HI HI HI *kisses you* wh at is splatoon
*kisses you back* OH um it's a lot tbh. The simplest explanation I have is it's Nintendo's take on a kid friendly Call of Duty. Essentially u play as an "inkling" who is a kid and a squid.
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image one is an inkling girl, who has orange eyes, orange long squid tentacles for hair, a tank of ink on their backpack half full of orange ink, black short shorts with an orange stripe, a white stripe with black text in the "inkling" language, white skin, purple shoes with blue laces, and holding a "splatter shot jr." Which is a stylized supersoaker-like weapon.
Image 2 is an inkling in their "squid" form where they have green cartoon eyes, orange skin, and a triangle shaped head, with 2 large tentacles. /ID]
Anyways the main mode is called "turf war" where you use a variety of weapons including stuff styled after bubble machines, paint rollers, and aforementioned super soaker, and try to work with 3 other teammates (2 teams of 4) to ink more territory than your opponent. There is also a single player mode called hero mode where you try to save a great zapfish which powers all of inkopolis, the city spaltoon 1 and 2 take place in. Anyways, it's a cute little game with a metric shit tone of lore that gets weirdly deep really fast. Surface level stuff that is said directly in game for example: it's 13000 years after end of humanity because global warming caused flooding of planet. Squids evolved to go onto land and became inklings. (So did octopi which made the octarians but they are villains in spaltoon 1 but are playable in Splatoon 2!) That's pretty messed up, but there's also like, a fossil with a mother holding her child as they got drowned???? Just? Pictures in game??? (Side note, lady has a pelvis of an AMAB person so I headcanon unnamed dead woman as trans) other thing is there is a cat that acts as refere for turf wars and his name is Big Judd and he is the last remaining mammal, like, the last of all mammals period, because his owners were rich and cryogenically froze him. There's also a giant war that happened, super horny salmon that destroyed villages(?) And a bunch of fun stuff with named characters being in bands and also a character canonically saying fuck in the game even though swears aren't in the game. I love it.
