I've been playing Breath of the Wild and I keep getting confused by the two shoulder buttons on each side of the controller, I remember how easy and intuitive Skyward Sword was and I pine for those days. What do you guys and girls think?

Too complicated for casuals, yes.

Only if you're missing fingers.

I've been playing games since the 80's, maybe I'm just getting old but I feel adding the extra shoulder buttons was a step too far.

If my casual gamer girlfriend can play RE5, then they are not too complicated!

As long as everythings symmetrical, I'm happy

I think with the amount of actions and various things you can do on videoGames now, that all company's (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo) have dona good job of keeping controllers simple with as minimal buttons as possible.

If anything, I'd like it if there were more buttons for some rarely used functions. Of course they'd have to be placed very smartly so they don't confuse players, but I'm sure they could be fit in somewhere. Anyway, nothing wrong with the shoulder buttons if they're utilized properly. It could probably be pretty confusing if you'd have to use several of them constantly, but usually you're using one or two constantly and the other two only occassionally.

*Looks at PS controller 20 years ago then looks at PS controller now*

I'm going to say, no. I mean the track pad is used more as just another button and the 'track' part is rarely used or not at all in most games.

No, not for me. They're just fine. PC games that use a keyboard can have even more buttons than that.