If it makes you feel any better, I find it fun solving puzzles the 'correct' way, simply because it's interesting trying to interpret what the game, and by extension the devs, are trying to tell you
This 100%. I got the bridge schematic pretty early and was like "really". Two shrines later and it was my most used autobuild for the rest of the game right after the hover bike.
I’ve found out that rock salt works the best for pressure plates, it seems to be one of the heavier materials that everyone has plenty of and you only need to throw down one instead of multiple like other materials
@@greenberrygk Sucks that you can't ascend through the ceiling of the depths besides at designated points, though. I couldn't find a valid unintended spot it would work at, anyway.
I beat the last room "Aginst the flow" shrine in death mountain like this: Normally ur supposed to attach a fan to a lava slab across a giant lava lake to reach the end. But with built limit amount of lava slabs, you can make a bridge jjjuuuussstttt long enough to reach the end. It's a bit frustrating to build given the limited space, but it definitely works. The only reason I did it was to prove to my dad that my stupid ideas can work, lol. I think it was intentional that the pool was just long enough for a build limit bridge.
I often do the shrines the way they’re supposed to even if i know i can just cheat it, because i know the things a lot of the shrines teaches me has been useful knowledge later on.
Some of these shrines make you feel like you need to do alternative ways and I think that’s how they were designed to be. Multiple ways to solve puzzles. I like it.
I remember in BoTW the shrine where you had to tilt the entire board to get through the maze. I turned the board upside down and flung the ball into the hole (either that, or it rolled into the hole. It’s been a while since I did that shrine in that game).
When you said “fuse a cart to your shield so you can turn your game of Zelda into Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2”, I instantly got Cyclone by Dub Pistols in my head “LIVIN IN A CYC-A-LONE”
you can use pretty much any object that can be attached to a lever to pull the lever, i found myself using tiny icicles and tiny enemy clubs in the Wind Temple
The thing is there is no correct way of solving any puzzle. Each way is valid, otherwise they would have just removed everything from the inventory at the beginning of the shrine, like proving grounds
Same for me, but if you go for a electric stuff during the shrine at 1:48, I recommend you to wear any electric resistant clothing, or even if you have a High-Level electricity resistance food recipes to withstood against them. But for the Bomb Shields? Well I'll go for the Spring Shields if thanks to "Morok Shrine" for having that as a "Best First Carry" though.
In the second shrine of the video, you dont need octo baloons. just use ultrahand to levitate de sphere, and then recall it from above to make te sphere levitate again and then use ultrahand. in fact, you can break most of the shrines using ultrahand and recall.
The one where you ascend through the floor is, afaik, the intended solution to that shrine, if it's possible to make something that can clear that distance and land on top it's not obvious how, whereas you can ride one of those gliders exactly as is and then ascend through the floor.
ummmmmmmm..... did you know that you can control a glider without a steering stick by moving to different parts of the glider? left=left, right=right, middle = slow speed buildup, and slow descent, forward = fast speed buildup and fast descent, and back= a slow, desparate attempt to stay in the air which results in a slow descent in place. hope that helps!
@@conorgalvin4289 I did, the distance in that shrine is too vast and there aren't extra parts to improve your glider either. It simply is destined to fall short. I legitimately spent time over engineering trying to find something I could stitch together that would cross the gap better without resorting to smuggling goods into the shrine and made no meaningful progress. You go underneath on purpose and ascend up, that's the puzzle.
Go back to that shrine, did you notice how you got up to that platform with the wings? Yes that’s right, there were 4 fans or more on the floor that you could use ultra hand to pick up and bring it to the wing. Of course you could also beat it by just using a rocket shield near that final part
@@onewayraildex4827 Now, unlike last guy, this is a fair criticism. For whatever reason, I think the awkwardness of plucking them, I didn't think the fans were meant to be used in this part of the puzzle, and solved it without it. Considering you can just solve this puzzle with Ascend and the stock gliders that are being readily launched, that still feels like the intended solution to me though.
That one shrine where you have to hit the target with the the three balls nearly killed me. I sat there traing for over an hour until i decided "F it" and just left
I did one yesterday where I couldn't find the small key (it was suspended high up), so I solved the 2nd half first. Swinging a large ball with ultrahand behind a locked gate, shooting the rope with an arrow to have it land safely and open the door. Still took a minute to locate the key chest 😁
I really hate people saying they solved the shrine the wrong way. No, you were expected to figure it out, whatever that entailed. Unless you glitched to the end by walking through the wall, I don't think theres a wrong way to solve a shrine.
All shrines expect you to enter them empty handed and solve the puzzles with whatever is given to you inside. I would argue that using anything thats already in your inventory deviates from the intended way of solving the puzzle, hence the wrong way
@@jinyboi I take the opposite opinion to yours. Unless the trial takes away your items I think whatever they give you is just for convinience. Whether you need it or not and can just use it so you can save yours if just foward think on the developers part.
Wrong way is the wrong word for sure. Unintended is a better word. They designed the puzzles with a certain solution in mind, but unless they stripped you of all outside equipment anything that solved the puzzle is a valid solution.
I cannot in good conscience cheese thru 90% of shrines with rockets and claim that i solved them in the right way. But who cares at the end of the day as long as we are having fun
If the gate is too far from where you need to activate the circuit and it's not in line-of-sight for an arrow, use a Shock Fruit/Electric Chu-Chu Jelly + Time Bomb from a capsule, hit the bomb, then sprint to the door
If you need to complete a circuit with a big gap, the electric Chu-Chu jelly has a bigger 'blast radius' than a shock fruit (as all you need to do is make sure the effect touches both sides for some)
its so interesting how runes in totk are broken when used for intended purposes properly Compared to botw where its only Stasis that was the main broken ability
Another way to cheese most shrines is to attach somthing to an arrow and then after it hits and lands attach somthing to it and recall the wood and it will travel back along its path if you shoot it up you can rase things up and you can use it to move things across where you aren't supposed to
That railcar one I solved the wrong way. I put a rocket on one side, the right side, and ended up not only doing a sick drift on the rails but passed the last part of the puzzle!
@@KaitouKaiju I disagree. The rocket on a shield trick gets you through so many shrines. If it was one or two, I'd accept it. It happens so frequently.
I remember one in the Gerudo region where you have to go through quicksand then hit a switch that makes the shrine orb needed to complete the shrine appear only for it to immediately get launched all the way to the other side of the shrine by one of those piston things and wants you to do more quicksand stuff. I just said fck it and Recalled the thing alllllll the way back. Also in shrines with light panels that need the beam of light from a mirror to activate, I'm fairly sure I've triggered one or two of them with Dazzlefruit in some way.
lmao I remember the shrine you're talking about... it was a whole ordeal to get the orb back. The idea of just recalling it back after realizing all that bs you'd have to do is hilarious
What shrine hacks do you know? Let me know in the comments! I'll give you a shout out in part 2.
All of them can be cheesed by the hover bike
There's going to be a part 2?!?! You explained so much in 1 video
Throwing Rocket with spear to hit targets
Try the ascend-elevator using ultra hand and ascend
This game breaks itself just by existing as is on purpose.
I love it.
They knew we would break it anyway so they just made it more fun
This video makes me feel stupid for solving the shrines correctly.
Don’t be. Think of it as a challenge. If you ever decide to do them again you can explore more options next time.
Exactly
If it makes you feel any better, I find it fun solving puzzles the 'correct' way, simply because it's interesting trying to interpret what the game, and by extension the devs, are trying to tell you
😂😂correct
SAME
i do love how they let you clear shrines in your own ways.
I don't care how a shrine is solved, as long as that piano jingle plays I'm good!
agreed
And I get the chest icon on the map.
@@soundspark Yes, well said!
To be fair, "Build a bridge" is legitimately one of the most basic, but trustworthy solutions to most Shrines.
This 100%. I got the bridge schematic pretty early and was like "really". Two shrines later and it was my most used autobuild for the rest of the game right after the hover bike.
@@stevecole90099but you can’t use auto build in shrines
All these shrines assume you enters in bare hands.If you have many tools, that's another story
There is the one shrine that strips you of everything when you enter. I passed on it for now, will come back when I have more hearts.
@@soundsparklet’s just say there is at least one that does this.
@@soundsparkthose mostly were combat ones at least the ones I’ve done.
All these shrines assume you won't flip the "MacGyver mode switch"!
@soundspark
there are several of those. They are all combat oriented.
They are probably the simplest yet most challenging shrines without your stuff.
As the prototypical zonai device, octo balloons broke a lot of shrines in BotW too.
I’ve found out that rock salt works the best for pressure plates, it seems to be one of the heavier materials that everyone has plenty of and you only need to throw down one instead of multiple like other materials
I didn't expect a zelda game to allow so many fun options based on their physics engine.
My favorite is always a combination of ultrahand and recall. I can make just about anything carry me over to the end of the shrine.
That makes me think of the platforms in any Mario game that move back and forth
And then you can use that to ascend through ceilings that would usually be too high.
@@greenberrygk Sucks that you can't ascend through the ceiling of the depths besides at designated points, though. I couldn't find a valid unintended spot it would work at, anyway.
@@greenberrygkŹZZZ_êE
I beat the last room "Aginst the flow" shrine in death mountain like this:
Normally ur supposed to attach a fan to a lava slab across a giant lava lake to reach the end. But with built limit amount of lava slabs, you can make a bridge jjjuuuussstttt long enough to reach the end. It's a bit frustrating to build given the limited space, but it definitely works. The only reason I did it was to prove to my dad that my stupid ideas can work, lol. I think it was intentional that the pool was just long enough for a build limit bridge.
This is why the game is so awesome. Everyone can come up with unique ways to clear the shrines.
Thank you! I have a list of shrines I’ve struggled with. Never thought to use a bomb! Finally a use for the Oct balloons!
I often do the shrines the way they’re supposed to even if i know i can just cheat it, because i know the things a lot of the shrines teaches me has been useful knowledge later on.
So many awesome ideas. I think with all the possible combinations in TOTK the next years will bring a lot of good stuff to the speedrunning community.
Some of these shrines make you feel like you need to do alternative ways and I think that’s how they were designed to be. Multiple ways to solve puzzles. I like it.
I remember in BoTW the shrine where you had to tilt the entire board to get through the maze. I turned the board upside down and flung the ball into the hole (either that, or it rolled into the hole. It’s been a while since I did that shrine in that game).
Omg I always hated that shrine plus every other motion controlled shrines. I was relieved to hear that there was an easier way
Haha same🤣
I wish I saw this before completing all the shrines.
Same, I'm looking forward to using these tips in master mode though
you can also just throw heavy object to the targets to activate it, like rock sword or something. I also tried a rocket spear and it also works.
When you said “fuse a cart to your shield so you can turn your game of Zelda into Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2”, I instantly got Cyclone by Dub Pistols in my head
“LIVIN IN A CYC-A-LONE”
All these shrines assume you won't flip the "MacGyver mode switch"!
Spring-Shields can also launch nearly any enemy backward (which is handy when fighting foes near water for an instant-kill)
TehCactusPlant has a series like this except he does every shrine in a very impractical way (he also did it in BOTW)
I love that one laser shrine that does the first Resident Evil movie justice
FINALLY someone who understood the abilities of recall and warping through ceiling 🎉
you can use pretty much any object that can be attached to a lever to pull the lever, i found myself using tiny icicles and tiny enemy clubs in the Wind Temple
Frost Emitter at an angle + Stake also makes infinite ice when pointed at water (same works for Hydrants with lava)
Blows my tiny mind how crafted this game it. Absolute masterpiece. You are a genius too
This mans be drinkin' the tears of software developers for hydration.
This makes TotK an immersive sim
The thing is there is no correct way of solving any puzzle. Each way is valid, otherwise they would have just removed everything from the inventory at the beginning of the shrine, like proving grounds
It’s still a good way of displaying the interactive sim part of the game.
Man I'm always humbled by these types of videos
Same for me, but if you go for a electric stuff during the shrine at 1:48, I recommend you to wear any electric resistant clothing, or even if you have a High-Level electricity resistance food recipes to withstood against them. But for the Bomb Shields? Well I'll go for the Spring Shields if thanks to "Morok Shrine" for having that as a "Best First Carry" though.
So grade 10 physics does actually have a practical use. Nice.
In the second shrine of the video, you dont need octo baloons. just use ultrahand to levitate de sphere, and then recall it from above to make te sphere levitate again and then use ultrahand. in fact, you can break most of the shrines using ultrahand and recall.
You should totally make a 6-hour video of every Shrine done in the "worst" possible way.
These were really interesting.
I wouldn't want to live anymore after filming that 😂
The one where you ascend through the floor is, afaik, the intended solution to that shrine, if it's possible to make something that can clear that distance and land on top it's not obvious how, whereas you can ride one of those gliders exactly as is and then ascend through the floor.
ummmmmmmm..... did you know that you can control a glider without a steering stick by moving to different parts of the glider? left=left, right=right, middle = slow speed buildup, and slow descent, forward = fast speed buildup and fast descent, and back= a slow, desparate attempt to stay in the air which results in a slow descent in place. hope that helps!
@@conorgalvin4289 I did, the distance in that shrine is too vast and there aren't extra parts to improve your glider either. It simply is destined to fall short. I legitimately spent time over engineering trying to find something I could stitch together that would cross the gap better without resorting to smuggling goods into the shrine and made no meaningful progress. You go underneath on purpose and ascend up, that's the puzzle.
Go back to that shrine, did you notice how you got up to that platform with the wings?
Yes that’s right, there were 4 fans or more on the floor that you could use ultra hand to pick up and bring it to the wing.
Of course you could also beat it by just using a rocket shield near that final part
@@onewayraildex4827 Now, unlike last guy, this is a fair criticism. For whatever reason, I think the awkwardness of plucking them, I didn't think the fans were meant to be used in this part of the puzzle, and solved it without it. Considering you can just solve this puzzle with Ascend and the stock gliders that are being readily launched, that still feels like the intended solution to me though.
@@Meguminimal There's 4 fans, but to be fair, they're well hidden. I didn't notice them at first either.
They want you to be the smart ass. No way they don't think about me placing the freaking log/stone on the pressure plate.
I could never think of this in 1 million years this is incredible absolutely incredible
That one shrine where you have to hit the target with the the three balls nearly killed me. I sat there traing for over an hour until i decided "F it" and just left
as far as I'm concerned, you still solved the puzzle!
I did one yesterday where I couldn't find the small key (it was suspended high up), so I solved the 2nd half first. Swinging a large ball with ultrahand behind a locked gate, shooting the rope with an arrow to have it land safely and open the door. Still took a minute to locate the key chest 😁
I really hate people saying they solved the shrine the wrong way. No, you were expected to figure it out, whatever that entailed. Unless you glitched to the end by walking through the wall, I don't think theres a wrong way to solve a shrine.
All shrines expect you to enter them empty handed and solve the puzzles with whatever is given to you inside. I would argue that using anything thats already in your inventory deviates from the intended way of solving the puzzle, hence the wrong way
@@jinyboi I take the opposite opinion to yours. Unless the trial takes away your items I think whatever they give you is just for convinience. Whether you need it or not and can just use it so you can save yours if just foward think on the developers part.
Wrong way is the wrong word for sure. Unintended is a better word. They designed the puzzles with a certain solution in mind, but unless they stripped you of all outside equipment anything that solved the puzzle is a valid solution.
I cannot in good conscience cheese thru 90% of shrines with rockets and claim that i solved them in the right way. But who cares at the end of the day as long as we are having fun
@@jinyboi Many do expect you to have weapons to destroy the Soldier and Captain Constructs.
1:08 Oh my why haven't I thought about being able to use octo baloon that way @@ thanks bud, this could be a great subtitude method for the rocket
There's been many shrines where I've thought I'm absolutely not doing this the intended way.
7:40 impacts only apply when not using ultrahand, use recall on it however gets around it.
If the gate is too far from where you need to activate the circuit and it's not in line-of-sight for an arrow, use a Shock Fruit/Electric Chu-Chu Jelly + Time Bomb from a capsule, hit the bomb, then sprint to the door
I completed 142 shrines before learning you could use bombs on the targets. 😅
That means you were only 10 shrines away from doing all of it
In botw, there was this one shrine where I had to activate a circuit to get a gear, to finish a gear chain. i used 20 shock arrows instead.
For that target puzzle I always just smacked the ball against the target with ultra hand and used rewind to make it go green
You can also fuse a weapon with a metal ball in the shrine. Throw the fused weapon at the target and it will also activate
If you need to complete a circuit with a big gap, the electric Chu-Chu jelly has a bigger 'blast radius' than a shock fruit (as all you need to do is make sure the effect touches both sides for some)
its so interesting how runes in totk are broken when used for intended purposes properly
Compared to botw where its only Stasis that was the main broken ability
looks like I'm being using those techniques
Wow all these shrine solution sure are impractical
4:30 The funny thing is I actually did have to ascend in that shrine because I'm terrible at piloting planes
Hold on- You're telling me this was the WRONG way to solve them? I thought I was doing it as intended
If they didn't want you doing it that way, the devs would have taken all your stuff at the beginning.
"THE LAST ONE MAY SURPRISE YOU"
omg ^^
I'm going to try the bomb trick on that weird baseball target shrine.
The time bomb is super helpful. I just used a rocket shield or two for whatever that rail shrine was.
Another way to cheese most shrines is to attach somthing to an arrow and then after it hits and lands attach somthing to it and recall the wood and it will travel back along its path if you shoot it up you can rase things up and you can use it to move things across where you aren't supposed to
That railcar one I solved the wrong way. I put a rocket on one side, the right side, and ended up not only doing a sick drift on the rails but passed the last part of the puzzle!
Is there an audio desync in this video, or is that just an issue on my end?
Developers: “That’s not how you’re supposed to do it! God, we spent years on making these shrines puzzle!”
This thumbnail made my brain forget how to think.
You know they are gonna have dlc shrines later that stomp us into the floor with these mechanics we skipped. It will be funny and we will deserve it.
We gonna skip those too 🤣
Btw you should fuse a chuchu jelly on a forest dweller sword or spear because the chuchu wont explode on impact
I might have to try this :o
A bunning campfire waighs more than 1 wood
5:40 For this you can shield-jump with a wing attached to the shield, the jump is higher.
Sometimes Im just to lazy to solve the shrine, This is a great video
I've been relying on the skills and the objects the shrines provided.
If you have a gate that closes if you do somthing it is sometimes possible to just block it with a platform from an earlier room
this game is awesome. It's like you can almost do anything.
4:23 that's actually how I solved that shrine
I’m pretty sure that’s how you’re supposed to solve it. I don’t think it’s possible to make it over there without losing altitude.
I never knew bomb flowers could activate those plates
This dude is 3008 while we’re all 2000 and late
Nintendo really didn't design the shrines in a way that it balances out the players creativity
They absolutely did. In shrines where certain strategies aren't meant to be used they outright make it impossible.
@@KaitouKaiju I disagree. The rocket on a shield trick gets you through so many shrines. If it was one or two, I'd accept it. It happens so frequently.
" I know I did that the wrong way " is what ive been saying lately.
I remember one in the Gerudo region where you have to go through quicksand then hit a switch that makes the shrine orb needed to complete the shrine appear only for it to immediately get launched all the way to the other side of the shrine by one of those piston things and wants you to do more quicksand stuff. I just said fck it and Recalled the thing alllllll the way back. Also in shrines with light panels that need the beam of light from a mirror to activate, I'm fairly sure I've triggered one or two of them with Dazzlefruit in some way.
I tried dazzlefruit on those light panels, but I had no luck :(
I might have to take another look
lmao I remember the shrine you're talking about... it was a whole ordeal to get the orb back. The idea of just recalling it back after realizing all that bs you'd have to do is hilarious
😂 I recalled that shrine too. So satisfying skipping all that bs
@jonolivier9126 I'm working on part 2. You gave me some good ideas. Can I shout you out in the next video?
@@ChocoBro1 Sure, why not.
you can run across rails too so if your brain dont work you can skip puzzles by… walking
I tried that, I kept falling off 😅
@@ChocoBro1 yeah its difficult but if you line yourself up perfectly you can even sprint
Thanks you ❤ it’s sometimes pretty hard to complete shrines but not anymore
Technology there is no wrong ear way if you get the job done. They just want to test your creativity!
This game is a master piece
Hover bike essentially is a cheat in any shrine that doesn't have an neclosed space with a roof lol
*link shocks himself to death*
Raoru: HAHAHAHAHA THAT WAS HILARIOUS! anyway, here's my blessing...idiot.
i swear the shrine music fr gives me bone labs vibes
I love the number of shrines I "solved" by making Recall Elevators.
You can skip most of mirror + light puzzle with dazzlefruit, work best with multi arrow bow( lynel, korok/forest bow,...) i think.
All hail the devs, they made the game so cheesable.
If you don't have the patience, you can work with your wits.
7:02 that's actually how I did that shrine, lol
I did like 15 shrines doing wrong things that I doubt anyone did like me, and I guess other people did them differently too xD
The well shit one you can do a shield bomb jump or rocket shield
You only need one rock salt instead five woods to press a button
Been knowing about the bomb button since BOTW lol that’s how I solved those
Or... just use a rocket shield!
For everything!
That is outside of the box.... LOL....not bad....
5:35 all you needed to do was shield jump
If there's a right way, ignore it, find a wrong way.
There is no right or wrong way, as long as it works.