Speedrunner reacts to the fastest speedrun of Breath of the Wild

Breath of the Wild has recently been proven to be beaten in just under 23 minutes. A series of segments compiled together to create the PERFECT Breath of the Wild speedrun. How did they do it?
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[@PointCrow]

ESC is extended SHEILD clip btw. I got a C in my university writing requirements ok, i'm not the best at doing english

[@chocolatelover20XX]

ok

[@bienghuo9636]

Dont we all

[@ItsHjonker]

You’re awesome

[@hs7178]

speed gang

[@BlastoiseMaster]

Isn’t it spelled ‘Shield’ or are we talking about something else?

[@Hazy_Fforest]

I love the idea of ganon building power for 100 years and being unstoppable and destroying hyrule and link wakes up and is like "gimmie 20 minutes"

[@margoshuteran7988]

In game time it would be a bit longer, I don’t know the actual calculations tho but I’m guessing in game time it’s like 3 days max

[@vincefernandez8480]

@@margoshuteran7988 every minute irl is an hour in game

[@ungratefulape9121]

@@vincefernandez8480 so still less than a day

[@oddpoppetesq.3467]

Ganon: 'I am unstoppable and will rule for all eternity!!' Link: 'Hold my sheikah slate, I'll be back in 20'

[@briancunningham3283]

Li k says hold my beer and watch this lol

[@mbSCOTUBE]

Man screams profanities at a grunting naked man blowing himself up, defeating the ultimate evil and ignoring the laws of physics for 18 minutes 47 seconds

[@ericyang1401]

this literally fall on the floor laughing this is the best description in the history of descriptions

[@waffles5989]

TRUEEEE

[@cryonical2766]

LMFAO

[@drumjosh1987]

That’s why I’m here haha

[@El.Gatito.]

sounds like Florida

[@tickytickytango5634]

The reason I love speedruns: Imagine being Ganon. You've defeated all of the Champions and built up power for 100 years. You get a report from the Great Plateau that Link is awake. 15 minutes later, you hear the sounds of battle outside your cocoon. It takes him 3 minutes to defeat your strongest generals that took out the strongest people in the world 100 years ago. Now before you stands the Hero, butt-naked and equipped with an assortment of weapons taken from the most fortified location in the world. You don't even know what happens in the battle. Your brain only has time to process the pain before you're lying on the ground in a puddle of your own malice. Gathering the last of your energy, you manifest your Dark Beast form. You are now the most powerful being Hyrule has ever seen. The Hero doesn't even seem to be trying. Now imagine being Zelda You've been desperately holding back Calamity Ganon for 100 years. Finally, you can sense Link waking up. You call out to him for help. For some reason you're speaking French now. You tell him that there isn't much time, and to get to you as quickly as possible. Of course, you expect him to prepare. Restore the divine beasts, reclaim his sword, spend a while getting stronger. It might take him a few months, but you're confident you can hold back Ganon at least that long. Suddenly, your body materializes and you see Link, in his underwear, standing over the body of Calamity Ganon It hasn't even been half an hour. (In French) "Link, what the fuck?" He doesn't seem to be listening.

[@AngelMColon-qd3zm]

Zelda in the reality this speedrun takes place in: Link, qu'est-ce que tu fous? (translated using google)

[@lindseygray.carolinaopal5703]

Jeez u put in a lot of effort for this comment props to you

[@tazerfac3418]

Too much

[@samuelmajors9525]

“Link, what the fuck!?” “HYAAA!?”

[@endoskel9262]

“Link, what the heck was THA-“ “Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me princess”

[@thatoneguy5884]

"It's time for school!" "One second, lemme just beat BotW real quick"

[@SoapBar656]

💀

[@redbullcj]

This whole comment section has me dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@FemtoRequiem]

@@redbullcj FOR REALSIESSSS😭😭😭😭😭

[@ramrodbldm9876]

​@@redbullcjI wish it did

[@steveneaton9611]

Avgn once beat Contra before breakfast as a kid. But Botw?

[@beanlordd9444]

Zelda: Link you have to be quick! Link 20 minutes later: *bonjour* Zelda: wtf-

[@Maria-bc2ry]

Lol. So true. 😅😂

[@bup489]

Literally because it’s in French

[@amuronam1345]

Zelda: I didn’t mean that quick…

[@patrishow5705]

Dude it's 3am and I just bursted out laughing at this 🤣

[@staciesmith9175]

@@amuronam1345 Heck ya!

[@shibadawn]

I'm just over here after it took me 2 years to beat ganon.

[@dazcar2203]

Slowrun any%

[@simplicity4766]

...two years? I did quests and shrines, too, just to preface.

[@solacies]

@@simplicity4766 Some people just run around the game doing shrines/side quests

[@dougalbadger4918]

This probably isn’t a good thing but when I first got botw I was addicted and played it almost every day for 2 months until I beat ganon

[@sebasstehfish5634]

@@dougalbadger4918 I was addicted to it and beat it in a week after release. I just tried to finish the main quest ASAP

[@kirst3596]

King hyrule: "it would be quite reckless to head directly to the castle" Link: "aight bet"

[@BfaltS1K]

Hold my beer

[@MosesX-Labs]

King hyrule

[@vasco35]

King hyrule

[@aarne602]

King hyrule

[@BetchesInTheOutfield]

King hyrule

[@george6329]

Imagine Revali watching the random hylian solider he looked down upon literally one shot the giant mechanical monstrosity that killed him a hundred years ago after less than half an hour of prep time

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

WITH ONE ARROW. ONE. That's gotta be so insulting to Revali

[@CGammer5680]

​@Jared Joseph Songheng especially since revail specializes is archery

[@bethanybosworth]

@@CGammer5680to be fair the fight was at night in the rain and rito canonically have awful night vision. he likely couldn’t see or fly well

[@thegamingworld8871]

​@@jaredjosephsongheng372link: i killed 7 guys with 1 bullet

[@Aaron-pv8vm]

PointCrow: "not possible for the average person to do this" *BOTW Speedrunners 4 years later:* _"that's actually a slow pace, we do these 50 other tricks to make it faster"_

[@kirara4953]

They're gonna discover a dog glitch that just beats the game instantly.

[@originalname4813]

@@kirara4953 yes theyre gonna find a way to pet the dog then the dog will wipe ganon off the map

[@kirara4953]

@@originalname4813 Wholesome Snipe Strat

[@JacobSmith2001]

You forgot the 50 tricks is for 0.1 seconds

[@CreoTan]

@@originalname4813 the dog is the ultimate weapon and a single bark can thanos snap ganon out of existence forever

[@aircat386]

Zelda struggling to keep Ganon contained for 100 years and Link kills him within 30 minutes of waking up.

[@justinaguilar9650]

Zelda: hurry link!.... Link: *Dream music plays*

[@joojian4861]

He really wanted to go back to sleep

[@Manimal-]

Well excuUuUuUuuUUuuUse me princes

[@karanjoshi2662]

Zelda was probably terrified of link more than ganon after this one

[@jenniferchaulam]

/when youre locked under a spa for 100 years first thing you do when you wake up is get REVENGE

[@kailupo7543]

Zelda: "Yeah I held ganon here for 100 years, I can hold him for as long as you need to train." Link: "I don't know who I am. I don't know why I'm here. All I know is that I must kill. Give me 20 min"

[@danieljames1868]

"I NEVER WANTED TO START MY DAY THIS ANGRY BUT HERE WE FUCKING GO"

[@Thedarkbunnyrabbit]

In a universe where Link connects to the Triforce of Power instead, Ganon is gonna need the Triforce of Courage, because the Warrior is coming for him in under 20 minutes.

[@theonepristinemonk5528]

Woke up ready to KILL A GOD

[@prongs82]

Certified doom moments.

[@morshu3124]

@@Thedarkbunnyrabbit underrated

[@cecilofthesea]

2 years later, and world record is only 58 seconds slower than what used to be an insane theoretical. the limit that this game has been pushed to is absolutely nuts

[@hydraaustralia9272]

Lets be real here, The impressive thing is that he was able to watch a 22 minute speed run in 18 minutes.

[@rutogen6331]

*wait a minute....thats not legal*

[@AzaraShiki]

With PAUSE and REWIND

[@thatoneguy40]

People die when they are killed

[@RocketMannn__m]

I was thinking the same

[@iaregbesola]

.

[@DAMusic-qu2ec]

“I’m qualified to explain this run” After every trick: “It’s nuts. It’s insane. It’s crazy. It’s just crazy”

[@graywarden8340]

lol!! That's the qualified explanation tho.

[@Zork07]

But it is, tho

[@Stiegosaurus]

Like most GenZ's they think they're qualified because they think they saw it 'first'

[@kirbydied2875]

@@Stiegosaurus lmao what does that have to do with anything

[@lux4359]

@@Stiegosaurus What are you smoking, and do you have any left?

[@unstoppablegaming8385]

Pointcrow reacting to a speedrun: *Scientifically explains every move* DeeBeeGeek when reacting to a speedrun: "Give this guy some milk. Straight from the cows tits"

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Yeah ikr 😂

[@ethangunter2921]

Ganon builds power for 100 years in preparation for his takeover of hyrule. Then proceeds to lose to a man who napped for 100 years, woke up, and chose violence....all within 20 minutes.

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Link woke up without Amnesia this time and got angry

[@elvinamascart3796]

And there’s me who spend 5 hours picking up mushrooms 😂

[@hanburgundy4317]

*laughs in Hyrule Compendium*

[@sneezewatch]

Gotta get them shrooms

[@pixywings]

That's ok I have spent hours just cutting grass to collect rice (or wheat if I'm in the Tabanth region) and the occasional faerie.🤣

[@Meshea462]

At least you didn’t spend 2 years just opening the game up just to cook and ride horses 💀

[@Ghostly_yt153]

Me 😭😭🤣

[@chiffmonkey]

"I wonder, do you remember me at all?" - Zelda *Link backflips out of reality*

[@romariomejia5396]

Starts whistling, until he poops out 2 bombs, and then flys away

[@doc8420]

The very definition of a TerminalMontage video

[@GammaFox6]

I love the idea of Link not losing any memories and just waking up in the shrine. Demanding that the spirit of the king gives him incredible weapons, no armour necessary. A paraglider and then just fully booking it to Calamity Ganon. I reckon you’d get him in about 15 minutes then give or take.

[@orcastrike7750]

Bullet time is the most broken mechanic to be implemented into BOTW. There’s SO many janky ass things you can do

[@wilaugh8688]

Windblight literally having a seizure. Pointcrow: *"THAT'S NUTS"*

[@sansibit4706]

Me: having a seizure Literally no one: *”THAT’S NUTS”*

[@edizlikese3132]

@@sansibit4706 uR sO oRiGnAl 👌👌👌

[@sansibit4706]

@@edizlikese3132 thanks man. want to know who else is original WiLaugh because I am not lmaooo

[@dizzychangeling9563]

Windblight has a peanut allergy, and Pointcrow was just looking out for him and yelling for someone to get his epipen.

[@ungratefulape9121]

@@dizzychangeling9563 new lore for botw 2. Gannon is allergic to peanuts

[@juanisimocr]

I'm definitely going to defeat Windblight Ganon with this method from now on. Killing it with one single arrow is the ultimate insult to Revali XD

[@gimme_eliter4k720]

Revali had a 3 shot op bow with quick shot and was training his entire life and lost to windblight, link beat it with one arrow with a knights bow

[@themonkeyman2910]

Imagine if Link used the OP, 3-shot, quick draw bow. Hurdle Castle would be destroyed before Calamity truly woke up.

[@Steamgirled]

Yeah but Revali is the strongest champion and only lost due to being counterpicked by Ganon.

[@hazardousyt8233]

@@gimme_eliter4k720 one thing i can say for revali is although he is an absolute dickhead i almost cant blame him for losing to windblight the first time around after seeing what he was really like back then while playing hyrule warriors. all the blight ganons are a lot tougher in that game near 10 fold in comparison

[@logan4844]

@@gimme_eliter4k720 without PANTS

[@LAK_770]

Being pretty good with bomb launches at a casual level, I nearly puked when I saw some of these launches here. Literally laughing out loud at how ridiculously skilled this runner is. Took me hours of tinkering to get halfway decent at it, I can’t imagine the practice it takes to get to this level. Freak talent and obsessive work on display here.

[@gmdrandom6287]

*These runners

[@Litwtv]

It's like the infinity stones, you have to gather all the speedrun times in order to be the speedest speedrunner in the whole multiverse

[@rotatopotato5212]

Calamity Ganon: *has plagued Hyrule for a hundred years* Link: 22 minutes. Take it or leave it.

[@timothytobing7212]

Pointcrow: explains tricks about speedrunning in botw Me: i like your funny words magic man

[@gajison6927]

even though i want to like this I wont because 69 likes

[@carsonrush4152]

@@gajison6927, as is the tradition.

[@katt58]

I love coming back to this video because its whats made me realize my friend had multiple wr clips like i knew he speedran but not this good lmao (Literally I DMed him and went "YOURE IN A POINTCROW VIDEO??? and he responed with "Yes" and thats it lmao)

[@isyyc]

Zelda: “Link you need to hur- Link: Too easy…

[@nastylittlehobbitses4799]

Pointcrow: "I don't think it's humanly possible to do all of this in one run." Narrator: Until... someone did. *SUMMONING SALT MUSIC PLAYS*

[@pablopereyra7126]

_music starts playing_ *ascends*

[@dillongoodfellow8232]

I will die if this happens lmao

[@nintendo_pirate]

that person... was matt turk

[@griffongaming4736]

Wirtual: But then Hefest got this run

[@TheRedInkling]

*Home’s “We’re Finally Landing” starts playing*

[@ragedplague6128]

8:24 This is my favourite part. “Bullet Ton Baunce”

[@gribberoni]

_"Have you been to Bollet Town, Banse?"_

[@jacoby7868]

@@gribberoni yeah visited last week

[@apolloniakageaki1711]

Lmao i didn't notice. That's funny 😂😂

[@spuppitty4224]

XD

[@chillieice]

Got this game a week ago and love it. It's insane you can finish it in less than an hour. I'm 30 hours in and scratching the surface.

[@Vmx-uz1np]

Anyone here from 2024

[@gmdrye755]

Yes lol

[@arendstarke2744]

Yes sir

[@mousy_playz]

​me

[@RolfBenton]

No

[@Mythical_MSM]

Like beggar

[@Hadalamehandle]

I feel like a dad who’s happy there son is excited but doesn’t understand why

[@sporovid5856]

Very accurate, take this REDDIT GOLD, kind stranger: 💩

[@espressodepressoo]

ik his emotions r so genuine its kinda wholesome

[@Smile-ej3tc]

Zelda: be fast link... Link: fast? You mean really fast speedrun? Zelda: what? No- Link: (starts timer) Zelda: ah sh*t here we go again

[@patatoe2124]

Zelda: Link....hurry Link: HERE WE GOOOO!

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

I mean compared to everyone else who just messes around finding Koroks and stuff, she probably appreciates the timeline where Link wakes up and pulls off some kind of crazy stupid shit to kill Ganon immediately

[@craftedbyorre]

Link: (resets run) Zelda: wat

[@Candytuft-CookingPan]

WELL EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE YOU PRINCESS.

[@barrett5178]

LOL

[@WatermelonWithTheRobloxManface]

Killing wind blight with one arrow would make revali so mad, and just killing dbg WITHIN HALF AN HOUR. Also link took Zelda seriously when she said “you must hurry link”😂 also in the original video Eric commented “this is poggers”

[@that_nerdy_hylian]

Revali: Good luck! That thing is one of Ganon's own, and it plays dirty! It defeated me 100 years ago... but only because I was winging it. I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but you must-- wait what the f*k link

[@JohnJones-lb6xo]

The flip to set up the bomb shrine windbomb was insane. If you've tried it yourself, that little peg is a pain in the ass to jump onto and it takes time to set yourself up perfectly. That guy just does a frontflip and lands on it perfectly. Insane. The RNG BTB to Cryonis is probably the hardest maneuver though.

[@tateornator3654]

I prepared wayyyy too much for Gannon. Spent like 5 months doing missions just to beat calamity in under a minute, not even kidding

[@grothd09]

Yup Calamity Gannon was the easiest/quickest boss for me as well.

[@natty8652]

ME TOO I freed all the beasts, bought the dlc to upgrade my powers, did SO MANY shrines, and almost shit myslef getting into the castle (wich was beautiful) just to defeat dark beast and calamity withen 3 mineutes. My jaw was on the floor

[@EpicTheo]

Got to hyrule castle for the memories, died two times to the Lynel inside. Was too lazy to fight him again so I climbed the tower and went to the main room. I jokingly thought to myself “what if I defeat Ganon now? Would be funny right?” Keep in mind I was two divine beasts in not even fully upgraded soldier Armor, a pot lid for a shield, 13 hearts and just my trusty master sword. I obviously thought it’d be impossible, there’s no way you can defeat the boss this early right? Lo and behold he turned out to be one of the easiest entities in the game. I felt so bad because I ended the game in the most unsatisfactory way possible, I’ve died more times to moblins. I am still afraid of moblins and obviously Lynels. Right now I’m literally just gearing up for lynels. The bosses are a joke and a half in this game.

[@MrEysox]

Same lol, had insane weapons like 60, 72 dmg, hundreds of bomb arrows and I destroyed him way too fast

[@MrEysox]

@@EpicTheo The lynel fights were actually harder than the boss

[@maxbessire9016]

One of my favorite parts of this is that it switched which speedrunner we’re watching for the dialogue at the end of a shrine…. That guy’s legacy in this video is skipping shrine dialogue.

[@R_A7137]

14:55 Eric having 0 brain cell for 5 seconds 😂😂

[@henlex6424]

Flying from the temple of time directly to hyrule castle is so satisfying

[@jakenewland-griffin9460]

the fact none of this is tas it's just Frankensteined together but all physical possibile for some to get eventually

[@puperger9359]

Well curently we don't even have any TAS strats, so this would be the same but better :)

[@roech7874]

Just for anyone that sees this and doesn’t know what ‘tas’ is, it’s a ‘tool-assisted speedrun’. I believe it’s a speedrun done by a program that performs the best possible run. Though I’m not 100% certain as I don’t really look into a lot of speedrunning stuff outside of KZbinrs commenting / doing it but I hope that this gives anyone reading this an idea =]

[@ego709]

@@roech7874 nah, a TAS is done by a human player but at frame by frame or really slow speeds using an emulator and save states to get the best possible result.

[@Steampunk_Kak]

@@ego709 To be fair, it can also be brute forced a bit at the end by writing a script to just force the game to play different routes over and over to figure out the best routing or moves.

[@sophier996]

@@ego709 TAS is a blanket term that can refer to both frame by frame human playing and a computer playing.

[@slr-d]

This game has literally evolved beyond anything I can imagine. I often wonder if Nintendo themselves even knew if any of this madness was possible with this game.

[@bethanybosworth]

Definitely not. And now there’s a brand new game for everyone to discover exploits in. BTBs still work (I think), so that’s one major plus for speed runners.

[@acespades8747]

Actually they do. They make their games as fast as speedrunners. Time is money if they don't get it , they are F-I-R-E-D. So both sides undertand each other parts as equals. Their games ares specifically made for speedrunners and screw the rest. Should leave as fast. I'm leaving too. None of my bussiness.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

​@@bethanybosworthbroad get your noob, just coming here from totk self tf outta here. 2 years later (Definitely not derrrrp its toe tood terp)

[@dinazangwill8300]

This wasnt just a reaction video, it was fantastic commentary! Thanks for explaining several of these tricks! Im not going to be playing the game anytime soon (dont have a switch and have forbidden myself from buying one until im out of grad school) , so the tricks wont be useful to me but dang it was really interesting to hear about! but seriously, love the commentary. I would have been mystified and lost watching instead of mystified and amazed.

[@nezukokitty1232]

I can only imagine Zelda and Ganon’s faces when Link arrived 20 minutes after he woke up 😂

[@aleisterdupont4971]

23 minutes is less than a day in game. Wow.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

I mean, time is kinda frozen at 5 am for this entire run right?

[@murasakinokami9882]

@@Nat_the_Chicken Yep

[@kevinconnors2430]

Link did the main quest same day he found out about it

[@vision4860]

@@Nat_the_Chicken Ignoring that though, it's like Link just wakes up, takes a day, does the quest. Boom it's done, time to sleep again lol

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@vision4860 True

[@archerelms]

I love how PointCrow is just freaking the hell out this whole time But at the same time, actually explaining things as well

[@calvinvanrossum6973]

Ive watched a few vids of yours, and this is the one that got me to sub... Ive loved each vid until now, but your explaining of the moment caught me!!! Love your vids!

[@zalekenney6754]

I just want to know Zelda's reaction to Link doing this absurd shit. Dude woke up from his magic, rejuvenation coma and just went to work. Zelda: Didn't even have time for pants huh? Link: Hyahh!

[@darky5335]

man just cannonballed himself into the fortress with a homemade glider, some pants and a basic shield and defeated evil itself then left

[@henryhere]

@@darky5335 lol yup.

[@MixedContentMaster]

I'd you want to see zelda reaction search "botw in a nutshell" and you should see a video titled "something about breath of the wild animated" and at the end of the video you'll see how they portrayed zeldas reaction

[@henryhere]

@@MixedContentMaster the first time I watched that I didn't really get it, but then I started watching pointcrow stuff and its hilarious how accurate the animation really is.

[@hanburgundy4317]

Meanwhile, I still haven't even tried going to fight Ganon. Zelda: Just you wait, Ganon. Link will... wtf is he doing?! There's no time to fill your Hyrule Compendium with perfect pictures with just the right lighting!!! You'll never get the Restless Cricket, #%&^-$&%@!!! F***!!!

[@KiraNightV]

As someone who has tried one-shotting Windblight before, I just lost it at 12:13. That was the absolute craziest part in the video for me.

[@dizzlegotdizzy]

And the guy with so much rng is from my country

[@nicdonald]

To be fair it's spliced so for sake of arguments, the runner could've just shot the arrow in the general area for the segment since it switches to another runner during the cutscene.

[@CubingGamer13]

@@nicdonald The runners that participated to make this run are on the bottom, so if you can see, the names of the runners don't change. Therefor that was real

[@nicdonald]

@@CubingGamer13 except...it does lol. From "rokoe" who shot the arrow to "player 5" who had the fast windblight skip, no?

[@CubingGamer13]

@@nicdonald oh I did just realize that.

[@Maxamoosey]

Thank you for making a reaction video where you actually add your own content and make it original by having something informative and interesting to say about the video you are reacting to for the entirety of the video. Very refreshing, keep it up👍

[@balls_gaming]

terminal montage beat it in 4:11. (they make animations, and made a speedrun breath of the wild animation, and i think you guys would all love it)

[@zarfa-de1266]

Imagine how freaked out Gannon has to be

[@henryhere]

LOL

[@p_p-qn8jp]

He has just been chilling for 100 years then his nemesis woke up and fucking murdered him in 22 minutes along with his 4 lesser versions

[@The_Blazelighter]

I think the terminal montage depiction is quite accurate

[@henryhere]

@@The_Blazelighter i watched that before i started watching speedruns and it was funny, then i watched pointcrow, then i watched it again and it was hilarious how accurate it was. i thought glitching into the side of the shrine was just for comedic effect but no lol

[@tommy1334]

Normally I like watching speedruns without narration, but I really like your charisma. You have genuine, excited reactions to the clips which aren't annoying and get me equally as excited. Thanks for sharing this - subbed.

[@darkangelsmarine]

This is one of the first times I've seen a speedrun. This looks extremely challenging!

[@komsify4032]

This was the very first video i ever watched from PointCrow. Now i am a extremely Big fan of him. I Watch him in ups and downs. PointCrow was the reason i started playing Zelda games. And i have to thank you Eric. You do these video so incredibely good and, i really just want to thank you. Keep up the amazing work!❤

[@Bananay-qs6ie]

Today we will be learning speedrunning strats with pointcrow

[@jayant4729]

Yay

[@spongeybungey3695]

No

[@sansibit4706]

Oh no

[@vangdit0668]

(Wii shop music plays)

[@graywarden8340]

I was taking notes: *Ahem : WHAAAAAAAATTT??? THAT'S INSANE!!! ~ Crow 2021

[@craftedbyorre]

Crow: I’m somewhat of a speedrunner myself

[@NewsofPE]

@R - G - C not

[@velocityhighlights914]

@@NewsofPE he is…..

[@insertnamehere1555]

@@velocityhighlights914 a alien

[@velocityhighlights914]

@@insertnamehere1555 lol

[@themostdistinguishedsnek6856]

@@velocityhighlights914 the senate

[@aslemartinsen5284]

I love how enthusiastic you are. Never seen you before. Might have to tune in to your streams :)

[@memesfrommycomputer]

he is very good :) watch him

[@Stew-Sylvester000]

Yeeeaaahh :D

[@antyx_rl]

16:42 btw it’s monk maz koshia fight song

[@ericyang1401]

"I'll be explaining these" Pointcrow half the time: WHAT????

[@rtysdfgh2103]

Rip the poor fools who watched this without any knowledge about speed running for their brains have shut down over the mass amounts of confusion

[@ReelHirooftime]

Bro I want someone that dont play video games to react to this video

[@theunknownanomaly1950]

@@ReelHirooftime Unfortunately they probably wouldn't be impresses because they don't know how difficult the tricks are.

[@2-nostalgic]

@Jayy Menace I could speed run but I don't XD.

[@nathanreadinger3750]

Im sure the tricks are incredibly difficult However I take no pleasure in pulling off exploits. It's not satisfying. Especially with BOTW. I always take my time to enjoy it. Sure I can beat ganon with three hearts, no divine beasts killed, and pathetic armor. But personally after doing it once that's enough for me. I've proven to myself im skilled enough and now I just chill. Still impressed by the skills it takes to pull stuff like this off. Tbh I may try to learn the bomb thing just to speed up like climbing mountains cuz thats a bit boring...seems pretty difficult though.

[@2-nostalgic]

@@nathanreadinger3750 i'll just say its not hard to be god at breath of the wild once u learn it but that's why some speed run so we can challenge our selves, tho I don't do it myself the only glitch I use is nothing cos I'm nice to books :)

[@GlutenPlayz]

Watching this back is crazy how much it has changed even with speedruns like this being 4-5 years after the game came out

[@kpopalot1054]

Thanks for the great commentary, that was a fun watch!

[@redcharget5894]

ganon: oh no, link woke up, I should hide- link: hi

[@Ren-zi5zl]

i love imagining all the characters in this game just reacting to speedrun link as he defeats ganon like 22 minutes after waking up

[@likeapro4242]

I hope that one day Pointcrow reacts to the newer BotW speedrunning tricks and glitches used for the world record. Would love to see his reaction to the usage of pots and bombs that replaced all the frame perfect BokoBounces

[@CelticGuardian77]

8:24 Pointcrow: Bullet tarn barnce 😂😂😂

[@MusicTheoryDisaster]

That is INSANE! To think I play this for fun and there’s these people KILLING IT at speed running

[@speedgmaster]

I like how the tutorial area is half of the speed runs

[@Sandy_Madness]

9:25 when i played breth of the wild first time getting praglider took me 20 hours

[@etiennemathias1902]

Eric you have gone so far with zelda and i love your videos. Keep up the good work!

[@gammagames1413]

The best part of watching the actual stream is that he started the intro like 4 times and had to restart half way through the video so most of this is him acting like he hasn't seen it before.

[@chyuame]

Your reaction was exactly what I felt. Especially setupless Cryo BTB. And the craziest thing is that “v1” implies for a much better run, which to be honest it can still be optimized!! Also, a tiny difference from the ESC performed in Stasis and Bombs Shrines is that they are Quick ESCs which involves shield clipping on a frame after Link jumps. The normal ESC is on Cryonis!

[@dumpster86]

I really love how they used the ALttP castle music in the castle here! ALttP is my favorite game by far

[@basiccogs]

I remember doing windblight skip on gannon no prep. It was with a 3 shot bow tho

[@Kwauhn.]

Hey PCrow, I love your content, but this is an extra special vid for me. The speedrun analysis is super interesting to me, and it reminds me of your days streaming speedrun attempts with a small viewer base. I hope you find the inspiration to dive into the advanced strategies exhibited throughout this segmented run, and I especially hope to see you stream attempts in the future! Good analysis, you obviously know your shit! Love ya dude, keep on keepin' on

[@kirara4953]

Skyward Sword Switch speedrun maybe?

[@Kwauhn.]

@@kirara4953 Oh, I would love to see that, especially after he exhibited some knowledge of SS speedrun strats in his modded BotW SS temple video

[@secondengineer9814]

0:24 "I also speedrun BOTW, youi've probably seen from the youtube channel" *looks at the youtube channel* Hmmm what's this about cooking?

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

He's actually a professional chef who happens to stream on the side

[@EtamirTheDemiDeer]

And watching paint dry

[@lazyryan3766]

Bread is soup

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@lazyryan3766 Oh my god you just gave me PTSD lmao

[@kermie.the.frogge]

point crow if you EVER see this, you always make me laugh somehow and always make me happy when im sick, im so glad i found your channel. and your speed runs are amazing ggs man ggs.

[@antonywithnoh2923]

Your videos are amazing, bro! Fellow Zelda tuber here, only just starting out on my journey, I've got soooo much to learn from you 😁👍

[@captainwaa7274]

“Link, what the heck was that?” -Zelda

[@flaviapetrorossidefigueire6044]

That Botw speedrun parody had me dying to lol

[@gershizzle7914]

*_"WELL EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME, PRINCESS!"_*

[@red5t653]

Link takes out the Sheikah Slate and types something, then hands it over. Zelda: I did say to hurry, I suppose...

[@zars9051]

If link slapped the old man in this

[@srijadas652]

@@gershizzle7914 yeet zelda

[@kea6412]

All you need is a good gaming chair.

[@DaBestNub]

Exactly

[@zampoloo]

rgb joycons

[@gamerhatch9072]

It has to have those massage buttons

[@thebestpartofwakingupiscoc5630]

*and a really durable controller*

[@Junipurrs_]

@@thebestpartofwakingupiscoc5630 yeeeahh, otherwise, halfway through the speedrun is just *snap* *controller disconnects* *inhale* FU-

[@Aracnile]

What I find hilarious is that as of april 9th 2023, and its my 3rd time watching this video, the world record for breath of the wild is still 1 minute and 7.523 seconds behind this videos theoretical world record, but there was a second version of the theoretical world record with a time of 21 minutes and 20.533 seconds, wich is 2 minutes and 31.157 seconds faster then the current world record.

[@dragonwarz3021]

5:50 I had that happen to me on my second play through where I wind bombed to te Hateno apparatus shrine and it was in that unloaded state.

[@roseyxposey]

this video is so interesting and i really appreciate your commentary!! i love things being explained by people who love the thing, your excitement is super infectious! also you have a very nice smile 😊

[@MattLuceen]

Comment is wholesome AF and I don’t disagree

[@MixedContentMaster]

@@MattLuceen fr

[@gayMath]

I think it would definitely be cool if some games had speedrun categories that allow splices as long as it's the same player to basically compare everybody's theoretical best so far

[@chloe6969]

Mario Kart has it lol

[@rozwelljones4976]

Just imagine the tears of the kingdom speed runs, man I'm so freaking hyped for this game!😊

[@user-lb9xh8me1x]

14:43 i just love how on-beat the hits are with the music here it's so satisfying

[@CubingGamer13]

Fr

[@norgani6957]

Speedrunner:*shoots bow* Pointcrow:THATS INSANE

[@ShadowSkyX]

That "random" arrow wasn't random. They knew where windblight was going to be and they shot there.

[@norgani6957]

@@ShadowSkyX its a joke

[@lollyblizowo4343]

Ok but the thing you learn by watching summoning salt is that By Saying "I don't think anyone can do this in one run" you've just guaranteed that someday someone will.

[@a_me_1]

There's me thinking I'm doing okay on my first run and then I watch this. This is insane! I had no idea that you could even do these tricks XD

[@doultenbailey1859]

bean playing Breath of the wild for 4 years and my fastest time incliding all shrinse and all gameplay quests completed it took me 2 1/2 weeks to compleate and i havent tried speedrun yet but still im pritty good but this is just insane

[@HyruleGamer]

Yo that is my video at 0:46 !! 😍

[@adrikinnn_]

Lmaoooo

[@emmaw52]

yooo I noticed! lol

[@okuyasuniijimura]

Eyyy love your vids

[@p1harmoney]

Oh hi there

[@someonewithinternetacess4316]

Hello

[@marsisgay936]

He's so knowledgeable about this, it's so cool to hear him explain it. I've learned so much cool stuff from this channel :) thank you for making content

[@wisdomerhabor4236]

I love the excitement and emotion in the video you get a subscribe.

[@me4853]

17:07 GRANDMAS just subscribed

[@sadvec6328]

Eric memorized a full speedrun terms dictionary and is flexing it on this video

[@Astraeus..]

As someone fluently bilingual (French & English) I'm somewhat shocked to hear that the French dialogue ends up being faster. Translating from English to French will, almost always, result in it being longer and not shorter. As an example I did a quick test on 3 randomly copied texts of 600 to 750 words, and the French translation invariably ends up being 50+ words longer. But also, DAMNNNN 23 minutes...

[@Alizudo]

What about from Japanese to French? The game was developed in Japanese first and the English is a translation.

[@syrelian]

@@Alizudo The comparison point to English still stands, because English is amongst the languages available, I think the real thing here is that if you notice, a lot of the dialogue and boss titles are just Less Verbose, BotW has some real verbosity when it does use text going on that I think French just didn't reflect as hard

[@journeyoflife9159]

But speaking is faster that's why

[@jos10ac]

GOD DAM, and the speedruners runs edited together is so flawless

[@NoNo-ce8xb]

13:22 its not a blind shot . He is shooting at a Directed point on the wall .

[@CubingGamer13]

Yes but for it to work, the runner has to line up the shot on the y axis, the x axis, and the z axis. For it to work and that's why it's crazy for the runner to blindly shoot the arrow.