i won't pretend i've never been guilty of shopping for clothes at the soup store, but sometimes i see people criticizing media for not delivering an experience it was never intended to deliver and just get a little bewildered by it. just saw a very sincere post from someone critiquing splatoon's narrative writing for being "stunted and juvenile." well yes. it's side content in an all-ages pvp shooter. it's not even that i disagree with the critiques being made in the post it's that i just can't understand why they are being framed as if character-forward or complex narrative writing is something it is natural to expect from the splatoon franchise for some reason.





















