The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom certainly had a good amount of time invested in its development what with there being a full six years between its launch and that of its predecessor. That gave plenty of time for Nintendo to refine its gameplay, give the game a great polish, and to stuff it silly with things to do. Just how much content is available in Tears of the Kingdom has been underlined by someone who recently completed it. And we're not just talking the main story, but the whole shebang, the full 100 percent.
Recently, Twitch streamer SmallAnt made it clear just how much needs to be done in order to attain this 100 percent completion. The time it took to do it all is notable too, with SmallAnt requiring just 139 hours, five minutes, and 19 seconds to do it. We say just 139 hours, but breaking it down, that's the best part of six whole days playing nonstop, but the achievement comes into better focus once you realise just what's needed for the 100 percent.
Because what is required is a long list of things needing to be collected, puzzled out, vanquished, upgraded, killed, and gathered. It includes a 1000 Koroks, 228 recipes, 18 memories, 135 armour fully upgraded, all dungeons, towers, paragliders, schema stones, 152 shrines, and more than 250 bosses defeated, among much else. Here's SmallAnt with the full list:
SmallAnt remarks that the game is "massive" and adds further tweets to the one above just to ensure the doubters out there know that he didn't forget anything. So he adds that he also completed/defeated all named map locations, Guardians, wells, Bubbul gems, Sage's Wills, Schema Stones, Yiga Schematics, and more. It's an exhaustive list to get through but they've done it all in a seemingly impossible time. SmallAnt took on the challenge for his 1.3 million followers on Twitch as he streamed his quest to 100 percent Tears of the Kingdom.
Of course, there may be others out there who might have 100 percented the game. Those quiet, industrious completionists who shun the limelight, preferring the relative anonymity, and who don't Tweet out their achievements to their 209,000 followers, but evidently we can't know who they are. But, surely, not all of those will have completed the game, fully finished all its quests and tasks, in 139 hours too. So we salute you, SmallAnt, for your gaming accomplishment!