Why Team Past Winning Grand Fest Gives Me Hope for The Future of Splatoon - A Semi Series Retrospective
This blog is over 3 months late, which was also how long I’ve been away from Splatoon 3. I was on Team Present, like the majority of the player base. I love Off The Hook and “present” would be my answer for the fest’s question in real life. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t tempted to pick Team Past because the Squid Sisters’ outfits were awesome and the colour scheme of the team was top-notch. To be honest, I was burned out with Splatoon 3 way before the Grand Fest, but I decided to join the event to take part in shaping the future of Splatoon 4 together with this community, an experience I missed out on in Splatoon 2, since I got that game in 2019, and in Splatoon 1, since I never got a Wii U. It’s weird because Splatoon 3 was the game where I finally “clicked” with a weapon, the ill-fated Tri Stringer, and its iteration of Salmon Run is much more content-packed than the predecessor, where I only opted to play the horde mode due to the aggravating Ranked systems and not being inve...
