Splatoon Raiders Won’t Be The Last Spin-Off For Nintendo’s Most Stylish Franchise

Surprise! 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:There is a new Splatoon game coming exclusi🎃vely to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch 2. Raiders is a new experience starring Shiver, Frye, and Big Man (of Deep Cut fame) that, upon first glance, feels more like an open world survival game than a multiplayer shooter. An update was also announced for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Splatoon 3 to introduce new weapons and outfits, and provide worthwhile performance improvements for the new platform. No sign of Splat✤oon 4, but it’s on the way, I swea𒁃r.

It’s just like Nintendo to announce a new game of this 𒅌magnitude on a random Tuesday, on its own app, rather than anywhere anyone besides the hardest of hardcore fans would see it, but I’ve learned to roll with and get excited about them all the same. Raiders will take Deep Cut and a new player character known simply as ‘a mechanic’ to the Spirhalite Islands after their plane goes down in a freak storm. From the looks of the trailer, you are actually the pilot of the heli that goes down and lands everyone in hot water. From here, you must learn to survive, team up with an adorable robot, and explore a diverse selection of island landscapes.

Splatoon Raiders Already Looks Like A Winner For Nintendo Switch 2

Judging from the few minutes of footage included in the reveal trailer, Raiders appears to be a single-player PvE affair rather than the multiplayer focus of the mainline series, hence why it’s cutting a trio of characters and the player off from civilization to a locale we’ve never seen before. I’m also curious to find out if the storm our heroes find themselves sucked into might also be explored throughout the narrative as we uncover pieces of lore from across the unive♍rse.

The final Splatoon 3 splatfest also a𓃲sked players to pick between Past, Present, and Future. Past emerged victori🌜ous, so perhaps that will feed into the events of both Splatoon 4 and the upcoming Raiders.

The main character and mechanic holding a weapon in Splatoon Raiders.

Splatoon has some fascinating lore underpinning its wild inhabitants and idol cul✤ture, and we have been waiting a very long time to see this explored in the games, and not merely with an occasional line of dialogue or peering through art books and concept art. If Nintendo aims to produce more than one single-player spin-off like Raiders, why not lean hard into narrative?

What will the gameplay focus be? The robot that accompanies the player in the trailer has me believing it will be used to gather resources, explore dungeons, and perhaps slowly but surely build a base for Deep Cut to call home. It🦩 would explain the big floating platform out at sea in the trailer’s opening moments, and how that could be expanded into a means of 🐷survival and style that Splatoon has always struck a delicate balance between. From an alien concept like this alone, Raiders is going to be a very different game.

And I Can’t Wait To See How It Mixes Up The Splatoon Formula

Deep Cut watches in as a storm rages in Splatoon Raiders.

Despite beginning life as a multiplayer shooter where two teams of four battle it out to cover territory in ink, Splatoon h🥃as continued to experiment with each new campaign. Every single one has been a thrilling exploration of gameplay mechanics and platforming with great storytelling to match, while DLC expansions only took that vision further. Then you have the likes of Salmon Run, where players are tasked to gather eggs and defeat enemies with other players in a Gears of War-esque horde mode. Plus, there are social aspects and various different cities to explore, all of which feed into a singular creative vision.

Splatoon is always going to maintain that multiplayer core, much like how Mario will always be a platformer at heart, but the property ൩has become established enough that Nintendo is nowℱ able to broaden its horizons. I could see Splatoon exist as a shooter, a life sim, even a kart racer, or a fully-fledged platformer. Its mechanics and universe are compelling enough in their own right that to explore different genres would only work in its favour. If Raiders ends up being well received by fans, that’s the only permission Nintendo needs to go whole hog.

Thi💯s serie♌s has always been a hit, but in Japan alone it is viewed on the same level of Mario and Zelda in terms of popularity. It’s clear why Nintendo wants to focus hard on it.

We don’t know much about Splatoon Raiders yet, but the fact it features Deep Cut having a chance to tell their own story and grow as characters, a fresh take on the gameplay formula, and a concept with so much potenti🅘al in this universe also has me ready to dive in.