TotK Any%

Finally got the sub 40! Super solid run with pretty average RNG and a clutch ending. This time can definitely be improved a little bit further but I am going to leave it at this for now. I'm going to do a huge BotW grind now, so expect to see some top BotW times in not too long.

[@everynameiwantistaken]

I love when fighting Ganondorf, Colgera's theme just randomly gets blasted in your ears.

[@Aussieshepherdowner]

colgera theme for an actual bossfight

[@derricklee7713]

The ending credits do not add up for what this Link has gone through at all😂

[@Airplane-u2c]

What? The princess wanted help and link did it as fast as he could.

[@Fondue1234]

Gg ! First sub 40, you're a legend ! Gg, gg and gg

[@moldymeatballs]

Thanks Fondue!

[@Cylexa]

I always think I'm a hardcore veteran Zelda fan until I see videos like this. Well done, my dude.

[@luckstyleplays]

Still can’t believe man just came out of nowhere after QDS and just became the GOAT shortly after, crushing everyone and absolutely destroying the 40 minute barrier with a -15. Here’s to the 38!

[@richardmahn7589]

Just came to say: Never heard of this speedrunner, and is below 40????

[@luckstyleplays]

@@richardmahn7589 he sort of just came out of the blue when the Quick drop smuggle glitch was found and just became the best runner this game ever saw in only a month

[@ShirakoriMio]

tbh I'm suspicious

[@richardmahn7589]

@@luckstyleplays And now his record has stayed for well over a month! Hmmm

[@richardmahn7589]

@@ShirakoriMio It's still here as record, but I guess no one has found any fault in it, right?

[@r666y]

Ah yes, the Master Spear

[@DarkThunderBud]

first time seeing anything totk speedrun related. wow that was seriously impressive. congrats

[@renancamelo2207]

Insane run! Congrats for the record!

[@Cre4tor.]

He crazy. Sub 40 is insane

[@underdogoverland]

Literally a legend bro! Awesome run!

[@NghtmaR31]

Insane milestone dude! GG!

[@moldymeatballs]

Thanks Nightmare!

[@lovelysirius]

GOAT! GL on the BotW grind you definitely deserve a break from this game after all the time you put in to push the time down so low!

[@moldymeatballs]

I hope you'll be grinding to beat this ;)

[@ianstephens333]

This is Totk on acid/ fever dream

[@ZapterFN]

Only one word can describe this. WOW!!!

[@L3thaLl1onz66]

Bro prepared for centuries and you demolish him in 5 minutes gg. Dunno what Rauru was doing

[@Anthony_4087]

Huge GG’s Moldy!!!

[@moldymeatballs]

Thanks Anthony!

[@Gunkie12]

Link: gimme about 40 mins.

[@MyNameOnYoutube]

No way, sub 40? Insane.

[@angelico1]

Ganondorf was completely humiliated...

[@invasious]

I havent watched a totk speedrun in a long while, im glad the intro is just as broken in this game as it is in botw lmao

[@devinnotschmevin]

This game has such a great intro. Especially coming after BOTW

[@bdawg923]

Impressive af!

[@RedSlay9]

GG insane run

[@moldymeatballs]

Thanks RedSlay!

[@thatdogegamer123]

nice run keep it up!!!

[@moldymeatballs]

Thanks, but I'm done with the category for now :(

[@coolcourd]

Congrats! Very smooth, First sub 40 and with 10 sec to spare. What a flex?

[@sophiasu5885]

我操，这也太牛逼了，有些真的就是仙术，恭喜！

[@Feydon_]

Чувак, ты очень крут. 40 минут и игра пройдена (основной сюжет) красавчик

[@lxagamer3380]

W mans 🔥🔥🔥

[@vincentpham991]

Huge GG for this one! Maybe you‘ll be able to dethrone Player 5 as the best speedrunner soon!

[@moldymeatballs]

Thanks! Player 5 was actually the one who got me into speedrunning!

[@jazzensemble]

Moldy meatballs is one of the greatest runners of our time.

[@ErickT_MX]

10:13 SURPRISE MOTHERUFCKER hahahaha that kills me

[@CollectorsTree-ge6zy]

Gg!

[@swagmaster2928]

no way you didnt lobotomize zelda with how deep that spear was in her head when you pulled the sword lmao

[@nicoe.7717]

A Zelda WR and it's not Player 5!?!?!?

[@moldymeatballs]

Player 5 hasn't ran TotK since January.

[@hystericalpeanut2844]

@@moldymeatballs I haven't ran since Last August

[@isawduck]

Wow first sub 40

[@skyfree302]

GG!!!

[@Husky54]

Man I cant believe that sub 40 is possible

[@CMRWoodworks]

Wow. Awesome.

[@xF3rdi]

Legend For this one❤

[@AcousticTelevisions]

Genuine question, maybe an obvious answer.. Why do the spear attacks to so much damage? Also this is incredible! You're amazing

[@moldymeatballs]

I did a glitch called "zuggle" which lets us put unlimited weapons onto Link's hand so in this case I zuggled 4 Royal Halberds together then I fused a Black Boss Bokoblin Horn to my weapon which fuses it to all 4 of the Royal Halberds. Not only that, but the Royal weapons in TotK have a special perk where they do extra damage (I think it was 2x damage) when doing a flurry rush and you can see while fighting Ganondorf we only deal damage to him in a flurry rush. I think this adds up to ~234 damage per hit but I could be wrong about that.

[@AcousticTelevisions]

@@moldymeatballs wow! That's awesome Thanks for the in depth answer 😊

[@faith_9670]

GG

[@luk72]

HUGE

[@oh_finks]

Why purpose does taking stuff out of your inventory and then picking them back up serve?

[@atreniv]

I think it’s a duplication glitch

[@moldymeatballs]

Yeah it is a duplication glitch, which you can notice because every time I do it, the number of those materials increase.

[@trentthen642]

Sub 40!!

[@dracolinkamv9533]

GGG 😊insane

[@moldymeatballs]

Thanks Draco!

[@rowolta]

Is this the latest version of the game or the first? Perhaps you should put some info in the video meta/about?

[@joshuamorales3303]

It's the first it's quite literally in the title in it says v 1.0.0

[@moldymeatballs]

@@joshuamorales3303 I actually put that in after seeing this, so at the time they made this comment, it was not there.

[@joshuamorales3303]

@@rowolta oh ok mb G I didn't realize

[@rrrrrrrrrrrrram]

Link DOES NOT have time for Ganondorf's bullshit

[@cristianonescu]

is this the demo version of the game or what? (jk gj)

[@mj1337]

早すぎる速すぎる

[@samstromberg5593]

Are you play in Russian because it’s faster or because you’re Russian?

[@Sogbeans]

Its slightly faster

[@moldymeatballs]

Playing in russian gives you one less textbox, saving 1.1 seconds.

[@craigmcfly]

What in the name of Hylia?!

[@tapatooo]

sub 40 dubbb

[@effingeffiexo]

wait how tf did they get the battery dialog from that position 15:33

[@moldymeatballs]

We actually throw a wing capsule down to where some constructs are, and if we hit a fan that is down below, it activates the dialogue with the construct where they give you the battery. The purpose of this is to avoid a way longer dialogue that we would normally get after the Fuse shrine if we did not already get the battery by then.

[@riofernando9414]

I'm here cause youtube bring me and i'm not dissapointed

[@moldymeatballs]

I'm glad!

[@lilypad7896]

How do you do that dupe trick at 7:10?

[@moldymeatballs]

You just select the zonai devices you want to dupe and press Y and B at the same time. Note that if you want to do this with materials, you have to be either in the middle of a shield surf, or have your paraglider out when you enter the inventory. Also this only works on versions 1.0.0 - 1.1.1 of TotK so if you are on 1.2.1 it will not work. If you want to get version 1.0.0, you have 2 options; you can mod your switch, or if you have a physical copy of TotK, then you can factory reset your switch.

[@jacob-fr5zi]

@@moldymeatballs will doing a factory reset delete all of your game data?

[@moldymeatballs]

@@jacob-fr5zi Yes, it will delete all of your save data on every game on your switch. Although, I've heard that there is a way to back up your save data on your games via cloud saves. I'd look into it first though.

[@xybeptek3648]

Hey I want a Master Spear too!

[@nicholaspickles7940]

How you do the fly glitch with your bow

[@moldymeatballs]

By doing a glitch called Quick Drop Smuggle, you can put Link into a state where he can gain infinite height and perform something called Arrow Smuggle Flight. If you would like to learn how to do it then be sure to join the Tears of the Kingdom Speedrunning discord and ask for any help that you may need.

[@nicholaspickles7940]

@@moldymeatballs what version is it on

[@moldymeatballs]

@@nicholaspickles7940 Quick Drop Smuggle is v1.0.0 exclusive, but there are many different arrow smuggle setups and at least one that works on every version. Unfortunately, the higher version you are on, the slower/harder the setup is.

[@nicholaspickles7940]

@@moldymeatballs luckily am a god a pickle god so I can do any glitch

[@nicholaspickles7940]

@@moldymeatballs also I react to your speedrun

[@우빙]

uhh how

[@isabelsosa6204]

WTF amigo vos estás re loco

[@zhezhehuang4141]

Oh my god sub 40 minutes!

[@Tot_sr]

first to say ggs on yt Kappa

[@moldymeatballs]

Blue shell (thanks tot lol)

[@Tot_sr]

@@moldymeatballs 😎

[@v0ver]

А почему на русском играют? Раньше вроде быстрее было на французском.

[@an_egg_guy]

French was the fastest for Breath of the Wild, but Russian is faster in Tears of the Kingdom due to some shorter text. There are a few less dialogue boxes which saves about one second. If you've seen people playing in french in this game, then it's likely that the runner speaks french as it took a few months to find out that Russian was faster, so for a while people just played in their native language.

[@nat_cat2923]

@@an_egg_guy wow, I couldn’t even think that in some game in Russian the dialogue would be faster, usually they play Japanese or French versions for this purpose

[@GreenTacoma44]

Its insane that a game made in 2023 is this broken😂

[@madrid_drive_enjoyer]

80% of modern AAA games 😰😰😰

[@RumaLum]

For a game with no story, it's incredible how often it interrupts gameplay

[@moldymeatballs]

TotK has a story, do you mean the cutscenes interrupt gameplay?

[@samstromberg5593]

I can’t even figure out what that’s supposed to mean Most of the time I would assume you’re just calling the story bad but my buddy you cannot possibly be serious

[@madrid_drive_enjoyer]

Someone didn’t play the game and based it off the literal speedrun that includes the prologue, tutorial and ending close together.

[@TeamAquasHideout]

Joke KZbin Commenters Heads

[@moldymeatballs]

@@samstromberg5593 I personally loved the story, but I have heard tons of people who thought it was kind of alright and I'm sure a ton of people hated it. Absolutely no need to say anything like that please.

[@shaunneydobie]

It doesn't look enjoyable to play like that.

[@moldymeatballs]

For people like me, it is the most fun way to play the game, but remember, speedrunning is not for everybody!

[@winzygamer7086]

same could be said about BOTW speedruns. I find this to be absolutely crazy in the best way possible, that the speedrunner goes from leaving the great sky island to fighting the final boss in a few minutes.

[@j_eezus_christ_bro_chill]

The joy comes from knowing you're a speedrunning god.

[@verbalstreet]

It must be infuriating that half your run is just watching cut scenes.

[@moldymeatballs]

Particularly the 4 minute unskippable cutscene at the very beginning :(

[@MyNameOnYoutube]

can’t you start with 06:39 added to the timer on later versions

[@moldymeatballs]

@@MyNameOnKZbin Technically you can on every version, but in this case, because I'm running on v1.0.0, which is the only version where the intro clip works, it saves over a minute to go through the intro every time if you do the clip and the out of bounds movement well.