Why Speedrunners CANT Break Twilight Princess 

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12:25 I feel like longer speedruns are really underrated. They're like condensed longplays where you get to see the majority of the game's "main content" with less traveling around and filler. And I get to see challenging dungeons completed quickly that I'd never see in a 5-minute game-breaking speedrun.

"These two guards are just as effective as a giant magical wall" 😂😂😂 LMAO give them a raise they're doing their job right 😂

Twilight Princess is such a broken, but also unbreakable game at the same time.

I still remember watching Oot speed runs that were 2hrs long and being amazed they could beat it so fast. Absolutely crazy to think it's down to less than 4mins now!!

It's crazy that dungeons still have to be beaten in dev-intended order

3:23 “twilight princess is going to be 17 years old.” You’re making me feel old.

Those two guards being as effective as a giant magical wall is crazy. Those are the GOATs of the Hyrule kingdom. I hope one day they become an integral function of the Zelda timeline. They deserve it.

I find this so fascinating, because Twilight Princess is probably the most linear 3D Zelda. You can't even try doing sidequests without the mailman informing you of the next story beat

Twilight Princess, my first Zelda game and my favorite to this day. It just has so much fun content and I love the combat system. The story is amazing as well. I just wish some of the bosses were more fleshed out..

As somebody who has a deep affection for glitchless runs (as a viewer, not a runner), I love watching TP runs. While I still enjoy Any% and the like and certainly find them to be very impressive, there is something deeply satisfying about watching someone exhibit total mastery of the game as intended. This obviously isn't a glitchless route, but the lack of a credit warp or some other total game breaker makes my heart happy.

As someone who used to speedrun this game, it feels like the developers just barely kept out of our reach such massive time saves. So cool to see the community still working on it

While I sympathize with runners unable to crack a game down in length, these "unbreakable" games are some of my favorite to see ran. Where its soooo close to a major breakthrough but the developers made this one thing just too damn well.

Watch: now that people have heard about how hard it is to break Twilight Princess, we're probably going to get some insane breakthrough in a week or something.

To be honest, the best speedruns to watch (for me) is the ones that show of as much of the game as possible while still doing crazy stuff fast. Thats why categories like All dungeons, All stars, Or sometimes glitchless in many games, is my absolute favorites anyways. It just so happens that TP is longer but still as fast as currently possible, and it a great speedrun.

I love twilight princess when I was younger, everyday after school, I threw my backpack against the wall, sat down, and played for hours on end! Twilight will always have a place in my heart and it will continue to do so for the years to come! Also keep uploading amazing content Linkus7!

I remember how that barrier in windwaker was seen as impossible and was a huge time killer, an analysis video like this explained it. I watched some speedrunners trying all sorts of things to get past it. Then it was solved about a year or 2 later.

The YT channel 'Bewildebeest' has a fantastic commentated twilight princess 100% speedrun (which is roughly 6 hours, I think?). He goes through a lot of techniques and tricks and all that, it's very good. It's from January, so it's fairly up to date too :)

Personally I've always found TP to be the most interesting speedrun to watch --- far more so than the ones that can be beaten in under an hour. I love how many interconnecting parts there are and how just one element out of place could ruin the whole thing. Plus I think it's interesting how many differences there are in speedruns for different versions of the game.

A wrong death warp leading to a puppy test room that could be the key to the TP speedrun seems absolutely perfect to me. If this method ever gets a major breakthrough and becomes feasible, I hope it becomes known as the "Puppy Heaven" route. May the Divine Wolf find his way to Puppy Heaven and be welcomed with wagging tails!

Guards:"You shall not pass." Dogge:"I have the key, but I sadly cannot give it to you."

I think the "puppy room" in State 8 will be found eventually, just depends on how many people will actively be hunting for it. Once it is found though it will change TP speedrunning forever

This kinda reminds me of the Hades video, where it was shown as to why a 64 heat run is nearly impossible, and then a few days after someone actually managed to do one.

There are a lot of games that had just cool any% routes that were absolutely ruined when players found ways to skip to the end. And unfortunately, sometimes those old any% routes just don't translate well to a category of their own and none of the other categories are at all similar. While it might be funny for some to poke fun at how long a TP any% run is compared to other Zelda games, it's actually in a really good place.

I've learned a lot of weird things by messing around in Twilight Princess. If you cheat your way back up to the area in Telma's Bar where you went to Hyrule sewers as a wolf, you can find some interesting stuff. Link actually has a pickup animation for sticks and can walk with them, but it's never used ingame. You can also do the whole cutscene with Zelda giving her life for Midna as human Link's body pasted over Wolf Link, which makes it hilarious. There was one time where I used a cheat to get into Castle Town early from the Eastern entrance, and accidentally fulfilled Zant's wish of covering all of Hyrule in twilight. Basically all of Hyrule Field went back into the twilight state. Was cool but also scary because I wasn't sure I'd be able to undo it, but you can undo it simply by going back into the Faron region. Also savestates break the game and can often softlock you. Use with caution.

I've only just started watching some clips of TP speedruns, what a neat community and game! It's really cool to see all these crazy tricks

I honestly wish more games were built like this.

So many people believed Moon Warp in Majora's Mask was going to be impossible forever. Early Hyrule Castle will happen one day, I'm sure of it.

Great cover of Twilight Princess, I've always wondered why TP is so hard to break

Honestly I think it's a testament to what a well-put together game TP is, that even with so many skips and glitches it still isn't breakable. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see barrier skip - I remember how hype it was when they found the WW one - but until then I say we should proudly laud it as the most stable Zelda game (somehow)

God I feel old. Twilight princess was the highlight of my life

Props to Zayloox for the great editing. I usually just listen to these explanations in the background, but the visual kept me totally hooked on the video the whole way through.

Gymnast did a video on this years ago. Nice to see where the game stands today. I think some day we'll find HC early, which would almost definitially create the one hour run. If we can enter the castle before the barrier spawns, it gets rid of most requirements.

This is all pretty cool. It feels like a lot of major classic speedrun games are pretty much “solved” so to speak, and world record competition pretty much just comes down to who can pull off everything clean enough to save a few seconds here or there, or find a slight divergence in routing that is barely faster. In that sense, it’s crazy to see a game as old and widely played as Twilight Princess with its community on the cusp of completely restructuring the run, just searching for those last few discoveries to make everything click into place. It seems similar to the Wind Waker community searching for barrier skip, where the community had been fully aware of the exact skip that needed to be found to break the game, but the community still needed to spend a pretty huge amount of time searching for it until it was found.

Shoutouts to TP for being relatively unbroken for so long. Very interesting anlysis video! Thanks for uploading!

... I'm 28 years old and only just properly learned what snowballing means. I knew it meant "things get worse" but the visual in my head was always someone just throwing more and more snowballs. Like how a snowball war can start with just one kid throwing a snowball at another kid. Not... that when a ball of snow rolls down a snow covered hill it gets bigger. Suddenly everything makes sense now.

I genuinely appreciate the long speedruns of twilight princes, so many cool glitches, moves and quirks & the game plays and looks amazing

And here I was about to fall asleep. Twilight Princess content just cannot be skipped!

took me 1000hrs of grinding this game to get it under 3hrs as a speedrunner. the community members are some of the best, and longest standing members of any zelda community. Thank you for putting together an amazing video linkus!

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Explained it all so well, and actually i wouldn't mind watching some of these "long" but very skilled playthroughs i think. Thanks for the great vid.

Twilight Princess was the first Zelda game I ever played (not the first one I beat though) and one of my fondest memories is finding a youtube video about the infinite bomb arrow glitch using the minigames, and trying it out for myself. It's a super easy glitch, but I was so proud of myself that I was able to pull it off

The developer who put that barrier there: It´s a simple spell, but quite unbreakable

Twulight Princess was my very first Zelda game and still my favorite Zelda to date, so it's really interesting seeing everything that's gone into speedrunning it over the years. And I also can't wait for the eventual puppy% category.

Tbh the most exciting speedruns are imo the wind waker all dungeon speedruns. (Before they discovered the barrier skip) Doenst matter to me at all that it was a longer run. It was a test a pure skill and execution.

Windwaker: the good timeline where barrierskip was discovered. Twilight Princess: the bad timeline where barrierskip is impossible.

Wait a moment, can't a version of Hyrule Field where the Ganon fight is present be accessed with a series of glitches?

This was a really awesome video thanks so much for the speedrunners and glitch hunters for your dedication This is my favourite game of all time

Great script and narration, and fascinating topic too. Just stumbled upon this, I didn’t even know "Linkus the Speedrunner" had it like that as a content creator. Keep killing it!

Twilight princess is such a odd zelda game. It was my second legend of zelda (phantom hourglass was my first of the franchise) and I remember being quite young. The game was scary in how realistic for its fantasy setting it was. Since my first taste of the franchise was the cartoon version, going to the extreme opposite in terms of style was a shock like “damn thats weird and mature”

Love Ennopp12 and those MM speedruns. Been waiting him for 8 years. Watched all the times go down more and more

I love learning about speedruns. Sure, the real thing is fun to watch, but I love hearing the history and technique behind them.

Always love to see progress on speedrun routes!

linkus dropped this at 3:40 AM in my country time and thought i wouldn't notice it

It might be because Twilit Princess is too sad and the tears make seeing impossible

I absolutely love watching Twilight Princess speedruns despite the length of them, so many cool glitches! Great video.

I love seeing longer speedruns that show off more of the game, my favorite era of OOT speedrunning was the "cluntstovens forever 2nd place 4hr 24min". Long speedruns have so much more at stake

Zelda's Bizarre Adventure: Twilight Is Unbreakable

I'm not a total glitchless purist...but I will cop to being irrationally happy that this game is so hard to break.

I was there when the Windwaker barrier skip was discovered. The hype was unreal. I hope one day they'll uncover the way to skip TP's barrier too.

Love videos like this. Reminds me of Gymnast's old "elusive glitches" series.

Funny thing: the low% speedrun of this game takes like 17 hours to finish. Like 15 hours longer than any%

They can’t break it because it’s the best game ever created.

Oh god! You made me remeber the Wagon Escort quest! I died so many times to that a child. The stress of the chase and not beeing able save the zora prince was truly the worst. Still my all time favourite Zelda!

Theres a particular tas by gymnist that i love, it shows just what was capable but still isnt far off from current tas times with commentary about whats going on. The interesting thing tho is just how much of the game even the tas sees. It goes to every major area of the game excluding a bit under half of the dungeons, that to me is just incredible to watch

I dont know if someone has tried yet, but there is a way to hyrule castle the bar, where you go as wolf link when midna is sick maybe there's a way to get there and skio the barrier?

See I tried to do some of these glitches, like the wolf high jump, whatever article I read did not explain the highest point of the enemy, and I never got EMS.

Already saw it, it was awesome, continúe the great work linkus

I love videos just like this one. These keep my attention so well

Basically, TP speedrun routing is a constant Uno reverse card battle between the routers and the game's code

Kinda reminds me of the laminated glass that car windshields are made of. Can actually break quite easily, but still maintains its shape rather than shattering completely.

Hey Linkus, longtime viewer first time caller. Just wanna say I love these vids and how great you are at explaining how all of this works in a fun and entertaining way that makes sense to speedrunner fans but non-techie dinguses like me. These kinds of deep dive explanations are so friggin fascinating. Keep on keeping on My Dude

It's interesting to see how just adding specfic conditions to points in the game just wreck speedrunners. It seems like such a simple thing yet it's so effective

As per how these videos usually go, I look forward to someone finding one of the big 'skip to final boss' glitches within a few days. Always seems to happen after a 'this is not possible' speedrun video, lol.

Can confirm, Twilight Princess is one of my favorite speedruns to watch. It's really fun.

Great video Linkus, you have really good content 👍

yo you are a speed running legend, didnt realized this was your vid until the manscapped add/know about you for so long , keep being a god gamer

Best Zelda game.

Zelda: Twilight Is Unbreakable

I love how Linkus mentions multiple times how long the three hour speedrun is when a casual run is nearly 40 hours

I hope this is one of those times again where a youtuber makes a video explaining how "it's impossible to get a better run" and then 2 weeks later someone breaks it even further

what a coincidence - i just stated a 3 heart challenge playthrough with the 4k texture pack and revamped hack the other day. twilight princess is such an amazing game < 3

Gotta herd those goats tho

The first and only major sequence glitch I pulled off in this game is the title screen glitch. It allows you to play on the title screen, and things can get wonky, depending on what you do. It's a really fun glitch.

that was reallllly interesting. Need more ! (thanks :) )

On that last point - for sure, that's one thing about speedruns I really like, when it hits just that right sweet spot between "hackerman reaches credits" and "let's play" XD as cool as things like ACE are, actually going through the game's content, but fast/cool is always more satisfying to watch for me

I remember when twilight princess first came out and how everyone talked about its graphics this game was way way way ahead of its time In graphics story and mechanics I mean being able to transform into a freaking wolf thats bad ass af Nintendo was smoking crack back then when making games they still are now too but after playing Tears of the Kingdom im sadly hoping they don’t follow every other developer nowadays and publish remakes and remasters constantly and Slapping the number 2 on a video game with 10% more content than before

I really like where the speed run is at. There’s a sweet spot for me between a let’s play and the game is so broken you see 1% of the content. Twilight princess is in that sweet spot

Never played a Zelda game and I don't speed-run and yet I found this fascinating. It's so cool.

Any % runs do get boring after a while, so I do like TP any % for doing a large part of the game.

Now I like TP even more. 😁

Shoutouts to those castle guards. Probably the most effective soldiers Hyrule has ever had.

I remember back when WW was thought to be unbreakable due to the Hyrule invisible wall. When it comes to Zelda speedruns, I just assume with enough time something will be found that makes what was thought to be impossible, possible.

There's got to be a way to break the game it will happen I don't know when I don't know how but I believe that the community is strong and will find a way

There's the Midna Warp glitch, where if you try to activate your map and Midna on the same frame, the warp will be disabled, but so will any loading zones and you can walk on air and through objects. While Midna will usually try to keep you from transforming while in Castle Town, can this glitch be activated, and if so, be used to walk around Hyrule Castle and through the barrier? Or is the barrier a solid object all around? Or could it be used to reach Hyrule Castle before the barrier is even activated?

I always love the tricks and loopholes speed runners find to glitch through these zelda games, amazing.

“Can’t break” as the entire fabric of the game is unraveled each run

I always thought Skyward Sword would be the hardest game to break. It was like a 5 hour run and just seemed closed off compared to the rest….then the community blew it wide open and now it’s joined the rest of the series in having a short speed run lol Now TP is all alone 😢

I would be incredibly delighted if the puppy test room ends up being a viable method! They're so adorable, I think it would be charming if speedrunners got a little crowd of adoring pups for successfully getting there.

I love watching speedrunners play game. I’d love to see a series where a speed runner plays BotW or TOTK “as intended” but still taking advantage of glitches.