>>45969313No it fucking doesn't. There are 231 NPCs in BOTW. There are 171 trainers in the Battle Tower alone.
BOTW also only has 10 fucking enemy types they recycle with different elements.
>>45969342>>45969356Fire Emblem: Three Houses not only reuse the same models for generic enemies and generic students you can't talk to, it even does so for the Battalion mechanic, letting you summon 10 identical clones every time you use a Gambit.
Dragon Quest XI not only reuses the same NPC models within that game, but most of the NPC designs are even recycled from older Dragon Quest games. The bunny girls are higher-poly versions of the Dragon Quest VIII bunny girls. The muscular men with helmets are in nearly all Dragon Quest games AND they even reused that design for an actual named story character but they painted his helmet pink instead.
Final Fantasy VII Remake recycle NPCs in the same fucking screen.
>>45969360The only unique NPCs in that screen are Amber and Chalky, every other NPC models there appears in other towns with different colors.
>>45969404Games that reuse the character customization options for NPCs both makes every character identical AND makes your own character look like a NPC.
>>45969413Those are color-edited models, they're not using the character customization options.