What is the story of SIDE ORDER? | Trailer Analysis and Details
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Today I take a quick look into the SIDE ORDER trailer that premiered in todays Nintendo Direct. I mainly look into story implications and world details.
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Welcome to Splatsville, located in the sun-scorched Splatlands, where new weapons, moves, stages and fresh fashions await! Take on rivals in online ink-soaked battles, fend off waves of Salmonid and thwart an Octarian invasion.
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Tbh, the moment I saw Dedf1sh I completely stopped paying attention to the trailer because I was too excited that she was showing up in game. Thanks for making this, it helped me process what actually happened rather than just screaming about Dedf1sh.
i was so excited to see dedf1sh with a 3d model too! thanks for watching
Same
I was so excited to see dedf1sh too, I would’ve screamed aswell but I was in school while watching the trailer.
@@julianemazzarella1457 Oh same I freaked out.
i love the aesthetic of this dlc SO MUCH. Like, the digitalized components plus inky black goo, floating voids and codes, bleached coral, the black goo, the ENEMIES??? This feels like something I'd only DREAM about. IT'S AMAZING.
it looks sooo cool !!! i especially love digital themes and stuff
Me too!!!
On another note, I wonder if this place is somehow connected to the buttons that Smallfry can find in the Main Campaign. I mean think about it, whenever you reveal a button found by Smallfry, there is some kind of void-like that really seems esthetically the same as this DLC essence surrounding it. And since it seems only Salmonoids can sense these "cracks in reality" as I will call them, does this mean that only Salmonoids can see the places to enter this digital world? I'm probably looking way too deep into this and like there is a 99% chance this theory is probably going to be wrong but it's food for thought.
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Honestly, Side Order taking place in a digital world would be really nice because then no actual harm has come to Inkopolis Square and it can become an explorable area
I think the Splatoon 2 lobby is "real" here and saying "sucked in" isn't literal. More like getting "dragged into" an ordeal.
But I do think every level and the factory is digital (like from the movie TRON), with the elevator being a waypoint between the two worlds.
When I saw DEDF1SH and heard she finally had a name and was actually a pretty good part I was crying I have always wanted more DEDF1SH since octo expansion
I’m excited for dedf1sh aswell, but I thought her name was something else.
@julianemazzarella1457 she had an official Japanese name, but no official one in other languages till now. Although I forgot what it was, it does translate to Acht, which is also German for 8 :D
Got this from another comment I saw
@@duskburst144 yup, it was Mizuta Ahato, so Ahato must have been the Japanese pronunciation for Acht
Acht is Dedf1sh an in game music composer. She's a self sanitized octoling that composed music for Octo Expansion
A theory I saw was: " the meaning of damage numbers is that the enemies are basically Grizzco training dummies that have been frankensteined to life, assumedly from the life force of the ground up octos from 2s DLC, since there are grinders leaking ink onto piles of them throughout the clip"
Also I noticed in the factory it's producing half of a octoling hair mem cake?
i was thinking they reminded me of mem cakes but i wasn't too sure haha
Your not the only one who thinks that I think that too!
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@@MasterLord Yeah, maybe more connections to octo expansion. Also the fishes look kind of like the ones in the salmon run log. And maybe the black/white/grey overall color sceme has something to do with lil judd, with that being his color sceme. Interesting, since after you beat the story mode he gets the microphone, presumably for salmon run...
More strange theories.
i love how in splatoon 3 we're getting to see the music artists as actual characters instead of a wiki page, harmony is already so cute and i cant wait to see dedf1sh
1:53 Ok hear me out- That boss looks insanely similar to the Octo oven from the Splatoon 2 story mode and it cannot just be me seeing that
Yes i cant unsee it too
I hope 4s in it she got lost in the shuffle when octo expansion came out and 3 and 8 were the only characters Nintendo cares about seeing her return, would be amazing
It's a bit wild seeing this honestly. After splatoon 3 was first announced i remember having dreamed it had released already, and i was playing through the story mode. And since everyone guessed it had to do with the order side i imagined it being EXTREMELY similar to what they did here, only the white-pink palettes being white-light blue instead
The poly form agent 8 appears in isn’t them spawning in, it’s them respawning! You can see an Octo soul in the top corner. This would make sense since people say that it’s going to be a roguelike!
There is a level within Octo expansion with one of those fish without red eyes and a Splatoon 3 salmon run level with another one of those stickers without red eyes
This reminds me of Aperture laboratories.
The only one missing is the Aperture Handheld portal Device 😂
(Btw I love this side of Splatoon. It looks so calm but scary/chaotic at the same time)
A detail I noticed that I haven't seen anyone else bring up: "Marina and me... we go way back." Sanitization removes an Octarian's memories. If Acht is sanitized, how does she remember? IIRC the only memories she retained was how to make music. Maybe Marina taught her how to make music? Or they learned together? The phrasing implies that she has a decent amount of memories, not just one or two. I may be way off, but right now I'm stuck on the idea that with Tar-Tar gone, the sanitization is wearing away and Acht is slowly returning to normal.
She's partially sanitized.
It's what I though as well, that this is a digital world. My reason was more to excuse the possiblity of replaying it, since they said it's suppose to be replayable then the Tower would stay where it was, which is impossible since, if the objective was to clean Inkopolis Square, the Tower would be gone to make space for the Lobby. A digital world makes the more sense, apart from what you point out in here.
Marina is also possibly a VERY important piece for the story. She WAS Team Order, after all. Independ if this is a "what if" scenario of Team Order winning or a canon situation that is progressing the Splatoon story, Marina is important. Maybe she is a surprise main antagonist or was kidnapped by the own who runs everything. Time will tell.
With Pearl Drone, at first I though that, IF this is the real world, then Inkopolis Square is REALLY closed out. Maybe the drone if the way Pearl found to explore it. If this is the digital world, if Pearl's "avatar" to explore it. Another idea I though is maybe Pearl is unconcious somewhere on this Tower and the drone is a way Pearl found to find help and rescue Marina and herself. The origins of the Pearl itself, I heard some ideas that maybe Marina made it. It's a neat idea, but also the idea that Pearl had it custom made, 'cause she rich, is also valid. Hah!
With Eight, I WILL say that maybe it couldn't not be Eight. Remember your point of cloning? What if Pearl THINKS they are Eight, but in reality it is just a random Octoling that escaped and lost its memory? Maybe Eight was also captured, since she was also Team Order and very connected with Marina. This might be our chance to learn more about Eight, as well. Maybe Eight is the original or maybe Agent 8 is ALSO a clone, but is the one most close to the original Octoling used as base.
About Deadf1sh, or Acth, I REALLY have no idea how she can relate to the story. Possibly another clone of Eight that ended up Sanitized, but this would mean this cloning thing has being going WAY back, before Octo Expansion, but it was said she was Octoling who CHOSED to be Sanitized. It will be interesting to learn more about here and also to how she is important for the plot by itself. Now, I I will also throw some theories on the air here, related to her. I'm not caring if they are a bit out there, because the more food for though the better.
1. She is OG Agent 8, the one from Octo Expansion. Acth mean Eight in German, so if it isn't just another fun reference to the number eight, could be a clue of who she really is as well as going along with the fact she says she and Marina "go way back", just looking alike to Deadf1sh (to why she isn Sanitized, them, I can't say. Maybe, fi this is a Digital World, this is a form she took to hide her identidy. Maybe reusing the DJ Sango idea that was scrapped in Octo Expansion, where it was in really Agent 3, hidden to aid Agent 8 in the Metro).
2. SHe is the OG Octoling used as base for Agent 8. If Agent 8 was originally a clone, maybe Acth was the original base for her, before she choose to be Sanitized. Could explain, if Agent 8 is also missing and we are playing as another Octoling, that she (Agent 8) was kidnapped because she is the one closer to the original.
3. COuld be Marina! She saying she and Marina go "way back" could be a small clue to this, but apart from the tentacles I don't have much on this, so maybe...
4. SHe is Marina's sister. She lost her sister, who went to the uppergrounds and left her alone, and choose to be sanitized to not feel anything and make music. Again, don't even much clues for this one.
5. Going back that this Deadf'sh from is a digital disguise, if this is a digital world, is another random or new charatcet
I’ve always thought of marina as a “bad character turned good”. Maybe she created this digital word as a “what if”? It then get corrupted by a virus and turns into a magical vacuum that sucks everyone in inkopolis square in. Or maybe, it just traps whoever tries the simulation.
Anyways, i liked reading your comment on the dlc. I just wanted to add my opinion.
@@bidoof_ All good, pal! Feel free to share your thoughts! ^^
Also, your ideas seems interesting. Could be a interesting way to tie this BEING a what if scenario, of Team Order winning, but also being canon to the overall timeline of the series by being a digital world created with this idea. I like it! Is something I also thought about it, once.
The idea of the virus could also be the digital world by itself that evolved too much or maybe (if it was created by Marina) an AI that learned to much and finally go to the conclusion that best solution for other is to put everyone in a stasis state in its world. Marina was the first (maybe she tried deactivating it or just got sucked in by accident) and then everyone.
@@MaskOfLimbo yeah. The more I think it over, the more it sounds like a accident occurred that trapped everyone inside this “simulation”. Deadfish’s text basically confirms this: “Just another innocent bystander who got trapped”.
I doubt this occurred with the will of everyone in inkopolis square. Like, wouldn’t you want to stop this once you learned about it? Though, it’s weird how we don’t see more people… where could they be?
Also, Marina is pretty good at technology. I wouldn’t put this orderly word past something she could create.
Oh and one final thing. I love how you write these paragraphs! They are easy to understand. Furthermore, you also use some very complex vocabulary. Your writing is pretty enthralling.
Thanks for responding to me!
@@bidoof_ I appreciate the kind words ^^
Also, yeah, definitely against everyone's will. It's definitely one of those "doing it for the greater good, even though the people are against it" situation. Goes will with the description of the Expansion Pass, as well. It says "What happened to Inkopolis Square?" It could mean "why everything is bleached?", but it could also mean that something ELSE happened, there. Maybe there is where everyone is getting sucked up to this digital world and it was decided to locked up the entire area until the issue is resolved.
The question remains, though, if Marina programmed everything, WHAT is the purpose of the color and upgrade things? An idea that I got was, yes, this was a virtual simulation of a World of Order, but then Marina tried to turn it into a game! Would explain the score and upgrade thing, and if the entire simulator or the AI that watches over was against being turned into it, it decided to capture Marina, lock her conscious into the system and begin its plan to bring Order into the world of Chaos. Maybe Deadf1sh or someone else (maybe Marina, before she got caught) reprogrammed the game rules into a way to fight back against whatever big baddie took over and is wishing to bring Order into the real world.
WOULD also excuse the replayability, after finishing the story. Like "Hey, Eight, good job saving everyone! With the big bad gone, Marina finished programming the game idea, and now is working fine! So, feel like getting a better score, this time? Bet you can't beat mine!" Or something along this lines.
i like this idea a lot!!
Honestly, I’m most interested in the enemies, specifically the one that looks like a beluga whale. When I saw it, I started wondering, what ever happened to all the marine mammals? Return of the mammalians honestly didn’t have very many mammals, it was just the Fuzzy Ooze and (SPOILERS)…
…Mr. Grizz. So what ever happened to all the whales and dolphins of the world? I don’t have high hopes, since it’s just one enemy, but it would be cool if Side Order covered that.
Oh yeah, and that boss at the end totally looks like a new version of Tartar.
EDIT: I saw someone else say that the bump on the head is actually meant to represent a parrotfish. Parrotfish eat coral, so it fits a lot better with the dead coral imagery we’ve seen so far, but it probably means we won’t be learning anything about marine mammals :/
The question is does this take place in the canon timeline of Splatoon or this is a "What If" scenario. I have so many questions but we just have to wait next year.
definitely canon i think, it would be weird if it wasn't
@@MasterLord Yeah I'm a bit confused by this but still going to be epic playing it!
I made a theory right now, when chaos win, marina started to program a world when order wins, that will explain the canon
@@bukubloxrobloxymas1468 Not a bad theory as it makes sense on why everything looks so Matrix like.
@@bukubloxrobloxymas1468she legit said she was imagining her world too so this could be the world she imagined
Something I thought of was when Dedf1sh was first shown she said "just another bystander who was sucked in.", this made me think maybe the story is they got sucked into some kind of alternate dimension or something? Another thing might be those color chips are going to be used to restore color. That weird machine thing at the end might control everything too, not entirely sure but all i know is that it looks like a boss. Also like you said, marina is probably stuck in this world, and at the beginning they probably don't know where she is (maybe she's a boss because of course they're gonna pull a hypnotized good guy on us like always lol).
good analysis! some of your ideas matched mine, and you also had new ideas as to what is going on.
Thank you for pointing out the digital world aspect
not a problem! i love themes like that so im all over it
I hope they let you customize your octoling with all the added octo hairstyles who knows maybe they could add new ones
It might be that Pearl is speaking to us through the drone. Perhaps by inside they mean she is controlling it in some way, perhaps even she is outside of the digital world, contacting us through said drone
I think pearl is in swim form inside the drone because in salmon run:the next wave, we had to go in swim form to enter the machihe for splatting a huge horde of cohocks
I think the villain of this story, washed Marina's brain just like DF (and that's why I think DF is here) or Callie in Splatoon 2 so now Marina is helping them with building robots because she's really good at that, and you can see that the final boss is a robot and think those bone fishs are also robots built by Marina.
I think pearl also got brain washed but I think her brain is in that robot that I think also built by Marina before she got brain washed to save Pearl.
Acht means 8 i know german
Along with the JP website stating Pearl is in the robot, We can also see Eight's ghost fly into the polygons as she spawns into the world, so I think she is also in this space, despite it appearing digital.
Someone said pearl might be in squid form. They said it as a joke but it makes sense… naybe marina even built it as an anniversary gift of some kind before all this! Could actually connect to the lore, but then again I’m not sure.
Marina def has something to do with it, since she was team order after all and this world seems very deliberately similar to the theming of team order. I really do hope it's something other than "marina lost the final splatfest so she got mad/brainwashed into being the big bad of the game"
I moticed on the Pallette selection screen, one things says Inklings and Octolings.
I do think that this digital world of order could be a render of marinas final fest team and she could be responsible for this virtual world given her absence
at the polygon transformation at the end you can see a octo ghost coming down and a few sec later 8 appears
1:50 oh god the way the red dots move remind me exactly of tartar
cool video, excited to see more form this dlc. Until then, im probably gonna stay still and collect dust til it comes out.
Fellas
I think marina created the matrix
I can’t wait for the scene where they get sucked in and also RIP agent 4 fans hopefully agent 4 shows up in release but not looking so good rn.
I saw somebody in the live chat mention that "Acht" is "Eight" in German, so that's further confirmation for you.
I don’t know if this is just me but it looks like the factory is making mem cakes because in the cubes you can see a flat but round red tentacle which is similar to some of agent 8’s mem cakes! If anyone has any thoughts on this let me know!
So I think I might have a crazy theory but hear me out, I think that that guy who created the turf lobby has a lab coat and to test the teleporter he used clones, the reason why I think this is because in one of the level images it shows a minimalistic version of that guys face and I'm think that he had ties to kamabo corp and as you said Agent 8 is a clone of octolings so I'm pretty sure he may be the villain! I don't honestly know. If anyone has any thoughts let me know!
This reminds me of the fnaf ruin dlc when cassie goes into the digital world and also this reminds me of across the spiderverse a bit and IM SOO EXITED YALL
Also the music kinda gives me omori vibes ONG
At first i thought the foot at the corner of that one art peice was either agent 3 or 4 but i was wrong lol.
I was hoping it was agent 4 because agent 4 needs .ore attention. But there is a possibility that agent 4 could be at the end maybe im just guessing but there could be a possibility
Maybe Pearl is controlling the drone in her squid form
I find it somewhat ironic that you are assisted by Dedf1sh (the sanitized octoling) when fighting a bunch of enemies that look like dead fish. Coincidence?
Hm...maybe somebody decided to mix and match with the tartar sauce to attempt to create order? Deleting color to delete different opinions.
I noticed that in the UI section you could go back a level and you can see weapon details however the details showed a reefslider for a special while a tristrike is used in gameplay
To the drone thing its possible in turf war for the souls to return back to the spawn who said its not possible for pearls soul to go inside that robot
I love the gameplay shown.
I think the factory thing in the first part of the trailer I think they are making memcakes
I have something to say : acht is dutch for eight
I dont know but maybe this has something to do with the lore?
Maybe she's stuck in squid mode and climbed in
...do you know about...
*AGENT FOUR COPUIUM*
In the run speed card thing, it says increase movement speed in *inkling* or octolibg form.
Maybe they just copied it from the gear ability, but it seems so easy to fix, right?
Agent 4 is the only agent unaccounted for besides 8 in RoM.
It is important to note that... Agent 4 doesn't really know Off The Hook... like at all. They just know the squid sisters and sheldon
Acht is the German name for eight
If the drone is Pearl herself and this is a digital world, maybe something happened to Pearl's digital body, or Pearl is not allowed to be here in her real form?
What if In the digital world you become what you think you want to become? Or pearl just was translated in a weird way, unlike acht or eight
A part of my theory is marina got corrupted somehow
I have a theory that the side order place is simulation that marina made to know what would happen if she won the splatfest
But I goes wrong
(I’m probably wrong)
Hey masterlord have you nocticed something in the trailer we see a boss that you explained that was dripping ink in that frame it almost references as the mouth of commander tartar I know I know he could’ve returned who knows and is this the same agent 8 or a new agent 8 And put a reply of what you think did commander tartar come back is this a new or same agent eight?!
hey acht means eight in german right?
Where did you find the dlc information? Whats the website?
here you go! www.nintendo.co.jp/switch/av5ja/sideorder/index.html
Funfact: Acht is german and means Eight
Could Acht/Dedf1sh be the missing agent 7?
Who is deadfish
dedf1sh is the in universe character that composed the music for octo expansion, she has never had a 3d model until now.
fun fact: acht means 8 in german
Acht is 8 in German
Dedf1sh is BAD!! She already looked good in 2d but seeing her full model??!! GOOOLLY! Splatoons devs just cant stop cooking with their female characters..... Ok im good now.
ITS DEDF1SH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
boi wtf
What if In the digital world you become what you think you want to become? Or pearl just was translated in a weird way, unlike acht or eight