http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/Hs_c3ANcQa1Yul-i8hDiinXaai0CrTOU

Best Buy is doing a New 3DS demo event on 8/22 from 11am - 2pm (local time). 

Games will include LBX: Little Battlers eXperience, Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.

Click on the link for a list of participating store locations.

This new map is big, i am still not decided if it is a good idea or not to keep close to your team.

Liking the new stage so far. Only played a few matches on it, but I think it's really nice.

There is a lot of different routes that you can take, though the center top point is a big and important choke point. The lower alleys are also nice, though the players on top have a huge height advantage.
Chargers seem to be good in this map, though it is very hard to hit people below you in the alleys so they are not overpowered, plus there isn't perfect camping spots, as there are many routes to the same location, as stated earlier. Rollers are good as well, as they can fling paint to the area below as well as to the other sections where snipers may be camping on. Buckets are also great. However, long ranged guns seem to be a lot better than the short ranged ones due to a large area

Have yet to play ranked with this new map so I cannot comment on that though.

Probably one of my favourite maps, and of course, this is all in my opinion. What do you think?

I feel like every time a new Splatoon map is released, I declare it as my new favorite. I kinda feel that way about Flounder Heights right now.

Flounder Heights is probably my second favorite map of the entire game, only behind Urchin Underpass for me.

Really liked the new map, like the size and the branching paths., it also has a lot of verticality, that opens different strategies as well.

Phew, played for 4 hours straight! Thanks for joining Mike! What do ya think of the new map? I always say I like new maps, probably just cause they're new, so I'ma give it more time. The vertical-ness is very cool that's for sure!

Wow we played for a long time, it was a lot of fun but a SO annoying when the ink colors were purple and pink. New map is great, a lot of ways to approach the opposite team. Off topic but the l-3 nozzle nose is so hard to use, but I´m convinced is a great weapon for rainmaker and once I get more accurate with the gun  I´ll be better.

So what are your final thoughts on the game?  It's been interesting following your comments as you progressed.  

Also, the mythology that inspired this is Gnosticism.  The general plot is almost allegorical.  The demiurge(s) (Meyneth and Zanza) are the subcreators (either flawed (Meyneth) or evil (Zanza)) and are rebels from the Monad (Alvis), who is the true god.  The incarnation/prophet of the Monad (again, Alvis) comes and brings special knowledge/enlightment or "gnosis" (shulk's visions and also to an extent the various monados) to reveal to true nature of the world.  Gnosis helps guide man back to truth.  The ultimate culmination is the downfall of the Demiurge(s) and the restoration of glory to the Monad.  That's the general gist of the structure minus all the spiritual stuff.  But then it goes a level deeper:  in gnosticism, the physical world is a shadowy illusion created by the Demiurge while the real world is the heavenly source of the Monad.  Ultimately, enlightenment allows a return to that world.  In Xenoblade, Alvis's home is the real world we know.  At the end of XC, upon returning power to Alvis and declining the "god" (demiurge) status offered you, the world of Zanza is destroyed and Shulk and the world is recreated into the world it was, the real world (Alvis (the Monad's) home).  So even that element of Gnosticism plays out in a literal fashion.  

nice. great that you used heropon Riki.