Splatoon (video game)

Splatoon is a team-based third-person shooter game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. This game was released worldwide on May 28, 2015. It is the prequel to the 2017 game, Splatoon 2.

Why It's Splataculous

 * 1) The idea of mixing paintball with squids is an interesting idea.
 * 2) The way an inkling changes from a squid to a human being is really cool, as that is inspired from the Squid Girl anime.
 * 3) Fantastic graphics and nice looking visuals, even for a 2015 game, in fact, it even resembles a Pixar film.
 * 4) Superior and amazing soundtrack that gives off mid-2000s Nickelodeon vibes.
 * 5) It introduced Splatfests, an event that took place every month for more than a year.
 * 6) It even had a crossover event with mh:besttvshows:SpongeBob SquarePants, which is fitting given that both are sea-related.
 * 7) *Not to mention, it even made SpongeBob fans also become Splatoon fans.
 * 8) Plenty of weapons to use in battle.
 * 9) Marie winning the final Splatfest had a major part in Splatoon 2.
 * 10) Cute female inkling voice lines.
 * 11) If you scan in either Callie or Marie's amiibo, you get to listen to their solo song, Tide Goes Out for Marie, and Bomb Rush Blush for Callie.
 * 12) The Inklings are an interesting, cool and cute species.
 * 13) *The Squid Sisters, Callie, and Marie are an awesome fictional band and cute characters.
 * 14) The creator of Squid Girl, Masahiro Anbe, loved Splatoon so much, he drew and illustrated tribute illustrations featuring the Inkling Girl, such as her wearing a schoolgirl outfit, wearing pink colored clothes, Inkling Girl VS. Squid Girl, and much, much more. After so many tributes much to Anbe's praise, Nintendo decided on an official Splatoon drawing crossing over with Squid Girl, complete with artwork made by Shiho Fuji. The Squid Girl outfit was released worldwide as part of a massive update in August 2015. Anbe even drew an Inkling Girl wearing the Squid Girl outfit.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Because this is the first game in the franchise, there's not really much to do after completing Story Mode other than online matches and glitch out of Inkopolis. No Post-Story Mode material, nothing. That itself is the more underwhelming part of Splatoon 1.
 * 2) Since a sequel was released, support for the first ever Splatoon game was entirely lost.
 * 3) Every time you level up, Sheldon at Ammo Knights has to explain every new weapon available, which is really annoying because Sheldon wouldn't shut up. Thankfully in the sequel, you have the option to speed up his text.
 * 4) Until 'Splatoon 2' came out, two years later in 2017 after the success and the huge popularity of the first game, you can't change your weapon after you won or lost in a Turf War match or in any Ranked Battle matches. Shame you couldn't do that in the first Splatoon game.
 * 5) Frequently, during Turf Wars, the game will lose connection, ending the war, deleting all progress from it.
 * 6) The infamous "Squid Kid" commercial. To be fair, it became a well-known meme within the Splatoon fandom.

Reception
In September 2015 2.4 million copies of the game were sold worldwide, including the United States. Making this game one of the most popular Wii U video game throughout 2015.

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Trivia

 * Miyamoto told the production crew that, if they were still struggling to think of a character, they could use Mario. To believe that Splatoon was originally going to be a Mario spin-off.
 * Splatoon is Nintendo's first third person shooter video game.
 * Many people in Japan play as the Inkling Girl.
 * In Canada, there was frozen yogurt inspired by Splatoon for only a limited time, Yogurty's and Yogen Fruz stores offered the Splatoon inspired Squidsicle, which is mango sorbet and Inkberry, a strawberry frozen yogurt.
 * There was a mod in Minecraft created by SethBling, with the help of PyroPuncher, that allows you to play a Splatoon-like game. It comes complete with different weapons representing the different types of weapons available in Splatoon.
 * Splatoon also reached into Team Fortress 2. YouTuber DrLilRobot, along with his own dev team, created Splat Fortress, a mod server where it allows TF2 players to play a Splatoon-based game in Team Fortress 2.
 * There was a Splatfest event in April 2016 from April 23rd, 2016 - April 24th, 2016 based on Nickelodeon's cartoon television series, SpongeBob SquarePants'.