Zelda BOTW has the most perfect scores on Metacritic.

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starcraft said:

MTZehvor said:

Shrines are extremely simplistic miniature dungeons that contain one or two puzzles for the player to solve. I believe there's four dungeons (comparable to old Zelda games) total in BotW, not counting the final area.

Thanks so much. That makes a lot more sense. I was like, I know the game is big, but this is sounding ridiculous.

I take it the Shrines are fun, even being simplistic?

They vary a lot. Most are 1 or 2 puzzle long, with an extra puzzle for a treasure chest. There is one I remember that was practically a dungeon just in depth, puzzles, enemies and treasures, but is still very short. There are some that are actually in the overworld! Those are really cool, but also really hard.

They are a pretty good replacement of linear or predictable dungeons (go in, need item, get item, solve everything with item), but I have played over 40 Shrines now, and I'm getting a little sick of it. They feel never ending! Although this is something I can easily fix by myself: change my focus in the game from Shrines to something else (story, exploration, sidequests)... but it ain't easy. If I see a Shrine, I have to complete it.