After our Top 50 lists of Top 50 voted readers, Nintendo Life staff will be selecting their favorite Nintendo games between 2010 to 2009. Today, Alex recalls the growing pains of his first step in his life, and how one squid and / or child-based shooter made all the difference …
"These controls are so complicated and complicated, I don't like them."
That was my first impression of Splatoon. I'm not the only one no I'll get to the blint that I speak for Nintendo representatives at EGX 2014, but seeing as I was hoping to get a job with someone called Nintendo Life who played with me, I decided I had to keep things cool. I can show my true cocky colors once I get a foot in the proverbial door.
Despite my motion-control representation these days (especially efforts like Splatoon) my first impressions were simply overwhelming. I skip the Wii for the most part during its lifetime due to my peer pressure and being a teenager, and while I did a great deal of riding here and there, moving my body while playing was something I only did to turn the corners. Mario Kart 64, and it totally works, I promise. Nintendo had a lot of discacity to not only drag the world's largest controller to my mitts, but also tell me to launch it as part of a basic game. Despite all that, though, I was actually pretty well behaved, at least compared to my current colleagues Ant, Daz, and Damo. It caught my attention, in part because the whole idea of a third-person shooter with a modern style felt very Nintendo.
It rolls out in 2015 and I start working for the company here, and as the best Slatoon player in the immediate area I was offered a job to move to Germany to represent Nintendo Life in a preview match of the game that includes a & # 39; s spoon & # 39; .
I boarded a plane, landed, boarded a taxi, played a game for four hours, and immediately left Frankfurt without & # 39; wo ist der Badezimmer? & # 39; As it turned out, all that took – I was there she is shocked. In those few short hours I touched the controls and used to whip up a large tablet about the surface to find the edge of the evil Octarians, and I counted the days until Splatoon would be in my hands for good.
It came, I reviewed it, and resumed all my development from scratch because Nintendo. The whole thing was a turning point for me; Over the course of a year I've been out to put my university assignments in place and lied to get a part-time job in the theater to play a game unlike anything else I've seen, and paid to do. I was sitting in my bedroom growing up playing a light, high-quality Nintendo internet guy with my dad giving me a smelly eye because he thought I was just playing, and three happy rats sent me money I could live on.
That would have been enough to make Splatoon my only game of the decade, but that was far from the end of my journey. New content was always limited to us by avid fans, and at that moment I felt it was important to showcase all the new as soon as possible, and make a video about it. This meant getting up around 3am and recording videos because I didn't know anything, which, of course, is a strange idea as everyone who was interested would simply upload a game of their own.
But before this moment of clarity for me required to do this, and no update was too good for me to spend hours on that version is 2.0.0, which brought the power of private game management. Using the idea that people might actually want to play a 1v1 match, I took to Twitter to ask if anyone on the right track would be able to help me during my stupid time. That's where I met my friend Paul, who just happened to live in the same time zone and apparently had mixed priorities at the time. He didn't help me at all and we continued the conversation afterwards, recruited some people and eventually formed a team to use for the upcoming Slatoon tournament.
This was the moment my relationship began to deteriorate, and playing Splatoon in the evening with Paul, Rachel, and Jasmin was the only good encounter I had. I was in a pretty tough spot, but these three glorious people (and Slatoon) brought me joy at a time when I was still getting used to life as a full-time video monkey. With each new regeneration a new wave of excitement is filled with our group discussion, and I don't think I've ever been able to regain that kind of pure, unadulterated sweetness ever since.
Splatoon 2 certainly a better game, but OG Splatoon will always hold a special place in my heart. It helped me transition to a new life, it gave me friends where I was lacking, and it also revolutionized Nintendo and introduced a new wave of innovations that lead successfully to the undeniable success of Transformation. Possibly.
