How Speedrunners BROKE The Bomb in Every Legend of Zelda Game

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• AB

  @Abyssoft · 4 years ago · pinned

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• IM

  @Imperial_Squid · 4 years ago

  When you think about it from a programming perspective, it makes complete sense that bombs have a tonne of associated glitches! Any standard bomb will, at minimum, affect the environment (destroys terrain), affect entities (damages and/or moves them) and affects memory (bombs need to be deleted after exploding). Any one of these could give you a useful glitch if not programmed perfectly

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• DA

  @DavidWonn · 4 years ago

  While not strictly a Zelda game, honorable mentions go out to the Smash Bros. series, where Link&apos;s bombs can go invisible, aid in recovery, reach otherwise seemingly inaccessible places in break the targets, and do other things...

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• KO

  @Kosmicd12 · 4 years ago

  Yo for real, bombs are always so powerful in Zelda runs. Great video topic!

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• JE

  @Jellylamps · 4 years ago

  I think you really undersold just how powerful wind bombs have been in BotW. Before BLSS, they were on par or even above the utility of bullet time bounces

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• EV

  @evanolsen6925 · 4 years ago

  Fun fact about the Ball and chain from TP, the damage of the ball is quite literally that of a bomb, so you can use it to burn cobwebs and similar things. This is because the Ball can destroy bomb walls, and they neglected to remove the burning effect that a bomb has when they copied the code over.

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• HE

  @HelpTheWretched · 4 years ago

  Not many people know it, but bombs have helped speedrunners in Tri Force Heroes too! Using the little &quot;stumble&quot; animation when Link ends a dash and tries to keep running, you can drop bombs inside walls, or even right through narrow walls. With this you can hit switches, break blocks and kill enemies early, or do some weird reverse out-of-bounds tricks. Not to mention a few tricks by combining bombs with some other items.

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• SA

  @samuffert · 4 years ago

  Bombs? You want them?<br>Speedrunners: I&apos;LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

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• J_

  @J_Linebeck · 3 years ago

  Shoutouts to the first episode of the Legend of Zelda cartoon where Link uses a bomb and his shield to launch himself into the air and fly after Ganon&apos;s minions

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• FI

  @finnshort3806 · 4 years ago

  Hey, I saw that link between worlds wasn&apos;t mentioned in this video, so I&apos;d like to. In tower of Hera, speedrunner place a bomb on the edge of one of those switch blocks, hit the switch raising it up, then use gale rod just as it explodes to get hit by the blast. You can now climb up a bit more out of bounds using the gale rod to skip a large section of the tower.

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• SK

  @skylo706 · 4 years ago

  Thanks to summoningsalt for making synthwave an essential part of the experience for this kind of videos &lt;3

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• KY

  @kylehennkens9578 · 4 years ago

  Skipping ALBW was a crime too, there&apos;s cool bomb clips, which give a risk/reward reason to collect Maiamais, since the Nice Bombs give a larger frame window to perform the trick

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