A minimilist run would be possible, but speedrunning like that would be very difficult. You also run into the issue of which items you get/skip. I think this is the minimum: Kokiri Sword Master Sword Deku Shield Mirror Shield Kokiri Boots Kokiri Tunic Silver Scale/Gold Scale + Letter in Bottle w/Bottle*A Boomerang Bombchus Goron Bracelet/Silver Gauntlets/Bomb Bag*B Deku Sticks*C Fairy Bow Light Arrows Hover Boots Hookshot Fairy Ocarina Ocarina of Time Saria's Song*D Zelda's Lullaby*E Magic Beans Song of Time Requiem of Spirit/Gerudo Membership Pass(hint: pick Requirem) Minuet of Forest Kokiri Emerald, Goron Ruby, Zora Sapphire Light Medallion, Shadow Medallion, Spirit Medallion *A - If you can bombchu hover over King Zora, this becomes unnessecary. *B - If you can manage to kill King Dodongo with Bombchus, this becomes unnessecary for Kid Link. However, with no shield as an adult until the Mirror Shield, ground jumping becomes impossible. If you can't glitch past the silver block in the first room of adult spirit without a shield, you have to get the Silver Gauntlets or the Hylain Shield, and the Silver Gauntlets make life so much easier that you'd be a fool to not pick them. *C - New tricks in the Deku Tree let you get out of the forest without them. They aren't needed in Jabu Jabu's Belly, and with all the sequence breaks in Dodongo's Cavern, you might be able to get away without using them there either. That just leaves child spirit for Deku Sticks, and if shenanagans can get you past, that's good. If they can't but you can get to Bombchus without Deku Sticks and you can either beat King Dodongo with Bombchus or can get to the Mirror Shield without the Hylian Shield or silver gauntlets, you could skip Deku Sticks in favor of the Goron Bracelet/Bombs if KD isn't skippable(note: you would have had to get one of those or Silver Gauntlets anyway in that case), in favor of the Hylian Shield if you can't get to the Mirror Shield and if those are needed, or just plain to cut down the items collected notably if you can pull off both tricks. *D - If you can hover over Mido, you can avoid this. So, those are a few questions for low%. Can you actually beat King Dodongo with Bombchus(I've been told hovering can trick that; I am skeptical), can you bomb hover past King Zora, and can you get to the Mirror Shield without Silver Gauntlets or the Hylian Shield? I think all fairy interactions are unnessecary as extending early shadow can let you skip the use of Din's Fire there, and I don't think you actually need fire anywhere else in the run. Farore's Wind and Nayru's Love were just conveniences anyway. No magic meter is nice; infinite magic for Light Arrows! Remember you can get infinite Bombchus from Bombchu Bowling, and that's the only way you will be getting more. Then again, I don't know what the trigger for that to start is. If it's getting the Bomb Bag, you're out of luck on that front and had better make every Bombchu count(you can get more in the Bottom of the Well once, and while it's a little late, there are some in Ganon's Castle). It would be extremely painful to do a low% on this, let alone as a speedrun. It would take a very long time in all liklihood for how little you'd actually be accomplishing. The whole thing would be about how far you could push glitches to skip items... This topic here is obviously quite the opposite, the 100% topic. You also have the controversy over whether stuff like the Silver Gauntlets and the Gold Scale counts as one item or two since getting them is getting a powered up version of an item you skipped.
<Zurreco> if so called professional players cant adapt to every playing field, theyre obviously not that great
