🎮 Splatoon 2 & 3 (Ink-Stained Edition)

💬 Bring extra ammo. And maybe a towel.

🎬 Let’s start by showing yall the trailers shall we?

🧬 Sea Level Lore (Yes, It’s Real)

So here’s the deal: humanity basically ruins the Earth. Sea levels rise, climate change kicks in hard, and a professor sees the writing on the wall. He puts his immortal cat Judd into cryo-freeze and sends him 10,000 years into the future. Yup. That’s the first thing i would do.

The rising seas eventually annihilate the human species—yep, we’re done. Along with almost all land-dwelling creatures.

But evolution’s wild: intelligent squids emerge from the oceans, start walking around, and eventually figure out how to morph into humanoid form.

Because why not.

And from that? Paint war. Neon turf battles. Cephalopod chaos.

Is it weird? Extremely. But that’s Splatoon.

🐙 Splatland Showdown: Squids vs. Octos

In both Splatoon 2 and 3, it’s all-out chaos between Inklings (squid people) and Octolings (octopus people). They live in a place called Inkopolis—because of course they do.

You drop into a multiplayer hub and then into quick arena matches where you fight for your team’s color… by covering the map in ink.

🎮 Gameplay Breakdown

Each match is ~5 minutes of frantic ink flinging. You splatter the map using:

Guns
Paint rollers
Brushes

Say what now?
Yep. Your team gets a random color and whoever inks more of the map wins. Same basic formula in Splatoon 2, but Splatoon 3 just feels smoother.

🦑 Squid Mechanics

Hold Shift → turn into a squid
Swim through ink to refill ammo
Slide up walls if they’re painted your color

Also: yes, you do run out of ink, so strategy matters. Even in squid world, you can’t just YOLO forever.

🎽 Loadouts, Levels & Fashion(?)

Win or lose, you get XP to unlock new gear — aka the politically correct “you showed up” award. (Still true in Splatoon 2. Equality!)
Splatoon 3 adds a training room where you can test weapons before a match. No background check required.
The outfit system? Still don’t get it. It’s not a fashion sim. But go off. Apparently squid kids need drip.
Bonus abilities charge mid-match like some chaotic paint-fueled super bar. Grind or go home.

🎧 Soundtrack Shoutout

Both games go hard with weird, crunchy, made-up-language bangers.

Full Playlist

“Now or Never” (Splatoon 3 version) — not bad, just not Now or Never enough.

My take? The old ones slapped harder. This one? Meh.

Splatoon 2

I can’t describe the soundtrack, it’s unique that’s for sure, also this right here Is my favorite song from the soundtrack, it’s called “Now Or Never” it plays when the match is close to ending.

😼 Judd Watch

Judd the cat: cryo-frozen by a human scientist and reborn in squid society as the ultimate paint war referee. He naps on scoreboards, waves flags, and silently decides who wins. And then there’s Li’l Judd, his fluffy clone who might be evil. Because every neon ink war needs a plot twist.