Hit New Speeds With This Wind Waker HD World Record Progression Video

Wind Waker HD speedrunner, Linkus7, recently released a progression video, showing the path of the game’s Any% category, from the release of the game all the way through to the current day. The Any% category simply states the objective as “Defeat Ganondorf”, meaning runners can use any glitches or exploits at their disposal. These days this means utilizing Super Swimming, Item Sliding, and even Barrier Skip, but the run wasn’t always so intricate.

The video starts with a brief explanation of the “intended” route through the game, and how this is the path runners took soon after it released, with the first recorded time being 6:20:23. It progresses to describe how this time was lowered, and by which runner, covering the major milestone (particularly the first Sub-4 hour run).

Moving on, Linkus covers the discovery of major glitches, such as Item Sliding, and finally Barrier Skip, also describing the consequences of this skip (a huge luck factor with low success rate at the very end of the run). Finally the video reaches the current record and route, with runner Ian_Miles29 holding the 57:08 record, as well as being the only runner to have achieved a sub-1 hour run.

Have you ever seen a Wind Waker HD speedrun? Has this video convinced you to watch one? Let us know in the comments!