Summary
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdomwas released last Friday, meaning it’s been on store shelves for just four days. It’s obviously much shorter than more recent Zelda games -and pretty good too- and you can probably expect people to be rolling credits pretty soon if they’ve been mainlining it over the weekend. You probably wouldn’t expect fans to be beating it in less than an hour.
That’s exactly what’s happening though, as the game’s speedrunning community has been systematically reducing the amount of time it takes to beat the game following the discovery of a Wrong Warp glitch that is teleporting players to the game’s final dungeon. If you’re still playing Echoes of Wisdom - which is understandable since it’s just come out - and don’t want to be spoiled,here’s your warning to duck out.
This Wrong Warp glitch was recentlyshared on the Speedrun subreddit by user xIceBlue, and involves using signs on top of some trees in the Eternal Forest to overlap menus. I’m not entirely sure what’s happening, but if the player then warps to the game’s first dungeon, enters, and then warps to another place on the map, it tricks the game intosending you straight to the final boss.
Zelda Fans Are Already Speedrunning Echoes Of Wisdom In Less Than An Hour
With this method, speedrunners have been slowly getting the time to beat Echoes of Wisdom as low as possible. One of the players that has been doing this isa Twitch streamer called OnakuTV, who recently finished off their latest stream with a total time of 52 minutes and 51 seconds. What’s more impressive is that OnakuTV mentions during their run that sub 50 minutes is a very real possibility.
All that speedrunners need to do right now is optimize their movement and figure out the best way to get through dungeon rooms as quickly as possible, then we should start seeing even more impressive times. Since the game has only been in their hands for four days, it’ll take a little while before this is figured out, but it’s still impressive that the game is being finished in one hour less than a week after launch.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom sees you play as the titular princess, searching for Link and saving Hyrule in the process. She uses the Tri Rod to created echoes, duplicates of everything from tables to enemies, to help her on her journey.
