The puzzles aren't puzzling

[@Mache.]

So just like in real life, everything goes in the square hole.

[@KnightTimeLuigi1397]

"All these squares make a circle."

[@musicalsaber6433]

The real puzzle is trying to figure out what they were thinking

[@mrgarybusey2052]

Theres literally dozens of interviews of them saying this was intentional 😂😂😂

[@musicalsaber6433]

@@mrgarybusey2052 woosh

[@deathound]

@@mrgarybusey2052Anyone could lie and say it was intentional. Doesn’t mean it actually was. Lots of games have bugs or unintentional things added that are loved, so the devs claim it as a feature.

[@sponge6171]

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????????

[@HungryWarden]

This game is ridden with brainless puzzles.

[@azubilp]

I always say that TotK is a game were you have too many solutions to solve the puzzles...

[@anthonygosselin7962]

you can also shoot bomb arrow and it open

[@CarsGames24]

I actually didn't know that, that's pretty cool, just shows how much detail was put into this game

[@deathound]

@@CarsGames24It’s not detail though, more than likely it’s an unintended ‘feature’ because it only checks impact force and not the ID of the object hitting it. One is just faster to code and takes less effort than the other.

[@CarsGames24]

@@deathound that could be true but it could still be detail :)

[@theendofthestart8179]

@@deathound nice "made it the fuck up" source, it doesnt check impact force at all, you can throw anything else at all at it and it wont open no matter how fast that thing is moviing

[@negligible_reality]

​@@CarsGames24no, it's definitely an exploit, not an intended feature or detail lol

[@Ghashlord]

yeah, because im used to puzzles at first i was trying to figure it out. Then I realized how dumb the puzzles are so i stopped and started doing this.

[@Game-The-System]

Hah...that's pretty inventive. Just did this shrine the 1st time a week or so ago. Only thing I'll add is to say sometimes the cheat solution(s) are much less obvious the 1st time around...as they should be. This one is a good example. If the tactic you try doesn't work, you fall...and there is also nothing making the moving floor obvious, even if you did get the pad to activate.

[@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123]

Fun related fact: If you fuse a rock to a stick you can use it to solve Korok puzzles. Just walk up to it and get it close to the spot, it'll solve

[@The_legend_of_Splatelda]

now that's how I like to solve a shrine

[@That0neguy420]

Okay but you gotta admit that this is pretty damnn funny

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

Considering I would have never thought of that solution, seems like the puzzles puzzle pretty good.

[@tonyangulo805]

This video made me feel really stupid

[@JadedRabbit559]

I solved the first two gates the "right" way, but I couldn't figure out the 3rd. So I just lifted one of the balls with Ultrahand and dropped it onto the corner of the target. That worked.

[@pseudohippie55]

Link's gotta be confused teleporting to the ground.

[@fyremage3075]

The way Smallant does puzzles

[@minecrafter3448]

Solution: whatever you want

[@nd4090]

I don't understand how people can complain about that. I'd cheese the shrine first and then load the save and do it properly or vice versa

[@thirtycentpiece5064]

dude i was just using bomb arrows and got past them so fast. They really should have put more thought into those shrines and how easily you can cheat your way through them

[@d00p58]

i remember doing it the right way and it took me so long to figure out the third one trying to get the correct angle on the roll

[@metakirby]

Every good puzzle recipe includes a bit of cheese

[@isabelbarreiro525]

I'm probably late here hehe but how about all the hyrule shields?? Did you buy them?

[@mqa7001]

That one I found it a little unfortunate in the last step 😂

[@a_kid_with_glasses_0538]

You can also just use a bomb arrow

[@bacongworld]

lmao i just did this shrine exactly the same way

[@samurijder9550]

So... How damaging is the iron sphere outside of the temple? Cheers from the Netherlands!

[@CarsGames24]

Like 7 damage :P

[@samurijder9550]

@@CarsGames24 7? Wow...

[@chaytonaverygunawan3458]

what shrine is this

[@theplasmawolf]

I couldn't figure out the last one so I just bomb-arrowd it :)

[@CirillaXinXneon]

But can you do the puzzles as intended? Sounds more fun to me

[@CarsGames24]

This was a second playthrough so I thought it'd be fun to twist things around a bit.

[@TerenceBai-oi7wh]

Wait this isn’t intended?

[@CarsGames24]

@@TerenceBai-oi7wh it is

[@enrithomas7194]

Fun just like comedy is subjective. Sure you have more fun that way it doesn't mean everyone else does.

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

@@enrithomas7194 I have way more fun solving them in "wrong" ways. It really is odd how some people just don't understand preference/opinion.

[@LilfoxTheHybridHylian5967]

Fr

[@Bxbblesistaken]

Wait so i spent almost an hour for somebody to do it in a min???

[@CarsGames24]

I guess so XD

[@alibiiana3919]

I used bomb arrows so.

[@RayGagspee]

🧩

[@mykeyboardismelting6856]

it would be nice if they put some traditional long-form dungeon puzzles so the old fans will quit bitching

[@Ztaticify]

BotW and TotK were great open world games, and terrible puzzle games

[@Pera6]

So if the puzzle has more than one way of solving it, it’s a bad puzzle?

[@deathound]

TotK fans: “Don’t worry, that was clearly intended to be a puzzle solution and has nothing to do with them checking only impact force.” You can also solve these with bomb arrows lol, to make them even more braindead.

[@chooongusbug724]

"old good, new bad" 🤓

[@deathound]

@@chooongusbug724 No, not at all. A good way to assume someone’s position on the games though. Older puzzles were objectively superior, but even then there’s been stinkers at times, sometimes whole dungeons that are just awful lol You can enjoy something and still point out flaws. “He said something negative about a game and it’s community, so he must hate everything about it.” Lol you’re also a good stereotype of the average TotK fan.

[@chooongusbug724]

@@deathound "subjectively" you don't know what that term means...And you proved my point about the old good, new bad comment. Tell me how pushing a block on a switch, shooting an eye, etc. is superior though. Can you take off your nostalgia blinders a bit to acknowledge the flaws with old Zelda and why the series went back to its roots? I don't think you can but nice projection though. Not anyone's fault but your own you weren't creative enough to think of anything outside of rocket shield... Typical nostalgia blind Zelda fan who needs their handheld, great job being a stereotype 😘

[@deathound]

@@chooongusbug724 LMAO so you revert to that, huh? The difference between ‘just shooting an eye’ and the modern ‘just push a button’ is minimal, actually. Did you know you can switch many eyes with arrows, bombs, chus, hookshot, and sometimes even the boomerang? Many ways to activate it, including game-specific ways. Just like BotW, and even TotK where you can push a button in many different ways. The games in that regard are no different, my friend. However, the difference is that while in TotK and sometimes BotW pushing that button is the puzzle, in older games that’s typically only one part of the major puzzle to be had, that being the whole dungeon itself. Not only are these puzzles far more than ‘push button’ or ‘climb wall’ they’re also longer and in many cases incredibly complex, even requiring multiple visits and backtracking at times with even harder MQ or HM variants. So yes, the older titles were usually objectively superior. It seems you didn’t catch me saying that there was some stinkers though, like the Water Temple in OoT or the main one in Phantom Hourglass you have to backtrack to repeatedly like 7+ times. Those suck. Subjectivity and objectivity mean two different things. Subjectively, I enjoyed TotK and BotW. Objectively the puzzles, lack of real dungeons (longform puzzle boxes, basically), and the shrine system, hurts the game. It could’ve been so much more, but in reality the freedom of movement actually causes a huge problem for how puzzles can be created and how dungeons can be made, which is why they’re all so heavily disconnected. In older titles, you did not have these abilities for movement, and so the dungeon layouts were far easier to create, and the limitations actually had to make you think about achieving the solution. Instead, in BotW you could just windbomb your way through 90% of shrines and Divine Beasts, with the remaining few being easily beaten by just freezing a button after standing on it or by just not sucking at combat. TotK is worse, see a button? Fire a bomb arrow or smack it, or just skip it entirely if the walls aren’t too high. Bypass everything, because god forbid you actually have to do puzzles in a game about puzzles. And yet, people will say “oh but that’s also a solution!” Just like how clipping out of bounds in OoT and voidwarping to the bossroom is a solution to the puzzles? Lmao You can enjoy something and still throw shade at it. My favorite in the series, OoT, is a huge mess of code and very easy to break, the combat is literally ‘mash B’ and yet it’s simplicity comes from it’s age, and that simplicity is what makes it have such interesting puzzle design with neat rooms, and the environmental storytelling is nice too, something BotW nailed with many grim and dark locations and TotK did well at points too like the mysterious abandoned mines and their layout. I think you’re just hellbent on defending the game, even if you actually agree. God forbid you have anything negative to say about the game, right? Now, what was that you said earlier? Something about “projecting?” Lmao

[@chooongusbug724]

@@deathound my guy, being hellbent would mean I blindly defend it. Tears of the Kingdom has its issues, but what you said? No...Not at all. Old Zelda, even the examples you used, wouldn't be objectively better. It all comes down to taste, you want freedom and creativity? Or do you want something more straight forward that doesn't take as much to understand and grasp? Neither are bad, but to act like old Zelda's game design. not just the code either, that's such a non issue with OoT due to when it came out...But the game feeling like a 3d ALttP but less interesting is a bit of an issue regardless of how influential it is. Just like BotW being as empty as it was, that was an issue regardless of how influential and fun it was. What BotW/TotK do right, which is something a lot of people who only played the 3d entries typically ignore, is something that not many games can replicate. There are other open world games, and other open world games now that have a similar feel to exploration. But none of them capture that feeling of exploration as well as BotW and especially TotK. Throwing shade is fine, but when it's at non issues...Like OoT's mess of coding due to it being an early 3d game or the freedom in TotK because someone can't get creative enough to think of something outside of rocket shield, those are non issues. You may not enjoy it, but that's kind of a you issue. How you felt, that doesn't really speak for the majority. But damn, Zelda isn't what it was when I played that one Zelda game when I was 12...time to nitpick

[@azarath20000]

The fillers in this game makes botw's look like a joke. This whole game is a giant filler. Five years later people will realize this and it being the worst Zelda.

[@chooongusbug724]

Twilight Princess is the worst Zelda but go off

[@theendofthestart8179]

what are you even talking about?

[@azarath20000]

​@@theendofthestart8179 Oh my bad, I meant to say filler. Do you know what filler means?

[@theendofthestart8179]

@@azarath20000 Oh. "Joined Aug 11, 2021" gotcha.

[@Kruegernator123]

That Pumpkin Tower MM ROM hack did a really good job of highlighting what’s wrong with newer Zelda games.

[@XanderVJ]

The way Nintendo has gaslighted the entire world into accepting ridiculously broken puzzles as good game design will never cease to amaze me. Seriously, I would feel less intellectually insulted if they just put a "Skip Puzzle" prompt. At least that would be honest.

[@chooongusbug724]

Yes, tell me more about how just pushing a block on a switch or shooting an eye or playing Zelda's Lullaby on a Triforce isn't braindead lol

[@theendofthestart8179]

you never needed to the puzzle, the skip puzzle promt is just not pressing A to enter you fool

[@frgierom4475]

anime pfp has shit opinion, not surprising at all

[@Mentro140]

They're not broken, they're working as intended

[@chooongusbug724]

@@Mentro140 the dude you're replying to goes to every video about TotK just to complain about it. It's really weird how these people spend their free time TBH Edit: dude also isnt that creative if he can't think of any cool ways to solve the shrines outside of what the devs intended. People who like TotK typically are pretty creative and think outside the box, while people who dislike it enjoy having their handheld by a fairy or an annoying imp 🤷‍♀️

[@matt-30-]

Embarrassing game design. Extends to the rest of the game, frankly.