Splatoon 3in reveal yesterday caught many people by surprise, both because there was little evidence that the water sniper would receive a third installment or because of the presence of a upside down eiffel tower in the trailer. No, your eyes were not deceiving you: Splatoon takes place on Earth, thousands of years after the world we know was destroyed by a climatic apocalypse.
Clues from the dark past of the Splatoon world date back to the series’ arrival in 2015, but this tradition has been confined mainly to the Sunken Scrolls, hidden in single-player, which, for most people, was left in the background in the sweet and sweet multiplayer competition. While these collectibles covered mostly silly topics like the biology of Inkling and what happens to the multicolored goo that covers the battlefield after each game, they also detailed humanity’s terrible swan song 12,000 years before the games.
The first clue (pun intended certainly intended) that Splatoon it was about more than just squid with children that territorial wars came in the tenth stage of the first entry, courtesy of a Sunken Scroll explaining how the game’s Inkling species have evolved over the years.
“Surface creatures” looks a lot like humans, doesn’t it? Add to that an image suggesting that the squid we know and love in the real world served as the progenitors of the Inkling race, and it immediately starts to look Splatoon occurs on Earth.
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A dozen stages later, another Sunken Scroll appears to be a menu from an era long gone before the Inklings roamed dry land, representing a fried shrimp that looks visibly like the guy who sells you sweet kicks Splatoonmain hub of.
The latest Sunken Scrolls are where things get very obvious. They are even attributed to humans, who speak of an impending disaster that seems very familiar to what we are facing in the real world.
This is literally a human skeleton, buried while playing Wii U. Subtle real, Nintendo.
And finally, some tips on how Judd, the cat who judges all Splatoon games, came to live in a world governed by cephalopods.
Unfortunately, Sunken Scrolls in Splatoon 2 do not follow this folklore, with the exception of a single entry from Judd’s former human owner, but both games are packed with a variety of subtle hints in addition to the ones I documented here.
With the imminent launch of the Splatoon 3 and its strangely situated Eiffel Tower, the post-apocalyptic slopes of the franchise are now beginning to come to the fore. That said, it’s weird to see the Inklings in a dusty Mad Max style after previous games mentioned that water levels were still rising and putting the dominant species in danger.
I think we’ll have to wait until next year to find out what That is all about, but I hope Nintendo will continue to push those themes. Not only does it add great flavor, it can also be exactly what people in the real world need to recognize the dangerous path we’re all on.
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