Paradox Gaming | I beat every shrine, divine beast, and tower without jumping or gliding. [Botw X button challenge] @paradox_guardian | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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
objmap.zeldamods.org/#/map/z3,0,0


-Tutorial for Void-out Storage
youtube.com/watch?v=nEOoSrMviHI


-Tutorial for SCW and ISCW
Normal SCW:
youtube.com/watch?v=fcLRI_yGSj4
youtube.com/watch?v=GgTPwEFbHFo
youtube.com/watch?v=wVUSCTo4kGY

Infinite SCW:
youtube.com/watch?v=Vha7mPcc1D8