{"id":18632,"date":"2023-04-26T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T01:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=18632"},"modified":"2023-04-26T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T01:47:45","slug":"20230426-18632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230426-18632\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a Tears of the Kingdom commercial reveal Koroks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>Nintendo recently released a commercial for <strong>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/strong> with fans on social media quick to analyze and discuss footage of Link using his new powers and more. It also looks like some eagle-eyed fans have found an indication that Koroks will be making their return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CUcBlvw0LSk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The scene in question only appears for an instant and shows what looks like a circle of rocks on the ground. While only shown briefly, that was all the time these Korok hunters needed to spot the mysterious rock formation.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"554\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1.jpg 984w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230425-245222-002-1-746x420.jpg 746w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>If you\u2019ve played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you\u2019ll likely instinctually think of the Koroks when seeing a circle of rocks. The Koroks were tied to one of the collectables in Breath of the Wild. The land of Hyrule was covered with little puzzles scattered about and completing them would cause a Korok to appear and give you a Korok Seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These Korok Seeds are an important item that can be traded to increase your inventory space for weapons, bows, and shields. Maxing out all of these inventories requires 441 Korok Seeds, with the game containing 900 in total. Many players found themselves frantically seeking out Koroks to increase their inventories and fulfill their compulsion for completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Korok puzzles required players to do things like lift suspicious rocks, place missing fruit where it belongs, and put rocks into holes. Some puzzles also required players to place a rock where one is missing in a formation. For those who have scoured Hyrule for Korok Seeds before, this brief glimpse of a rock circle in the commercial stood out as if to say there\u2019s definitely a Korok here. If you put a rock in the missing spot on the upper left, a Korok is sure to appear. There\u2019s no doubt about it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">KOROK PUZZLES IN TOTK CONFIRMED?!? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SPqkp5vvXc\">pic.twitter.com\/SPqkp5vvXc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; lily \u25b4 (@lilkorok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lilkorok\/status\/1650550175876755462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>One social media user, perhaps predicting days of flipping rocks in search of Koroks, responded to the news by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lasang114\/status\/1650618828190101504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeting<\/a>, \u201cNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.\u201d Another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Baronduki\/status\/1650553286997553190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201ci hope there are 2000 korok seeds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, we still don\u2019t know if Koroks will actually appear in Tears of the Kingdom or not. There\u2019s a possibility that something besides a Korok might appear, or that completing the rock formation won\u2019t cause anything to happen. Maybe it\u2019s best to put those finely tuned Korok detectors away for a minute and quietly wait until we know for sure. However, I personally can\u2019t help but think a Korok will pop out from that circle of rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is scheduled to release for the Nintendo Switch on May 12.<br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by. Nick Mosier based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20230425-245222\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2023-04-25 15:59 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo recently released a commercial for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and some eagle-eyed fans have found an indication that Koroks will be making their return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":18635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-18632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-zelda"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did a Tears of the Kingdom commercial reveal Koroks? 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