Splatoon |OT| Wii U boxes covered in colors confirmed!

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It should be up for download at 12:01am ET on Friday.

I might get the game... if I get a Wii U. I've been wanting one for a while but I just haven't bothered buying one.

OK, I just watched the trailer and I think it looks awesome. I think it would be cool if someone made a mod inspired by it for Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament.

Ugh... I'd thought it was today, not tomorrow. Bah. CLOCKS.

Back to alternating between playing Isaac and being bored out of my mind, then, feh. At the very least I'm going to try to resist the urge to go out and buy something new out of sheer boredom.

Though I could always also go online with Smash and get tired of Marth again, that's another option.

Ah! It's up and playable finally! About bloody time.

Will post first impressions in a bit.

Oh gods this is freaking great. I had high hopes for this one.... and it seems to have met them.

A couple of things: Firstly, I did find the default controls to be very.... strange. They're not BAD, mind you. Just strange. For those that havent played or gotten the game yet, the default controls have you turning horizontally with the right stick, but vertical aim is done with the motion controls. Shoot and "squid swim" are on the triggers, grenade thing is on the...er.... not triggers, whatever you call the other top buttons. And of course movement is left stick, jump is X, and your super ability is pushing the right stick in.

So that felt pretty damn weird to begin with, with the disjointed way the aiming works.

Fortunately I found that you can change it; I did so, to full stick controls. When I did this, I immediately jumped from scoring absolutely horribly with crazy wobble-aim, to scoring the most points on the team in the next 3 or 4 rounds. It's going to be a matter of preference for most, really. Experiment with both.

One control thing I freaking love: You can do an instant camera orientation by hitting Y. So if you start walking to the left (while not shooting) and hit Y, you're instantly pointed with the camera in that direction. This is one thing that DRIVES ME FREAKING CRAZY with many console shooters (first OR third person), is that they dont have this, so there's no way of QUICKLY turning around. Not a problem here! Finally, someone gets it right. My mind was blown.

Lessee... well, right off the bat, the game chucks you into online battles; you need to hit level 4 by doing this before you can start to use the shops and other things. This doesnt take long at all though. The actual battles are... well let's just say, I'm having a great time here with them. Splattering the whole everything in ink is great fun, and when combat with the enemy team occurs, it's fast and furious; there's alot of skill involved here. Mostly I just started by using tricks I'd seen in videos that seemed effective (which so far, they are) for both covering ground and fighting. Getting kills doesnt give you a damn thing in this, but it's very, very satisfying to take out an opponent, and then immediately start spraying the ground they were working on. So it is indeed worth knocking out an opponent when you can so you can take back the area.

Two stages are active right now, I know all the levels rotate in and out of this though I dont know at what interval. Both of the current ones are well-made.

Also: I HAD NO LAG. None. And I was up against mostly Japanese players (???)... considering how Smash Bros can become a freaking slideshow in 4-player matches, it surprises me as to just how well this one is working.

Matchmaker seemed a bit odd (at least for now, which is what I expected). It kept stuffing me onto teams with low-level players, against teams of much higher ones... so that's mildly annoying. I still did fine though.

I havent tried any weapons beyond the starting one; I'll check out the store when I next fire it up, after I make a supermarket run here (sigh). I like what I see of the equipment system and all that.

Saw lots of people using rollers. They're typically pretty easy to knock out when you run into one so long as you're paying attention, so I dont think they're OP as some people have said. I expect though they're going to be very popular among new players.


All in all, I love everything about it so far. Very much worth the wait. I'm probably going to be playing this alot. Though I have to be careful not to go overboard with it, lest I wreck my arm again.

Aaaaaand this is all I did all night, really.

Love the equipment system, the weapons are all awesome so far, the stages rotated, got to try the warehouse, I like that one the most so far. Singleplayer stuff is fun too!

The Squid Jump minigame that you can play while waiting for matches to start is nice too; can be found in the hub area as well. Brings back memories of certain old NES games.

And that'll be enough rambling from me for now!

I did see a lot of people saying how good the connection is. I'm really happy for that.
Nice to read your impressions, Misery. I just decided to leave The Witcher 3 for later and I'll buy this one next week if everything goes well here!

The game is more popular in Japan that Nintendo expected, causing shortage of physical versions.
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I played the first 3 levels of campaign mode and beat the first boss.
It was really fun. Of course is disabled the motion controls, since I have trouble playing fast with them when using the pad.
I wish I could use the Wii remote...

I found the first 4 scrolls at last!

I did play online, ran into a trouble trying to connect for a world wide match.
Was able to join a friends match, which I played 3.... Lost 1.
I leveled to 3... I finally bought the roller!
I just need to get to level 4 to buy new shoes, headgear and clothes for my character...
Not once did I miss voice chat!

Haven't bothered to use my Amiibos yet...

This is game is really great

On a side note: Is it just me, or are the charge guns (sniper) kinda.... bad?

They cant cover ground worth a crap, and are very slow, and dont actually do all that much damage at all unless FULLY charged. Useless in close quarters in a game with extreme mobility.... usually, I find them easy to stop (like the rollers, but the rollers make up for it with other traits), when opponents are using them. And if you want to get your super... HAHA NOPE. You're using a charge gun! Who needs supers?

I'm going to keep messing with them, but they seem *really* bad so far. Players using these seem to very often be at the bottom of the score lists.

And a team of 4 rollers: hilarious.

Not the brightest idea, but still hilarious. Somehow we won. I wasnt expecting this. Also, "ninja squid" ability with a roller works wonders.

And the "recon" abilities (like Echolocator, I think it's called, or the Disruptor, or the Haunt ability) are really, really useful. I dont see many other players using them though.

.....and this blasted forum. I cant just edit the previous post and append this to it? Sigh....