Current Events > Was about to finish my first speedrun of TotK (SPOILERS)

(+) Yeah! (+)

Done all the tricks in my route (paraglider skip/boss skip), and decided to just go for it. Was on pace for a time of probably 1:55, which is far from WR, but I mean, it's a first run, so it was just going to be fulfilling to say I did it.

Hit the first eye on Dragondork, and dove back down to have my Princess catch me, but I clipped through her, and then she flew way up high, and for some reason, I was stuck in this animation as if I was on her. Then I went through the barrier that she automatically catches you if you go below, but since she was glitched out, the game had to force me to go back up with a "You can't go here" message. Unfortunately, that same animation kept playing, and I have no way to get out of it, meaning I was softlocked. I know why it happened (Zuggle overload), but that was the first time in my practice that happened to me. Last save was before the army battle, but I didn't feel like doing it.

1.0 is still a cool version, though. Almost wish Nintendo didn't discourage those tricks. Speedrunners are a constant reminder of where a game dev failed to look/fix, though, so I'm not surprised that Nintendo for the most part, actively discourages speedrunning, even if their games are the most popular speed games generally. It's almost why I wish speedrunners would wait like 6 months to a year before they go ham; that way these big devs won't catch onto these glitches within the first few weeks of it happening.