100% Completion

100% Completion is an optional challenge in every Zelda game, which requires the player to collect every single item, collectible, and complete every single task that there is to do within the particular game. What this includes varies greatly from game to game and this challenge serves as an additional gameplay element for players after they complete a game.

In the Speedrun community, 100% is often one of the categories that is tracked. In some cases, what appears in the 100% category doesn't actually include every single aspect of the game. This is often because in some titles, gathering every single item adds an unrealistic amount of time to the game with excessive amounts of RNG. An example of this is, in the 100% Speerun category of Phantom Hourglass, the player does not need to acquire all of the Ship Parts.

General Rules

In all games, simply completing the game is part of the 100% category. There are other common objectives that are the same across almost all Zelda titles.

• Defeat the Final Boss
• Acquire every Dungeon Map and Compass. Open every Treasure Chest in the game
• Acquire every Piece of Heart and Heart Container
• Collect every Inventory Items, all Upgrades, Collectibles, and other Rewards

The Legend of Zelda

• Collect all 13 Heart Containers.
• Upgrade Bomb capacity to 13.
• Shows the old woman the letter.
• Uncover all Overworld Caves, and Dungeon Shortcuts
• Defeat Ganon

To truly 100% The Legend of Zelda these objectives must be completed on the Second Quest as well.

A Link to the Past

• Collect all 24 Pieces of Heart
• Acquiring the Golden Sword, Red Mail, and Magical Boomerang
• Upgrading Arrow capacity to 70 and Bomb capacity to 50 at the Pond of Happiness
• Upgrade the Magic Meter

See Also

• Speedrun
• Three Heart Challenge