Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. The Shrines were a huge part of why I was so unimpressed with BotW, because they were all so transparently made piecemeal. "

Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. The Shrines were a huge part of why I was so unimpressed with BotW, because they were all so transparently made piecemeal. "Open World" doesn't mean a whole lot when you're expected to complete random identically flavored puzzles every 15 minutes. I can also picture how Shrines were engineered in a fast-food style assembly line: "Nintendo Engineering Team 46-b, you're being assigned Shrines 5-23, complete them in x weeks." Even barring Shrines, the "Open World" itself was fairly devoid of interesting things.