Splatoon Is Secretly Nintendo's Darkest Series
Death. Corporate betrayal. Environmentalism. Capitalism. Racism and segregation. Colonialism. These probably aren’t words you’d typically associate with Nintendo’s big kid-friendly third-person shooter, Splatoon. See also: the occasional use of the word “fuck”. However, if you aren’t approaching Splatoon like you’re about to open up a creepypasta with your favourite cartoon, then you haven’t been paying enough attention.
Let’s start off with the big one - we all canonically died in the Splatoon universe. In the first game, one of the Sunken Scrolls, collectibles you can find that give a bit of lore and history on how the world of Splatoon works, shows a skeleton deep underground along with a Wii U and gamepad (that little joke went well, huh Nintendo?), with text saying ‘a 12,000-year-old fossil of a creature with an odd internal skeleton’. Christ Nintendo, keep it subtle.
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That’s not the only reference made to humans being dead either, as Marie and Callie will occasionally chat about finding human bones in their backyard and how common of an occurrence that is. It’s not just an implication, it’s outright part of the lore that we all died long ago and that Inklings rose up from our graves. That’s pretty metal, and probably explains why Inklings and Octolings look like kids, but I digress.
And how exactly did we die? Well, another key theme of Splatoon is environmentalism, ladies and gentleman, and how royally we’re fucking it up. Another lore drop from the first game says ‘with creatures of the surface driven to extinction by rising sea levels’, something that can even be seen in Splatoon 3 with an upturned Eiffel Tower that’s somehow in the
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