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God I can't even count how many times I got chills, I haven't even finished this video yet. I've been obsessed with this game for years, in fact, it's what convinced me to be an artist. With what I've watched so far... I want to draw again. For the first time in genuinely what has felt like years, I want to draw for myself again <3 God, is it refreshing to see this. This is so beautifully written, I'll probably write more to this comment once I finish the vid. This is in ALL honesty, and with everything I call human, such an inspiring video to be human again. Edit after finishing this video: MAN I EDITED MY WHOLE ORIGINAL PARAGRAPH LOL, but anyways.. Thank you for making me fall in love with this game again. I've felt lost due to personal life events, and while this game has always been a constant, I truly felt myself losing the whole reason I fell in love with this game. I felt like I was losing a part of myself, it was refreshing to know that I'm not quite the only one that cares about this game and the message it delivers. Wonderful project, excited to see what you do more of in the future, splatoon or not. Keep being human!!

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I really enjoy hearing about fictional worlds/characters/stories etc. that mean a lot to someone and the reasons that they mean a lot to them. Though yours differs from most of mine I still enjoyed a more than one hour long video on a game I have no desire to ever play. Well presented.

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Its also worth mentioning octo expansion ends with the calimari inkantation, when eight remembers what happened to her

Four hours and no break I subbed to a lunatic 🤣my sub will forever stay

hey when i search youtube for stamper vids this shows up pretty high in the search results. Glad i found your channel too! Love discovering new splatoon creators who are seemingly normal players not like funny turfwar content but also not like hyper autism top 10 in the world

I agree about the blocky feeling of the maps. Ive noticed this about Splatoon 3 ever since the pole update. I feel like it's just a part of the game's identity at this point, so i can't be too surprised or upset. Im glad about the gameplay improvements. Just hope Splatoon 4 will feel more natural in this regard

9.25k subscribers???? Wth why is bro so unrecognized

I think that 3 maps are better than 2 at least, they became less cheesy with the update, not great like splat 1 (except for ramen, that map's a banger) but it's an improvement. My biggest grip on the reworks is how they won't touch s2 stages besides adding blocks or poles, all of them are flawed and they should be fixed or at least expanded

I dont agree with splatoon 3’s campaign being worse then octo expansion. In fact i would say that return of the mammalians and octo expansion are of an equal level. Sure splatoon 3 might not introduce all that many new and different mechanics however it is able to combine the design structure of splatoon 1 and 2’s campaign with the design of the octo expansion. I personally had no issues with the fuzzy ooze in fact i think its a pretty fun mechanic to gradually unlock more of the overworld and choose your own path of how to go through the overworld. Also the fact that splatoon 3 does have original boss fights is a huge plus it has over octo expansion. The one criticism i would give to return of the mammalians is (and this is a minor issue) that so many of the levels have this boring white/gray background. I remember the other campaigns being a lot more colorful in the levels themselves.

18:11 OK I FIGURED IT OUT AND I LOVE IT! This actually *is* a single player level, but it's not a S1 level. It's Kettle 17 (Octocommander Fortress) from Splatoon 2. Relevant here is that it's a Slimeskin Garrison level. Marina's chat room confirms that she enrolled in Elementary Training Program at Slimeskin Garrison, and then was transferred at age 16 (which was during the time of S1) to Octavio's Wasabi Supply Unit, before she heard the inkantation and went AWOL. And Acht confirms that this picture was taken before she was transferred to the WSU, which means she was still stationed at Slimeskin Garrison. I love the attention to detail here.

When the Order fan finds Chaos game

I think part of the video gamey map aesthetic is intentional. A lot of the in game explanations for the maps in Splatoon 3 is that a lot of the stages are made specifically to be used as turf war maps. For example, Marlin Airport, Barnacle and Dime, and Lemuria Hub are made specifically to be played on by inklings as a sort of business/marketing tactic. So it explains why they don't feel as natural. It is like an official laser tag arena in a Train Station. I also really like how we can see the change in inkling culture through this map aesthetic. Splatoon 1 was when turf war was just starting out, so the maps are more underground/ like you aren't supposed to be there like Hammerhead and Flounder Splatoon 2 is when the official turf war league starts to take shape. There is still natural maps like Skipper and the Reef, but we begin to see more of a rise in maps like Mako, where it is literally a marketing ploy. Splatoon 3 is where everyone is starting to try and cash in on the trend. The maps feel way more manufactured, or at least a good deal of them.

if we're gonna talk aesthetics, poor flounder man the original felt like a place i would've lived in as a child and feels very nostalgic for that reason despite me not starting with splatoon 1, not even playing the game until 2018 or so; the lighting, how the map was mostly enclosed by the walls, cicadas near the trees (although the bird sounds in s3 are nice), weeds growing between cracks in the concrete, ivy on the fences, painted markings on the asphalt for parking, chalk drawings for hopscotch, power lines strung between buildings, it all contributes to the map feeling like a real place (although if you stop to think about it, it's kinda weird how ALL THIS is on the rooftop of one singular building lol) now there's weird gaping holes in the walls (oh wow you can reset the rainmaker better... hardly see anyone do that anyway), there's a stupidass drop in the alley (you know the one) that's right in front of a door so whoever lives in the place and exits just... falls down 6 feet because reasons, but OH WAIT that's only there in some modes and it's inexplicably filled in! most of the grass is gone except now its on the roof for some reason??? the new version just feels so sterile and even more fake. also why did they choose what looks like aluminum foil to designate some walls as uninkable??? it looks so dumb, they had a formula already to stop people swimming up walls they didnt want and that was just putting pipes along the tops of walls and that's on top of the map just... being bad in s3

4:06 the way you exactly understand my main frustation of the game's maps SO MUCH. Splatoon is a game based on a Sports League type company making a game out of different locations in the world, that's why it allows for so many locations to be useable and in Splatoon 2 you could tell what blocks were added in via the League itself depending on the mode via the grey and black blocks. It most so felt to me that "oh in order to make in balanced in lore, they changed and move stuff around via these blocks to help make it legal", which I thought was very interesting. In Splatoon 3, they brought back the black textures blocks but also added in other blocks that are themed around the stage and are uninkable and man it just CLASHES. It makes the maps feel so much more cluttered. And then the actual paintable blocks have all these unique textures and it makes it hard to tell what is inkable and what parts aren't from time to time. I see it a lot when players are trying to know what a new map is like. The way Splatoon 2 handled it made it look simple and easy, it separated the actual map from the added in areas, and showed players easily via the block's unique grey design to say "hey these are paintable and inkable and can lead to a new route on this mode!" I really dislike the whole "everything has to have a unique texture" thing they are doing cause all it does is make everything feel, as you said "cluttered".

the maps are annoying the problem that i find the worst is that i can get matched into a top 1 x rank player when i am playin series as an A+

i first thought this was a minecraft video till i read the title and was about to click "dont show vids of this channel" wooops

I’m VERY happy with Umami’s glowup but I 100% agree with you with the aesthetics. I wanted that map to be good BECAUSE I loved the theme so much, and because it felt like such a blank template for a good stage on launch. What gets me is the inconsistency of which textures are inkable and which ones aren’t- Splatoon 3 basically has me assuming by default that walls AREN’T inkable, and it feels quite constricting. Umami has these weird metal plates on the floor and the walls, but their “inkability” varies and it feels off. The geometry’s a strong point as well, look at how curved Wahoo World is for example. Even great maps like ROM-em feel more like something made in a level editor than an organic location. Umami’s mix with the slight slope and the hieroglyphs is awesome, I just wish we got MORE of that. Something I really like is that the floors underneath the grates have these lil’ pits that were dug out, and they suit the theme while being memorable! They’re fun, and games are best when focusing on fun. But I will say, I’m grateful this happened at all. I’m grateful they took the time to give these things extra textures. And I can have a WAY easier time seeing referees placing these blocks around, for example, than picturing how that one part of Undertow poofs out of existence in Turf War specifically.

Exploring maps and interesting spots in recon mode is one of my favorite things to do in the game! I haven't done so since the update came, so I'm not sure how the increasing number of blocks would affect my enjoyment of the maps, but even then, some of my favorite spots are outside the playable map itself or in those little windows you can see in some stages, the terrain of the map itself it's not terribly interesting to me, but I plan on taking note of it later on. That is to say, I like this video! I like that you think about those aspects, because those are the kind of things that make Splatoon so good! I, personally, do put a priority to how the map plays though, not to an extreme, but I do think I won't mind blocks as long as they make the game better to play lol.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who feels S3 just has uglier and less natural maps than previous games, I've always struggled to get my point across to people on the matter so it feels great to not be alone in thinking about it. I feel like S3 maps, as you pointed out, lack that "lived in" quality of other games maps, even S2 had it better. S1 maps were the peak of this good design, though, with inkable walls, blocks, and even just general stage geometry having more varied and rounded shapes, and smaller details that worked to remove the flatness from a wall or a piece of cover, while still keeping it as an obvious flat surface you can cleanly swim up/over. Maps like Saltspray or Kelpdome, ironically, did this very well in my eyes, and they're always the maps I go back to when explaining this point, along with the other good maps like Mahi and Flounder.

Imagine you go into Minecraft and suddenly see a 1 to 1 map of 8.1.0 version of barnacle & dime because your trying to prove that this looks like the new Minecraft update in splatoon 3💀

in famitsu interview 6 months after s3 released they said maps and their shapes were the last thing they decide on and i quote ''the shape of a stage isn't something we decide on ahead of time'' and i personally think it goes way deeper than that, not just the shape byt the looks and theming too. Give any non-splatoon player one of the maps, they will not guess the theme / name of it at all and now that they're reworking maps the negative side effect of their map philosophy is really biting them and us in the ass, the maps were barely cohesive and now it's even worse... (i hate the ugly dark uninkable blocks please they're so ugly please stop putting them) anyways this will always be my fav splatoon game tho

I do like the longer horizontal blocks overlooking the Splatzone in Barnacle & Dime that are textured like plastic crates. Very similar to the stone textured wall, where it blends it into the world better and helps sell it as something less gamey.

I dont know about anyone else but when I saw the new maps my jaw dropped also y did they change the middle for Haggle like its always getting changed for no reason

There's a super niche aspect of these reworks that i like, a while back they buffed undercover so you have full jump height while shooting, and the blocks actually make that useful now, because before i never noticed the change

The main thing I don’t like about splatoon 3 maps is how boring they all look. So many maps have generic settings of just boring buildings (eeltail, inkblot, flounder, etc.) and the maps that do have cool settings barely utilize them to make the map interesting, which makes every map feel the same

Nintendo: Has a Pole and Block fetish, apparently

Is it me or does Unami look Like the old version from the splatoon 3 direct a little bit

I wish they'd actually make a splatoon game with decent servers/connection lol but otherwise this map update is pretty cool

I haven’t played a match on them yet due to internet issues but they look cool.

<3 so good

I have been very much enjoying this little LP series! The Vods really add entertainment to my week at work!

The fact that Splatoon could actually be real one day….. 😶✋

Splatoon is another example of: "War never changes"

1:32 5 now 😭

i’ve had this in my watch later for a while and i’m so glad i watched it. this genuinely made me cry it was so beautiful

War.. war never changes

Could you update this with the new dlc

This.... was beautiful. I don't think I really understood until now why I love Splatoon's world other than "oh, there's so much there that fleshes everything out". Thank you, for showing me a side to this worldbuilding that I'd never even considered.

As a Queer/LGBTQIAAP+ person who's suffering from fucking bigots that do nothing but hurt me... This message, hit me hard emotionally! Thank you for this Cosmic, now then! I know what I'll do next

You can now 15-star it with the order shot

44:32 Octo Canyon: IM NOT THE WORST!!! 😁😁😁

I swear there is going to be a future game focused on the [near?] extinction of the salmonids.

my first splatoon game was splatoon 3 I loved it

3rd kits will probably come in the midseason patch imo

37:42 "hachi" is just 8 in japanese

This actually sums up the issues in Palestine

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Bubbler on decav would be interesting. It has a longer dash than the other swords so it might be a good strategy to charge forward, get a kill and then set up bubbler.