The History of BotW Any% World Records

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

I really hope you enjoy this video! Let me know if you want more Zelda speedrunning history videos like this and/or if you'd like to see me livestream my attempts to lower my personal best time (a 28:14 as of the time of publishing) And, if you enjoyed, please like the video. It helps so much. Thanks for watching and reading!

[@Cliffordlonghead]

hi

[@Cliffordlonghead]

First

[@MrFerrix450]

Thank you for making this beautiful video😊

[@Freskabri]

Seeing more would be fantastic! I've been quietly waiting for Salt to upload more Zelda stuff, but it's yet to be. Great work! I do like that you also mentioned runs that would've been a WR if other things hadn't happened (especially the one that just wasn't verified for a couple days). Personal top picks for video topics? Honestly just any Zelda game you don't normally see people talk about, if you think it'll make for a good video. Also enjoying the sports commentary at the end LMAO. Now that I'm thinking about it though, I wonder what speedruns look like in some of the less... played games, like OoA/OoS. Edit: How many years have I been a Zelda fan? Since birth baby!!! (aka, 27 B))

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Thanks! Come to think of it, I've never watched an oos/ooa speedrun. Now I'm curious. Glad you liked the play-by-play. Sportscaster was exactly what I was trying to channel there

[@Potentially_Hacker]

I'm gonna be honest my jaw dropped when you mentioned that *SethBling* was the first ever record holder.

[@jelloshot]

dudes a decently active runner! he developed a whole arbitrary code execution method on super mario bros

[@TrevorTreefort]

I’ve been hoping Summoning Salt would do this video for years, but this is AMAZING! Better than what I had hoped for

[@TheJolteonMaster]

Today I learned btb stands for “bounce that boi” & I love it.

[@Hydraina]

I think Smallant is the one who originally started calling BTB's "Bounce that boi" instead of "Bullet time bounces" haha. Clips of him saying that are in his old all shrines vods. They're fun watches!

[@JohnDBlue]

I love that smant bacronymed it into a much better phrase ❤

[@Cantrona]

Smant was the first Breath of the Wild speedrun I ever watched so BTB will always be bounce that boiiiii and wind bombs will always be boomie zoomies

[@JohnDBlue]

​@@Cantrona and of course what the hell is BLSS? All I know is bomb wiggle :D or was it wiggle bomb? Been a while since I watched Smant doing BotW

[@legend0fmads]

I will be honest when I heard you were making a video on speed running records i was like “eh, okie” but holy crap this video was INSANELY interesting. I was so wrong and I’m so sorry for having doubts! I actually learned a lot in this video about different glitches & how they work (which I originally never had knowledge on) makes me wanna do my own speed run for fun! Thank you Zelda Enthusiast for this video and your hard work!

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Lol all good! Had been wanting to make this one for a long time, and it ended up being waaay bigger an undertaking than I thought, but I already knew it was a good story bc I started running the game in 2021. I'm happy you enjoyed!

[@legend0fmads]

@@TheZeldaEnthusiast 27!! I forgot to add that lol

[@LizzyyyG02]

You don’t know how much I live for long form botw content this means so much to me thank you mr enthusiast

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Thank YOU!

[@KulaMedli]

My quickest BOTW speedrun was an all devine beasts one of around 5 hours and 30 minutes, as a mostly casual player. I used whistle sprint throw sprint and windbomb since they're the only glitches I knew. Though it can't really set as a record, it's my best time yet- and my friends were surprised since I had only recently beaten the main game

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

GG. I've never taken the time to learn all dungeons.

[@KulaMedli]

@@TheZeldaEnthusiast tbh I fumbled a heck ton in ruta and naboris lmao

[@RealYaoi]

this video was a real treat. as someone whos been a casual viewer on and off of botws runs from launch, it was like taking a walk back in time seeing and remembering all the strats and seeing just how much it changed and how quickly. great work :D

[@Vivian_Does_Stuff]

Yo, this was so interesting man, love these types of videos in particular as well and glad someone had made one for such a historic speed running game and probably the most significant game in my life❤ Can’t wait to see this for totk, I watched some runs by other players and am so excited to see what they will discover next, and how it will impact the future of the speedruns

[@TheCCore]

Botw was the first game I’ve ever speedran (thanks to your tutorials). This game will forever hold a special place in my heart. Great video man!

[@12times12_]

Core out here spittin' facts (I'm in the exact same place because of the exacts same fantastic man named Tony)

[@Nope_ihtt]

6 minutes ago????? This feels like a video that would have tons of views, I've struck gold

[@DUshyanthRavinduHettiarachchi]

Same

[@sleepdeep305]

So true to creating something for yourself to enjoy! I knew nobody else was gonna spend 3 months making a full show multicam of the concert I went to, so I went ahead and did it myself

[@12times12_]

It just feels right to get this video from the man who's tutorials taught myself and so, so many others to speedrun this game. The impact you've had on this community can't be overstated, and I'm glad to see it all come full circle in a way.

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Been my pleasure to have you along for the journey. Thanks for everything YOU'VE done!

[@MJ_0019]

Fantastic video, Tony!! I think you should do a video on all the "extra" speedruns botw has as well, like butterdog, bread%, etc. (AND 27, PLEASE)

[@colakelvins]

Incredible video! I stopped watching BOTW speedruns a little before BLSS was discovered, and when one came on my recommended earlier this year I was like HUH?? WHAT?! Lol. Awesome to hear about the current strats and the WR history

[@vizzzyy190]

"this runs a joke, lets get wr" this is exactly why i love speedrunning 😂 fantastic video!

[@deedodson2452]

Hey Tony! So glad you made this video! Always wanted to see all the different versions of Any%. ❤

[@LouLouCore]

I need to get wr again so people don't just see how I looked like 5+ years ago 😂 Great video btw!

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

GG and GL gamer, thanks!

[@jackdias9263]

Great video. It’s impressive to have this depth of game knowledge and history while also articulating it so well. May the algorithm give its blessings.

[@LighteningS7]

I really enjoyed this video, and would love to see more like it. I would especially like to see videos on meme categories, stuff like become monke%, go home and die%, or butter dog dog wit da butter on him% (yes those are all real speedrun categories)

[@12times12_]

Tony should do a video like this on Bread%

[@Fistburg]

Commenting for the algorithm 🙏 Great content

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Appreciate it! Thanks

[@krytolandros1775]

Great video man! You have a great presentation style that has a pleasant calmness often lacking in SS's videos (though I love them too). You should feel proud of this. (27 :) )

[@MajesticQT]

Great video! Being featured even if only for 10 seconds is still pretty sick. Maybe I need to do some runs again

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Absolutely dude! You're a part of botw history, GG!

[@gracemurphy5294]

awesome video! Been looking for one like this. This needs more attention

[@sansidee1784]

Super cool video ! It was really detailed which I really appreciated as someone who didn't know much about botw speedrunning before

[@ceceliagermann7716]

Great video, Tony! Couldn't have asked for a better KZbinr to put this history together. Your explanations of the strats and routes were excellent, as always, and the timeline was clean and demonstrated the record progression well. On a different note, I'd love to see you get back to streaming BotW or TotK PB attempts someday, or just streaming in general, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Hanging out on stream was always a blast! Either way, hope you've been well and thanks for the wonderful content ❤

[@aag24]

Excellent - thank you very much. I'm 27% delighted!

[@murmirr]

Great and concise video, I've been needing more chill content like this to watch. Your commentary is really nice. Thank you!

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Yeah, about 7.5 years down into about 1.5 hours. Hadn't thought of it that way, but it is somewhat concise. I cut out a ton of extra fluff from the original script during the editing process 😂

[@sammyboi5559]

Was begging summoning salt to make this video, but you’ve done a fantastic job. Would love this for TotK in a year or two

[@jakubhusi258]

Summoning Salt would be proud. This was just as addicting as one of his videos. As someone who doesn't actually speedrun, but watches alot... I have been waiting on an any% history for BOTW forever. I always wondered what the new tricks were that were evolving, and you did a great job explaining to new fans and old.

[@IMadeThatJumpCmon]

This is fantastic, would love to see more like this or for other interesting categories!

[@1SlateS314]

I can already tell this is going to be a banger. Awesome that this community also gets a summoningsalt style video :)

[@NIX-FLIX]

Up until the release of TOTK, BOTW was the game that kept on giving new tricks were discovered every month it seemed and after the discovery of IST, you could probably program the game from scratch if you wanted to heck somebody managed to make all of Hyrule on a DS

[@donutkidpastry7895]

I watched a lot of gymnasts streams when the game first came out, the constant back and forth between record holders was so much fun watching

[@Megukagi]

my personal favorite part of the speedrun is when zelda says "it's zeldin' time!" and zelds all over the place, immediately killing calamity ganon

[@s3eriousbl9ck26]

0:50 and it's not just his channel. I don't think Tomatoeanus or Carl Jobst has ever covered modern Zelda speedruns

[@MaestroMxx]

Great Video. I love watching World Record historys for videogames. Seeing what was when discovered and implemented is so cool and interesting. I love BotW speedrunning and this video is great.

[@cosmicjellyf1sh]

Great video! I bought BOTW in 2022 and started watching the speed running almost instantly. There was a nostalgic element to this video because I loved that time of watching the records improve constantly. Also… 27.

[@X-ForceBro]

1:17 everyone has the right to make their own video even if it's about to some same subject and someone else did it you have your own perspectives to weigh in and your own point of view on how it took place so feel free to make it

[@natebot08]

I’m so happy you used a timeline to show the records like summoning salt cause they make it so much easier to see but I do wish you zoomed out in it at the end

[@NicholasBailey-pd9fo]

This is a great video and amazing history you got yourself a sub

[@mirani5278]

Your content is so amazing, i really appreciate all your effort! This kind of video is so entertaining, keep it up :)

[@Professor_Wisteria_]

this game is one of the coolest speed games in speedrunning history imo, the hilarious janky shit that you can pull off to just send link flying across the entire map will always be funny to watch also something that is true for MOST speedrunning but i still like to point out is how the runners name their splits for the runs. you get some pretty silly names based on throwaway lines and inside jokes with chatters on stream and it really does give the feel that it's not just the runner working at this, it's an entire community together finding and solving new puzzles to break our favorite games

[@SMO_Boi]

I just came across how I will spend my afternoon

[@kalebburgess5898]

Great Video! You are completely underrated!

[@catRat_attack]

you should do another video like this but with 100% runs!! that would be really cool

[@Simchen]

What a great overview of the speedrun history of a legendary game. Thanks for all that effort ^-^

[@nightmonkeygaming1664]

This is an underrated gem 😊

[@Sturben-qn7ph]

This video is so good, this needs more views

[@Jagaters]

Perfect timing. Now I have 100 minutes of entertainment while being sick

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Well, hopefully an easier 100 minutes closer to you feeling well again

[@Jagaters]

@@TheZeldaEnthusiast Thanks, it was great!

[@adamdearden7226]

You're the very best for making this video.

[@ryanspratt4161]

This video was Amazing, super duper glad I stumbled across it on my home page!! Well organized, well spoken, well researched and well paced. What a rare treat of a video, most certainly for it being my favorite game as well! I’m a P5 content enjoyer, so I’m biased of course 😂🔥

[@black_hoody]

I just started learning speedrun last week through ur videos. Thanks man ! I love ur vids

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

That's awesome, have fun!

[@Stu67nt]

Sethbling is NOT someone who i expected to be in thsi kind of vid lol

[@elliotmcmaster177]

Me clicking thinking it was summoning salt “this is still neat I watch”

[@mysticdusk1162]

This is a really cool video thanks for making it :)

[@TheJolteonMaster]

Early world records having deaths to falling off the tower & their own bombs is validating asf. 😂

[@mauricewijnen3516]

Good video, sir! Keep up the good work!

[@iikodane7166]

Added to the giant speedrun documentary playlist!

[@speedbrknek]

Gotta say wow the work done here one has to subscribe. Thanks!

[@88Tyler]

I love this channel, great job on such s fun assortment video topics man.

[@big_ole_queer_mess]

Oh, this is perfect I'm excited for this

[@paula-zzz]

i would love more speedrunnimg history videos :)

[@fluojn]

Great stuff! BotW is still my all time favourite game! My only gripe is that the lowest times are spoiled from the start of the documentary. Wouldn't it have been more suspenseful to reveal progress litlle by little?

[@isaiahcelestin3385]

Great video! If you ever do another one of these types of videos, I’d suggest adding more music throughout the video

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Thanks, yeah I was thinking about that, and opted instead to work with soft gameplay bg sound, but sometimes with the runners talking in the bg I had to lower them to not talk over me lol

[@Mer_girl]

Thank u for making this.

[@baileejohnson9968]

Both this and TOTK are so broken i love it

[@XavierArrived]

Your voice is so iconic idk why lol

[@Chronas264]

loved the video! nice one

[@prime6965]

27:59 or lower otherwise we storm hyrule castle

[@Mr.C0ffee]

Can we get a video of tears of the kingdom world record history!?? 🙏🏼

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

In 5+ years, yes

[@Random_Inder]

38:30 I didn’t even know there was a bow on the chandelier😅

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Ya learn something new every day lol

[@CarliDenton]

I love Summoning Salts Videos, I’ve been waiting to see a Zelda one!

[@ThatBoyAqua]

Finally, some good food

[@Kellestial]

How do you get the time graphics with all the runs on it?

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Couple of Google sheets spreadsheets and the stats page on botw's speedrun.com listing

[@surrealisticlilac8539]

Im loving the content ‼️

[@tabbitee]

I'm a P5 fan, go P5, and go Zelda Enthusiast, cos this was awesome!

[@earotinaj]

Brilliant 👍 thanks

[@ilyftyt]

Peak game and Summoning Salt fans gather, absolute cinema

[@itsyaboi_lehoe]

Oh hell yeah! I love vids like this

[@EIZENSTEIN.]

sub 20 will happen before the 10 year anniversary of botw, calling it

[@Akitektur]

1:03:32 absolutely cruel cut

[@valshaped]

52:08 The game gets confused!!!

[@Zarkator]

21:31 BROOOOOOOO you did not have to do him like that XD

[@Its_Squiddd]

8:15 shield jumping hadnt been discovered? isnt there an in game tutorial for it?? and i couldve sworn they showed off shield surfing before launching the game

[@GreenEmperor]

It's probably because people rushed to finish the game and do a speedrun.

[@vizzzyy190]

it has a different timing for the jump, as the shield jump that they use to close the gap usually requires unequipping the shield in the middle of the jump. this gives an extra boost

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Yeah, I'm referring to shield jumping as a means to cross gaps usually meant to be too far to jump, as opposed to going in for the surf

[@Its_Squiddd]

@@vizzzyy190 oooohhh ok that makes more sense, thanks!

[@Gabbycatty]

I wonder if anyone in these videos ever got to play the game casually ever lol

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Most play casually so much that they eventually decide to speedrun the game after a few playthroughs to extend replayability. It's a whole different way to experience the game

[@Sizarrek]

Hey just a little feedback if you ever plan to do something like that again in the future you should not show the whole graph with times basically at the start of the video it was pretty disappointing to see the whole graph like that spoiling the all the times. As a viewer I think its better to show the time going down as the video goes. And the second thing I wish you could do is explain the glitches used in speedruns, for example with the fall damage cancel glitch it was like "so poeple found a glitch where fall damage is cancelled" and that was pretty much it with the explanation so it would be nice to hear some more about gliches explaining how they were done or how they were found, but good video over all had a good time watching it

[@judyh3707]

18:30 classic gym

[@OctoHayden29]

I would speedrun BOTW, but sadly the WII u died and IDK how to record it. great video though.

[@UncleLarrrry]

So what speedrun did TerminalMontage base his BotW speedrun animation off of?

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

Stuff with the stasis first plateau route with btbs

[@TheDomander]

Well, Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess!

[@davii_ms]

Once a Pirate, always a Pirate.

[@Thym-]

By the way. Wouldn't it maybe possible to skip at least another fight if you kill water-, fire-, or thunderblight with a bomb and while he's dying shoot an arrow to skip another fight?

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

In theory yes, but there's no known consistent setup to pull anything like that off. There is a calamity skip for those longer categories where the flights are already dead though

[@EggZu_]

tryna watch the video but I'm jamming out too hard

[@riftblaze]

nice

[@shakedwald]

BTB or bounce that boy" lol"

[@BEAThatesyou]

Hell yeah this is my shit.

[@Cyrus_got_verified]

Where can i still watch the first run of breath of the wild?

[@TheZeldaEnthusiast]

www.twitch.tv/videos/126304656?t=2h22m58s

[@eb_games5363]

Insanely well made video

[@sneakytiki9424]

Totally different feel from summoning salts. You seem to just mock early runs.