From Nintendo's POV: should Splatoon's single player campaign be open world?

[novasonic]

Twilord said:

novasonic said:
They could do a whole crazy de Blob meets Jet Set Radio thing! I'd be all over that.

Interesting. You look at what they could do to optimize a given angle, I like that. Hope you won't mind me asking how you'd lay out the goals/progression to make the most of the known mechanics. Please take your time, I haven't played Jet Radio and got distracted shortly after starting de Blob. (Very shortly. Still need/want to go back.)

 

 

 

Uh, well I'm no game designer, but there could be a few little gangs of these girls that are always trying to 1-up each other by tagging areas around the city. I guess it would be mostly mission based gameplay. You could have more tactical missions where you have to find a specific place in the city to paint, and you could get a higher style score by using your squid powers to find short cuts getting to it or something. There could be more stealth style missions where you have to sneek into a rival gangs turf and paint over their stuff, and using your squid powers to sneek around without them noticing you would get you extra points. Or invasion style missions where an enemy gang is trying to raid and paint over stuff on your turf, and you have to find them and paint them before they get a chance to ruin your work.

Just stuff like that. Tack on a little bit of a story to make things more interesting. Add some funky music. Maybe add some police into the mix. Painting police that are trying to erase your work, or you could be using your squid powers to try and run away from them.

Maybe? I donno. There's a reason Nintendo makes the games and I don't.