I guess that leads to the question of areas like under the bridge in the Reef map, or things like the lowering bridges in the Shipyard. Also, at least some vertical surfaces can in fact be seen from the overhead view. I haven’t searched a ton but haven’t found any concrete source in the searching i have done on…

I haven’t seen anything in game that says walls don’t count, and have been willing to accept common knowledge on this, but inking walls does, at least, give you personal points. I guess even if you get personal points for walls, it doesn’t count towards endgame team coverage? Without ever seeing any truly official…

Great piece, and this is why I read kotaku and gizmodo every day. We can have multitudes, we can geek out about Pokémon and superheroes and at the same time contribute to the struggles for liberation against oppressive forces. They aren’t mutually exclusive or counter intuitive to one another, but expressions of our…

No, it did not start a year ago. Antifa is a left wing anarchist tradition going back decades, along with specific groups like Anti-Racist Action. Been calling spade a spade and meeting fascists in the street while US liberals were more comfortable pretending white supremacists no longer existed. It’s only in the last…

How is the underdog getting all the points here in any way at all? The ONLY matches that count are mayo v ketchup, meaning each side has exactly the same number of opportunities as the other in order to make the whole thing not just some pointless polling. If that’s all you care about, why even play the game? Or, how…

Conversely, why have popularity factor in at all? Simplify it: pick a side, fight for your chosen side, and whoever has more wins is the victor. One single metric, combining team and solo wins, no popularity, just pure and simple.

Except would you not then just have the sub team intentionally losing? If a ketchup team knew they were repping Mayo, they could throw the match for the sake of the splatfest win.

Also, will I ever get out of the grays? I don’t post a ton and don’t want to be that guy begging to be approved, but i’ve been posting for years and am not a troll I promise!

Just gonna leave these here. Might have lost overall but I had some good wins against Mayo.

My assumption was that match making was based more on ketchup/mayo power ratings than titles. Just as with level numbers, splatfest titles really only mean the person has played a lot, which while that means more experience does not necessarily equate to more skill and is not a great metric for match making. I would…

I can see both being true, where Marina is definitely oversexualized, but also maybe Pearl does look a little too much like a creepy nightmare baby, whereas Callie and Marie were a little more balanced.

I rated that one fresh immediately.

Also, not trying to be a killjoy for anyone just having fun and joking about this being some kind of injustice or something, but anyone who takes it too seriously and feels the need to complain to Nintendo about losing should maybe just stop—the scoring system is not rigged or unfair, and any legit issues during the…

Do people not realize that the ketchup v. ketchup matches had no effect on the win counts? Without counting those matches, it’s a completely 1-to-1 contest which balances out the overwhelming majority popular vote. Unless people want the scoring to be entirely unfair. The only argument I saw that maybe could have…

Redeads will always strike fear in my heart at 30 as they did at 10 in Ocarina. I don’t even want to imagine what they would have been like in this game, then again that level of creepy could have been pretty awesome.

I lost one horse so far when I dismounted and left it in Hebra, got distracted exploring for too long, and I think it froze to death. The horse fairy teased me and then said it was an “unexpected accident” or something and forgave me.

I did handheld first, then motion controls, and then pro controller. Mostly, I felt like the motion controls would have taken me too long to really get used to in my remaining 30 minutes of play, meaning plenty of embarrassing losses, but I think when the full game is released I’ll give them more of a try. They do…

Anyone else notice red shells coming from nowhere? On 50cc races, i’ve been like half a lap ahead of second place and still red shells are finding me all the time. If they were actually fired by other races, i would expect they would have hit a wall or something. Are these shells just being randomly generated because…

But if you’re fighting a large group of enemies and might have guts and weapons littering the battlefield, you don’t want combat interrupted because you happen to be near an item as you try to sprint or jump or attack, which is why only the A button makes sense.

I’ve noticed something re: climbing/rain, which I fully employed when I got to Zora’s domain last night: many inclines, if you spend time looking around all sides, can actually be navigated by running up the least steep sections. Not every mountain, but more than I originally noticed. The road to Zora’s domain, Mount…