Splatoon -- New Squids on the Block

Описание: So I'm sure none of this looks at all familiar... not even a little bit. All that stuff I threw at you throughout May? Dead! Gone! This is entirely different and NEW material! ... ... ...it's also more or less the admission of guilt on my part that I was reeled in... hook, line, and sinker. Like an addict given a handful of tastes (coupled with my own natural predisposition towards what they're peddling), I caved and came crawling back to the dealer for another fix.

Actually, there's an unfunny amount of psychological manipulation at play with this game. Viral marketing, drip-fed content, level-up systems, in-game currency accumulation, unlockables, what have you... normally I'd complain at great length about these things... but... so cute! ...I mean... cool? ...very striking. And the gameplay is a new spin on a tired old genre as well, so y'know... THAT said, if we're going to accuse it of being all these things and more, it has to be one of the tamest examples of any of them. Then again, what better way to cultivate a cushy base for all your prospective brainwashed zombies to settle into on the ground floor... and they'll love you for it!

Between the Global Testfire interfaces, tutorial, and plethora of information thrown our way by Nintendo, like the dedicated Nintendo Direct, very little of this should seem all that surprising... but seeing it and establishing some context is never a bad thing. Plus, like... uh... flavor text! Different Tutorial intro! ...stuff?!

The only really TRULY new thing that I was surprised and glad to learn was a thing... you can actually choose to reconnoiter a stage on your own without any other players just to understand how it and its unusual pathways (especially if it involves swimming up a wall!) work together... although most o fthe implications won't really become clear unless you visit it with a real posse of players to show you a thing or two. But still, we get to look at Blackbelly Skatepark!

My personal observation... and we were warned about this, in fairness... the people of Inkopolis are super-standoffish to a crazy extreme. Except for a weird old man living under a manhole who wants to gangpress you all too easily into child soldierhood. (Nice place, that Inkopolis!)