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gripped by a sudden powerful urge to create spamton in spore
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here he is in action. scuttling around with his horrible spamtonlings. even a giant pipis glitched into existence for a moment
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There's a 2018 Splatoon developer interview with Famitsu magazine that focuses heavily on Octo Expansion's lore and development. It hadn't been translated in its entirety...until now!
See the replies for a link to the complete translation!
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"Is the Splatoon World a Furry Setting" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
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on the topic of splatoon exhibitions irl, TIL theres a version of that infamous inkling development artwork that's only shown up in these exhibitions with ages underneath each stage
left to right: infant, 1 year old, 4 or 5 years old, 8 years old, 14 years old
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obscure Splatoon fact:
there are canonical names AND locations for the two basketball teams we see on jerseys in-game!
on the left is the Okhotsk Uniers, and on the right is the Tasman Lob-Stars. This may imply that there are regions in-universe named after nearby seas.
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2 seconds of splatoon 3 footage from february pack it up everyone go home
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hey did you guys know there's this official splatoon 2 coloring book that was sold only in japan and its stupidly detailed for a kid's coloring book?
wanna know something else?
i scanned and cleaned up the entire thing. merry shitscram everyone. look at the replies
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through decoding more stuff written in this script, i've found the rest of the letters...and some punctuation! the period is two dots on the bottom right of a character. twitter.com/MaidCactus/sta…
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an unfortunate loss for the english localization:
in english pearl greets the cap'n with a 'Mic check, one-two, who the heck are you?!' rhyme. meanwhile in jp...
'SHUT UPPPP!!! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!!!'
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ok heres my Splatoon 3 bingo, almost all of it is lore/worldbuilding stuff that i wanna see. bottom row is stuff that im not expecting so much, but would really make me pee my pants if it happens
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There's a 2018 Splatoon developer interview with Famitsu magazine that notably has lots of Salmonid info, but it's loaded with all kinds of lore tidbits which hadn't been translated in its entirety...until now!
See the replies for a link to the complete translation!
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We all know Splatoon 3's Hero mode is called "Return of the Mammalians," but apparently the first 2 hero modes do have their own names too!
Splatoon: Octarian Strikes Back
Splatoon 2: The Vanishing Sister
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LRT
coroika already doing splatoon 3 means...the game....may be coming sooner than we think....
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would you guys believe me if i said im the OP of this post twitter.com/swaglenny/stat…
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while watching the new trailer, all i could think of was this concept art from the second artbook!
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looks like localization did a little whoopsie and used the exact same joke twice. now we have two things in splatoon named "flipper flopper"!
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im gonna gaslight any customers who ask about the music
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is the splatoon fanbase ready to hear that theres no proof that rival octolings are wearing hypnoshades or any kind of hypnotic eyewear
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imagine a world where you can refine fetuses into gasoline....
imagine no longer....
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if you ever wondered, "gee wtf is up with the octo oven's faces, did the octarian army make sentient bread?"
heres the answer
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society if every level of octo expansion had sunken scrolls that gave us lore about the deepsea and the octarians
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once again i am reminded just how fucked up it is that for everyone playing splatoon in english that wants to get into the game's lore we just. cant even trust the version of the game we're playing because there's info that's blatantly false bc localization thought itd be funny
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