The Splatoon Global Test Fire!

Last weekend, Nintendo had a global online demo where you could play their newest IP for the Wii U, Splatoon. Splatoon is a 3rd person shooter, where you take control of a humanoid squid called an "Inkling", and use various water gun related weapons to shoot ink in order to cover an area of your teams color. Inklings also have the ability to turn into a squid and swim in your own team's color of ink, increasing your movement speed. Whichever team has the most ink of their color at the end of a round wins. It's a really creative concept for a shooter, and it feels so refreshing to have some color in a shooter other than brown-ish grey.

Now, I participated in the global online demo this weekend, and I'm here to share some of my thoughts on the game. I've been exited for this game since its reveal last year, and I'm so glad I finally got to play it. Even though I could only use 4 weapons in the demo, it was a blast to play. At first, it was really hard for me to figure out how the controls worked. I'm usually not very good at these kinds of games, but after a while, I got used to the controls and learned a few techniques, and then I started winning most of the matches I played, and it was a blast. I felt really bummed out that I had to stop playing after the 1 hour online demo was over, I wanted to keep playing for hours on end. It's hard to believe that this is just a demo of the game, I probably had one of the most exiting experiences with an online shooter that I've ever had.

By far my favorite of the 4 weapons you could use in the demo was the normal SplatterShot, and maybe the SplatterShot Jr, since it had that shield special move, which really helps with battles. A lot of people seem to be saying that the roller is the best weapon by far, and that it might even be considered OP, but I never had any trouble taking out people with the roller. When you have a gun and they're running towards you with a short ranged melee weapon, it's not that difficult for me to take out a roller user. Event though I didn't like the Roller very much, by far my least favorite weapon is the Charger. It's supposed to be a long range sniping weapon, but I feel like it has a too short of a range to be a good sniping tool, honestly. Plus, ussually when I hit someone with a charged shot, they didn't even die. However, the worst part of the Charger has to be that it's very bad at covering turf. Since the main point of the game is to cover the most turf with your teams color, this makes the Charger a much less viable weapon for covering ground.

Overall, I'd say Splatoon is definitely worth getting. It launches on May 29th, or this Friday. I'll be sure to pick it up on launch date, so if you somehow happen to own a Wii U, I'd recommend picking it up. If you do happen to pick up the game, message me, and we could probably work something out to play it together. Until then, I'd recommend looking into this game if you're interested. If you want to know more about the game, click here to watch a video about the game, it shows off almost everything related to Splatoon. There's a lot more about the game that I didn't talk about in this blog, including a singleplayer campaign.