Splatoon Brought Maritime Madness to the Wii U
The month of May came along and Nintendo’s repertoire got hotter than a Miami summer (which is impossibly hot, trust me), thanks to the release of Splatoon. Handled almost exclusively by the new generation of developers over at Nintendo, they were given near-complete creative freedom to create whatever they wished. As a result, Splatoon came about and gave every shooter on other consoles a run for its money. With its simple team-based premise, things stayed fresh, strange, exciting, and very tactical.
With a phenomenal single-player campaign to work as a glorified tutorial for the multi-player meat of the game, hefty customization, and Nintendo still releasing downloadable content nearly every week at no charge, Splatoon has been almost too good to be true, and is sure to have a very bright future.
June held another surprise when Nintendo completely pulled a rabbit out of a hat by releasing a Super Smash Bros. digital presentation announcing Ryu from Street Fighter would be joining the fray, along with fan-favorite Lucas from Mother 3.
On top of that, Nintendo just sort of went, “Oh, by the way, you can download them, like, uhhh, now. Deuces.”
