Let's get back to the Collector's Edition of Tears of the Kingdom for a moment, where the most curious item in there is probably the one I find the least useful / appealing: the pin box. The symbols on those pins really caught my attention, where they can also be found on the back of the Joy-Cons from the leaked Nintendo Switch OLED:
Other than the fact that this does further confirm the leak, it highlights their importance. Those probably aren't just random Zonai runes, they must have some significance to the overall game. What these symbols so far all have in common is that there is an eye in them. They have different shapes and orientations, but it's there. Well, we don't really see it for the second pin in the video, because it's obstructed by the box, but it's likely that the upper part has another eye as well.
It's possible that the two symbols on the Joy-Cons are the other two pins that we haven't seen. But this would be quite the coincidence and it's also possible that there are lot more of these symbols in the game and they've picked just a handful of them for their merchandise.
Still, the fact that there are exactly four pins makes me believe that these might be this game's main runes, the replacements for Bombs, Magnesis, Stasis, and Cryonis. But what speaks against this theory is that they are too cryptic. With the Sheikah Slate you got very clear symbols of what does what. Bombs were bombs, Magnesis got represented by a magnet, and so on. With these symbols here I possibly couldn't tell what ability they could represent, even though we know at least two of the new rune abilities.
It also would raise the question why they put only two of these symbols on the back of the Joy-Cons and not all four of them. That would be like putting Stasis and Cryonis on some pedestal, but not the rest. (Well, the only rune that truly belongs on a pedestal is the Master Cycle Zero anyway.)
It's also possible that they are related to this game's main dungeons, where there could be four of them, or at least four with a common purpose. You start with four of these magic vials on your belt and maybe you collect four more from dungeons, where each dungeon is represented by one of these runes. Again, this theory has the same problem, where two of the symbols received more attention than the others...
If I have missed anything else that has these symbols, let me know, because I'm quite curious about them.
3 comments:
These world SYMBLE like Oracle for traditional chinese
Pin set first world look like "風" means Wind
Joycon left hand look like "光" means Light
Joycon Right hand look like "曉" or "暗" or "時"
"曉" >>dawn
"暗" >>Dark
"時" >>TIME
for the Pin set might fit LEAK first 4 temple collect 4 element
風 wind
水 water
火 fire
土 earth
Might be
JAPANESS transfer from traditional chinese
most world become current japaness but Japan also got some traditional chinese world keep in
Ohhh, that's very interesting, thank you!
To me their design is slightly different from each other. The first from the pinset looks more rustic, the others looks made with a brush. Maybe they are from different ancient cultures? In BOTW we can find Zonai more like Maya culture strucutures and some ruins that look more like greek ruins.
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