Yes, Splatoon is set after a climate apocalypse

Splatoon 3of reveal yesterday took a lot of people by surprise, both because there was little indication up front that the water shooter would get a third installment and because of the presence of a Eiffel Tower upside down in the trailer. No, your eyes weren’t fooling you: Splatoon takes place on Earth, thousands of years after the world we know was destroyed by a climate apocalypse.

Hints of Splatoon’s dark past can be traced back to the series’ arrival in 2015, but that tradition was mostly limited to the Sunken Scrolls, secreted in single-player mode, which most people took a backseat for a smooth and sweet multiplayer competition. . While these collectibles mostly covered silly topics like Inkling’s biology and what happens to the multicolored goop that covers the battlefield after every match, they also detailed humanity’s terrifying swan song 12,000 years before. Games.

The first idea (pun definitely expected) that Splatoon was more than just squid turf wars that came in the tenth stage of the first entry, thanks to a sunken scroll explaining how the Inkling species of the game evolved over the years.

“Creatures from the surface” looks a lot like humans, right? Add to that an image suggesting that the squids we know and love in the real world were the ancestors of the Inkling race, and it immediately starts to feel like Splatoon takes place on Earth.

A dozen steps later, another Sunken Scroll seems like a menu from a long lost age before the Inklings roamed dry land, depicting a fried shrimp that conspicuously resembles the dude selling you sweet kicks. . Splatoonmain hub of.

The Last Sunken Scrolls are where things get super obvious. They are even attributed to humans, who speak of an impending catastrophe that seems all too familiar to what we face in the real world.

It is literally a human skeleton, buried while playing the Wii U. Real subtle, Nintendo.

And finally, a look at how Judd, the cat who judges all Splatoon matches, came to live in a world ruled by cephalopods.

Unfortunately, the rolls engulfed in Splatoon 2 do not follow this tradition, with the except just one entry from Judd’s former human owner, but both games are filled with a variety of subtle clues outside of the ones I’ve documented here.

With the imminent release of Splatoon 3 announcement and its oddly situated Eiffel Tower, the franchise’s post-apocalyptic leanings are now starting to come to the fore. That said, it’s strange to see the Inklings in a dusty Mad Max-style environment after previous games have mentioned that the water levels are still rising and endangering the dominant species.

Guess we’ll have to wait until next year to find out what it is all on, but hopefully Nintendo will keep pushing these themes. Not only does this add great flavor, but it is also maybe what people in the real world need to recognize the dangerous path we are all on.

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