a discussion about "Bombs: the silent killers." (Thanks the Simpsons)

[@Majinonifox1]

They really should just know what the 3 highest names are beforehand when they're setting up, then just make the names of all the files each of the names. Then when one wins, just select that file.

[@Colenolli]

But with save warping, it takes time to select the file rather than rapidly tapping A as soon as the file select screen shows up. That's why with Zelda speedruns, they almost never choose any file other than the first one.

[@JakeHennett]

1:03:00 "As up as possible" I understand, but it's such a funny phrase.

[@zingbanana]

awesome couch, awesome runner, awesome donator, awesome run.

[@HolographicSweater]

very interesting how he's explaining everything

[@i0am0random]

I'm still not sure if I'm happy that the fact the Kokiri turned into the little things with leaves on their face due to the flood... (Sorry I forgot their name)

[@link583]

Man I thought the super swim and zombie hover broke the game but this grapple hook thing is so easy to do i now feel like a pro

[@goldenwarrior1186]

BigwillyP It’s called an item slide

[@yukinoneno4079]

WhEEZe i thought this was a hour but then i forgot barrier skip was found only about 2 months ago.

[@AusdonMiles]

I loved this run

[@theinsanegamer1024]

I didn't realize TGH was at AGDQ 2017!

[@zantomun]

thought this would be pretty boring like those long ass pokemon ones but it was surprisingly technical and i stayed to watch all of it

[@jamesdiffenderfer9143]

The Pokémon Emerald run was pretty good for AGDQ 2017

[@itos191]

Anyone know where I can find the song for the room in 3:54:00 right before he goes into phantom Gannon room?

[@itos191]

I found it, it was the illusionary room theme!

[@lilflossin14]

It's been a year where's my remix

[@AlanNess]

SpikeVegeta is a great dude, like him very much

[@olimar1034]

R.I.P. Any%

[@Cimera42]

Great run with great commentary.

[@woomywoomy1953]

Item sliding is so useful lol who would have thought this game would go from 4 hours to just a little over 1 :p

[@Fialinhow]

SPOILERS I love how silly it is when the pirate girl turns into Zelda and her skin colour gets brighter

[@gordbert]

I want them to do this run every year. Wind waker's time has dropped by over 2 hours since this run

[@goatles9423]

Did anyone else notice that at 3:22:31 the rat clips through the wall and falls to his doom?

[@-VexyRS]

Barrier skip has been found though :^)

[@straikychan]

Spike is one of the funniest people to have on a couch! :D

[@DarshanBhambhani]

this video shows how broken the moving while aiming is

[@JavierNavarroPrez]

This was like hearing a last year Math degree class for me. Pretty cool though.

[@russell35]

@ around 3 hours 34 the guy on the left calls him Zelda.

[@matthewfiedler2526]

I loved the commentary

[@alucherdi]

Can anyone please tell me what headsets are they using :C?

[@mkploeg]

1.4 mil raised already danm gj people gj

[@legend9090]

mike ploeg the raosed over 2.24 million in total

[@mkploeg]

darren shanahan danm that nice

[@mkploeg]

Blazzy faith in humanity restored

[@AlbiTheShroom]

I wish Nintendo went ahead to make a Swedish translation to most modern games, since Sweden is a pretty large & well populated country.

[@kilic_]

they really dont need to, most people in sweden speak english very well

[@AlbiTheShroom]

True, but playing mario games with a translation of your language makes it more fun & interesting imo.

[@GuggieG]

Yea... Pretty large & well populated, Sweden is under 10 million. I don't know if you know Belgium, but we are literally 0,067% of Sweden, if measured by surface. We also have more than 10 million people in our country. So a Swedish translation seems like a bad investment for Nintendo.

[@elloo98]

Guggie Population density has nothing to do with it, if it did no game ever would be translated into russian, but I agree that a Swedish translation would be unnecessary, English is one of the three subjects you have got to have passing grades in in order to continue studies so everyone is forced to be good at English here in Sweden.

[@GuggieG]

I know it's not really related but it was in response to him saying "pretty large & well populated" Glad we agree and don't go for each other's throats.

[@hjalmarolsson8454]

Yay i'm swedish too!

[@wazorak]

howmuch did spikevegeta have to donate after the run? for every minute link was in the boat

[@zelcovax332]

wazorak $30

[@MisterMunkki]

2:03:00 PogChamp

[@TwitchFast]

I would only say it's too much sailing if you don't have the fast sail, I played through the majority of TWW without the fast sail and sure it felt tedious but you're supposed to be exploring.

[@sergiomendez3787]

Is that Fuzzyness on the couch?

[@LavosYT]

fuzzyness and spikevegeta

[@AnotherFunkingGamer]

Shifty Link 3:08:45

[@Natendo]

Totally fake, everyone knows you can't play for more than two minutes without the gamepad dying.

[@GigglebunsUV]

I know this is a joke, but he has it plugged in.

[@haseebrahman1887]

1:30:20 into the run

[@badgermcwaffles4834]

anyone know if wind waker will be coming out for Nintendo switch? be awesome to play this again for it

[@ralphismyname4940]

Doubt it

[@Christophee1987]

This was a great run. Is Barrier Skip consistent enough to use in marathons now? If so, I would love to see Linkus do it at one of next year's events.

[@TompaA]

Barrier Skip itself is easy and consistent, the problem is the Fairy Hover before the Ganondorf fight, which is some stupid randomness you can't do anything about... Linkus and Fuzzyness had a race during ESA17 where Linkus came up to the Fairy Hover, failed a lot of times and eventually had to stop the race, Fuzzy got stuck on an earlier point.

[@Christophee1987]

Thanks for the info. I'll check out that race later.

[@stormtimmermans2717]

Wich country is linkus7 from?

[@etourdie]

I thought any% was dead for wind waker

[@jackbell5349]

Speedrunner I beat this game 3 Times and speedrunner you are very good

[@Mike71730]

Fratellino!

[@kaylaroehrig4385]

can't wait till barrier skip is added

[@delilaanika]

Who’s the right guy, he’s so funny at all 😂

[@firstbones]

CoolCat PAUSA CoolCat

[@TitanBait]

So, is HD faster now than SD? The quicker triforce quest and the super swimming? Not counting TAS.

[@willow6618]

TitanBait wellllll if you still want the answer... now there is barrier skip on HD

[@TitanBait]

PhobosHBG Yup! Was so hyped!

[@yahoruz]

wait wtf i never saw the new zelda games but this shit is beautiful :O and awesome run good entertainment from the couch too i like it

[@brainsh8645]

Does he have gloves on

[@bsmit208]

I assume it is to stop smudging the gamepad touchscreen.

[@howdysophie]

Brian hernandez it's for carpal tunnel

[@MrPidi86]

1:57:26 That wink though.

[@tarek1373]

Why is every donater saying kill the animals idk if it is about dropping frames or if it is something else

[@JohanMastropiano]

Michael Cera is running Zelda

[@themasterchao]

I can't wait to see this run again at next AGDQ now that barrier skip was finally found.

[@ZiDake]

why the glove? Oo

[@maksfrac518]

Imagine the Breath of the Wild speedrun!

[@QuickDropGodz]

how is he teleporting with the red dot? what is the red dot?

[@Appetizer550]

arceusZX he explained the grapple hook item slide technique early on, around 50 minutes in

[@kaneyeeast3458]

2:22:16 IM DEAD

[@Tsunamidusher]

Sploosh

[@notacat3044]

1mil was raised in the last 4 games i think sorry but WHAT.

[@TheMasterpikaReturn]

Oh lol game is in Italian

[@yxstra]

100% run at SGDQ? ;)

[@Gawillamon]

What language is he using in the game and why is he wearing a glove?

[@metavanaj]

I only watched this for SpikeVegeta...

[@Waffersforever]

All these years and I didn't even know you could bomb the third phase of Puppet Ganon in the face to stop him...Holy shit.

[@AncientCS]

4:05:45 :)

[@HollowEscape]

based spikedvegeta

[@joelgoldson1542]

3:08:47

[@redyoshi777]

The volume is way too quiet. Cool run though.

[@redyoshi777]

EDIT: Never mind, it was probably my earbuds. It sounds alright in my headphones.

[@joelgoldson1542]

3:14:00

[@joelgoldson1542]

2:12:50

[@octogamer9758]

i dont want to sound like a noob but what is the SD version? or is he saying HD lol.

[@redhandsbluefaces]

OctoGamer SD means Standard Definition.... I guess...

[@matthewramone1]

the game was played in wich language?

[@Will_Salcedo]

Italian

[@QB260197]

1:57:24 ^^

[@thebeersy3294]

why is he playing in a different language?

[@DivineBlueMould]

The Italian script has the fewest characters in any European language, so it scrolls by the fastest. The Japanese version has fewer characters, so it was the fastest in SD, but the text speed for non-Japanese languages was increased in the HD version to compensate for that fact.

[@buddychrist2833]

SHORE

[@SimonDouville1]

L'arpione!

[@Tyanu_Khah]

WHAT IS A RABRAM ANYWAY ?

[@Icemaniak]

Forgot the half of it, but i think it was someone in the french restream who donated pretty much every year or something. He told the french thingy majingy that he couldn't do it anymore next time. so they wanted to do something back for him and donated for the name Rabram (could be wrong, but that's what i remembered xD)

[@Tyanu_Khah]

Icemaniak Gaming I know. I'm French. I'm here for the meme.

[@Icemaniak]

hmm... oops.. *casually walks away*

[@Spoodsy]

3:33:55 "zeldas aiming has never been good" i need to stop watching. this is unacceptable!

[@DirkvanBoxtel]

... as in "Zelda games".

[@Spoodsy]

hmm, you might be right but i just rewinded and i does sound like he says "zeldas aiming" notice the s

[@Spoodsy]

also before saying it, it does sound like hes trying to say "his" and in link being a male

[@Spoodsy]

but yeah im probably wrong

[@LastKnight0727]

It was a blanket for the LoZ games, as even OoT, MM, and TP had some sketchy aiming.

[@Skaftholu]

"I'm gonna call focus time here" *Couch guy talks the whole time*

[@Male_Parent]

my record is 3 weeks xD for 100%

[@Male_Parent]

oh yea and I have a question would it be quicker to get the speed sail?? or no

[@MPaul-lf1le]

It would be something like 1 minute faster, but it only saves time if you can get it first try. And because it is RNG dependant, speedrunners don't go for it, it would be too reset-heavy.

[@Alavyon]

I've understood all dialogues. Yep

[@franciscovcm3910]

I just realised.When (if) cancer is solved, will GDQ still be a thing?

[@GigglebunsUV]

I believe so. The donations will probably go to a different charity.

[@levimcknight1072]

fuckin jabroni

[@Carlos.NotasdelaMente]

is he using a glove on his right hand?

[@Appetizer550]

Carlos Augusto Curiel Ramos to prevent carpal tunnel yes

[@Carlos.NotasdelaMente]

that makes sense thnxs!

[@ikarusrq4299]

Does sd stand for "standard definition"?

[@Appetizer550]

ManuelRemoQ yes

[@humerususername2485]

Twitch chat was great "SPLOOSH" was constantly spammed

[@eliasbonti]

Italian text lol

[@vittoriodilillo4286]

when Italians plays games