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Speedrunners will return for Tears of the Kingdom on May 12.
IGN interviewed Breath of the Wild speedrunners ‘Player 5’ and Tom “Tallest Thomas” Rasmussen about starting over in Tears of the Kingdom and what they expect from the sequel’s early days.
Fuse, Ascend, Recall, and Ultrahand are expected to change the game, and both speedrunners are excited:
Player 5: “I’m hoping that none of [Breath of the Wild’s speedrunning techniques] get carried over so that we have kind of a brand new set of techniques to use… Because I can just play Breath of the Wild if I want to use those glitches… Getting to figure stuff out at the early stages of the game should be fun, before there’s an established route.”
Tallest Thomas: “I’m not actually discouraged by the fact that mechanics are changing. It’s gonna be weird, it’s gonna be an adjustment, but it’s definitely going to be something very fresh and very cool to use. I love helping develop strats and learning setups… That’s one of my favorite things about speedrunning… So I am super excited for the whole new, ‘Let’s explore and discover everything’ of Tears of the Kingdom.”
The same speedrunners also mention how new discoveries in Tears of the Kingdom could advance speedrunning in existing Zelda titles, similar to how Skyward Sword’s “Back in Time” technique was replicated in Twilight Princess.
After years of discovering and exploiting glitches, the Breath of the Wild speedrunning community was able to reduce runs to minutes, so Tears of the Kingdom may follow suit.
Speedrunners say they’ll take their time on their first playthrough to enjoy the game.
Tallest Thomas: “When I play through Tears of the Kingdom the first time, I’m going to try to break it as minimally as possible as I’m doing my first playthrough…once that playthrough is over and I’ve beaten the storyline or whatever, then I’m gonna go ahead and start going really hard at trying to break it and beat it fast.”
