Zelda Speedrunner Beats Link Between Worlds for the FIRST TIME (100%) 

Hope you guys enjoy the video and the conclusion to the A Link Between Worlds Playthrough! Next week we are checking out the Randomizer for this game as well, so subscribe so you don't miss it!!!👀

Funfact: Ravio wears a purple bunny outfit cause...in LttP Link is a bunny in Dark World without the pearl. Its a big hint as to who he was the entire time X3

What the ending of Link Between Worlds tells me is that there are legit no restrictions for what you can wish for from the Triforce, like you can just wish for a second one. Or a thousand.

I love how Hyrule and Lorule are the antithesis of each other, not only by one being with and the other without a Triforce, but even Hilda and Ravio are the opposite of Zelda and Link. Zelda is the holder of Wisdom, while Hilda trusting Yuga was foolish to say the least. Link is the holder of Courage, yet Ravio fled Lorule because he believed he couldn't save it, in other words, he lacked the courage to fight for it. The only thing that stayed the same between all of them is their desire to do good, even if Hilda summoned Yuga-Ganon, in the end she only had the best intentions for her land.

I love that Stalblind doesn't let you hit him the same way 3 times. He actually adapts to you by throwing away the shield. It's a nice touch when they actually change their strategy during the fight. Makes it feel like it's an actual being you're fightning

Best ending to any Zelda game. Actually makes me tear up hearing Hilda cry in relief.

There's actually a unique little thing in the second playthrough. Spoilers beneath a read more. You remember the house that serves as the Lorule counterpart for Link's house? Well the second playthrough/hard mode lets you find a journal that you can't access on a "first" playthrough. Turns out, it's Ravio's journal and his house in Lorule does line up with Link's house in Hyrule. And apparently Ravio had quite a bit to say about Hilda and Yuga both...

Regardless if you see it as a Remake or Sequel, it’s quite an impressive Zelda game for the 3DS.

When you remember this game was made for the 3DS and it's a portable experience it suddenly becomes one of the greatest Zelda games on the list if not the best 2D style Zelda.

Thanks for checking out my favourite game ever! ALBW deserves so much more love

The streetpass battles are really fun to do. Someone should make a game out of that

I love it when stories manage to make a twist out of something we knew the whole time. In this case, a little detail from the original Link to the Past: (spoilers if you haven't finished the video) Dark-World Link is a pink bunny!

15:10 - _"In this land, only eyes blinded by darkness can see the way..."_ 38:38 - I love how this twist was pretty much staring us in the face the whole time (especially for anyone that played LttP). 41:25 - God, even to this day, something about this ending always gets me. 😭

my favorite thing is that you also see those enemies as hamburgers with lettuce. I've been saying since links awakening that I'm tired of fighting cheeseburgers, especially when I lose

I’m glad that you’ve gotten to finish one of my favourite childhood games, hope you enjoyed it!

I want to echo something Linkus said in this video, this game is super fun and not overwhelming to 100%, I did it back when the game came out without looking up a single thing. I would highly recommend trying to 100% it and there’s no shame in using a guide if you need it, it’s a ton of fun!

So since you and Ravio are counterparts to each other like how Zelda and Hilda are, if you put your names together, you get... RavioLi-nk. It all comes full circle...

41:42 it's a shame you didn't left the credits, they're really good

I'm not really a huge fan of zelda games but ALBW has been one of my favorite games since i first played it, it was so much fun and made with so much love. glad to see you enjoying the experience too. this actually inspired me to break out my old cartridge and finish 100%ing my file fun fact, you can actually have the full defense buff of both tunics while keeping the blue appearance. the appearance will be based on which tunic you pick up last, so if you skip the blue tunic in the water temple and come back to it after getting the red tunic from lorule castle, you'll have full protection and still be blue. plus, it makes the lorule dungeons harder cause you wont have the blue mail defense buff. it actually properly displays the blue armor in the ending cutscenes too

ALBW is so good! Almost everything about this game is 10/10. A really nice detail that this game that very few Nintendo games have is that after you "solve a problem," you can talk to the victims of said problem and tell them good news. Link isn't as much of a silent protagonist here. Obviously if you do a side quest, like most games, they'll thank you and that's really it. However, you can talk to the NPC's that personally knew a sage before their kidnapping, they'll have some extra thing to say after Link informs them of their rescue. For example, you can tell each of Gulley's parents he's safe once you rescue him, or the Witch after you save Irene. My personal favorite is the Zoras. Once you save their queen, if you go back to Zora's Domain and tell them you rescued her, their actually completely shocked because they had no idea she was even missing!

This is one of the most wonderful throwback-fan service games ever made, and the fact that it's a zelda title is just extra gravy

I’m glad you got to finish my favorite 3DS game. Watching you play brought me back so many memories and the Stalbind boss is IMO the best boss in the game since they changed it so much.

Literally such an underrated zelda game. The puzzles and boss fights are fairly simple, but there's enough going on that it gives for really smooth and satisfying gameplay. It's like a well designed platformer that perfectly lets you run and jump through the whole level with just enough difficulty that you feel proud of yourself for doing it.

Truly one of the greatest handheld zelda games. I think its subtle use of the 3D screen was the best application in the entire 3DS library. Glad you enjoyed it!

I’m happy you really enjoyed A Link Between Worlds man! It’s definitely my favorite 2D Zelda if not my favorite Zelda game period so I’m really glad that you got to play it!

Watching your first video on a link between worlds made me go 100% it in like 2 days! Thanks dude!

I've been waiting for this! So glad you made another video on it, such an underrated game

What's great about ALBTW is how you can play the dungeons in any order you want. If you do the water dungeon last, it helps keep the challenge for the other dungeons since you won't have the blue tunic.

Damn dude, i've known you for years as a speedrunner but lately i have been watching your uploads and they're all spectacular, big ups for you bro and I hope everything's well!

A Link Between Worlds is one of my favorite Zelda games to recommend people. It's cute, the levels are relatively simple/digestible, and I loved how they made traveling to the other world interesting. I also liked the characters and general feeling of being IN the world

It is so great seeing you play through my favorite game! I tried not so long ago to beat the game with no upgrades (no item upgrades, green tunic, no shield, and no Mastersword upgrade) and this was so much fun! The fact you can just ignore the upgrades (once you know where they are ofc) let you customize your upgrades, as long as you are not a completionist

Finally! I was waiting for it! Thx for paying attention to such a good, yet unspoken, Zelda game!

Man, I'm having a horrible time, and watching this has done well to make me feel a little better. You've got a nice personality for these kinds of videos.

yaaaay thank you for dropping this I've been waiting for this soooo (actually not that long since the last a link between worlds video dropped) long

It's been super fun watching you play my favorite Zelda game! I'm looking forward to the randomizer video.

Honestly first and only Zelda I’ve ever 100%, it just felt super comfortable to play the whole time. Even on repeat playthroughs, it’s just so cool

Finally Linkus been waiting very patiently on this one! Lol, cheers m8.

I really loved the Dark Palace, because it’s lead up is a very unique take on stealth in Zelda and the dungeon itself is such a clever use of light and darkness. Lorule Castle also has one of my favorite dungeon songs in Zelda. The way it slowly builds up in intensity as you climb up the floors is awesome.

If you haven’t watched a speedrun of this game you should react to it. It has easy to understand glitches which are still very cool

Linkus giving back Ravio his name, truly means it's a good game But let's be honest, he'll always be our Ravioli

This is still by far my favorite 2d zelda and my 2nd fave zelda ever Ravio is literally peak fiction

ALbW is such a great game. I really enjoyed playing it all those years ago. Was entertaining watching you play it Linkus. I'm a bit sceptical about a rando in this game because of the Ravio items, interesting to see, how they solved that. Looking forward to your videos about it.

This will be one of my favorite videos. There is just something special when you watch someone play a game that you liked yourself.

This is without a doubt one of my favorite 2d Zelda games. So happy to see you enjoy it!

Always love the Zelda speedruns amd i love that you try all games🥰

38:29 “there’s no way we can use net” *flawlessly does net*

Linkus: dont do any sound Me during my troll days: *opens Clash of clans in my bedroom, Max volume, at midnight*

this was my first zelda game so it is very special to me :) watching you play it was awesome!

Things brings back so many fond memories of having fun with this game - truly great dungeon and mechanics design and actually fun to 100%

YOOOO, i cant wait to watch this. I saw the other half and that was awsome sauce

56 minutes ago. This was your first time playing but to me this was my first time watching any gameplay of this game, so it was my first experience and I loved it, I can imagine how playing was fun! It’s a really impressive 3D game and seeing it does make it one of my favourites. I hope to see the randomizer in the future because I think that would be a cool and funny video 😊! I had watched the first video on this a day I was sick, now I’m happy to watch feeling much better!

About time a somewhat overlooked game, my all time favorite, being finished by this lad

YESS THE RANDOMIZER!! I’ve been playing it this week and it’s super fun i hope u enjoy it

you should definitely check out the speedrun! its super interesting

this game brings me back it was one of if not the first game i got for my 3ds i played it quite a lot

23:43 "Hey, is that one purple? Purple is my favourite colour!"

This game has one of my all time favorite video game endings period. It’s to the point where I have a save file placed right before the final boss so I can view it again any time I want

YEEEEEEEEEES IT'S OUTTTTTT IM GONNA ISTEN TO THIS WHILE I WRITE AN ESSAY THANK YOU

A few things I’d love to say This was the first Zelda game I ever played, and one of the first games I played when I branched out from Lego and Animal Crossing type games when I was young. It will always hold a very special place among the Zelda games for me, not just because of it being my first but also because it stands out among all the games I’ve played so far with a unique mechanic. I have yet to 100% this game, mostly because I’m stuck trying to find the final Master Ore before going through the tower challenge. During the Lorule Castle dungeon, the music starts slow and quiet, and as you go up more instruments will join and the music gets louder until it’s almost frantic at the final floor. It’s a great way to build up tension to the final boss. In case Linkus didn’t actually find this out, you can go back to the office in Hyrule before the final boss, the same place you first entered the Dark World. It has a few fairies and that’s it. Just a fun extra thing.

Great job doing almost all of ALBW! Technically there’s still one last thing you can do - the Cucoo minigame has an “Endless” mode, which gives you a reward if you last a lot of minutes. Good luck!

The story of ALBW is genuinely so well written, fun, mysterious and kinda dark and the same time, all with surprisingly little cutscenes. And yes, the gameplay mechanics are so much fun! I wish it got more attention.

Glad you enjoyed this game as much as I did when I first played it!

Love that the final Mai Mai reward is an eldritch invader physically modifying Link to master a skill

lets go part 2 dropped my day just got 10x better!!!

Such a good Zelda Game! My favorite handheld Zelda hands down, still have my copy for my 3DS to this day. If you thought the base game was too easy for you, I’d recommend playing on Hero Mode if you ever replay it. There’s no changes to the structure of the dungeons, but all enemy damage is either doubled or tripled, I can’t remember which. Thats a far more challenging experience.

26:42 This is, in the business world, what they call a net gain.

This was insane, I had forgotten how goated a link between worlds was, gonna dust of my 3ds to play it before the randomizer video releases

I have waited for this ❤❤❤

Was hoping for the randomizer 😂 glad to hear it's coming soon!

6:02 I’m glad to see I wasn’t the only one who jumped right off there

Ohhh nice i've been waiting for the part 2 of this!

A Linkus7 upload can make even the darkest of days a bright one 💪

Im impressed. I had to look up where the dark palace ore was.

The character that gave you the last heart piece makes an appearance in one of my favorite Zelda games. Triforce hero’s (underrated af btw u should play it)

This was my first zelda game besides zelda 1 on the wii virtual console and to this day it still is my favorite.

God i really do love this game so much, i think i went back and did a 3 heart hero mode run that was 100% other than hearts

It's been quite some time since I played A Link between worlds. Honestly I think my experience was similar, I went in with no intentions to 100% it but after clearing most of the story It was just so fun exploring and finding all the stuff that I unintentionally completed it to 100%.

I just watched the first part the day before yesterday lol, fortuitous timing

Bro this was my favorite game as a kid it was literally my childhood dream to speed run because of this game

Such a good game. Sad that it's so overlooked Also ravio is sick asf even though he's a goofy fella

The game feels like a perfect sendoff and perfection to 2D Zelda preceding the BOTW era(many initially compared BOTW's open ended dungeon order to how ALBW did it for Lorule!). This is a childhood classic for me, its SO underrated. Its not that hard unless you skip master sword upgrades, but it feels just right for what it is, to me. My first go at the final boss was actually pretty tough, Yuga has a LOT of health and damage if you have few upgrades! I also feel the story is perfectly interesting while staying just as simple as it needs to be. The way the first half diagetically takes after A Link to the Past's, but once you get to Lorule things deviate with the arbitrary dungeon order, and also it being an actual mirror copy kingdom rather than a "corrupted" version. I really like how Lorule is literally alt-history of Hyrule, the divergence point being the conclusion of the Triforce Wars. As Ganon's dark world counterpart (or moreso aghanim's), Yuga is actually the only genuinely classic evil character with really cool powers to match, but Hilda was just desperate. I do wish we actually FOUGHT Hilda a short time before Yuganon is summoned, but otherwise the ending is very tight! Even as a kid I expected a shockingly bittersweet ending where Lorule simply was forgotten and crumbled away, and definitely was caught off guard when Link and Zelda realized they had the power to reassemble the Lorulian Triforce for a permanent resolution. A wonderfully tight LTTP styled story that manages to stand out with its new characters and constant but believeable twists at the end. I love Ravio being your bumbling counterpart, yet still plays a critical role both in gearing you up and cutting in at the end. This was MY zelda game, the one that really sticks with me, the only one I've delved into anywhere near as long is BOTW. Also, the streetpass battle feature slaps, a shame you cant try it out on emulator, theres actually a secret that could be counted as part of 100%'ing the game.

yess finallly love the vids btw.

7:04 oh my god the nostalgic meme alarm

I love when chat starts saying "hello RU-vid" i think it's adorable

has anyone seen the beef between ryth and quackery yet linkus love the vids keep it up

I love this game so much that i played it 100% the 2nd time just one week ago. In my opinion the best 2d Zelda

you should play a link between worlds randomizer

glad you liked the game, linkus, it's the first one i ever completed by myself, without any help from my older siblings

This is my favourite Zelda game as well as my first so it makes me extremely happy that my favourite Zelda creator finally played it. Ahh, nostalgia

Please Linkus, the VOD 🥹

Ravio being Darkworld Link is actually not something I was expecting

Man I forgot about the great spin, it makes the tower a rupee farm. Max out so quickly

This is my fav Zelda game I can’t explain why

As someone who played this when it came out, it is genuinely difficult if you don’t go out of your way to upgrade your armor and sword. I remember having a lot of trouble beating the final boss without the tunic upgrades (granted this was like 10+ years ago)

I always found it cute that the baby Mai Mai cheep the item get sound.

I just watched the twitch vod of this, all 200 adverts of it!

23:20 He does not yet know the power of an upgraded lamp Because it does just as much damage as a fully upgraded Master Sword

this game really takes me back its so peak

even the triforce wielder are the opposits Courage and fear ( Bunny )

This game and TMC are both my favorite 2D Zelda games!