I find it funny that Nintendo releases a colorful semi-decent shooter, and everyone is claiming that Nintendo is the only one that innovates.
Splatoon actually does not add anything to gameplay that hasn't been done before. Teleporting is nothing new. paintball guns are also nothing new (just check out the wonder weapon from cod:bo2 : sliquifier). Colorful graphics have already been done in team fortress 2.
Instead, titanfall/call of duty are adding more parqour to their shooters. Destiny/borderlands/mass effect are fusing the shooter and rpg genre. Team Fortress/Overwatch are making more team oriented shooters.
Say what you want about these games, but there is no denying that they are more ambitious in actually innovating in the shooter genre than Splatoon (especially when looking at their budgets and reviews). But It may not matter since people here seem too focused on Nintendo to actually notice.
Nintendo is not revolutionizing or saving anything, especially a genre that is thriving. If anything, Splatoon only shows how Nintendo is desperately going "me too! me too!"
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