AC Shadows Side Content Isn’t Good

I’m a huge AC fan. I’ve played every release the day they come out. I loved Valhalla and I understand that opinion can be polarizing because it’s so bloated (which I agree about) but I feel like the past three games were so much more interesting.

The mysteries, raids, even flighting I found much more enjoyable than what Shadows is doing. Shadows side content boils down to find these pages, pray at these shrines, draw this bird, do this rhythm mini game. It’s so incredibly boring.

I don’t understand why they didn’t have things like a ninja star throwing game, riddle solving, pouring tea and cooling it properly (kind of like the ramen mini game from Yakuza) idk anything other than this would have been better.

I still like the game, don’t get me wrong, but good lord is a lot of my gameplay so far spent doing mind numbing menial tasks.