//so how about Splatoon Raiders guys
long rant below, ignore if you don't wanna hear tired opinions. TL;DR, this blog probably won't be active at all anymore, links to my other socials at bottom.
I need to articulate some feelings on the matter, if that's alright.
1. I'm probably most likely not getting Splatoon Raiders.
It's a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive. There might be some cool things about it! But other than Deep Cut and that weird looking eyeball at the end of the video, I'm...not that interested. Or excited. And this is mainly because I really don't want to purchase a whole other console that costs the amount of rent or like two months worth of groceries in my family. I really!!!! Don't have that kind of money!! And to be honest!!! The Switch 2 doesn't really appeal to me at all!!!! I'll happily watch a video on it by a streamer or something, but I'm not purchasing this game. And I probably won't do any writing anytime soon regarding it, because...
2. I barely had energy running this blog.
I entered the Splatoon RP scene when 2 was still alive. I was really excited, because there were a lot of cool things happening in the game that kept the community rolling! I couldn't walk two steps without coming across an RP blog with lots of cool art and writing. And I still adore this aspect! Some of my best friends in the entire world were made in the Splatoon community and will forever hold a place in my heart. Truly, thank you all!
....But. The entire lifespan of this blog. I've done a lot to keep myself motivated. Lots of personable characters, lots of divergent canon, lots of writing, lots of drawing, lots of playing Splatoon and, to be honest it really exhausted me. I haven't even finished my side order plot!!! And I have a bunch of stuff in there that's important to my blog building! But I ran out of steam! And that's partially because running this blog was tiring. It felt like a chore. And the community isn't what it used to be nowadays. And also...
3. I didn't enjoy Splatoon 3 much.
My most controversial reason- I didn't like Splatoon 3. It sucked, to be honest, and I'd rather not touch it again if I can help it. Let me explain.
The base story mode is fun! There's a lot of cool mechanics to play around with, it was a decent challenge, it wrapped up the Mr. Grizz plot, however. Something me and my mutuals have noticed is that it...retconned plot points. As in. They act like it never happened. The most glaring example being Captain Cuttlefish acted kinda racist again??? Which is a really silly thing to say regarding a squid game, I know, but it's really jarring to a person who's played all the games to see Captain go through a redemption arc of seeing Octarians as allies in Octo Expansion, only to start hating them again in Splatoon 3? And this really confused me! Because OE was a really important part of the Splatoon franchise! A good DLC! Which I cannot say the same for Side Order!
I did enjoy some things about Side Order- I'm not opposed to rogue-likes in general, and there's some cool tiny lore tidbits, but for me, that's all that it had. If you haven't noticed, I wrote a lot of stuff and characters into my (unfinished) Side Order plot. The reason is that other than the things listed above there's really nothing else going for it! When OE came out, it was revolutionary, exciting, reinvigorated the community. SO came out and...really nobody I followed came back to life, save one or two. Most of my long time RP mutuals from years back were not revived by Splatoon 3 and its DLC, so you have to imagine it killed my mood as a long time member.
Also the online aspect of 3 was....not good. Really skewed the meta, and Splatoon players are a lot more aggressive and hardcore now, which I don't really jive with considering this is technically a kid's game. And maybe that's just how it'll be now. But honestly...I'm not willing to stick around to see it. I'm not willing to risk giving myself carpal tunnel to win, or to sit there for hours and grind a catalogue that only goes up a set amount of points at a time no matter what, and all the while try to remain relevant on the RP scene. It's tiring. I'm done.
This is to say...
Unless the next Splatoon games are really good and fix the problems I have with it, and bring back the Splatoon RP community to at least a fraction of what it used to be, I probably won't be returning for any Splatoon stuff here.*
I'm happy to do other things nowadays! I have a comic (that's on hiatus tho >w>;;) and a bunch of OCs, do other stuff, follow other fandoms, and such. And not having to worry about a dying blog is a lot better on my psyche than forcing myself to love Splatoon again. There's other games and fandoms that I enjoy with my friends and I'm happy to partake in that! But as of right now, I'm going to let the cows out to pasture on this.
And this sucks!! Because of Splatoon, I met wonderful people! Because of Splatoon, I created some wonderful things, and grew as an artist and a writer! Splatoon has done so many things for me in my life. I genuinely would be worse off had I not played the silly squid game. So it's really disheartening that it's come to this. I wish I could go back in time, but I can't. And that's alright.
*Of course, I'll probably do blurbs of asks and small RPs occasionally with friends! But this is in reference to any big writing. I'm really tired of the big writing and drawing art for lore posts. Very exhausting.
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