What is Splatoon?

Splatoon is a 3rd person shooter video game franchise created by Hisashi Nogami that is developed and owned by the company Nintendo, the first game being released on the Wii U with the latter sequel and threequel games being released onto the Nintendo switch and Nintendo switch oled. The game takes place in a post apopcalyptic world inhabited by anthro marine life, mostly centered on the evolved cephalopods, Inklings (squids) and Octolings (octopuses), both species can willingly tranform between 'kid' and 'swim' form which are main mechanics in splatoon's gameplay. The game itself is a 4v4 3rd person shooter where inklings and octolings engage in turf war battles with their ink, the main objective to cover as much area as possible.

I got into splatoon quite late back in 2021 when I first got my switch due to the reveal of Splatoon 3. I've never had much nostalgia for the series due to not owning a Wii U as well so I never got to experience the first splatoon, however I started getting quite curious about the franchise due to the hype around a new game so I looked into a couple of gameplays of the series and finally got splatoon 2 + the octo expansion for myself to play. After playing for quite a few months now I can say splatoon is definitely one of my fave nintendo franchises/games in general, I normally don't play a lot of game especially competitive multiplayer shooters but I had so much fun just playing regular turf war, ranked and story modes and now I really wish I had been able to play the first game and live through innitial splatoon 2 hype/splatfests. My first ever splatfest I have participated in so far was the splatoon 3 demo testfire, rock vs paper vs scissors (I was team scissors).

Right now as I am writing this, I am awaiting to get a copy (digital or physical idc) of splatoon 3 I need it so bad I want it so bad it looks so fun (rip to the Aerospray PG not returning in the 3rd game though)

Fave & Main weapons

The Carbon Roller Deco used to be my main weapon when I started playing till I switched to using the Aerospray PG! I mostly stick to shooters or rollers but I also really enjoy the splat dualies.

I LOVE CALLIE SPLATOON

I go a lot more indepth about my feelings about callie here but what more can I say apart from the fact that I adore Callie. Generally she's just very bubbly and cute and I like her design too, doesn't mean I also don't like Marie, I enjoy them both and I'm so glad they're canonically mending their relationship together post final splatoon 1 splatest and post splatoon 2 storymore, I honestly hated the fact they're so catty and mean to each other in the NOA/english localization of the first game just feels unpleasant to see especially with how it's affected a lot of general splatoon fans views on them.

I also really enjoy the implications around evil/brainwashed Callie through the concept art given of her feeling solidarity with the octorians, Callie while not fully focused on in major story plot/character moments is a very complex and interesting character behind her cheerful attitude especially post final splatoon 1 splatfest.

The music of Splatoon/The Splatbands

I love the splatbands from splatoon, I love how every single in game ost has a fictional band/muscian tied to it whether it be the regular turf war/ranked/anarchy battle tunes or storymode specific music. I also love the biodiversity in the splatoon bands and how creative the team behind the character design and art in splatoon can get with all the different sea creatures we get, I honestly wish we can get more npcs/side characters who aren't just inklings/octolings or jelly fishes who aren't shopkeepers like the denizens of the deep. The closest we have now to splatband members actually appearing in game with a model is Paruko/Harmony and I hope we can see that more in the future alongside all the newest splatbands who'll be debuting in splatoon 3.

My fave splatoon bands so far (hover on the images for band names)

Fave songs from splatoon would have to be:

• Endolphin Surge
• Seafoam Shanty
• Broken Coral
• Riptide Rupture
• Deluge Dirge
• Muck Warfare
• Tentacular Circus
• The Girl From Inkopolis
• Bomb Rush Blush (both regular and Dj octavio remix versions)
• Tidal Rush (both regular and Dj octavio remix versions)
• Octo Canyon (both splatoon 1 and 2 reditions)
• Maritime Memory
• Splattack (I love all versions but I especially like the octo expansion dedf1sh remix and splatoon 3's version)
• #9 Party
• Fly Octo Fly/ebb and flow (both versions)
• Chopscrewey
• Entropical
• Seasick
• Tentacle to the Metal
• Clickbait

The youtuber Rassicas has a pretty good video series detailing the current known lore of the splatbands, I highly reccomend this video if you're interested.

Gallery/Graphics

Images that go hard

A picmix I made for a mash-up I did here