I beat every shrine, divine beast, and tower without jumping or gliding. [Botw X button challenge]

Today I will show you how to get every blue thing on the map without using the X button. This took me around 120 hours to put together. All gameplay footage in this video was mine.

Video Chapters:
0:00:00 Introduction, explanation, and BLSS
0:08:59 Bosh Kala [first easy shrine]
0:09:56 Gorae Torr
0:11:12 Jitan Sa'mi
0:12:09 Tah Muhl
0:15:47 Sah Dahaj
0:16:32 Rok Uwog
0:17:07 Joloo Nah
0:18:05 Toh Yahsa
0:19:55 Mogg Latan
0:21:36 Kaya Wan

0:22:26 Divine Beast Vah Naboris
0:27:41 Divine Beast Vah Rudania
0:33:19 Divine Beast Vah Ruta
0:37:03 Divine Beast Vah Medoh

0:49:09 Kah Okeo [first hard shrine]
0:52:06 Shora Hah
0:59:06 Ta'loh Naeg
1:06:19 Sha Warvo
1:14:26 Voo Lota
1:24:16 Shai Yota [the most interesting shrine]

1:44:03 Finishing the run
1:47:49 Acknowledgements and final thoughts

Some questions and answers for you guys:
Q: Where have you been?
A: College, mostly. When I made this channel, I was in high school and had much more free time. I will be receiving my MS in Electrical Engineering in about a week and then I am moving on toward a PhD. Expect me to remain busy.

Q: Why the Zora armor/ancient gear?
A: I like how that equipment looks, and the ancient gear also does extra damage to most bosses.

Q: Why do you have 7 hearts sometimes and 5 other times?
A: I actually created two save files to get this footage! The 5 heart one was used to test strategies and whatnot (this was often the file I used for demo footage with the X button icon), and the other file was the actual run. I decided that I wanted more than three hearts so that I don't get one-shotted, but not so much health that the health bar takes up a large part of the screen. I decided 7 hearts was a good balance.

Q: Why didn't you use Kuh Takkar for the ISCW into Shai Yota? Wouldn't the setup have been easier?
A: Yes, the setup is indeed easier because there is no water. I actually tried this, but somehow I lost cutscene storage on my way to Shai Yota from Kuh Takkar. It took a while to make that journey, and I had no idea what caused the trick to fail, so I decided to instead use Jitan Sa'mi since it's closer, even if the setup takes longer.

Q: Will you make any more videos?
A: Perhaps. I have some ideas.

Music used
-Basically the entire Baba is You OST
-Manifold Garden OST (House of Leaves, Sky and Water)
-Some other misc. Zelda music that you probably know by now (mostly Skyward Sword and Lorule Castle from ALBW).

For those who are interested,

-Map that I used for visuals for Voo Lota and Shai Yota

-Tutorial for Void-out Storage

-Tutorial for SCW and ISCW
Normal SCW:

Infinite SCW:

[sigh]

could you have use a cucco for shai yota?

[its_addi]

"I plan on playing tears of the kingdom and relaxing and not worry about making videos" says the guy who made a video detailing how he broke the sound barrier in tears of the kingdom. this was an awesome run, you really need more subscribers after that!!!

[mackeralface]

You’re doing your Masters and still were able to put together this long of a video without the editing ever feeling lazy? I’m beyond impressed.
By the way I subscribed at “dilf”

[fainfawn]

The balance you aimed for was hit right on the dot. I play this game regularly and knew all these glitches and didn’t get bored but could still see how comprehensive your explanations would be for a newer or lesser-versed player than myself.

On another note: I loved the video in its entirety and hope to see more from you eventually. I wish you luck in getting that phd.

[Komali]

Great explanation! As someone who spends a lot of time in shrines I never considered some of the strats in this video, so it was really cool to see all the routing this took. Amazing work!

[bloodlustquartet]

There's a ladder to the rafters just off to the side of the second room in the Yiga hideout. The recommended pathe is to sneak above them, drop some bananas in front of the Yiga guarding the door, then drop down behind him and slip through to the tresure room without ever being noticed.

[ezfruitjuicecubes]

amazing i didnt even notice it was 2 hours long until I finished even though I'm pretty familiar with these techniques you still made it really interesting and fun

[sloane]

1:43:43 you absolutely struck that balance. I know and am familiar with using most of these glitches and strategies and yet you still managed to keep my interest for nearly 2 hours straight. I was actually surprised to see how long the video was once I had finished it, I thought it was just like 30 minutes. Love this content so much, please take my subscription and like

[tiggzy]

Omg those last 2 shrines BLEW MY MIND!! how you did that was just insane

[bluechairr]

dude what the heck how does this only have 500 views this should at least have a million

[Zeldrake]

Interesting note about boarding Vah Ruta - I remember somebody else doing a challenge run and struggling because they couldn't do it 'normally' (maybe it was a no stamina run? idk) Turns out, you CAN hit the thingies with shock arrows from just Sidon if you aim perfectly, but it's as fiddly as it sounds

"but I also wanted to use this cool stick I got from robbie's" LOL

[Belmoon]

This is one of the most entertaining Zelda videos I've seen. I ruined my sleep schedule just to stay up and watch all of it.

[cinthiaMP]

1:18:09 ah yes, it must surely look extremely strange in real life, in fact

joking aside, great video! this was really interesting, even though i have next to no knowledge of how to execute botw glitches!

[Skulll]

2:20 I wasn't expecting it to be all in one take, but it just kept going. That was a very well done little segment.

[grndvll]

How in the world do you have such an abundance of patience to experiment like the way you do, take on absolutely colosssal challenges, and then on top of that, record, write, edit, and the rest for this channel? I seriously think if one could bottle your level of patience, it would sell like nothing else. Inhuman.

[geerinne]

this video puts into shame all the other “challenge” runs i’ve seen… the depth of knowledge, patience, skill, and dedication you’ve shown here is unlike any other. as a casual player too, i appreciated the easy-to-follow but thorough explanations. you deserve so many more views for this one!!

[Niko-mywt]

This is a legitimately wonderful video. I can’t believe you’re doing your masters right now and still able to put out wonderful content like this.

[dogbreth]

For being almost 2 hours, this video is very well made, especially for a relatively small channel!

[kiwithryn]

Incredible video! Thank you for the ample explanations, I never thought I'd understand some of these glitches lol

[bastian_]

I would recommend you try 0 arrow BLSS if your thumb gets tired. You need a different ledge (normal ones just kinda make you teleport/twitch around in a short radius), but once you find one that works it is really fast and really easy to control. You just do circle motions instead of wiggling, which is a lot less tiring and is a hell of a lot easier