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[Ataru]

Reminds me so much of Dreamcast games. Just hitting all the right notes for me personally.

I was thinking about this earlier, Splatoon is like everything I like about classic Sega games crossed with everything I like about Nintendo games.

 

[VanWinkle]

Bullshots??



More here: http://imgur.com/a/dQYAE

Yeah, but awesome to see some environments beyond just the urban ones from E3!

 

[UncleSporky]

Are the Octopus not wearing pants.

 

[Supermanisdead]

wow so many options for clothing and accessories

 

[IAmtheFMan]

The game creators really have an opportunity here. They had a great concept with the multiplayer, but if they really let their creative juices flow with a mix of shooter elements and puzzle elements similar to Portal 1 and 2, this could be a fantastic game.

 

[UncleSporky]

wow so many options for clothing and accessories

 

[overcast]

Pretty great avatar here for somebody tbh.

 

[Jintor]

Oh right, I'm getting a psychonauts vibe off those octopi

 

[random25]

Expand Dong material. Or something tentacles

 

[Tenki]

I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

 

[Frost_Ace]

This game looks so freaking amazing.

 

[GameGuru59]

I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

lol, I think we've already had a ban for Splatoon based hentai.

 

[Nia]

This will be tough. Octopuses have always been my favorite animals. Down with Squids I suppose.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

So ready for this one to rock my socks. Clarification, though, they had a big emphasis in the direct on the idea of this being a primarily "online" multiplayer game. Have they elaborated any more on the local multiplayer since E3? Last I heard it was going to be this self contained one-on-one affair that would play out a bit differently from the full 4v4 online mode. Shame as this seems ripe for splitscreen.

 

[sora87]

I knew they'd include single player, looks all kinds of fun.

 

[Fiktion]

Definitely. The YT trailer looked pretty damn jaggie in a lot of moments.

Some of that might have been compression though.

 

[Log4Girlz]

This is one of the best new IPs of all time.

 

[TriBlade]

Now that they shown the single player, I'm a lot more interested in this game.

 

[UncleSporky]

So ready for this one to rock my socks. Clarification, though, they had a big emphasis in the direct on the idea of this being a primarily "online" multiplayer game. Have they elaborated any more on the local multiplayer since E3? Last I heard it was going to be this self contained one-on-one affair that would play out a bit differently from the full 4v4 online mode. Shame as this seems ripe for splitscreen.

The trouble is that a big part of the game is the ability to instantly jump across the map to where your teammates are by using the pad at any time, as well as seeing the map and the ink coverage at any time.

However there are always solutions for this...hold down a certain button and the screen changes to what you would've seen on the pad, and can select an ally to jump to. But that doesn't feel to me like something Nintendo would do...they'll insist there was no other good way to make it local multiplayer, the pad was just that crucial, or something.

 

[-Horizon-]

Looks absolutely fantastic. Hopefully it'll become a new franchise pillar for Nintendo.

 

[Robotguy]

So it looks like that thing is definitely a boss. Wonder how that'll work?

Paint paintable surfaces then swim-climb to attack its weak point for massive damage.

 

[DaBoss]

I can see them putting a translucent overlay of the map on the screen that you can move a cursor or something to choose a player to transport to. I don't recall there being any other place you can transport to. Maybe the spawn point.

I can see that working for non-Gamepad controllers.

 

[jmizzal]

I knew they'd include single player, looks all kinds of fun.

They said at E3 it will have single player, I guess most people missed that quote

 

[Aizo]

Wow. I really don't like multiplayer only games, but this was the first game in a long time I was wanting to play like that. I was already sold, but now there is single player? Can't wait.

 

[HoJu]

i don't know if it's been posted yet, but there's a Splatoon twitter account.

it's in japanese.

 

[friskykillface]

That single player mode looks pretty fun
Was gonna pass on it cause I thought it was multiplayer only but this changes things

 

[bon]

That trailer is nuts. Can't wait for this game.

 

[StreetsAhead]

Splatoon's twitter account is losing to Xenoblade's (4,430 vs 4,649 followers).

Step up!

 

[watershed]

The levels and enemy designs look great in single player. I'm so glad they are filling this game out.

 

[Effect]

It's also nice to see a little bit more diversity in the Inklings than in the E3 build. I know some people were concerned.

Can't express how happy that made me when I saw the skin tones of the characters in the new trailer. That was the one thing that was bothering me regarding the E3 footage and I'm really glad that's been addressed.

The game looks amazing and can't wait to play. This is was an amazing direct.

 

[Crocodile]

Am I the only one who thinks the octopi with tentacles for bodies look a lot like the Rabbids from Ubisoft games?

 

[reKon]

Addes another one to list for when I get a Wii U..

 

[John Harker]

Am I the only one who thinks the octopi with tentacles for bodies look a lot like the Rabbids from Ubisoft games?

Wouldn't be the first time... The Minions are actually from a French company that straight up ripped the Rabbids.

Miyamoto likes the Rabbids too

 

[UncleSporky]

Am I the only one who thinks the octopi with tentacles for bodies look a lot like the Rabbids from Ubisoft games?

They look a lot like Doug TenNapel creations, the guy who made Earthworm Jim, Neverhood and Armikrog.

 

[Gartooth]

I was interested in this after E3, but now I'm fully hyped for this game. It just oozes so much personality in its mechanics and art.

 

[James Scott]

Is think inkling the protagonist of the campaign?

 

[Diddy Kong]

it looks pretty interesting. i'm attracted to those platforming parts ^.^

 

[tkscz]

They look a lot like Doug TenNapel creations, the guy who made Earthworm Jim, Neverhood and Armikrog.

Was watching with my cousin and the first thing he says is they look like Earthworm Jim. They do have that TenNapel look to them though.

 

[zeioIIDX]

Wow....

"I want that."

 

[QuixoticNeutral]

So: I don't know if anyone here follows the small community surrounding science fiction in print, but years ago there was a running joke about Squidpunk, a send-up of the growing spate of neologisms splitting off from cyberpunk and steampunk and all the other nascent subgenres that claimed the suffix -punk. The author and editor Jeff Vandermeer (whose latest work, The Southern Reach Trilogy, is stupendous, by the way) took it upon himself to propose a joke anthology under the banner of his Squidpunk Manifesto:

Fiction that unlike New Weird, Steampunk, or Slipstream, is at its core not only about squid, but about the symbolism of squid as color-changing, highly-mobile, alien-looking, intelligent ocean-goers. As a powerful ecosystem indicator, the squid is a potent symbol for environmental rejuvenation. Squidpunk is almost exclusively set at sea and must contain some reference to either cephalopods or to anything that thematically relates to squid, in terms of world iconography and tropes. Squidpunk is never escapist or whimsical. It is always serious and edgy. This combination of a hard punk aesthetic with the fluid propulsion system common to the squid has produced a unique literary hybrid beloved by Mundanes and Surrealists alike.

Now look what Nintendo hath wrought.

Anyway, I like the term and I hope it sticks. There really is no better way to describe Splatoon.

 

[StreetsAhead]

Is think inkling the protagonist of the campaign?

I'd say so, they had a 'reveal' for her in the trailer.

 

[Nap1400]

Notice how her hair color and eye color are different, unlike all the other Inklings. She's probably special somehow.

Though I thought orange was their go-to mascot color? Eh, might've just been all the fan art.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Man looking at this game reminds me of the "good ol days" Anyone else feeling that? Even kinda nostalgic?

 

[Fiktion]

I'd say so, they had a 'reveal' for her in the trailer.

Hello new Smash character.

 

[Hackworth]

I'd say so, they had a 'reveal' for her in the trailer.

Someone find me a Smash character intro screen
SQUIDPUNK RIDES THE WAVE

 

[Dynamite Ringo Matsuri]

Man looking at this game reminds me of the "good ol days" Anyone else feeling that? Even kinda nostalgic?

Most def. There's been a general dearth in distinctly Japanese feeling games for a very long time now. As everyone's already mentioned, I just get Dreamcast vibes from this game. It's been my most wanted title since they showed it off at E3

 

[Japanmanx3]

Music is so godly!

 

[WonderzL]

Hello new Smash character.

I'd love that soooo much. A stage would already blow my mind, tbh.

 

[Rogue_Ledr]

Which development team is making this again?

 

[Theognosis]

The Wii U is a 720p/60fps beast. This game is Nintendoland graphics on juice!