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Hayame_Zero posted...

BotW/TotK changed a lot of stuff. Open world, no heart pieces, mini-dungeons, main dungeons don't have the traditional stuff (map, compass, Big Key, special item), a weapon and armor system system, etc.

There are heart pieces they just come in a different sprite and they are actually "heart or stamina" pieces. Having two different macguffin for hearts & stamina would have been much worse than what we have now.

Also I think people do a disservice to how big some of these shrines are. To complete the Lomei shrine, you have to go to the ground and do a gloom covered land maze, then go to the sky and do another maze, then dive all the way from the sky through the land maze lomei to the depths for the depths lomei and fight a boss. It easily takes just as much time as a dungeon.