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don't have the game, but i was under the impression you could walk over to the final boss fight in 15 minutes. are you maybe doing some min maxing to avoid that fight?

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I very much doubt that's the case, at the very least I doubt it's possible for all but the most freakishly talented. There are regular enemies all over the world, even in the tutorial area that can single hit you, even after you've upgraded a lot.

So, a simple "run to the final boss and then die" is 12 minutes [0], but actual speedruns routed for completion have quickly dropped from 1.5 hours to under 1 hour just within the past week. [1] Speedrunners are very gutsy and innovative and are basically guaranteed to find ways to dramatically reduce times on a game this popular.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=samulGnaDVg

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYa2eAZ718

Looks like the speedrunners have it under an hour now. http://www.usgamer.net/articles/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-spe...

I mean, sure, they're probably crazy good, but i doubt you're 30x worse than they are. Watch a video or two. I don't think you'll set a record or anything, but i bet you'll be able to finish the game real fast.

That's just not how games like this work, and it's not that normal gamers are worse. It's perfectly reasonable that a normal gamer might take 30 hours to complete a game that a speed runner can complete in an hour. One's goal is to play the game, the other's goal is to use their existing game knowledge to cut out as much content as possible.

You can't expect to do a speed run on your first play through without following a guide, and if you do that what's the point in even playing it? Unless beating games as fast as humanly possible is your thing.

I'd put them in the freakishly talented category. There's no way 99.9℅ of us could do that.

actually me and my friends did it like the video (we actually entered the castle in a more regular way, using a raft and then using the rails) and came to the first ganon bosses. I let them play and everytime one died they needed to switch controllers, they played all previous zeldas but never botw and they came really really far in something like 4 hours, while switching the controller. (of course they skipped all the main quests).

Just because a game _can_ be beaten like that doesn't mean that's all there is to it. Example: far cry 4 [0]

[0] http://kotaku.com/far-cry-4-has-a-hidden-bad-ending-16589899...

Haven't played it either, but from what I've heard you can do that, but you'll get pounded to a fine paste by said boss in about three seconds flat.

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