Where once upon a time this series might have built an entire dungeon around a single gadget, here it's possible to pick up new inventions every few minutes, for hours on end. Naturally, each is not as fully fledged in its design (our beloved bed aside) and there's considerably more crossover, something that does become an issue as the selection really begins to swell. With your echoes arranged in a TOTK-style horizontal quick menu, offering the same options for sorting but no filters, it's hard not to wonder if three separate, mechanically identical pots were strictly necessary. But this a trade-off we're more than happy to accept in exchange for a sweeping adventure that has us constantly wondering what new little idea we'll find around the next corner, and what we might do with it afterwards. You don't get that with a sword