As it turns out, one of Breath of the Wild's most famous shrines was a crucial reference when designing The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Sometimes breaking a puzzle can be more fun than completing it the intended way, and Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma agrees.
In Nintendo Ask the Developer Vol. 13, Aonuma explains how the Myahm Agana Shrine – the one with the giant ball most people bypassed by flipping the board over before the ball would drop into the intended maze – was key to their design philosophy on having fun.
