My thoughts on the Splatoon 3 Reveal

hey it's razkas here and after a successful summoning ritual and almost dying after going so monkey that it'd make any creationists doubt their beliefs i'm alive and now coherent enough to talk about the splatoon 3 trailer i honestly wasn't expecting to put out another video until next month because i'm a university student who has a job and i have real world obligations but holy [ __ ] guys it's splatoon 3 be crime for me to not talk about it as soon as possible frankly we're all on the same page of not knowing what the hell is going on in splatoon 3 based off of one trailer your guess is as good as mine so i guess i'll just give my opinions point out things i've noticed that some might have missed some theories i've heard and give some speculation of my own so let's go so first off i'm really glad they went with the choose your style approach rather than are you a boy or a girl because i mean i'm not hisashi nogami the creator splatoon is also the creator of animal crossing so i was really hoping they'd use the same progressive approach so yeah they did cool and we also have increased skin and eye color options which is always nice and it looks like we have these gradient options for the eyes it seems very deliberate that they didn't show us what these new options look like i'm really curious about the ones on the far right over here with the color other than black as like this sub color i guess we'll have to see what that is later and of course the hair is now unisex which is really great i mean there is no reason to limit it in the first place more options for everyone i actually did a mock-up of this about two years ago so i'm very glad this is now a real thing it just seems for the best to let everyone use the same hair i mean why not these new hairstyles look a lot more complex and i'll talk a bit more about tentacles later and now little buddy i have quite a bit to say about this and i'm gonna tie it back to my salmonid lore video i hope you guys watched that and remember that uh please watch it if you haven't in that video i suggested that small fry may be small but mature salmonid well it's finally been officially confirmed that they are juveniles and i was wrong cool i'm glad to have official word though instead of vagueness i'm gonna guess he's not an infant or a baby but yeah maybe young in the sense that the playable inklings are young maybe even a little bit younger than that no idea just guessing but anyways i like his funny hair and the model is definitely higher poly than the one we have in splatoon 2. i really hope he's not treated like a pet like that one piece of official art that i just hate i hope he's literally your little buddy like a friend the official twitter post describes it as a symbiotic relationship and not a pet so i do have some hope for this salmonid are sentient and intelligent and i have faith that the devs will not forget that fact an official tweet also mentions that yeah we don't know how this salmonid is tagging along with this inkling something else i mentioned in my salmon and lore video that i didn't think to see was salmonid walking around ingopolis because apparently unauthorized contact with them is illegal and according to nogami they're culturally different and doing their own things it says right there in the tweet that their studies have long shown that salmonids are dangerous so based on all the established cannon we had before i had every right to speculate that we wouldn't see salmonids like walking around the city well it looks like there's a chance i'm wrong about that one but i also would argue that it feels too early to tell i mean splatsville is a city that's far from angopolis so maybe they just don't have those same laws against samantha that inkopolis does or maybe our player character is the only one with a salmonid friend like how you play as agent 3 or as agent 4 but there's only one agent 3 and 4 and everyone else you encounter is not or the laws were lifted for some plot reason that we have yet to see or some other reason uh either way i'm super excited that we're going to get some more actual salmonid lore and god i am thankful there's no signs of salmonlings being a thing yet please no salmon links please one more idea to be had about this little lad comparing him with the small fry and splatoon 2 he doesn't have a red snout the belly markings seem to have a smoother gradient and the pants aren't such a bright yellow green something else i mentioned in my salmonid video is that what if the salmonids we see in splatoon 2 are in a spawning phase and they actually have a dollar colored non-spawning phase just like real world salmon maybe the salmon runs are totally off season in the time of splatoon 3. this could be baseless guessing here but i mean that's all we can really do at this point so yeah moving on as for this shot it's way too early and too vague to really know what's happening here is this the tutorial the story mode is this how you got to splatsville is this a more open world approach to splatoon we've been hoping for something there is a lot to say about is this eiffel tower which has led to everyone making jokes about hating the french which is really funny please keep making them it's been incredibly rare for us to get landmarks familiar to us that could potentially pinpoint the location of earth more precisely where the events of splatoon takes place in splatoon 2 we've had some vague japan references like there's a mount nantai which is the same name as an actual mountain in japan but it's kind of unclear if it's the exact same one there's also a map of lake biwa on a logo in splatoon 2 but i don't really know if that means anything but going to splatoon 3 wow it's the actual eiffel tower or is it what if this is in france and have a few reasons that leads me to believe that we can't be 100 sure that this used to be paris i think i'll go in depth on that later our next scene we have a dinky train station and you hop aboard and head towards the city of splatsville i honestly blew up a little seeing this funny fish guy i don't know what species he is haven't really dug into that um can't be too sure i've always wanted to have more npcs of different species on the surface world of splatoon even if you couldn't really interact with them octo expansion did fulfill my wishes but i wanted to see that like in the context of the main city that the inklings are in i'm really hoping this means we finally get more of that but again too soon to say but fingers crossed all right then we get this epic city cinematic my immediate thought was that it reminded me this one part of hong kong that i've seen pictures of it just really has that vibe going on like come on it has to be based on it it looks like a bunch of apartment complexes here i mean people have been wanting apartments since platoon one day so maybe now's the time it would be nice would be nice uh looks like some shops on the bottom but of course i don't know what exactly looks like a moped shop down there with some mopeds parked outside could be significant could be nothing there's what looks like a gate topped with a blue ceramic pig that probably leads to something look there's not really anything i can say about this we just straight up no nothing we have our matchmaking lobby place what i noticed down to the bottom left though i think is the train station it would make sense since you came in on a train in the trailer if this is a train station it would be nice if it was something we can use like maybe it's how you access the story mode no idea also we have this snake statue thing wearing a crown i presume it's also a deity like the turtle and crane and the fox and tanuki and it really fits in with this desert environment we have going on here something else i want to mention about the city is that in this nintendo of america tweet it's called the city of chaos and that its development has rapidly accelerated since the final splat fest a year and a half ago i've already seen people be like oh it's not the eiffel tower that syncopolous tower or inkopolis got totally destroyed that's why all the inklings move there i would bet money that inkopolis still exists again it's just far away from the inklings they moved to splatsville for clout or something and i think these tweets imply that the city was not built from the ground up in a year and a half that's just kind of ridiculous it just got developed a whole lot in a short time span and that this was an already existing region i'm mentioning all this because i have already seen people make theories that contradict this information so i just thought i would clarify that with it being considered like a city of chaos i just can't help but think about a potential city of order so i was on team order mainly because like everyone else i had a really strong feeling that whatever team won it would influence the story of splatoon 3 and i really like the whole aesthetic of team order like i thought it could lead to like a cyberpunk setting or have like a y2k vibe and i am so into that rather than a mad max aesthetic i was really worried that they would just make it silly and hammy on the mad max vibes when i found out that chaos one but it actually looks like a really cool like a clustered urban place and i really like that they have somewhat subverted my expectations and took this approach still i already want to have my hands on the artist splatoon 3 because i would totally imagine they have drawn up concepts for a city of order so in the shot of the main area from another angle we get a better look at this long-headed jellyfish and it looks a lot like some that we first got introduced to in the deep sea metro have some denizens of the deep made it to the surface was that big-eyed fish on the trailer earlier also a former deep-sea inhabitant or maybe this is part of the sun having profound effects on its inhabitants like maybe we'll also see some funny looking sea creatures that have adapted to harsh environment battle areas which according to the tweet are now more out in nature and we have these flying mini spawn points this seems like more of a recent invention and they ditch their old spawn points in the second art book there's a diagram for how spawn points work and it's basically just an espresso machine but with concentrated ink packets yeah it looks like the same mechanism here since we can't jump in wherever from spawn i predict that beacons won't come back going back to this previous shot of the city i want to talk about some logos i mean that's a logo to a snack company if i recall correctly i don't really think that's significant though but what i do think is significant is this this is an octarian company perhaps more octarian tech has been integrated into inkling society now that the tensions have been loosened between the two species over the few years since oct wings began coming to the surface and mass i mean who else has the technology to make stuff float around octarians i don't want to talk a whole lot about the new gameplay mechanics i mean we have this new squid roll maneuver to leap and troll out of the ink and the super fast wall climb called the squid surge we also have old weapons with a new look to them and of course like this inkbow which looks like a kind of charger pretty much but with three shots and it counts as fishing reel it looks pretty swag some old specials have also returned notably inkzooka but not with ink tornadoes and some new ones like whatever the hell is going on here and time for crab with these closer up shots i want to talk a bit about the tentacles um this style seems to have grill tentacles which is something that was in the concept art for splatoon 2 and was scrapped so it's nice to see it come back finally tentacle braids was also something explored in concept art for splatoon 2 and was scrapped but now it's not also something to note is the tentacle tips in splatoon 1 it was some color that complemented the ink color in splatoon 2 it was like the same color all around just like a blacker darker color at the end in splatoon 3 it looks like tentacles reflect the opposite team color so that's basically the whole trailer so now i'm going to go back and talk about this eiffel tower thing again i mean for one thing why or how did it collapse like this was there an earthquake a bombing during one of mankind's many wars did it flood and then the tides receded again or is it just a simple fact of millennia of neglect leading to the infrastructure deteriorating uh so if the ice caps were to melt which they did in the world of splatoon it's predicted that the sea level would rise about 70 meters when i was checking some hypothetical flood maps looking at paris yeah it's it's gone don't know how the eiffel tower would survive that and for all we know the sea levels have risen even higher than that and of course the climate looks absolutely nothing like that part of europe but really the earth's climate is just screwed in the world of splatoon so i'm not going to cite that as a valid reason aside from the flooding though there's something else that leads me to believe that this might not be paris it's because we have this pyramid in the background and i don't think paris has pyramids but you know what else has pyramids and the eiffel tower all there's two places on earth actually that i can think of and could be relevant here remember how i mentioned that the city of splatsville reminds me of hong kong well a chinese platoon fan pointed out that in a city very close to hong kong there's a place called the world of wonder and that has replicas of the eiffel tower and there's pyramids and it's just a train ride away from the walled city in hong kong but the issue i have with this idea though is that these areas are very coastal and it seems like they would have flooded if all the ice caps melted and the splatlands look very dry like they look pretty far from the ocean from what i can tell so an alternate theory for where the splatlands are located and one that i think is most likely based off this pyramid is vegas las vegas is also a place known to have a replica of the eiffel tower and the pyramids additionally it's a place that's very inland and even in the event of an insane sea level rise it would still be above ground not to mention it's a place that's already known to be a harsh desert and getting word from folks on twitter who have been in the las vegas area they suggest that the rock formations also kind of look similar to those found around vegas or in utah i like this vegas idea a whole lot but ultimately this is all just speculation based on the real world and something i like to emphasize again and again is that we can't be too sure about using what we know about earth now as a solid basis for what's happened in the splatoon world don't forget mankind had a telepathic immortal cat in five world wars before pretty much all mammals became extinct this is a work of fiction and you just have to suspend your disbelief and accept whatever the creators tell you is the truth about this world and hope that the lord doesn't contradict itself and if it does hope there's a good justification for it like how it's unrealistic that all these sea creatures have evolved into sentience in the span of only ten thousand years maybe some equally insane and unlikely geographic changes has happened on earth in that time span as well until we have a map of earth in the splatoon world any sort of confirmation in-game ordered by the developers we can't say anything for sure and what i just said applies to basically everything that i have speculated about this trailer some of my speculations here could age poorly i'm just taking shots in the dark here this probably isn't even everything there is to say but these are the main things that have come to my mind but if i'm wrong i don't mind really i'm honestly just having a lot of fun here and i am so glad to finally have some new official splatoon content after deep diving for scraps of splatoon lore for the past few years i mean we haven't really gotten much of anything since mid-2019 it just feels so great and unreal to finally have something new and big and splatoon content to look forward to and i have a feeling they're going to throw some more information at us here and there up until the game's release i'm so excited guys i really am anyways that's all for now um these past couple weeks i went from 100 subs to like over 2 000 and that's kind of insane and i hope you guys stick around because i definitely got more to say about splatoon so thanks for watching

Channel: rassicas

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Keywords: Splatoon theory, splatoon 3, splatoon 2

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Length: 16min 8sec (968 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2021