 we could talk about with that gameplay and I have a lot of thoughts but one thing that's interesting whenever you go through the gameplay are the things Nintendo didn't announce but are present and make you wonder and it does appear that a discovery has been made well several discoveries are being made from this footage that hasn't been confirmed by Nintendo but certainly looks like it's a thing what are we talking about well before I tell you I want to remind you we're on a road to 100,000 subscribers if we get to 100,000 subscribers by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out we'll give away a collector's edition a pin oh yes a pin from PAX East those exclusive Tears of the Kingdom pins and we're actually on our way in a moment to pre-order the Tears of the Kingdom OLED to give away as well so uh oh boy we're pretty excited about this now what are we talking about when we were looking at this game what feature have people been wondering about for a long time well that feature is shrines we have been wondering if shrines were going to come back in this game in some form they were a massive part of the original game but we haven't seen anything to confirm it and when you watch through the gameplay a few times it's pretty easy to miss that it does appear shrines are coming back now it's only doing one little part of the video and it's on the minimap but a symbol appears that looks identical to the symbol used for shrines in Breath of the Wild heavily suggesting that while we have yet to actually see a shrine shrines in some form are in this game now shrines were teleportation points as well and people have speculated oh maybe that uh that that symbol actually is just a teleportation point and it's one of those green spirals while true I do think if that was the case they could have come up with a different symbol the fact that they're using the exact same symbol they use for shrines really makes me feel like shrines are back now what's interesting is shrines in the past were accessed with the Sheikah Slate which we have yet to see Link have but that doesn't mean that we can't use it at some point that also doesn't mean that these shrines necessarily need that now while we did get the zonai confirmed and you're gonna see a whole lot of theory videos popping out now about the zonai as if we haven't had those this whole time but ever since the zonai technology was confirmed people haven't kind of leaning away from Sheikah technology and it's true that we have seen less and less of it but we have seen some Sheikah technology already in the works in prior trailers so it's not impossible for shrines to come back and I'm actually curious on the dynamic between the zonai technology and the Sheikah technology but it does appear shrines are coming back we don't know what form they're gonna take we don't know if they're in the world if they're underground like the prior shrines if they completely re-thunk the way shrines work but they do appear to be in the game we don't know how many now you could go well with how big this game is it has to be more than Breath of the Wild maybe or there's going to be a lot less of them but they're going to be much bigger maybe shrines are actually dungeons this time and we could just teleport around to the different dungeons that's possible as well as Nintendo did sort of infer that shrines were kind of a replacement for dungeons in a way but also a way to give you something to discover so I am really glad to see them come back I do think that there are maybe less of them than we had in the first game but I also think they're going to be more important that's sort of the way I've been leaning this whole time if shrines did return is we can't just do what Breath of the Wild did that would feel a little lazy I think if you're going to have shrines come back they need to have a bigger better purpose in the world and I think that's going to happen this time but again for now you could say it's a theory it's not technically confirmed by Nintendo like they haven't come right out and said oh yeah shrines are back of course they haven't said a whole lot of things about the stuff we saw in the footage as an example Koroks are back and you didn't even see the A.G. Anuma like even reference or you know say that Koroks are back and yet we factually see a Korok with a giant backpack in the footage so again it's very clear that we see the shrine symbol on the minimap and until further notice until we have more information that looks like shrines are back I don't know what else you could call it it is the identical symbol from Breath of the Wild so you let me know we think about this down in the comments below I'll put a link to a Reddit thread that I originally found this on just to make sure we give proper credit and sourcing on all of this because I've been scouring through the footage I sort of missed it because I wasn't staring at the minimap enough so now I got to start looking at the minimap but I wanted to put that out there for people that are looking for more information on Tears of the Kingdom there should be many many more videos coming out in the coming days but you guys are awesome and amazing thank you so much for being here and I'll catch you in the next video