i love splatoon noises

the sound design in splatoon is one of my most favorite things abt the game

the distant conversations of the city's inhabitants, each and every little shop theme for the mini shops in splatsville, the sound of the airplane overhead, the train, the cars, the construction, all of those sounds are what makes splatoon feel real.

every sound in splatoon is so memorable and recognizable, from the classic octarian 5 note melody to the horn announcing a boss salmonid arriving on shore. even the smallest sounds, like when you collect a power egg or collecting armor are noises that you're always to able tell what they're from.

even the absence of noise in some areas really adds onto the overall ambience. for example, before you beat octo expansion the deepsea metro central station theme would play. but after you defeat tartar and save inkopolis, it's dead silent in the central station, which i find both comforting and empty. comforting, because in a way, that theme was kind of ominous. empty because, well, you're done. there's no more problems in octo expansion to solve. you did what you had to do and you made it to the surface, safe and sound. there's nothing left for you here.

i absolutely love that it's not some fantasy land like kirby, it's all on our very own earth. they live just like we do, and i think that's both really cool but also sad (Something something repeated the mistakes of the humans that lived before them all those thousands of years ago something whatever they were never really supposed to exist) lol

i love you splatoon noises i love you splatoon sounds i love you splatoon music i love you splatoon character themes i love you splatoon