NOCLIP Pocket E09 - Abstract Poems From Afar - Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

Three friends talk about a game, They speak of squids but make no
quid. ”Welcome to NOCLIP!” they exclaim. Welcome back to the pocket
podcast this week! Today JJ makes a guest appearance because we’re
talking about Splatoon 2, a favorite of the show, and more
specifically diving into the Octo Expansion DLC. As an amped up
single player campaign, the expansion does a lot to increase the
challenge and variety from the base game’s single player and riffs
on the mechanics that make Splatoon unique compared to other
shooters. Whether this is done by limiting your ink capacity or by
sticking you in a hamster ball for an entire level, the differences
in kind really shine here and the difficulty lives up to the DLC’s
darker, yet vaporwave-y, aesthetic. We’re going to be talking about
challenge-based level design, tone and writing in a multiplayer
shooter, and T H A N G S. Thanks for joining us this week, and be
sure to check back with us next time as we kick off our multi-part
indefinite length-and-quantity series on Deltarune with an episode
revisiting Undertale!