Greetings one and all!
Well, rather than blather on about it being a
while. I wanna share something quite fun.
Splatoon.
I didn't get it on launch as I wasn't too sure if
I'd like it or not. Sure it was a fun shooter but would it hold my
enjoyment?
Well. I'm 4 hours and a half in and I think it
will.
Splatoon for any who haven't seen it yet is a
shooter by Nintendo.
Nintendo? Aye.
Shooter? Aye
Nintendo came out with a shooter? Yup
It's also mostly multiplayer focused.
Okay okay don't faint, I was pretty sceptical too.
That's why I didn't get on launch however I did grab it a week later
and I can get why people whose opinions I think are alright have been
giving the game praise. It's fun running around small arenas on teams
of four covering as much ground and your enemies in splatty paint in
contrasting bright colours for a few minutes at a time and then you
win depending on which team has painted the most ground.
Yup. That means that although you can cream the
other team members, it's not the focus and I will say that this was a
pretty damn spiffy way of Nintendo to go about doing a multiplayer
shooter. There's so many which are purely based on how many of the
other team you've wiped out it's refreshing to see one that isn't.
That said as I typed that last paragraph I was
strongly reminded of why I liked Team Fortress 2 so much. My
favourite gamemode in that is Payload. Get the bomb into the enemies
base. I was never a fan of the 'capture all the points' or the 'KILL
EVERYONE' modes. I quite liked the 'Capture the Flag' one but my
heart was really in the Payload.
Which comes to another point I want to raise.
I'm not a huge fan of multiplayer shooters. I'm
also not very good at them on the whole either making it even less
fun.
Splatoon seems to acknowledge that the people
likely to buy this AREN'T going to be the worlds best and as such, it
gives you a basic premise 'PAINT EVERYTHING' and takes away the
ability to scream and shout at each other, gives you a level and
tells you 'have at it' and I like that.
I also like the single player, it's fun and bright
and joyful and also gets you used to the very basic principals of the
game and it has platforming too! Well it's a Nintendo game so there
was gonna be some wasn't there. (Note this is not a complaint)
So yeah. I'm enjoying the game so far and I'm
gonna play some more tomorrow. I'm only playing in about 2 hours
splurts though because of my 1 complaint with the game. It uses the
WiiU Controller. Which obviously it should, however after about 2
hours my arms start to ache a little as it's a bit heavy. Guess my
wimpy little arm's aren't ready for a marathon of Splatoon yet.
I'll get there!
That's
all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
Have a lovely evening!
