Nintendo's 'Splatoon 3' features cute battles with paint brushes, bathtubs, and windshield wipers. Unlike other shooter games, it's attracted an especially friendly, inclusive fan base.
Ang says he could tell the composers and musicians who scoredenjoyed themselves immensely. He believes the exuberance spills over into the game itself and the culture it helps create.
"The charm of this is that they've managed to couch these musical performances as an integral part of a world," he says."Even though there is cartoon violence, it is never an actual shooter with specific good guys versus bad guys. Your leader is just your idol, and you pick them because you like them.
Ang points to the conversation that sprang up after Nintendo introduced Shiver, whose androgynous appearance prompted speculation of whether Shiver is non-binary, as an example of how farEven though Nintendo later confirmed Shiver as female,"the fact that you can even begin to have this conversation in a society like Japan, which is far more far more closeted about stuff like that, is a massive success," says Ang."And it's the aesthetic that made it possible.
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