This new Splatoon game is splatacular!
Posted May 7, 2015, 1:14 AM UTC
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I tolerated it until he did his squid dance.
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I tottally lost it when he cupped his hands around his mouth and said "Noice!!!"
And by lost it I mean the ability to continue watching.
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that's when i turned it off too. came here for cringe...but sometimes it's too much.
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I just stopped at the squishing noises. Ugh.
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This is something that looks it was just designed for Nickelodeon or CN.
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It looks like a flash game you play on nickelodeon's website
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That was a minute? Because it felt like 8 million years.
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Didn't spell fresh with a ph
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the squidabilities!
cringe
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haven't heard boss as an adjective in 10 years.
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Oh, so you haven't seen the cringiest ad ever, how cute. Here you go!
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But that says like a boss. It's obviously very cringey but it doesn't use boss as an adjective.
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oh god
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wait, did he say I can play againts people "around the world" ? As in, not just my living room?
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People seem pretty hype about the game and the multiplayer (me included)
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Isn't this one of the gay kids in Awkward?
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I love nintendo but their marketing department needs to be taken out to a field and shot
Yeah this was pretty cringey.
I'm still hyped as fuck for splatoon.
I'm glad we can collectively agree to feel that way.
I honestly arrived expecting to take up the unenviable job of separating the coolness of Splatoon from... The Bragg Report.
I didn't even know there was a thing for Nintendo called the "Bragg Report".
I wish I didn't.
Aside from the horrible commercial this does seem like a pretty creative multiplayer experience
Go to the splatoon subreddit and check out the videos and the blog posts. The blog is an offical blog and I think it's neat that they are interacting with their already existing fanbase. That's good marketing. The game isn't even out and theres a fan base for it!
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Nintendo's marketing is fascinating. Any time they have a commercial (or extended promo video like the OP), it's almost certain that it will be either fantastic or absolutely fucking terrible. There's virtually no in-between for them, and unfortunately, they miss much more often than they hit.
Anyone remember when they tried to be LE EDGY with the Nintendo DS "Touching is Good" campaign? Christ that was awful. (The tagline is still at the very end of the Kirby ad above, but the rest of the ad is so good that it gets a pass in that instance. The other ads from that campaign were not as fortunate.)