although The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out almost four years ago, people continue to take incredible exploits in the game. Case in point: this player hitting a Guardian with an arrow from more than 1,400 meters away.
Neko is a Breath of the Wild Japan player with an extensive curriculum of impressive achievements, many of which are cataloged in his Youtube and Twitter Pages. But the video they uploaded yesterday definitely takes the cake.
After jumping from the Temple of Time balcony near the start of the game, Neko shoots an Ancient Arrow into the sky apparently at random. It’s just following that arrow over a vast distance (and more than one loading zone) with a “Bullet time bounce” that Neko is able to show the fate of the projectile: an unsuspecting Guardian, who is soon reduced to a pile of smoke and rubble.
Neko says the Guardian is more than 1,400 meters from its starting position, but this is not a number that they imagined. Combining the Bird Man Research Study minigame (which measures how far you can travel with Link’s paraglider) with a few glitches, Neko is able to reach a very accurate distance for his sniper shooting. Everything is explained in the video (be sure to enable English subtitles if you can’t read Japanese).
Breath of the Wild is one of the best open-world games of all time, and is a testament to how Nintendo developers have combined intricate mechanics with a rich physics-based environment that players continue to challenge in this way.