{"id":133922,"date":"2023-05-25T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-150045"},"modified":"2023-05-25T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T04:05:00","slug":"random-square-enixs-new-turf-war-shooter-has-splatoon-trending-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/25\/random-square-enixs-new-turf-war-shooter-has-splatoon-trending-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Square Enix&#8217;s New Turf War Shooter Has &#8216;Splatoon&#8217; Trending Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f489e60c508d6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f489e60c508d6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"kmBUDZNVfz0\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Square Enix unveiled its new team-based shooter <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2023\/05\/foamstars-is-square-enixs-answer-to-splatoon-on-ps5-ps4\"><strong>Foamstars<\/strong><\/a> during the latest PlayStation broadcast and if you haven&#8217;t already seen the announcement trailer, to cut to the chase &#8211; social media can&#8217;t stop comparing it to Nintendo&#8217;s popular ink-shooter series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the video above, there are some obvious similarities &#8211; with Square Enix&#8217;s new game also being a turf war, where you paint the map in your own team&#8217;s colours. And instead of ink and squids, players cover maps in foam and ride around on surfboards. It&#8217;s a safe bet Square Enix at least took some inspiration from the Splatoon series, and it&#8217;s admittedly not the first developer to do this, either.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got to the point where Splatoon is <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Splatoon&amp;src=trend_click&amp;vertical=trends\">even trending on certain social media platforms<\/a> because of Square Enix&#8217;s announcement. Here&#8217;s a small sample of what the internet is saying about this new turf war title:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-oembed\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/comments\/13qy32m\/not_to_be_mean_but_i_give_it_10_months_1_year_tops\/ @ 2023-05-25T05:20:02+01:00 --> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/comments\/13qy32m\/not_to_be_mean_but_i_give_it_10_months_1_year_tops\/\">Not to be mean, but I give it 10 months. 1 year, tops<\/a><br \/>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/CK895_YT\">u\/CK895_YT<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/\">splatoon<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-oembed\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/comments\/13qyc6v\/splatoon_4_looks_dope_cant_wait_to_play_this\/ @ 2023-05-25T05:20:02+01:00 --> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/comments\/13qyc6v\/splatoon_4_looks_dope_cant_wait_to_play_this\/\">Splatoon 4 looks dope! Can\u2019t wait to play this!!!<\/a><br \/>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Sulat_Studios\">u\/Sulat_Studios<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/\">splatoon<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Foamstars Tweets\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9ded7ddd5ce68\/foamstars-tweets.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTI0MSI+PC9zdmc+\" width=\"900\" height=\"5241\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9ded7ddd5ce68\/foamstars-tweets.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Foamstars Tweets\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.square-enix-games.com\/en_US\/news\/foamstars\">Square Enix<\/a>, Foamstars for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 will pit two teams of characters against one another in &#8220;fun, fast-paced, foam-filled battles&#8221;. With these foam weapons, players will be able to also build terrain, block enemies, get to high ground, create slippery surfaces and surf about.<\/p>\n<p><em>What did you think about Foamstars when you first watched the trailer? How do you think this PlayStation release will go up against Nintendo&#8217;s Inklings? Leave your thoughts in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Square Enix unveiled its new team-based shooter Foamstars during the latest PlayStation broadcast and if you haven&#8217;t already seen the announcement trailer, to cut to the chase &#8211; social media can&#8217;t stop comparing it to Nintendo&#8217;s popular ink-shooter series Splatoon. As you can see in the video above, [&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-133922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133922","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=133922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}