How Well Has The FIRST Splatoon Direct Aged?

[@gio_frank6622]

2:36 Splatoon 1: people barley moving, charger out of position, rollers rolling around. Splatoon 3: SPLAT BOW IN POSITION SHOTS ARROWS WHILE JUMPING, SPLATTERSHOT DO DODGES THE SHOTS OF THE BOW WITH THE SQUID SURGE, BLASTER CLIMBS THE WALL AND DIRECTS THE GUY ON TOP MIDDLE OF THE MAP.

[@GoldenRevenge]

DUDE POPS THE CRAB TANK AND SPLATS 3 PEOPLE

[@donnelwaddledee965]

I get this gameplay IS horrible, but this is just showing the BARE BASICS of how the game works for the kids to teens playing a shooter for the first time in their life. Look at the Global Test Fire to see how people played when the game first came out.

[@fantasticbirdblue]

there's also the fact that this was a completely new ip with completely new gameplay

[@F2PAlius]

I know the game is supposed to be about looking fresh and cool, but none of this gameplay screams cool

[@carlos41519]

@@F2PAlius i among many others thought it was cool as an 11 year old

[@charakiga]

@@F2PAlius Splatoon 1 was a basic game to see if people like it before releasing the real game being splatoon 2.

[@someguy166]

@@F2PAlius you say that and yet it was the only video game I begged my mom to get, and I managed to get through a deal I made with her. didn't regret it, was my most played game on the Wii U or at least rivaling my time in smash bros and mario kart

[@-Hamza]

They had the AUDACITY to release the inkling skins for smash in THAT state. The absolute horror.

[@Manel-dq2kb]

There's nothing wrong with the costumes. It's just the Miis they used that suck

[@Brownyan]

The miis can be changed

[@om.i]

hwatttttttt that's definitely an opinion sorta thing

[@magic3734]

It's more like a try not to laugh challenge, can't wait for S3 hope they've learnt even more

[@Teh-Dee-bear]

No I think the S1 trailer was more like ‘try not to cringe challenge’ than laughing in my opinion. But I guess it was so bad it’s funny sort of thing?

[@atree1739]

@@Teh-Dee-bear yeah it's more like an it's so bad it's good sort of thing

[@jpshy1130]

12:50 is so funny lmao

[@reinerrosenheim817]

They did💀

[@CorruptionKin]

@@reinerrosenheim817 I can’t wait for table turf battle especially

[@AdrianT24]

23:12 THE ROLLER JUST FELL INTO THE WATER

[@PragmaticAntithesis]

If I were on Saltspray, I'd do the same

[@TheFoxInTaleAFC]

Accurate roller gameplay

[@poopbumholees]

@@PragmaticAntithesisis that not bluefin

[@greenguy9090]

14:00 thats always been a thing, although back in splatoon 1 it was a tiny detail, in splatoon 2 they completely removed it. (Its been a while since splatoon 1 so chara probably forgot) THANKFULLY they seem to be bringing it back in splatoon 3, it was such a cool looking addition to their design

[@jwjwjwjwjdjd]

exactly my thoughts, that's why i prefer the look of splatoon 1 a bit more

[@saeua25]

I’m so happy there bringing it back cause I loved it splatoon 1

[@entitledbobcat]

I definitely feel like there was slight color change in Splat2n

[@greenguy9090]

@@entitledbobcat the black doesn't really count, splatoon 1 had unique color gradients, each one turned into a different color. Sadly splatoon 3 doesn't have the same color gradients splatoon 1 did, its only the purple.

[@saeua25]

I also think the ink colors overall are very similar to the ones in splatoon 1 compared in 2 where they were a lot more saturated

[@sevvycat2]

watching this makes me really happy with how much better theyve gotten at making trailers for splatoon 3

[@VMan776]

14:09 is actually in the final game with some ink colors. Just walk around the plaza for awhile and you'll see some inklings with this kind of gradiant.

[@jwjwjwjwjdjd]

in splatoon 1 they had the gradient as well??

[@Natd0gsef]

Depending on which color you get it's much more obvious to see this gradient in multiplayer

[@peliukun8164]

no its a weird color warping thing, they'll only be blue to pink depending on your ink color

[@avianzz]

@Kloyster Pretty sure it was just to look cool

[@grimthecat]

The gradient usually showed up when the tentacles were in a position with little to no light hitting it. Some kind of bioluminescence from my understanding

[@misseon]

14:20 with the Gradient on the tentacles, yes! This was a thing in Splatoon for most ink colours, it was a small detail I really missed in the jump from Splatoon to Splatoon 2. It’s got me so happy to see it might be returning in Splatoon 3.

[@loganmiller7827]

In Splatoon 2, they still don't consider brushes their own class. They're still considered rollers. I really hope that changes in 3 because I'm pretty sure that's why we barely have any brushes is because Nintendo thinks they're just a form of rollers even though anyone who's remotely competent knows that brushes and rollers don't play even a little bit alike. They just can both "roll" although for both, that's not the best way to use them. It's better to flick both. But yeah, I hope 3 realized that they should be their own class so we can get more new types of brushes because I feel like they could make cool new brushes if they were willing to

[@alvaro984]

but they are different weapons in the octo canyon, I think they are considered already as different classes

[@loganmiller7827]

@@alvaro984 if you sort by weapon type in the gear changing menu, if you push the sort button while hovered on a brush, it will pull up all the rollers and then show you the brushes after all the regular rollers. If you do it on a regular roller, the brushes will come up after those before moving onto the shooters. From a development stand point, rollers and brushes might be considered the same class. They definitely started that way in the first game, something we can see from early gameplay and/or trailers. Octo Canyon is the only place where brushes are treated as separate enough to be considered distinct. I think the same is true for blasters. I think they see brushes as a sub class of sorts for rollers when they should be seen as a 100% distinct class because brushes play extremely different from rollers, even if both can do different things between holding down and tapping ZR

[@niar1726]

With what they posted for the new year, it seems they now have a unique victory animation ... maybe they're finally their own class

[@yohhh6715]

Time traveller here, brush mains are gonna have a field day with Splatoon 3

[@diputsru1182]

I don't know why nintendo considered brushes as rollers. If they had a vertical flick I would believe it but they don't. That is saying that splatlings are chargers.

[@greenguy9090]

. I'm 99% sure the reason Nintendo had the first trailer be so awkward and slow was because they still had the "we have a casual fan base" idea stuck in their heads. And because splatoon was such a unique game they wanted to make sure it was simple and easy to see/understand. I actually think that mindset was incorporated into splatoon's overall design, which really hurt the first game, (at least it's balance) which then carried over into splatoon 2. Roller for example, Nintendo thought the roll mechanic was an actual good part of the weapon so in most of the footage shown of it they had them rolling, including the dynamo! Despite the fact that anyone who's even a little good at video games can just shoot the roller walking slowly at them, so in splatoon 2 the roll mechanic is still awful. It actually kind of feels like, splatoon 1 was too chaotic, so in splatoon 2 they compensated way too hard which then turned splatoon 2 into a boring game. So now splatoon 3 seems to be evening out the odds.

[@MrDiana1706]

They did this a lot with their trailers back then, even if it didn't reflect the game properly. Just, slowass movement

[@seventeenthletter17]

Splat 2 isn't *that* boring right? 😅

[@keexshound]

@@seventeenthletter17 it gets a little boring after awhile since we're not getting any updates any more but i wouldn't call it incredibly boring

[@fizzyb0mb]

As a flingza main, I can take out a bunch of people with a swing. However, if I'm rolling and my brain gets stuck in roll mode...well, yeah, I just walk ominously into my death LOL

[@tee-p6f]

same example for why venom could have been better if it was an R rated movie

[@BluVapour]

god the fact that Nintendo marked the RETICLE of all things while showing off Echolocator is just funny to me also Merry Christmas!

[@-Hamza]

The reticle is the enemy. Makes sense, kinda?

[@frozenflame1723]

Easily the most cringe moment from the direct!

[@VMan776]

21:31 Chara talking about how short 1 hour segments of the testfire were in Splatoon 1, completely forgetting the Splatoon 2 testfire also ran in 1 hour segments (albeit twice as many). I was sure to play all six of them, of course.

[@ProChara]

I didn't get to play either testfire so yea

[@VMan776]

@@ProChara Did you at least get to play the Splatfest world premiere?

[@ProChara]

@@VMan776 nope s3 will be my first testifre, i got the switch days b4 S2

[@nimroddafny7125]

For years I've said that we need Squid Girl Tunic back when what we actually need is "LOSER ALERT!" back.

[@StoryTeller796]

Honestly, it seems that I am the only one who is of the opinion that this has aged well, especially since it is a silly showcase instead of a much more professional type of thing. Which I like, since they gave it personality, though I still do think it could've used a better script writer. And as I hear ProChara's ProOpinions, I can feel the pain/nostalgia rush.

[@unichn]

i really like it too & i don't understand how it was bad/laughable in any sense, since splatoon was a new game there was no point in the trailer being super "complex". i thought it was fun, but not in a bad way, like you said, it had personality. i'm so fond of the times i spent playing splatoon 1, since the very beginning it became my favorite shooter ^_^

[@unichn]

the 1st splatoon will definitely always hold a special place in my heart, the best times of my life were spent playing it

[@om.i]

frrrrrrrrr

[@KnightrideThrillz]

This brings me so much nostalgia. I used to watch this direct all the time when I was younger

[@Tomani02]

Same.

[@boonduckgod1655]

Same

[@Chillinisjust]

I still cannot believe within a the same decade this series has come so far with a few years and we have 3 mainline games, 2 being on the same console. Crazy how big this ip is now

[@DrMrProfessorPatrick]

Not only were the global testfire blocks only 1 hour at a time, but the first few were down for half that time because Nintendo's servers couldn't handle the traffic lmao. I remember being so pissed at the time

[@fallenaster]

Sameeee

[@SilentMeteorite]

Ah, memories

[@ntdosplat3130]

18:00 This one is interesting. Ranked battles weren't launched until the weapon update that added N-Zap (the monday after the game's release if i recall correctly) Nintendo would update their twitter accounts with images of ink tanks filling up, representing progress. Could never quite figure out how many players needed to reach 10 to meet the criteria...heck, there might have been none and the intention was always to release zones on that monday. So glad they didn't pull that shit again.

[@jdb2002]

One person that worked on the game said that he was worried for us after seeing so many people reach rank 10 so fast.

[@Gonig]

Wait what happened back then when people reached level 10 before the update?

[@ThreePointOneFou]

​​​@@GonigNothing much, but the delay wasn't that long. Nintendo had, according to rumor, estimated that it would take a week or more for enough players to cross the level-10 threshold to unlock Ranked. It took a little less than three days-Ranked went live the Monday after Splatoon 1 came out.

[@OlmiOP]

Man I genuinely forgot how much range Liter had back then holy crap... Splatoon 1 man, those were different times... Merry Christmas!

[@novaa4k]

23:14 can we talk abt the roller

[@ProChara]

idk how I missed that

[@rassicas]

the circling of the reticle for the echolocator fucking killed me i didnt even notice what the problem was until you pointed it out- explanation for 1:10 and 14:47, in the japanese version of splatoon both the terms インクリング (inkulingu) and オクタリアン (okutarian) exist, but are almost ALWAYS shortened to the much shorter イカ (ika, squid) and タコ (tako, octopus). this change sounds all fine and natural in the japanese version of splatoon as 'inkulingu' and 'okutarian' sound too clunky and full of syllables. i guess here they tried to directly translate this change that happens in japanese, but it never really caught on in english because 'inkling' and 'octarian' sound perfectly fine to say.

[@Majo2011G]

I was almost sold out after the first show of the game, then they release the masterpiece "you are a kid now you are a squid now" and it was a first day bought

[@iznxai]

charas making fun of the trailer gameplay as if it was super easy and when he calls me into the pb to record ONE CLIP it takes like 20 minutes

[@WyGuy49]

how was this 10 days ago

[@ProChara]

You are the reason it takes 20 minutes

[@banjo9356]

@@WyGuy49 probably was privated or unlisted

[@diegovaldez927]

I'd say, as bad as some aspects of the first Splatoon direct were, it was still a good presentation for what was going to be in the base game, also, you can tell they really put effort into improving, stuff like the models, animations and just calling the characters by the name they gave to the species.

[@HawkerMatty]

You know what, splatoon 2 had some errors in its direct as well. They showed off opening gambit on a shirt, in a sub slot, while showing off the splatnet app

[@pusheentoys5484]

17:00 to be honest Chara, the 'magic contraption' as I used to call it was one of the funniest yet saddest parts of my child hood. Imagine a switch pro controller with a whole switch console attached to it. The weight was quite crazy.

[@MrDiana1706]

Did the Wiimote even make it weight that much? I thought it'd be just as heavy as the Gamepad tbh

[@pusheentoys5484]

@@MrDiana1706 I think it was because I used to use high power rechargeable AA's, which are much heavier. After holding both in my hands, I think the switch pro controller + console are pretty much the same weight as the gamepad by itself.

[@jacopodeldeo4308]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

[@sarge8761]

In a few years when Chara talks about Splatoon 2's gameplay (Like he does now for Splatoon) he'll be screaming about the gameplay just like he does for Splatoon. "So, back then, there was this ability called "Main Power Up" which could be stacked up on some weapons to deal more damage, which could amount to NINETY NINE POINT NINE DAMAGE. Thank god that doesn't exist anymore." "Okay... Toxic Mist, was never a good sub. Okay, sometimes it was, but it was s- (flooder noise)." "Now onto the Kensa 52 gal..... I am so glad this does not exist anymore.... WAIT A MINUTE NO! THERE'S STILL A GAL WEAPON IN THIS GAME THAT HAS SPLASH WALL AND A PANIC SPECIAL..... just like... THE FIRST GAME. HISTORY ALWAYS REPEATS ITSELF NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" "Ink Armor was broken, top tier. Instantly, just like that. You had a support weapon without ink armor? Bad, no use for it. Ink Armor best." "You know Splashdown? Seems like a cool Special. You come up from the ground, surprise your enemies, and BOOM! Come down on them, big explosion. But actually, you ALWAYS JUMPED TO THE SAME POINT ABOVE THE GROUND, SO PEOPLE JUST SHOT YOU FROM MUSCLE MEMORY. Not only that, but in the training room of Splatoon 2, there were dummies positioned on grates JUST at the height of a Splashdown. I always wanted for the jump height to be selected by the user..." Just you wait...

[@OctoSquid503]

Chara, the tentacles still have a different color tint on the end of them in Splat 1. if you have blue tentacles, you get a purple tint on the ends. If you have yellow tentacles, you get a pinkish-purple tint on the ends. (also, if they changed it a bit, the balloon mode from battle dojo could be an interesting ranked mode^^)

[@mikedrxp]

07:16 That charger has her target locked

[@DESMal]

I remember using that 17:00 it was really finicky, was some how more sensitive then base sense for horizontal movement but slower for vertical from what I remember, and the wiimote never wanted t stay centred on the pro controller so you always ended up holding the controller at an angle to aim forwards, or you'd loose the ability to turn as far to one side for reasons only the wiimote knows

[@Nicolas_GE]

i used to keep it straight with the fingers on the back of the controller it was a simpler and jankier time to play splatoon in co-op

[@crispy7311]

I did the wiimote attached to the pro controller in the dojo many times, it worked okay, but it was heavy and a but unwieldy. It's only worthwhile if you play way worse with sticks.

[@hollowrift]

comparing the trailer at 22:20 and the splatoon 2 version 4.0 trailer, its really obvious how far this game has gone

[@PrimalKevYT]

I remember cringing super hard when they revealed the Squid Sisters, idk what it is, the blank facial expressions, the dancing animations looking unfinished and the weird background I guess. I ended up liking Callie and Marie a lot but this trailer did not do them justice.

[@rafeyos3396]

Hearing chara say “kill it with fire” is probably one of the best things that has happened to me on Christmas

[@Splat56]

Dang, even if the gameplay is horrible, I still miss old Splatoon, or at least feel nostalgic for it. Such a great game.... :)

[@qwertyqeys]

16:58 I actually did this with my siblings. It worked pretty well actually, we used hair ties to keep it in place and it wasn't as good as the gamepad, but it worked

[@dontlookfo2763]

14:25 The tentacles changed colors at the end for several ink colors in splatoon 1. Off the top of my head i can remember it did it with one of the brighter shades of blue and i think the orange color as well

[@BinglesP]

After seeing Splatoon 3 for so long, it’s super uncanny seeing the first game again

[@supersylveonplushgaming]

5:10 hit a shot challenge

[@shudderbutter4540]

I wonder if Nintendo thought the game would become such a huge seller and an outright phenomenon in Japan, I think the company was somewhat confident in it given the dedicated direct and the already planned dlc that would come in August. Plus the Smash Bros stuff.

[@Gulliblepikmin]

I feel like this presentation was made almost completely separately from the splatoon devs and translators and all they had was the footage and a few translated names of things (for instance, the inkling) and just made up everything after seeing what information they had.

[@yinyangyt8749]

It aged well in my opinion. Sometimes it feels hard to believe that Splatoon is going to be 7 years old

[@poketronex]

yeees, seeing yer observation and reaction to this is great. i like going back to watch some of the old splat trailers, even if i never played splat 1. i also love watching people's gameplay from the first testfires when no one knew what they were really doing yet sngsng

[@mikedrxp]

I dont know why but I love the narrator

[@Tomani02]

I remember watching that all the way back in 2015 and being hyped for the game. It really amazes me how Nintendo has gotten better and better at making Directs. Editing, sound mixing, narrators, producing, everything has improved.

[@vanilla8956]

I remember watching this live and the squid sisters reveal and the 4 hour rotation really worried me and killed my hype. Squid sisters ended up being great they just revealed it as uncanny as they could. But that 4 hour rotation was terrible. Actually, the 2 hour rotation is still terrible.

[@Maxler5795]

5:10 I imagine the splattershot player just trying to move the gamepad downwards more but he cant and the gigher ups are shouting "SHOOT HIM!" "I CANT!!" "WHY NOT??" "I JUST CANT!!"

[@ADepressedDragon]

I cannot get enough of how adorable your laugh is

[@thegreatestnoob1243]

The game had such a rough start, I cant believe this many people played it! And I also cant believe how much they learned from the past, mainly that the turf war showcases actually show realistic gameplay

[@somethingbanter]

I would assume them constantly being like "but we will call them squids" was to not force the viewer to have to remember in game proper nouns right away. Or to communicate "it's OK if you don't remember what they are called, you can just say squid"

[@yournerdking218]

As someone who played the of testfire it's insane to learn that people didn't know how bare the og Splatoon is

[@ideagd1414]

the gameplay was rushed because they spent so much time trying to get the characters in order, they went from tofu, to generic humans, to humans with a cape, to rabbits, to mario, and FINALLY to squids, take in mind how different splatoon would be if tofu was the final and only gameplan for the characters.

[@banjo9356]

Happy holidays everyone!

[@Aidea._.]

Pretty sure that same video from the Squid Sisters' announcement is also used for the animated textures on the trucks during splatfests in Splatoon 1 🤔

[@derpykid2.020]

10:34 The cut off sound of the inkling dying makes we wheeze like a tea kettle-

[@xokeerie]

I played splatoon 1 and even I thought it was the same jelly running the clothes store 💀 I genuinely thought they just changed Annie and crusty sean

[@endgamerplays]

4:21 urchin underpass is my favorite mario kart battle stage

[@Georgie-M]

I remember the whole 1 hour testfire thing super well bc it was scheduled to start just as that year's Eurovision Song Contest was due to end but of course, that overran by an hour. Thankfully Nintendo's servers were so shit back then that the testfire was also delayed by an hour so I got to enjoy both!

[@nayosadumbtrooper]

I used the pro controller combination, it felt much better than it looked. Definitely bettet than the solo pro controller lmao.

[@turtlefr0g]

16:59 i used this actually when i used to play battle dojo with my younger sister (though instead of that wrist strap nightmare we just duct taped the wii remote to the back of the pro controller) and it was fine enough didnt feel too clunky to my memory and pretty much felt like the switch pro controller just kinda worse

[@secant4902]

16:58 I used it to host a small tournament at LTC (since I brought my Wii U with me), it was surprisingly competent. It just looks horrendous.

[@MunchKING]

They prefer to call them Squid because they are the SQUID Research Facility and if they acknowledge these things are too different from normal squids, it will be a whole different set of Grants they have to get, and possibly all their research would go to a different department entirely. So they just call them "Squids" to keep their budget and cool research projects. :D

[@CheesyLizzy]

21:32 I remember the Testfire. It was really fun but I was so disappointed it ended so soon after each hour. Especially since my sister and I shared a Wii U and we had to take turns playing the Testfire.

[@RF-Ataraxia]

Oh man, the Pro Controller + Wiimote, it was hilarious playing with that. It was just so strange looking, abut it worked, although a little too heavy lmao That one hint in the sunken scroll, though, oh man

[@Skipatronic]

This direct gameplay is giving me diabetes, especially the charger standing at the bottom of the tower of Blackbelly Skatepark staring up not doing anything.

[@lol-ih1tl]

was the Direct's gameplay overfeeding you with sweets?

[@Selvepnea]

oh my god, I actually went to a local splat 1 tourney hosted at hastings where we had to set up the controller! I remember the biggest thing being that sometimes the controller would slip out a little, but otherwise I can't really remember there being that much of a difference.

[@Angel-eg4ed]

wow what a coincidence! I was just watching the first splatoon direct recently myself lol

[@kingdanett4043]

Imagine if in Splatoon 3, when you turned on that one feature to keep your ink color so you aren't confused, it did the hair with the different colored tips with the tips being a custom color you set

[@asterion5145]

19:50 the great equalizer, making a show of arguably bad gameplay into one of peak perfection. I think I played as much squid jump as I did normal matches. A lot.

[@welcome_to_the_hion_zero]

12:59 The way Chara was looking at the circles but then I noticed that there was literally 5 rival inklings playing

[@KIIROCORE]

actually nah, one of the lines is from the e liter

[@shadowsnake5133]

The first game looks like what super mario bros was to the 2d mario gameplay in general. A base so solid we still use most of it today, maybe adding new moves that change how maps were designed.

[@NunnyNugget]

I somehow read the title as "HOW THE HELL HAS THE FIRST SPLATOON DIRECT AGED?" and I was so confused because I thought it was gonna be a video of Chara angrily struggling to comprehend the concept of time for 25 minutes

[@gulfgiggleanimations4472]

This reminds me of the first testfire where no one had any clue how to play, except me because I clicked with it instantly.

[@cronodob]

This Brings back memories Great work chara ! we love your videos ❤

[@slycwby2478]

The research guy sounds like Cave Johnson

[@realrider24]

Chara: "No, get it out of my face!" (In reference to the Inkling Mii skins in SSB4) Also Chara: Pauses the video at the moment they're on screen

[@reubentherblazer9756]

15:27 I like that you actually said it and Lucy censored it.

[@SpoopyAce]

16:48 I've used it before!! It, surprisingly, actually felt significantly better to use imho asbfjasbjfa It genuinely kinda just felt like the gamepad, but on a slightly bulkier pro controller-- To this day I'm still confused how they pulled that off...

[@SpoopyAce]

Actually thinking back on it, I had a wii motion plus remote, so that might have had a hand in it lmao

[@jcplays5831]

This whole direct is the ultimate “I’m getting old” video

[@Multigameguy35]

All the personality and detail of that first direct are what hooked me to get the game

[@izzygalax]

I used the wiimote/pro controller setup, and i will say, it isnt THE WORST thing. It feels like a super scuffed switch pro controller.

[@MorbyLol]

16:00 those Wii u models hit different

[@shokotwokawa9695]

I just love the vibes the Splatoon directs give off

[@nickg5341]

Isn’t it crazy that this direct was released just a month before the game dropped, and now it’s become so successful that they dropped the trailer for the 3rd game a year in advance? Love how far the series has come in so little time.

[@Moss_Dude]

I'm pretty sure they marked the reticle and not the guy behind the balloon because they thought the E-liter laser was the point sensor pointing at him.

[@Starlit_Onion]

One time, I was being charged by a roller and I think just a shooter (don't remember which), and died. But, wanna know something funny? The map was Walleye Warehouse, and I died by the closest right spawn hallway. Right infront of the elevation, right next to that "corner". I placed a suction bomb on the wall, and after I died, I got to watch both the roller and shooter die because of my suction bomb. After dying, I got a double kill... *yeah okay*

[@meowmeowcat99]

What I find so funny about the ink mine part where you talk about the hotbox being so small… so recently I played Splatoon 1 for the first time ever and in one of my matches someone a week into playing.. on Mahi I ended up walking on a mine with 2 teammates following right behind me and it got all three of us… I really wish I could have saved a clip of it as it was ridiculous!

[@XenoPon2]

5:14 it's over anakin I have the Higher Ground

[@CludFall]

What if you looked up to splat someone with a charger, but you said "nah I won't pull the trigger please splat me instead I will stand still to make it easier for you."

[@xcrack6364]

Man can’t wait until Splatoon 3 hits. Looking forward to it.

[@doublex85]

The reason for "we prefer to call them squid/octopus" is because this is clearly directly translated from the Japanese, and "inkuringu/okutoringu" are indeed a lot harder to remember and say to a Japanese person than plain old "ika/tako."

[@8thFurno]

22:05 I think you mean, “kill it with water.” Lmao.

[@spider.jasper]

"There we go, now they're shooting people!" -ProChara, 2021

[@12kidcat]

I remember the very first teaser and I assumed it was an indie western game due to the squids eyes and not realizing it was a Nintendo ip til the end of the teaser

[@lol-ih1tl]

I also thought the same, especially when at the same time Wii U owners began playing Indie games because there was nothing to play on Wii U at the time.

[@dxg5659]

Wow, the way they presented this looks REALLY tame compared to the more recent videos. They really didn’t expect this game to pop off as it did.

[@ProChara]

Yeah you can really tell how experimental the series was its crazy

[@delta_power3049]

I recently went back and tried the weird controller. It's not that bad, Wii motion plus isn't that bad. Although it requires larger hands.

[@linkspokemon4114]

I didn't know the mayor from cloud with a chance of meatballs worked with nintendo!

[@alphab93]

I remember being so disappointed that ranked wouldn't be open on day 1. But Im pretty sure it opened the 2nd or 3rd day of release so it wasn't too terrible.