Can you beat Breath of the Wild with an ocarina? A Zelda fan’s attempt

Two weeks ago, Twitch streamer Gv_Mimi struggled to accurately aim her weapon to kill a Guardian. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s first shrine. Yesterday she defeated Thunderblight Gaon.

We need to specify what we are doing with an ocarina-controller. Not the ThinkGeek 2017 one. She’s using a custom controller that converts the notes she plays into inputs for the game, with macros set up to accomplish some of the more complicated commands.

Yes, these modded controllers exist, and there’s software to map the notes to controls. Given the long history of using off-the-wall controllers to run fan-favorite games, I thought I would have found someone else who’d tried this sort of thing at least once since BOTWLaunched in 2017. It was launched in 2017.

It’s probably for good reasons. Check out the clip of her first shrine. After this, I quit piano lessons!

You’re still feeling frustrated? Then hum some of the following throwdown that gv_mimi uploaded on Wednesday.

I can’t read music or identify notes, but I love that lilting pip-pip-pip-pip as gv_mimi lands a mighty combo. Then comes the sequence that she takes out Magnesis and finishes the job. Followed by the disbelief of actually doing said job: “We did it! It was amazing! We did it!”

Gv_mimi currently is fighting the Lynel. There’s more tweeting and tooting in here than in Elon Musk’s bathroom. You can listen to her tunes now, but you’ll be able to catch up later. She wishes to win Take a deep breath of the wild By the time Tears for the Kingdom Starts on May 12.