Gaming Time 4: Splatoon

Okay. I may be exaggerating how well I did. But I'm not exaggerating how pathetic my shooting was. I was really bad.

If I had a Wii U, as well as more money and time, I'd totally buy this game! It's a lot of fun. I only played a couple of rounds, and I don't know much about the game outside of playing team matches (there's something to do with shops and experience, as well as a single player mode), but I found the gameplay and aesthetics very enjoyable. It's very unique, stylized, and fresh (an appropriate word considering how over saturated the game is with 90s-ness). It's a great change of pace from all the dull brown-and-grey, super serious, modern army shooters out there. Even the sci-fi shooters seem more or less interchangeable to me at this point. It's great to see something so very unique. Even the rules of the game are new: You don't get points for kills, but for how much of the map you have painted by the game's end. Kills are helpful, of course, but that's not how points are counted.

Also it's not that the paint roller is overpowered, but it doesn't require aiming-- just looking at people as you run at them. Of course, you still have to play smart. Trying to attack someone who has a paint gun, is looking at you, and is still some distance away? Not gonna go well.
If it were on PC I would be more competent with regular guns, but the two analog sticks for aiming and moving just feels so weird to me. I tried playing Call of Duty, and I just couldn't get the hang of it. I do fairly well in PC FPS's, and in other console games, but not console FPS's.

Have you tried it yet? What are your thoughts on it?

Splatoon is the copyright property of Nintendo.

(Oh, and the people are squids. Or squid people. Or something like that. I'm still not 100% on Splatoon lore.)