The 7 Best & Worst Shrines in Totk (in my opinion)

[@GwenTheLitten]

My favorite shrine (so far) is Proving Grounds: The Hunt (the roomba shrine). I just love making murder roombas :) . I also really like the jenga shrine (the courage to pluck).

[@4g3nt06]

Shot in the dark and the roomba one are the best

[@steely9476]

I went into that shrine super early and I was dumb and didn't know how the roombas worked so I kept dying over and over again 😅

[@Alphine_Agnitio]

The proving grounds trials as a whole are my favorite

[@Cluckthechicken231]

For me the hunt is the hardest shrine, but also fun when you create a deadly homing cart army

[@The300thloser]

I like marmo kart shrine the best😃😃😃😃

[@bobosaurus331]

I actually really liked the alignment of circles shrine, it reminded me of the botw constellation shrine and made me actually think

[@Simply_resharkable]

One of my favourite shrines is Unlit Blessing, seeing as how there's a LOT of regular blessing shrines, so it was a surprise when I found it

[@paperaleks4896]

For A Precise Strike you can cheese it using Recall to stop the ball which imo made the shrine a whole ton more bearable

[@squiddler7731]

I did exactly that when I did the shrine and it was really satisfying (especially thinking about how much time I spent on a similar shrine in BotW). Overshot the target? Nah, the ball stopped right where it was supposed to

[@rjgaynor8]

I thought that’s how you solved it?

[@Topodic]

I didn't finish all of the shrines, but my least favorite among those I did was easily Courage to Fall. In retrospect the hint feels pretty obvious but I was scouring every wall of the map, the actual solution feels so counter-intuitive not only in context of how lasers are used elsewhere in this game, but many other games too.

[@VaskoGames]

That one almost made it to the list as well for that very reason

[@bukenator0788]

I had previously went to a shrine that had the lasers and saw that there was ground underneath in those, so I figured it would be required, but I can't imagine how confused I would be if I wasn't so lucky

[@michaellane5381]

I used shrines as free healing.... That shrine killed me many times.... Not from difficulty as I killed everything quickly , but I kept thinking there was some safe spot in the pit as I thought the lasers would kill instead of alarm.... I just really wish they had given us alarm/trigger lasers as devices or in the tutorial. I think as is we only have.... 2 locations? This shrine and the forge.

[@pandaman6769]

for the aligned circles shrine, i actually got the clue to look upward since the torches are mirrored upwards and downwards, which made me think there was something getting mirrored. along with that, i actually got to the force transfer after doing the spirit temple, and the way one of the doors there works made me think about that one. good video!

[@waindoah]

How the hell do my shorts have more views then this!! This is such good quality Vasco deserves 10mil subs

[@konjfful2963]

I forgot what its called but theres a shrine all the way up north near akkala and that labyrinth where it gives you a race car track and you just drive around. That was my favorite. Any of the shrines involving vehicles are the best

[@clairepinckney416]

yes!!

[@mmmapplesauce1673]

Honestly was sorta let down with the shrines in totk compared to botw. However i did love how you could think outside the box on some.

[@JakoBpyroTech]

I, too, wished for more blessing shines to be like the Unlit blessing, that one was a cool subversion of expectations. I actually completed "the right roll" fairly quickly, then I loaded a save to experiment with something before I collected the blessing. I then realized the save I made where I'd completed it didn't work and had to struggle through completing it again.

[@CaptainAstronaut]

I'm pretty amazing at video games and also very smart, so if i can't figure out what to do for a shrine in .02 seconds, that's a bad shrine 💅

[@waindoah]

woah

[@waindoah]

OMG I LOVED YOUR RECENT VIDEO

[@lightguard1]

I think that shrine with jenga minigame should be in the honorable mentions. It can be a bit frustrating to figure it out, but it is a fun idea for a shrine.

[@willstewart3391]

On the drifting flames shrine i put down 10 apples to weigh the pressure plate enough then bomb sheulded to the other side and use the fire arrows to beat it and then got my apples back lol

[@alastryona]

I really liked the right roll, just not the last part. I tried so many combinations with the balls and ended up getting annoyed, fusing the big one to a weapon and throwing it purely out of frustration. And I was surprised when it worked! So it was still worth it since I had that moment of accidentally finding a different solution

[@iamphoenixfire]

When I finished proving grounds: vehicles, I texted everyone I knew who was playing the game and told them to go to it because it was so much fun

[@Monty2289]

I guess I get the frustration with the target press shrines but I wanted nothing to do with them. I cheated. If you have bomb arrows the pressure emitted from them striking the target satisfies it. So if I saw I had to deal with BS I just shot the target with a bomb arrow. The bat shrine if I had known it at the time - it was my earliest target shrine I'd have just shot them with bombs.

[@nakkipatukka123]

5:45 actual skill issue. I can't believe people had trouble with what is literally making a cog.

[@bukenator0788]

RIGHT? nobody's complaining about the wind temple that had the same puzzle

[@Monty2289]

Well skill issue then because that's not how I solved it at all and it was super untuitive. I think I was in the right area code on it. Instead of cog providing power I used ultra hand to move the platforms and used recall to send them back up. The right combination of ascend, ultrahand, and recall gave enough height to just clear it. It is a stupid shrine

[@bernardoquintas5993]

Omg for the brdging the sands shrine, i could not have cheesed it more. Using the fans and steering stick, i just made a hover bike that allowed me to go anywhere without dealing with the sand And as a bonus, this shrine is one of the biggest open roomed shrine, which made it really fun to fly around without worrying about battery life

[@WarmLillie]

Shrine might have been designed to test the hero skill but not all test were made the same. I have yet to play tears but as they say information is power and I want to be brought to tears taking some of these on.

[@ShawnMadeInUSA]

I love the airport shrine. It's giving me waking up at 4am for flight schedule vibes.

[@geektesse]

I love the whole shrine concept more than having big dungeons. I loved them in botw and even more in totk. I also liked the blessing shrines if I already did a whole puzzle to get to the shrine. I saved all the survival shrines until I got over 25 hearts - didn’t even attempt them earlier, as I loathed the island in botw that robs you of all gear.

[@limlix]

Funny story: I didn’t understand in the proving grounds, the hunt shrine that the point is to use the little dog monster targeter, so I went through the hole shrine by force and using only my weapons and I died so many times I almost gave up just to get max hearts come back and kill them all with some kind of mass destruction weapon ( I didn’t know I couldn’t use zonai devices from my inventory then)

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

On Drifting Flame, I used Recall to light all 3 torches. That shrine was a mayor head scratcher

[@MrSuperleobros]

Its funny because i feel compwred to botw there's less shrines that felt like filler. My favorite shrines were the proving ground shrines but the roomba one was my favorite. It made me realise how crazy you can pimp out your own little monster destroying death bot. I adore fusing a construct head with canons and lazer beams and just sending it into a monster camp so i can save on weapon durability. I also enjoyed the courage to jump. I kinda agree i wish there were more shrines purely to showcase just how fun zonai vehicles are. For the rauru's blessing shrines. I feel alot of people miss the point of these shrines but with that said there are some that genuinely surprised me as i didnt even realise i solved a puzzle like the one in the gerudo highlands near the white-maned lynel, unless the lynel was the puzzle lol.

[@SpaceRider15]

4:00 you can connect the beam to both gears, it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure that out

[@enderallygolem]

I'm nowhere near completing all the shrines, but the hunt is one of my favourites to be honest Probably died there the most of any shrines but enjoyed every second of it, every death got me to rethink how I used the roomas and it was super satisfying when I finally beat it.

[@bernardoquintas5993]

For the Drifting Flames shrine, I realized I could drop a weapon to activate the button, so I mixed ultrahand and recall to get my weapon in the button when I was on the side of the candle, and them used arrows on fire (not fire arrows) to light the other candles. And then I collected my weapon

[@levthelion71810]

For the torch lighting shrine, I just held down the button with recall and used the candle to shoot fire arrows

[@rjgaynor8]

Drifting flame solution is actually pretty clever if you ask me. The wall is just at the right height that if you aim with a bow just above the wall in the direction of the torch’s you will light them every time. It teaches you about arrow arching.

[@JakoBpyroTech]

I don't remember what I did for that shrine, but it wasn't this, and it felt cheesy

[@IPutFishInAWashingMachine]

My personal favorite so far is the Jenga shrine. I went into it and went "since when did shrines have actually unique themes?"

[@therower1941]

5:04 You're supposed to put the candle on the ground, and lowering and then raising the floor causes it to jump up and light the torches which have lowered enough for the candle to reach them when jumping. You don't need to use recall or arrows. I agree it was pretty confusing.

[@RyanBan-g7x]

7:53 I also had this problem, so i tried to make a long pole using the things in the shrine and used recall to poke the button using the pole and it worked.

[@mingofishygaming8684]

For bridging the sands, when it launched the ball I just used rewind. I felt kinda bad about circumventing the shrine so I sledded to where I WOULD’VE needed to go just to do it.

[@yunsupark6259]

My current favorite shrine was courage to fall it’s like you have no idea what to do until you remember the name

[@SaturnYoshi]

The Right Roll shrine, I didn't even attempt to do it their way. I fired bomb arrows at the targets and they did the trick.

[@Vendavalez]

“A reflective device” shrine was actually my second to last shrine 😂

[@bluepolar282]

For drifting flame I grabbed the torch from the room before and set it ontop of the button with the little fire thing so that the button would go down and I could just walk out and shoot the things with firefruit

[@CreativelyJake]

i quite liked the blessing shrines because they actually made you do puzzles *outside* of the world in most cases, which. are more interesting than more shrines. im not exactly a shrine hater but i am also a bit tired of bite-sized-puzzle-worlds that are magical and disconnected from the outside world alignment of the circles was like. i get what it was trying, and i understand why it had a big staircase. to try and make you look up. but it took me several minutes of confusion to notice the circles on the ceiling despite that

[@dantheman15]

Vasko, for drifting flames you probably had to recall the button to hold it down long enough so you could move the flame like the previous room.

[@copycat500]

My favorite shrine was “Proving Grounds: The Hunt” which was my first encounter with the ROOMBAS and they are my absolute favorite Zonai Device

[@lorialee]

There's a random blessing shrine in the middle of the Gerudo Highlands. It's a blessing with no puzzle.

[@denischen8196]

In Proving Grounds: Vehicles, you don't need to use any vehicles. All you need is the beam emitter near the right wall.

[@Zelda_Thorn]

i thought the courage to jump was maybe my favorite in the game, although i was really tickled by unlit blessing. and i weirdly liked the right roll, it was frustrating but i felt like i learned something when i finally got it

[@boisbois2947]

I agree with your best and worst shrine picks. I think the 3 balls shrine is the only one time I gave up on trying to find the real solution (and maybe the candle one) and used a bomb to push the button. Overall the shrines in this game were pretty good, but there were a bit too many Rauru's blessings.

[@Arclor]

Just glad you didn't positively mention Well Timed Bounce or that stupid scooping one in Hateno. Those were my two least favorite shrines by a longshot.

[@AmataTai]

I used recall to adjust the perfect strike minigolf shrine- if it overshot, half a second of recall stops the momentum

[@loganstubbs5224]

5:14 I dropped pumpkins on the button then used fire arrows, was pretty proud of that solution even if wand of sparking did it in a botw video.

[@Beem_08]

2:36 when the ball is too up recall and stop recall so that the ball stops moving then it fells into the hole

[@nickogianakouros]

Ok the right roll is fr a good shrine. It does a good job at teaching you how weight affects the directional movement of the rolling balls. Personally mogisari is my favorite shrine, and I also love Mayausiy and Sahirow

[@bencundiff9405]

im ngl i somehow brute forced the alignment of circles shrine in a couple minutes somehow and didnt even notice the circles on the roof lol. fr when i did i was like "wtf how did i do that".

[@kheyob899]

I completed the forward force shrine by turning the first car into a tower that I put the ball ontop of. First thing that came to my mind

[@Drallocc123]

I absolutely hated the "built for rails" shrine, it was super easy but takes forever for the platform to get to the end of the shrine!

[@EvenFox]

You said Courage to Jump and I instantly like you

[@jw0484]

There's a way to cheese those shrines with the giant buttons, just fuse a bomb flower to your arrow, or simply throw it at the target, which saved me a lot of pain on shrines like The Ice Guides You. Thank me later.

[@PoggerFoxy]

having done all the shrines too, I completely agree with all the worst ones, especially number one, ended up using a bomb arrow for it lol personal favorite is courage to jump, you go zoom zoom

[@nibulsheep8214]

I love bad shrines because instead of having me rage, they have me wonder "how can i be smarter than the game" except the devs knew i could do it all along.

[@thecollector4575]

In bridging the sands when it shot the ball to the other side I quickly used rewind and had to do nothing so not as bad now.

[@GamingRabbit17]

I had already had a long play session the day I did Bridging the Sands, so i just recalled the ball

[@chatpuns]

With drifting Flame, i think theres a barrel new the door in the 2nd room (or i used a weapon i cant remember) to put the button down,

[@huntergaming1337]

a fixed device was pretty fun, i just sticked 2 sticks on the thing and let it fly frickin' everywhere

[@ayo9290]

On the last shrine: the balls can't trigger the target while held in ultrahand. Use recall, and that anti-trigger dissapears.

[@plaguelord22]

I really hate just all the blessing shrines, I get the whole idea is that the challenge is actually getting to the shrines but in a game like totk where you can get anywhere extremely easy they just don’t feel very interesting, especially when a lot of blessing shrines feel like you get them for something that isn’t very hard and normal shrines are given for things that do legitimately feel like you should get a blessing for instead of a normal shrine

[@amyhartman6786]

Not enough puzzle shrines in this game I miss the real challenge here. Down to finding my last remaining shrines by looking at what is above the light roots. Seems the majority of shrines in this game are either walk up a set of steps and collect the stupid orb or they stuff you into what looks like Nike or Under Armor athletic shorts, for what reason I do now know as they just do not fit into the style of clothing used in this game's theme at all. Then they have you dismantle a bunch of robots while wearing those shorts. I think if they wanted it to represent a bare minimum an ancient looking Zonai Loincloth would have been a better representation and at least add a variety of different enemy types other then these same constructs for every single proving grounds shrine. Killing these same robots over and over again is not a challenge "though tedious" because there are too many shrines of the same type just as the blessing ones, but not a challenge even while you are only wearing those Nike shorts. A good challenge variety would of been a Gloom hands fight with only shrine provided materials allowed to be used for example. Meaning you can't cheese that Gloom Hands and Phamtom by stacking Shard of Naydra's and dinraal's Spikes.

[@inkbit2734]

Who's gonna tell Vasko that he can use bomb flowers fused to an arrow to trigger the targets

[@kronossos]

About forward force shrine, i skipped it by sticking the car and a ball to each other, then I went up thanks to ladder it's possible, and done, i took the ball

[@Harpy-with-Legs]

So basically if the puzzle is even a little bit unique or complicated this guys hates it

[@2bplayerrytwo38]

I didn't know that's what you had to do in the force transfer Shrine If I remember correctly what I did was when I was in the second room I ascended through the long platform then use ultrahand to boost the next platform up then ascend through it and recall it

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

At least none of the shrines required a Blood Moon. I hated activating that. I only used the mirror for certain shrines and sidequests. I actually noticed the symbols on the ceiling. 2:22 I put a rocket on my spear. You used a protractor in this game? I don't remember if I had that much issue with this shrine. I probably would remember if I did. 6:44 I think I had to look this up because I did not realize there were torches here. 7:52 Bomb arrows make this shrine much easier. I wish I knew this before since I had to look up how to do this one. 8:09 I had some trouble with this one. I probably could have done a better job here. 8:49 I really wish I used the vehicle in the center of the room but I did not find out how to reach it until I after I finished it.

[@IsaacMcginty-uf4jg]

I loved the bit were he said link had 3 apples he used 1 to find a korok and so on

[@rcmg4013]

In the forward force, i just disassemble the car and make a tower then pick it up on the top of the stairs. Screw that obstacle course

[@emanwonkon2205]

ooo! an inkling oc! im now interested!

[@michaeltansi6422]

Good vid

[@eliasalqadhi2721]

My favorite shrine is the courge to jump but not because of the same thing it's because I used my icy meat shield and used the low gravity to skip the entire thing and I felt cool because of it

[@milowannebo-sorensen1776]

For force transfer, I got the stick from the first room into the second room with recall, making it a bit easier.( my dad needed to tell me how lol)

[@goldencreepersthesecond]

with forward force i just disassembled the car and used ultrahand to get the ball up to where it was needed.

[@KhayteBlais]

when you said worst shrine my mind immediatley went to the ball shrine too! I hate that so much I looked up a tutorial and the tutorial was incosistent. I 100%agree that that is the worst shrine.

[@crippled_banana]

Courage to Fall was the best shrine of all time. It was like mario kart and i loved it

[@JacobCurry-sn5fr]

5:44 yeah I just used recall to lift it up and skip the lava pool and the rest of it entirely

[@justme14357]

The Shrines in TOTK were such a Upgrade!

[@aldoushuxley5953]

Mirrors are good when fused with shields. At day, they blind enemies and you can stunlock them easily

[@RealbluesparkFN]

I wish there were a few motion control shrines

[@JustJulyo]

This video is so good!

[@jherboss2516]

1:20 mirror shields can be pretty busted sometimes, not the most consistent.

[@G0OG4]

2:50 me personally i never had any issues with these types of shrines in both totk and botw, u just gotta get the angle right

[@Tymasterg]

The golfing one is real easy if you overshoot, just use recall

[@G0OG4]

5:23 is it bad that i simply ran through this shrine without using any zonai devices until the end?💀

[@janitorben1434]

Oh I liked forward force! I didn’t have too much trouble with it

[@ghb323]

9:37 ultrahand, spin it around, recall it. Some reason have enough momentum to trigger it.

[@devins8716]

Hopefully somebody tells him he could use bomb flowers on those activation shrine

[@milowannebo-sorensen1776]

Slide ice down the slope? Bro doesn’t realize the power of 2 ice blocks! You get on one, take the other in front of you, then get on it and take the other one in front, until you get there

[@alexandervarakosov]

Best part, they ditch out apparatus shrines, and that golf thing not that bad as in botw.

[@drogan0940]

to be honest when i did a fixed device i didn't know how the switches in shrines worked so i cheesed it with a bomb arrow

[@reev9759]

What does a cat have to do with the cold side of a pillow?

[@gingerbengal9854]

I didn't even know that's what you had to do for force transfer I just did what you did immediately

[@PlagueAims35]

For the ice guide one I just used bombs to activate the button things

[@Zekrozma3]

5:20 put down something heavy on the pressure plate and it will lower everything

[@frostcommander523]

I will never forgive you for calling the fire fruit fire flower

[@Monty2289]

Force Transfer and that minigolf shrine are the epitome of bad physics challenge items. The latter is jsut finnicky but at least the solutions are obvious. The problem is how you reset the device which is ungodly annoying and not fun. When you screw up you're punished and you get to the point where you're forced to try janky shit. I even tried just grabbing to two iron blocks attaching them and then attach the ball. It was just not fun. Force Transfer is stupid for the opposite reason. The solution is not obvious and It was not intuitive what so ever. I ended up building roofs with the material and lifting them into place with recall and then just ascending up which gave me just enough height to get to the LOB.

[@josuemelendez8722]

152? Oh dear-I will take years to complete.....

[@jorgec98]

I did figure out forward force 🙋 It was pretty satisfying