Cino is Benito's right hand man along with Ugo and acts as the informative of the Tom Tom Gang. In Blinx: The Time Sweeper, he is one of the many characters who assists the player's team with assignments, often informing them about puzzles, enemies, and objectives. When playing as the Tom Tom Gang, Cino explains every new space control found throughout the missions.

Appearence

Cino is a husky male anthropomorphic pig with Caucasian skin and a small brunette goatee on his chin. He wears a pale green hat and red sunglasses roughly twice the size of that of an average Tom-Tom's, and a yellow neckerchief on his neck. In TTS, his outfit consisted of a red-and-white striped muscle shirt tattered at the edges of the sleeves, dark blue pants, and tan boots and gloves-- the traditional Tom-Tom Gang uniform. In MOTAS, his outfit received an update to its color scheme; the red stripes on his shirt were changed to green, and his blue pants were changed to dark green.

Personality

Cino is like that of an "anti-Ugo" - he is calmer and intellectual, and is shown to have more cowardice. He is very smart and often suggests the player performs more "civil" actions during missions.

Role

Cino is a highly-ranked Tom Tom, often interacting directly with Benito alongside Ugo. His role in the Tom Tom gang is primarily comprised of highly technical matters and logistics, though he also communicates with Tom Toms during their missions.

He handles a variety of matters, though he is primarily used by Benito for technical solutions to problems and operation of complicated Tom Tom technology. As such, he handles matters related to teleporter coordinates, monitoring worlds during missions for events such as warp signals from Time Sweepers, calling in Tom Tom Bikes remotely, and analysing stolen technology for mass production. To this end, he reverse engineered the Tom Tom Radar (created from stolen parts from the Time Factory), the time control neutralizer, and the G3000 RAY throughout the Big Crystal incident. He also plays some role in the production or supplying of space controls, being told by Benito at one point to “hurry up with those time grenades” (in cut content). Cino also often communicates with Tom Toms on missions in order to guide them and provide them with information. He does so with Ugo, who occasionally offers alternative (more destructive) solutions.

Cino has a more educated background than most Tom Toms, describing many years of studying time-related phenomena such as time vortexes and demonstrating an understanding of other interactions such as the destruction of time spheres of the time control neutralizer's negation of time controls, though he remains unaware of certain topics known well to the Time Sweepers, such as the existence and role of the Goddesses, the Big Crystal, the Ruins of Time, or World A000. He shows an interest in legends such as those told to him by his grandfather of the time control neutralizer (specifying its exact location) and a stone tablet's description of the Goddesses' destruction of the world.

Name Meaning

Italian: from the personal name Cino, a short form of any of the personal names ending with the hypocoristic suffix -cino, such as Baroncino, Leoncino, Pacino, and Simoncino.

CINO also stands for chief innovation officer, a person in a company who is primarily responsible for managing the process of innovation and change management in an organization, as well as being in some cases the person who "originates new ideas but also recognizes innovative ideas generated by other people". The CINO also manages technological change and development.

Quotes

  • “Boss! You sure there's treasure in this place?”
  • “I'm not sure… maybe the Boss knows... Boss! Boss?!”
  • “My granddad used to tell me stories about a Time Control Neutralizer. It's supposed to be sealed in the Cat God statue in the Destiny Ruins.”
  • "Boss! A report from the scout in position two! He's picked up an opening of the Time Gate... A very strong energy reading!”
  • “Um, I've never heard of it: A-triple-zero.”
  • “This is a really tough job. Weapons might just be light enough to get through -- but we can't send any reinforcements.”

Trivia

  • Cino's name is never pronounced in-game. It is only ever spoken by Benito in the cut content.
  • He has an extensive knowledge of both time and space. In World 5, he exasperates that blocking the time vortex was never taught in school.

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Last updated on 05 Feb 2023