This actually strikes me as a title that was design as smaller, and then for some reason has grown (maybe public hype or internal awareness).
It reminds me of Smash Bros on N64, that wasn't such a huge deal for nintendo during development and became a very important IP. I expect the next Splatoon (on 9th gen) to become bigger.
I am happy to see some younger (i think) Nintendo Devs being so creative.








