The Speedrunners Trying to Break 'The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom'

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The Speedrunners Trying to Break 'The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom'
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a speedrunners' paradise. Zelda TOTK

Players have already figured out how to crack the game in smaller, yet wildly useful ways. In one example, a player tricks the game’s system into transforming a plank with an apple into a sort of magic carpet transport that can zip across the map at high speeds. Glitches and the advantages they provide are generally welcomed by the speedrunning community. They’re fair game, Wernicke says, with rare exceptions for extreme examples that would allow you to override code and write your own.

’s secrets, and many will spend the months to come combing through everything the game has to offer. It’ll have to tide them over until Nintendo begins to even consider its nextgame. “They’re wonderful to play and deconstruct in unsuspecting ways, and I hope they continue to bring new creativity—both casually and for speedrunning—in the future games,” Wernicke says.

For the development team, they’re excited to see how players skip past their own imaginations and expectations. And yet: “I have to admit there is a little part of me that’s a little bit scared,” Fujibayashi says of speedrunners’ talents for cracking games open. “But of course we did create this game in a way that is meant to be broken, that is meant to really push the envelope in terms of how people express their creativity.

But in the speedrunning community, victories are lost as quickly as runs themselves. As of this writing, Gynmast86’s best run is only enough to earn him fifth place. A player called Zdi with a time of

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