incidentally if you don't see much of me for a bit: side order has reminded me that i do, in fact, DEEPLY enjoy splatoon 3, lol, and i am maybe a touch distracted by that,
i brought my wii u to college this past weekend so i could play splatoon before nintendo shuts down their servers and i realized that a lot of the grafitti is reused as stickers and other hotlantis items in splatoon 3
I don’t think we as Team Present or Team Future should fear what Team Past winning means for the future Splatoon (as contradictory as that sounds)
Beyond the fact that the final Splatfest only superficially affects the next game (so a certain team winning won’t make or break the game), Team Past isn’t like “Team Octavio/Tartar/Grizz was right” or “Team Let’s Do Another Race War”
I believe that Team Past’s ideology is about using your past experiences and knowledge to help the younger generation. You see it in the lyrics to Three Wishes and in the Squid Sister’s roles as NSS Agents and their friendships with the other idol groups. There’s also an element of sharing cherished memories with another
They are not necessarily clinging to the past, but rather learning from it or looking back on it and saying “that was pretty good huh?”. Those aren’t things that would destroy Splatoon in my opinion but at the same time I’m unsure what it would mean in terms of changing the game.
I saw someone say on the idol fight poll that they thought it was an actual fight and that deep cut would win since they're the only ones we've seen fight like marie and callie aren't trained agents, marina isn't a former soldier, and pearls own voice isn't a super weapon 😭