Why Splatoon 3 Was Smart to Remove Sunken Scrolls from Story Levels
Splatoon 3 is not the first entry in its franchise to release for Nintendo Switch, but even so it has found an impressive presence on the hybrid console. Within three days of releasing on September 9, Nintendo announced that Splatoon 3 sold over 3.45 million copies in Japan — a bigger launch than titles like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Pokemon Sword and Shield, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Splatoon 3's story mode Rise of the Mammalians is garnering a lot of attention in particular, both because of the lore it imparts and for the improved way it handles collectibles like Sunken Scrolls.
While theSplatoon franchise is one of Nintendo's more recent endeavors, releasing its first entry for Wii U in 2015, it has a number of staple features that have carried through both sequels. Every game has a new idol group to introduce multiplayer map rotations and participate in Splatfest events, for example. Sunken Scrolls are items available in the single-player story mode for each game that provide additional worldbuilding details for anyone who finds them. Splatoon 1 and 2 hid the majority of their scrolls inside stages, but Splatoon 3 is smart to have them primarily appear in the Alterna overworld.
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The original Splatoon's story mode took place in Octo Valley, where Cap'n Cuttlefish of the New Squidbeak Splatoon recruits players to serve as Agent 3 alongside the Squid Sisters Callie and Marie. Splatoon 2's story instead follows Agent 4 in Octo Canyon, but both feature a similar structure. Players take on a series of obstacle courses in abstract space that serve as tutorials for each games' weapons and abilities, all with the aim of saving the Great
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