Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion Story

Expansion pack to Splatoon 2

2018 video game

Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion
Nintendo eShop artwork, featuring Cap'n Cuttlefish and Agent 8
Developer(s)	Nintendo EPD
Publisher(southward)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Yusuke Amano Seita Inoue Shintaro Sato
Producer(s)	Hisashi Nogami
Composer(s)	Toru Minegishi Ryo Nagamatsu
Series	Splatoon
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch
Release	June 13, 2018
Genre(s)	Third-person shooter
Fashion(s)	Unmarried-role player

Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion is an expansion pack to the unmarried-player way of Splatoon 2, a third-person shooter video game for the Nintendo Switch. It was released on June thirteen, 2018. The DLC received more often than not positive reviews.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Gameplay [edit]

Octo Expansion follows the story of an Octoling that goes by the proper name of Agent viii. Their main mission is to reach the surface by collecting four objects called thangs through various challenges. Using points as a currency, the player must navigate various subway stations and use their points to complete said challenges. The number of points gained or lost is determined by the player'due south functioning in the claiming. These challenges range from defeating enemies within a time limit, guiding a giant eight-ball, contesting a boss, and more. Players can access each level through the subway map in the hub world.

Plot [edit]

Players take control of an amnesiac, unconscious Octoling who is institute by the character Cap'northward Cuttlefish. Cuttlefish was seeking out Agent iii, the protagonist of Splatoon, and decides to help the Octoling later on hearing them humming the Squid Sisters' vocal "Calamari Inkantation". Cuttlefish and Agent 8 are trapped in a subway-like testing facility called the Deepsea Metro, where a talking telephone identifies the player-character as Subject 10,008, prompting Cuttlefish to give them the title Amanuensis viii. The Phone informs them that in order to reach "the promised land", they must traverse through the Metro to collect four objects known as "thangs". Agent eight is given aid via radio by Pearl and Marina of the pop band Off the Claw. As Agent 8 clears tests in the surreptitious facility, they obtain small items called Mem Cakes that serve equally physical manifestations of their lost memories. Later completing several test chambers and collecting all iv thangs, which combine into a large blender, the Telephone attempts to kill Agent viii and Cuttlefish by tricking them into getting into it. However, they are rescued past Agent iii, who is promptly knocked unconscious in the process. Agent 8 so climbs through the depths of the facility towards the surface via a hole that Agent 3 left in the ceiling, while Cuttlefish stays behind to keep lookout man over Agent three. As they reach the exit, Agent 8 is confronted by Agent 3, who has been brainwashed by the Telephone. Agent 8 defeats them, freeing them from their listen control.

Afterwards reaching the surface, the trio is retrieved by Pearl and Marina, but the facility itself begins to rise from the ocean, revealing itself to be an enormous statue of a human, which shocks everyone due to humans having been extinct for several millennia. From within the statue, the mangled only still functional Phone introduces itself equally Commander Tartar, an AI congenital by a human scientist prior to mankind'due south extinction who was programmed to pass the knowledge of humanity on to the next sentient race that emerged after the world flooded. While initially believing Inklings and Octarians to exist this sentient race, Tartar was disgusted with both their societies and instead reprogrammed itself with a new objective: to destroy all sentient life and create a new noon species from a genetic ooze fabricated from the finest test subjects. As it prepares to fire an enormous solar-powered cannon from the mouth of the statue and destroy Inkopolis, Marina creates a plan to terminate information technology from charging by covering the statue in ink. The programme is successful, but the statue plans to burn down anyway. Pearl uses a voice-powered Princess Cannon weapon to counter the laser and finally destroy both information technology and Tartar. With the threat averted, the group returns to Inkopolis Square, where Amanuensis 8 joins a customs with both the Inklings and their fellow Octolings that had already arrived.

Evolution [edit]

Evolution of Octo Expansion began during Splatoon 2 'due south series of free updates.^[4] Octolings had been considered to exist fabricated playable in Splatoon 2, but this was initially rejected for as they felt information technology would be jarring for Octolings to evidence upwards in a non-antagonistic role without explanation.^[iv] ^[five] Producer Hisashi Nogami wanted to create the expansion in part to allow players to explore deeper into the serial' globe.^[6] The setting of a subway station was called as a desire to accept a darker setting to contrast the series' otherwise "bright and colorful" earth. It was designed to have an older, dated aesthetic, featuring characters who speak in outdated slang.^[6] He wanted to represent the setting past having different creatures than the world of Splatoon and Splatoon two based on creatures who live on the ocean floor.^[6] He also wanted to represent the unlike setting by putting players in control of an Octoling for the first time in the series to testify the difference between the Octoling's and Inkling's culture.^[6] It was too designed to give players more details on Pearl and Marina.^[4]

The levels were designed to have as much variety every bit possible and featured cut content from the base of operations Splatoon 2 release.^[4] 150 levels were designed for the game, which was later pared down to 80.^[four] The final level was depicted in a 30-page manga that art director Seita Inoue created to serve as a reference for direction.^[4] The idea behind the final dominate was an idea that managing director Yusuke Amano had wanted to do since the showtime Splatoon game.^[4] The developers added the CQ Point organization as a mode to create tension and give players more selection in how they play the game. It besides served as a check-and-balance system for the "trial-and-mistake gameplay."^[4]

Octo Expansion was announced in a Nintendo Direct broadcast on March 8, 2018. Released on June 13, 2018,^[7] the expansion provides a new single-player mode with 80 missions starring an Octoling (formerly of the evil Octarians) known equally Agent 8, who attempts to escape from a cavernous subway system without their memories. For the first time, Octolings are playable in online matches if the expansion'southward levels are beaten. The expansion was made available to pre-order soon after its announcement, with sectional in-game clothing items bachelor for doing so.^[8] A new amiibo set featuring the Octoling Girl, Boy, and Octopus was released on Dec 7, 2018.^[ix] A concrete version of Splatoon two with the DLC included was exclusively sold in Nippon on Oct viii, 2018.^[ten] On Apr 22, 2022 "Octo Expansion" was added as a benefit for the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack.^[11]

Reception [edit]

Octo Expansion holds an amass score of 82 and 81.64% on Metacritic and GameRankings respectively.^[12] ^[19]

Chris Carter of Destructoid rated the game 7/10, stating that while some parts were "a unique rush that fills you with satisfaction for beating them", others were tedious.^[xiii] Christian Donlan of Eurogamer named the championship a "Recommended Pick", saying that information technology was difficult, but had "brilliant" puzzles resembling the shrines from The Legend of Zelda: Jiff of the Wild.^[20]

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