#but as a nuanced take? yeah totk's are harder; i think

[lollybliz]

Hi Lolly!

So I have a question.

Based on the shrines you've done in tears so far, how do you think the difficulty of the shrines compares to botw's?

Oo yeah i can answer that one! Most of your questions are sitting in my drafts until I have a good chunk of time to write a worthy answer fjdjdjdjdndndne

Short answer: much more complicated, not necessarily harder, per se.

Longer answer: botw shrines never Stumped me. I have done all 120 shrines at least once, and while there were shrines that Took Me Awhile, it was never because i genuinely didn't know what to do, or got stuck, it was because I didn't have enough arrows, or I ran out of swords, or the motion controls had me by the throat.

I've only done a few dozen of totk's shrines yet and yet I can think of three separate times when I got Genuinely Stuck and had to sit and think for several minutes, trying things, talking it out, bellyaching to a friend on discord that I couldn't understand what it was asking me to do- and then, after boiling on it for a while, got a lightbulb moment, and the shrine suddenly made sense. And once it made sense, it was a cakewalk.

So. Is that harder? Idk. What's your metric for 'hard'? Totk's are more challenging, to me, and definitely count as more complicated. The win conditions are more specific, and you have to get it Right rather than bumbling into some variation that Works.

I sincerely doubt there are any lightning traps you can set off in the strength trial equivalents, for example 🤣