(6.0 spoiler?) what's the deal with platinum color?

[Exosapien]

So if anyone else remember, Yoshida hyped 3 things before endwalker. First is the platinum color, second is the Amano artwork of hydaelyn and zodiark, and last is "things on eorzea (pre-endwalker) that only Yoshida know, not even foxclon realize it". And he subtly implied those three are important for EW.

After finishing 6.0 though, I still don\\'t understand them. For hydaelyn and zodiark artwork, I guess it about "oh, that\\'s actually how they look like"?. Can\\'t find anything about platinum nor "things only Yoshida know" though.

I wouldn't say he hyped anything about "the platinum color". He explained his process and design goals. He wasn't saying, "Look forward to it!" He even mentioned how he understands that most people wont even understand what he's talking about. That happens a lot with creative type people. There are things that you just can't explain but make perfect sense to you. "Platinum" is his thing for EW. I'm also pretty sure a lot of context was lost in translation. His translators are amazing at what they do, but even the best translator can't always express the more intangible things.

The most obvious tie to this "platinum" theme is what the first person responded to this thread with. The Amano artwork was just something they were all very excited about (rightfully so) - and if you can't find the relevance to that in EW I don't know how to make it more obvious.

And as for things only Yoshi-P would know, how would anyone spot things that only he knows?

[KizuyaKatogami]

I’ve just kind of stopped listening to Yoshi p tbh. A lot of what he says doesn’t seem to come to fruition. Like for example when he was teasing Endwalker way back when and he was saying things like “no one is safe, the scions aren’t safe just because they’re locked behind quests etc.” And yet nothing ever came from that.