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> bug-free when it came out

Might want to double check with the speed running community on that.

https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/2018/10/18/speed-glitch-b...

There is a difference between convoluted glitches left in the published game and publishing a game near-unplayable without massive day one patches.

Most glitches exploited by speedrunning are not things that 99.9% of typical players are going to encounter while completing a normal playthrough of the game. Even something as simple as whistle sprinting is almost impossible to discover by accident, much less things like using shield swaps to reset animations or manipulating the physics engine.

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