The new Splatoon 3 trailer has cool new abilities, fresh fashion, and some truly chilling implications for Splatoon’s post-human deep lore.
The first portion of the new trailer that debuted during the Nintendo Direct presentation today is focused on multiplayer, showing off how a bunch of new abilities will change your approach to Turf War: we get to see a new crab bot special which lets you ball up and roll around the battlefield; a big ink shield bubble which lets you lock down an area from enemy ink; and a kind of terrifying but undeniably badass grappling hook ability, which lets your Inkling (or Octoling) dwell in a half-squid, half-kid state as they haul themselves across the level by their stretchy, sticky ink arm.
Then the transmission is interrupted, and we see why this trailer is titled “Return of the Mammalians.” Something has happened to our familiar Octarian foes that left them covered in bushy fur, and the same affliction (or maybe intentional modification) has been applied to whole stretches of Splatoon 3’s single-player campaign levels.
