Splatoon Raiders Looks Weird (And We Have Questions) - NVC Clips

[00:02] I want to talk about Splatoon Raiders a

[00:03] little more. This was featured in the

[00:05] Treehouse, which we hadn't had a chance

[00:06] to watch last week. It got about 25

[00:09] minutes of gameplay hosted by former NBC

[00:11] host Jose Otero, which was cool to see.

[00:13] But this is getting its own direct on

[00:15] June 30th, and on the Treehouse they

[00:17] basically showed off the tutorial, which

[00:19] is they taught us how to play Splatoon.

[00:21] So if you're new, you can go learn, but

[00:23] I've been playing Splatoon for 10 years.

[00:25] And then they showed off kind of the

[00:26] first level where you're going through

[00:28] this area fighting off waves of

[00:30] Salmonids to get three treasures that

[00:32] are denoted by these beams of light in

[00:34] the sky. And then once you get the the

[00:36] last one, which has like a spiral beam,

[00:39] so you know it's kind of the big

[00:40] mission, then the the level is over. You

[00:42] go back to base and you use all the

[00:43] resources you found to upgrade your gear

[00:46] and go out again. And I know we're

[00:47] getting a direct on June 30th, so

[00:49] there's still time, but I got to say as

[00:51] someone who has like 400 hours across

[00:53] the Splatoon series, I'm still not all

[00:55] the way sold on this one. I still I'm

[00:57] looking at this and I'm like it looks

[00:58] fun, but it just looks like a kind of a

[01:00] single-player expansion to me, not kind

[01:03] of oh, this is a big standalone

[01:05] single-player thing on on Switch, too.

[01:08] >> Yeah, I well-said. I'm I think I'm in

[01:10] the same boat.

[01:12] I I'll I'll definitely play this when it

[01:15] comes out because I like the idea of

[01:17] like getting a standalone single-player

[01:20] Splatoon game, but it doesn't it's it's

[01:23] just not there just yet for me. And I've

[01:26] said this before on the show. I think

[01:27] part of it for me is the art direction.

[01:29] It's just kind of drab and it's not I I

[01:32] feel like they took one of the most

[01:35] unique-looking franchises in Nintendo

[01:38] history. Like that was revelatory when

[01:41] it first came out, right? This was it

[01:42] was very clearly like hey, this is not

[01:45] your grandpa's Nintendo or whatever,

[01:46] right? Like this this was a bunch of

[01:47] this is a young scrappier team of

[01:49] developers. And I've said this in the

[01:50] past on the show, but so much of

[01:53] Nintendo games were about cleaning

[01:55] things up, right? It was about

[01:56] collecting everything and find like

[01:58] Super Mario Sunshine is like, "Hey, get

[02:00] that graffiti out of here." And then

[02:02] here they were like, "Let's make a huge

[02:03] mess. Let's make an absolute disaster

[02:05] everywhere. That's the aesthetic, right?

[02:07] It is not It is not rigid and conformed.

[02:10] It is chaos and there's still a bit of

[02:13] that here, but I feel like the

[02:14] level-wise everything just feels a

[02:16] little desaturated.

[02:17] >> Yeah.

[02:18] >> And I want I want some more Yeah, I just

[02:20] want a little more sort of vibrant pop

[02:23] from this game. And it's not happening,

[02:25] obviously, right? So, I can just have to

[02:26] deal with it. Um or suck it up as they

[02:29] do in these games.

[02:31] Uh but I I just don't I I I wish it was

[02:34] a little bit had a little more sort of

[02:35] oomph to it.

[02:36] >> Yeah. Yeah, and and maybe they're still

[02:38] hiding lots of stuff from us. They do

[02:40] have our own its own show dedicated to

[02:41] it that's coming up. And I'm still

[02:43] waiting to see in the first trailer for

[02:45] this game or something. They had a

[02:47] little icon in the top left that said

[02:49] like dungeon list or something like

[02:50] that. I'm like, "Dungeons?" There's

[02:52] going to be little probably underground

[02:53] shrine-like areas in this game. We

[02:54] haven't seen that at all. So, I'm still

[02:56] holding out hope there's going to be

[02:57] something that's going to really hook me

[02:59] in on this one.

[03:00] >> Did you guys play De Blob?

[03:02] >> Yeah. Yeah.

[03:03] >> Yeah.

[03:04] >> Okay, so that this reminds me of that

[03:06] before all the color comes in. And like

[03:08] that was the whole thing with that game

[03:09] was like you went in and you're this

[03:10] blob and you you painted uh textures and

[03:13] and buildings and environments and stuff

[03:15] like that and turn them from black and

[03:16] white into like full color. And here it

[03:19] feels like Yeah, like look, there's a

[03:21] there's a lot of there's a lot of

[03:23] similarities here. Here it feels like um

[03:25] the the the part where the color kicks

[03:27] in just doesn't really happen. And so,

[03:30] yeah, I I

[03:32] I don't know. I I'm I'm optimistic, but

[03:35] I I wish it was a little more so far.

[03:37] >> Yeah, based just off of what we've seen,

[03:39] it looks very like 2008 PS3 Xbox 360

[03:44] shooter. Like every when everything was

[03:46] just brown and gray. Which is so it's so

[03:48] weird for this series specifically.

[03:50] >> Yeah, for this series, yeah.

[03:51] >> Yeah, most stylish like video game

[03:53] series Nintendo has ever made. One of

[03:55] the most stylish video game series

[03:56] probably ever. Where everything just

[03:58] works so well together from the sound

[04:00] design to the to the colors to the

[04:02] design of like just the fonts of their

[04:04] made up language. It all looks so great

[04:06] and then it's like here you go.

[04:07] >> Somebody remade

[04:09] a mountain in Unreal Engine 4 and now

[04:11] it's uh

[04:13] >> You like even you go to like you know

[04:14] the one of the Nintendo stores and

[04:16] there's like the merchandise section for

[04:18] Splatoon. It is so drastically different

[04:20] than everything else in there, right?

[04:21] Like there was just this corner with

[04:23] this these psychedelic neon alien

[04:25] languages and big color splats and

[04:28] everything like that and they're they're

[04:29] selling these like keychains and these

[04:31] like funky huge, you know, bootleg Air

[04:34] Jordans and it's yeah, it's they've got

[04:37] their whole own thing and then now I'm

[04:40] I'm just I feel like they they lost a

[04:41] beat there, but I don't

[04:42] >> Look, I haven't played it yet and I

[04:43] don't want to I don't want to just hone

[04:45] in on the negative for it cuz I have a

[04:47] feeling that it's gameplay-wise it's

[04:49] going to be really fun.

[04:50] >> I think that they consistently struggle

[04:51] to show Splatoon off in a good light. I

[04:53] felt that with Splatoon 3 also like

[04:55] leading up to that game's launch a few

[04:56] years ago. It took them a long time to

[04:59] convince us of why we needed another

[05:00] Splatoon sequel on Switch instead of

[05:03] Splatoon 2 just getting more updates.

[05:05] That game turned out fantastic and

[05:06] totally justified that it exists and did

[05:09] some of the coolest things Nintendo's

[05:10] ever done like the the final Splatfest

[05:12] where it was basically like a Splatoon

[05:13] rave that that you attended and did this

[05:15] final huge battle with. That was great.

[05:17] And then the the side order DLC

[05:19] did take out all the color. It was this

[05:21] monochrome black and white world, but it

[05:23] was so starkly different than Splatoon

[05:25] that it really worked and it had its own

[05:27] kind of dystopian vibe and the music was

[05:29] really electronica and cool. And so that

[05:31] had its own identity as well. But then

[05:33] this, yeah, we just don't see it yet.

[05:35] We'll talk in 2 weeks after we watch the

[05:37] direct and hopefully we're all a little

[05:39] more on board.

[05:41] Anything else from the direct you guys

[05:42] want to shout out or should we move on?

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