The Weird Origin of Splatoon (and Producer Hisashi Nogami) (Patreon)

The Weird Origin of Splatoon (and Producer Hisashi Nogami)

The world of Inkopolis wasn't built in a day. Coming to you a few days late, here's what should have been Friday's video about Splatoon, and how longtime Nintendo veteran Hisashi Nogami and his team of creators managed to do the impossible: building a brand new IP that's quickly become one of the biggest game franchises under Nintendo's control. The main source for this video is a recent GDC talk from Hisashi Nogami himself, which unfortunately isn't freely available to the public just yet, but a few news sites covered it. We've also taken some story points from an interview with Hisashi Nogami and other Nintendo veterans from a few years ago, detailing the creation of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. A few years ago, the idea of Nintendo innovating was something of a joke. The company was known primarily for essentially working with the same few characters over and over and over, without trying much new. Then came Splatoon, the game that showed just how beautiful and stylish it can be when Nintendo tries, in its own way, to recapture the vibe of '90s nostalgia. It's significant that Hisashi Nogami joined Nintendo in the '90s, and ended up making a game, decades later, that hearkens back to the youth culture from that era. It's almost as if, even as Nintendo spreads its wings and tries something new, it ends up returning to the same era for ideas! Or, hey, maybe I'm reading too much into this! Anyway, thank you for watching, please share this far and wide, and look out for our video on Nintendo Labo, coming next week! Lots of love, BretonStripes (http://twitter.com/bretonstriped) and Kotor (http://twitter.com/kotorcomics) Theme music by Tee Lopes (http://twitter.com/teelopesmusic) Incidental music: Chill Wave by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sources for this video: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/03/21/splatoon-was-originally-a-game-about-rabbits https://miketendo64.com/2018/03/21/hisashi-nogami-and-the-story-of-splatoon/amp/ https://www.pressreader.com/australia/edge/20171012/282905205780481 http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/03/nintendo_reveals_splatoonrs_original_prototypes_at_gdc https://nintendoeverything.com/more-details-from-the-splatoon-gdc-2018-panel/ https://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-classic/interview-super-mario-world https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/October/Learn-all-about-Splatoon-s-unique-style-in-our-exclusive-interview--1146288.html http://www.alphr.com/games/1008886/splatoon-success-nintendo-gdc-talk https://nintendowire.com/news/2018/03/21/splatoon-prototype-shown-off-gdc/