Tag: Waker

11 MAY

Wind Waker Speedrunner Averts Disaster With Clutch Trick

GIF Even the best players run into bad luck. Dying to some enemies should be enough to kill a speedrunners attempt at a fast time. But thanks to some quick thinking and a tricky glitch, a Wind Waker HD speedrunner brought Link back from the dead and save their run. Advertisement gymnast86 is a Zelda speedrunner who […]

17 APR

The ‘Fairy Trick’ In Wind Waker HD Shows The Brutal Role RNG Can Play In Speedrunning

Last Tuesday, the Any% speedrunning world record for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was about three hours. Now, less than a week later, it’s been cut in half, thanks in part to one super lucky fairy. The records for running Wind Waker HD first began collapsing thanks to the Barrier Skip, an […]