{"id":110168,"date":"2020-03-11T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/pooplers_is_splatoon_with_pooping_babies_and_its_coming_to_switch_next_week"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:30:00","slug":"pooplers-is-splatoon-with-pooping-babies-and-its-coming-to-switch-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/11\/pooplers-is-splatoon-with-pooping-babies-and-its-coming-to-switch-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooplers Is Splatoon With Pooping Babies, And It&#8217;s Coming To Switch Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/977efe1011013\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/977efe1011013\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/splatoon\">Splatoon<\/a><\/strong> was a pretty unique release when it first appeared on Wii U; it had all the hallmarks of a competitive online shooter but with one key difference \u2013 victory was about which team could colour most of the map, not how many people you &#8216;splatted&#8217; out of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">excellent sequel<\/a>, we&#8217;ve not seen this concept exploited by many other games \u2013 until now, that is. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pooplers\">Pooplers<\/a><\/strong> takes the notion of colouring in the map to win but adds an unexpected twist \u2013 the protagonists are babies and the coloured trails they leave in their wake are made from&#8230; well, <em>poop<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Up to four players can compete in this game of poop-related domination, with power-ups helping them cover more of the arena. To mix things up a little, a dutiful mother patrols the map and will place your baby in its cot if she catches up with you \u2013 which gives you less time to colour in the map and claim victory.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Switch Pooplers 02\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b0db844f28005\/switch-pooplers-02.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b0db844f28005\/switch-pooplers-02.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"Switch Pooplers 02\"><\/a><a title=\"Switch Pooplers 03\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f8cc0c23fafa5\/switch-pooplers-03.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f8cc0c23fafa5\/switch-pooplers-03.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"Switch Pooplers 03\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Switch Pooplers 05\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/61e5465a97017\/switch-pooplers-05.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/61e5465a97017\/switch-pooplers-05.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"Switch Pooplers 05\"><\/a><a title=\"Switch Pooplers 06\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/183899b5b88bf\/switch-pooplers-06.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/183899b5b88bf\/switch-pooplers-06.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"Switch Pooplers 06\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The game offers a free-for-all mode as well as team-based games and will set you back $8.99 when it launches on March 20th. Will you be picking this over <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong>? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Splatoon was a pretty unique release when it first appeared on Wii U; it had all the hallmarks of a competitive online shooter but with one key difference \u2013 victory was about which team could colour most of the map, not how many people you &#8216;splatted&#8217; out of the game. Outside of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}