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Cool little direct, would of been nice if there was a Euro version with mini Shibata, but oh well. Really looking forward to the Splatoon update.

There's a point in the Plaza where you can clip through a wall (near the giant amiibo box) managed to pull it off earlier and went for a wander behind the scenes: You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse Dat attention to detail. :awesome:

That Splatoon fan art thread over at Neogaf is amazing: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=837761 Love this one: Kawaii! Cool to see a new game providing so much inspiration.

Yes! So glad it's doing well. Been listening to the soundtrack this morning, it continues to amaze me. Dat credits track: Goosbumps every time. Love the traditional Japanese vibe going on in there too, expertly done. Actually, the way the entire soundtrack merges so many different styles together is so damn impressive, and it complements the variety of Splatoon's gameplay perfectly. :awesome: It's a shame there aren't many tracks in the game, but I honestly don't think I'll ever get bored of hearing the ones we got, there's just soooooo much going on in each one. Even after a marathon weekend of Splatoon, I've not had enough of these tunes. Splatoon should absolutely dominate any audio awards this year, not just for the music, but its sound effects too. There's insane attention to detail present in the SFX, I particularly love the analog nature of the sound as you swim through ink depending on your movement speed and the different levels of splash depending on the height you dive from as a squid. Stuff like that is completely unnecessary, but the fact that they put it in shows just how much effort the developers went to. It's also amazing how the continual sound of the Splattershot doesn't get annoying. I very much doubt I could handle listening to hours and hours of machine gunfire but somehow they've created a similar sound that's easy on the ears. I look forward to more aural treats with the upcoming download content, and hopefully a sequel at some point. : peace:

Ooo... Pre-E3 direct for Europe too?

Sometimes logic is annoying though. Quite a lot of the time actually, and certainly in this case.

Yeah, I hear ya. It's Chibi-Robo though so it will be awesome and we'll still get it.* *localisation permitting of course.

This really confused me when it appeared in the direct, just seemed way too soon for another 3DS MH game, but then I remembered the Japanese got MH4 in 2013. @Hero\-of\-Time, that other game they showed (the cute one with all the Feylnes ) is that a port of that PSP or Vita game you mentioned a while back in the MH4 thread?

Great amiibo collection pics everyone. Oh man, that Chibi-Robo amiibo... Gonna be tough to resist that one if it ever makes it over here.

Both of those new 3DS systems are lovely, the simpler XL style and the retro cartoon vibe of the N3DS cover plates. This screenshot pleases me, I just hope they also use those "NEW" icons for the next mainline AC.Having to rely on memory, the shop catalog or a spreadsheet to know which items you already own in the previous games has always annoyed the hell out of me.

Yeah, this game provides so many comedy moments. Speaking of comedy, I still haven't got bored of following unaware roller users (undoing all their hard work in the process) and then eventually splatting them.

Beat Splatoon's single player last night. Very short but incredibly sweet game. And the final boss battle is just something else! Completely off the charts bonkers. Witness the awesomeness of the final moments:

So I was looking back through the pages you collect during single player...

Finished the Single Player last night. @Mr\-Paul and @Hero\-of\-Time, you guys were right about the final boss and staff credits, I absolutely adored both of those. I was pretty surprised by...

Don't mind me, my head is full of ink at the moment.

You can use the gyro to aim (the default setting but it can be switched off) there's a live map that shows the ink coverage of each team, you can tap on a teammate to instantly Super Jump to their location (some of the special attacks also use the touch screen). It's all cool stuff, but like I said before, I find the pace of the game makes most of it unusable anyway. Even so, I definitely wouldn't recommend skipping on Splatoon just because of needing to use the GamePad, it's far too awesome a game for that.

Use the orange Miiverse postbox in the Plaza for the post to be linked to your inkling. Think it's random, I saw mine: You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse I know it is for a good reason, but personally I'm still a bit annoyed there's not even the option to just use the Pro. I simply can't use the GamePad screen during a match (the game moves too quickly for an old inkling like me ) and I very rarely use the super jump. I'd gladly give up both of those aspects to use the much more comfortable Pro Controller instead.

Yeah, Miiverse graffiti is awesome. :awesome: Love it. Not many games get me to stay up this late these days but Splatoon is something very special indeed.

Great games just now guys. : peace: Noticed something weird on the last one though... I was shooting blanks for a while! Yeah, none of my ink was painting anything, then after a few seconds it all suddenly appeared. Lag I guess, hopefully it'll be a rare occurrence. Anyway, looooving this game. It's jaw droppingly gorgeous and just so much fun to play!

Nicely done, @Hero\-of\-Time. I'm looking forward to seeing these credits now. Yeah, in one of our games together I super jumped to you when you'd just respawned at the base. It looked like I was going to shoot forwards into the map, but then I suddenly went backwards. This game is too fast and crazy to make proper use of the GamePad stuff, for me anyway.

G1: Mental. Right, back to Splatooooooon!!

That was clearly beginners luck. I was on fire for those first few games though. :awesome: Yeah, such a great laugh. Leveling up is a lot quicker that I was expecting, need to get myself some better gear now. BTW, @Dcubed thanks for providing my fave Splatoon moment so far. It'll be appearing in GIF form soon. *EDIT* Here it is: I tried the same thing afterwards against the other Roller player, but it didn't go quite as well.

Any game only arrivals from the Nintendo Store, or is it just the bundles that are turning up early? Nice to see they're getting those out so quickly anyway.

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My biggest issue with amiibo (other than thinking they're overpriced) is how some are seemingly becoming much more useless than others. Pikachu for example, no costume unlock in MK8 and appears to be the same situation for Yoshi's Wooly World. I'm also annoyed how Splatoon is going to lock those little 8-bit mini-games behind the Splatoon specific amiibo. Costumes are one thing, but when you end up missing out on playable content due to not having the right amiibo, that's not cool. Nintendo really should offer that stuff via more readily available/affordable NFC cards already, or also make it available for purchase on the eShop. The main appeal to amiibo is obviously meant to be the figures themselves, but as the content they unlock keeps growing/improving they'll potentially become more valuable for what they can bring to the games, and that will end up making the amiibo situation even more annoying, for both those that want to collect them and those that don't.