Between attempting to find weapons, combating bosses, and finishing Hyrule’s many aspect quests, players who select to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in its entirety can spend upward of 50-100 hours getting ready for its ultimate boss. In fact, some gamers select to desert the sport’s steerage and as a substitute speedrun beating the ultimate boss with out preparation, and that is precisely what Twitch streamer Player5 did — 50 occasions in sooner or later.

On January 15, Player5 managed to beat Breath of the Wild 50 occasions in slightly below 23 hours. The total stream is replayable on his Twitch channel, the place additionally they claimed the present Any% world file for Breath of the Wild speedruns.

“I made a decision to do it early January, though a good friend of mine TheRealNoman had the thought in all probability ~1 yr in the past,” Player5 advised IGN. “I additionally had seen Merely run SM64 1200 star (10 120 star speedruns in a row) fairly just lately, so I figured it will be a enjoyable problem.”

I simply beat BotW 50 occasions in 24 hours 😪 Thanks everybody who stopped by and saved me awake for this! pic.twitter.com/YBZXnQBez0

— Participant 5 (@Player5SR) January 15, 2023

As identified by GamesRadar+, Player5’s quickest completion time throughout this marathon was 24:16, with a comparatively comparable common time of 25:23. Nonetheless, attaining this exact timing wasn’t simple.

“The toughest second was attempting to not get irritated by the small errors I used to be making across the 18-20 hour mark,” they mentioned. “I knew I used to be able to a lot better, however getting tilted simply makes all the pieces worse.”

Player5 was assured within the consistency of an Any% run via Breath of the Wild, and their marathon problem run solely served to show it.

“I assume I additionally realized that I am nonetheless capable of play nicely even after 20 hours of fixed taking part in,” they mentioned.

Player5’s spectacular run is the most recent addition to Breath of the Wild’s lengthy historical past of speedruns and challenges, which incorporates this participant who accomplished the sport with out crossing their path as soon as and this YouTuber who opened a chest that no different participant may open for 4 years.

Amelia Zollner is a contract author at IGN who loves all issues indie and Nintendo. Exterior of IGN, they’ve contributed to websites like Polygon and Rock Paper Shotgun. Discover them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.