Squadron 3‘s reveal yesterday surprised many people, both because there were few indications in advance that the water shooter would get a third delivery and because of the presence of a Eiffel Tower upside down in the trailer. No, your eyes did not deceive you: Squadron it is on Earth, thousands of years after the world we know has been destroyed by a climate apocalypse.
The clues to the painful past of the Splatoon world go back to the arrival of the series in 2015, but this tradition was mainly limited to Sunken Scrolls, secreted in a single player, which, for most people, occupied a later place. in the sweet and sweet multiplayer competition. . While these collectibles dealt primarily with silly topics like Inkling’s biology and what happens to the multicolored goop that covers the battlefield after each match, they also detailed the terrifying swan song of humanity 12,000 years earlier. of the games.
The first idea (pun definitely intended) that Squadron it was more than something that the squid lawn wars reached the tenth stage of the first entry, courtesy of a sunken parchment that explains how the game’s Inkling species evolved over the years.
“Surface Creatures” looks very similar to humans, right? Add an image that suggests that the squid we know and love in the real world were the progenitors of the Inkling breed, and it immediately begins to feel like Squadron takes place on Earth.
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A dozen stages later, another sunken parchment appears to be a menu from a lost time before Inklings goes to dry land, depicting a fried shrimp that remarkably resembles the guy selling you candy. Squadronmain center.
The last sunken parchments are where things get super obvious. They are even attributed to humans, who talk about an approaching disaster that seems too familiar to what we face in the real world.
It’s literally a human skeleton, buried while playing Wii U. Real subtle, Nintendo.
And finally, some ideas on how Judd, the cat who judges everyone Squadron parties, came to live in a world ruled by cephalopods.
Unfortunately, the displacements sunk Squadron 2 don’t keep up with this tradition, with the except for a single entry from Judd’s former human owner, but both games are full of a variety of subtle hints outside of the ones I’ve documented here.
With the imminent publication of the Squadron 3 announcement and its strange situation, the Eiffel Tower, the post-apocalyptic trend of the franchise is now beginning to take the lead. That said, it’s rare to see the Inklings in a dusty, Mad Max-style environment after previous games mentioned that water levels would still rise and endanger dominant species.
I guess we’ll have to wait until next year to find out what this is all but I hope Nintendo continues to push these issues. Not only does it bring great flavor, but it can also be what real-world people need to recognize the dangerous path we are on.
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