In retrospect, the concept art certainly does paint a darker, more sinister portrait of the Side Order story than the one we actually got. I wished the devs fleshed out the story way more than they actually did.
Something about this trailer feels a lot more "dangerous" and "organic" than the virtual world approach we got. The flashes of red ink, the use of more pale/darker (almost bone-like) colors and the focus on the coral patterns makes me think that apart from the aesthetic being a lot more dark and creepy they probably had a _VERY_ different approach to the story than the final one. I could be wrong, but man, I really wish the final Side Order felt this lonely and creepy.
It feels like they had an idea, made a lot of the assets, but then realized that they didn't have enough time to finish their project and rushed to the finish line, cutting as many corners as possible. It makes me sad :(
This trailer gives me a mix of sadness, nostalgia, eeriness, and curiosity. It makes me think of what happened to Pearl, Marina, 8, and even 4, after the final splatfest.
a lot of it was! a glimpse of Acht in the elevator, our first glimpse of Marina Agitando, a shadow of a parralel canon, the foyer, a version of when eight wakes up after beating the initial spire(the 10 floor one), though it doesn't show marina due to spoilers, tentacles similar to the ones used by Overlorder, as well as what appear in the background of your initial battle against overlorder on floor 30, and concept art of jelletons! Also worried marina made it in the final game in one of the last main story cutscenes when she tries to plead with Order. A lot of the concept art made it basically.
I know right, I have a feeling that side order was supposed to be a dlc with a dark story and a lot of things going on, but it probably got rushed, perhaps i could be wrong, but still kinda sad :(
I'm not disappointed of how side order ended up, but man we could get the most dark, creepy and wholesome story mode from all the saga. All this concept arts and lonely feelings were completely interesting and honestly hyped me more than the next trailers that released. It look liked the devs were cooking so good why they stopped and cooked again?😢
....you sure it wasnt too dark? I mean come on the telepgone and the whole sanitized ink creation process was kinda...not so pg. Not that I'm complaining though i like me some nightmare fuel in my games@@lunamoth105
After beating side order 1000% I was left with a little disappointment that the story wasn't as deep as we all thought it was going to be. I was hoping that the images we've seen in this trailer might have more touch on side order. Also the music, I like side orders ost but the whole creepy music box music made the game seem more mysterious and unnerving. Overall side order was good but to me it wasn't as good like octo expansion
It’s clear the devs had so many ideas and a much much more fleshed out story. But have way thriugh realize they didn’t have enough time to finish everything up and had to cut a bunch of it. I loved Side Order. Over 20 runs of it. I wish we got the more lonely and eerie atmosphere and story originally planned.
I'm a little disappointed that Side Order didn't live up to this trailer. All this trailer does is establish a tone: mysterious, introspective, somber, and epic. It looks like NieR; Octoling. Now, you would think that a purely vibes-based trailer would actually get the vibe right, but nope. Side Order is a fun little adventure where you hang out with your friends in cyberspace and fight a little octopus guy. And I enjoyed it, but it is NOT what this trailer made it out to be.
@@thatoneguy2535 have a feeling it is going to be this fossil thing that can be briefly seen at 0:25. Notice how its eyes are red? No normal skeleton does that. I have a theory that it may be a Bake-kujira, a skeleton ghost whale that is said to bring pestilence or diseases. I have a feeling that this place could be another realm or another plain of existence and the Bake-kujira is the ruler of this realm and is probably using Marina for its own sinister purpose.
@@thatoneguy2535yeah but it's literally about the murder (BLENDING) of over 10,000 octolings, mind control, mass genocide, and memory loss. but honestly i agree with the whole vibe thing. the lore is dark but the vibes are cool and fun.
I think Marina is in trouble Commander Tartar was on Team Order, the team Marina was on In Splatoon 2 Callie was the villain as her team had lost Perhaps the same thing happened to Marina. Notice how in the one image of just Marina she appears glitchy. Her hair also appears to have a galaxy design in the various Splatoon 3 artworks of her. Is this just how she appears in her album colors since she thought it looked pretty, or is that how her hair looks like in universe? Honestly really excited to see what her galaxy hair looks like in 3D, but if her hair is indeed galaxy patterned could this mean something or is it just to be pretty? That’s not my main point though I think Marina might have been sanitized, and part of the story is trying to find her and restore her to her former self. That’d explain her and Pearl’s mysterious absence from the game while Callie and Marie still appeared throughout it.
This is a good theory, but it is also a stretch. I feel like Tartar and the Octarian army can play a big role only cause it's attached to Marina and 8's memories. Either way I still cannot wait for this dlc and I am so glad it's all being very secretive!
Oh for fuck's sake how many times do I have to say this... Splatoon 1's final splatfest had no impact on 2's story. Regardless of who won, Callie would have been the villain and Marie would have been the mentor. The devs stated in an interview that they originally wanted 1's final splatfest to affect the story, but they decided not to since 2 was already far into development by the time the Callie vs. Marie splatfest happened. Plus, look at Callie's main ink color and Octarian ink. Doesn't it make more sense to have her as the antagonist? Anyways with that rant aside, everything else forms a solid theory.
actually a lot of the photos appear glitchy and if she were sanitized (ignore this part if I got your idea wrong) Commander tartar is already dead and she would be instantly gone and sanitized and yeah it’s her splatoon 3 design outfit because she’s also wearing the same outfit and also marina and pearl have almost no relation to the Squidbeak splatoon which is why they don’t appear in story mode and they’re on world tour
i love side order as it released but dang none of this made it in, none of the images were explained, the brain coral never appeared, the entire tone seems to have shifted during that year, the red ink and nuclear warnings are absent, and the sad and melancholic feel of the music was replaced with more splatoony music over the depressed music box. i love side order as it is but the colourlessness and lack of things we teased here really dissapoints me as opposed to what we were teased.
along with that, the cloning line wasn't in it and might have been replaced with the boring old production one, the orange splattershot and walkie talkie from one of the artworks didn't appear, and the elevator here that looked bigger and more formal was replaced with the smaller more sleek one.
Finally someone said it. It wasn’t necessarily bad but I feel like this teaser hyped it up to much, The music, the ambiance, the cloning?? I was kinda disappointed playing it and seeing it was max 1 hour long. I am a huge fan of octo expansion and I was hopping it was as good. I feel like it was just a bunch of waisted potential. They could’ve done so much more, and yes I know it is a rouge like but it had almost 0 story,like come on. What made octo expansion good was the story and side order was definitely lacking it, I just wish they focused on the story instead of the replay ability.
what i picked up from this: -pearl and marina appear to not be “color washed” -clones on a conveyor belt -black ink -the centerpiece of inkopolis looks like an elevator, maybe that’s how we travel through levels? -pearl and marina are mostly shown separately -a mysterious figure is seen in the background walking away from what looks like tentacles on the hair of an inkling (or it could just be a rock idk 💀)
The fact that Agent 8 found the 10,000 year old nuclear warning pillars makes this more scary i hope we get to see them in the actual game but i doubt it since this is nintendo
I find it clever that in the trailer, they manage to have the audio be distorted but still sound very beautiful. If you really listen t the trailer's music, you can hear certain tones don't line up as they should, weird intervals and melodic cacophony make the song sound distorted, like an old Tape that ain't playing right. But the music designers still managed to make it sound super pretty
Looking at this trailer after the release and man, it's sad that the dlc doesn't look like this. I would have loved a maybe psychological horror approach from splatoon but hey, at least we have more pearlina stuff😅
I feel like it's the splatoon 2 plaza after chaos won and it's been abandoned after everyone moved to splatsville, it makes me think of what happened to pearl and marina
They appear to be fine at the moment, as they collabed with a band and produced a few songs in Splatsville. But, while Pearl looks alright in this trailer, Marina seems distressed, and the Octoling player appears to be in danger
In game lore/world inkopolis square and deca tower are not abandoned right after other game comes tho. inklings and octolings we play as every game are different from eachother
@@jakcesleepingrn5739 but they sure lose a lot of traffic, since you can see in a sunken scroll that sheldon already closed his store once on inkopolis plaza sometime during splatoon 1 & 2 I know that plaza and square aren't just abandoned after their respective games, but they lose their status as popular meeting points, so as the business move into another location, so do the cephalopeople that use the services provided by these businesses (Although i don't think they're abandoned, this is certainly not the same square as splat 2's one)
Looking back on this now, this seemed a lot more creepy and dark then what we got in sideorder. A little disappointed by it since I was really looking forward to a darker story, but it was fun nonetheless
Just read the interview. Or if you wanna save time then I'm just gonna say that the interview with the developers sums up as "SO never had dramatic changes and everything was stablished early in development"
@@HIMB667 awe, that's unfortunate. I guess it was just my brain making a whole ass fanfiction in my head. That image of 8 surrounded by the nuclear waste warning spikes feels so eerie along with the isolated imagery (minus Acht's foot in the corner of the elevator basically proving your point). I'm probably just really salty from how I feel like the story of side order is shallow, minus marina's diary entries
anyone know any songs that have similar enough vibes to the music used in this trailer? SO’s final ost is good dont get me wrong but i wish it had more songs like this :/
here's to hoping that we get more side order info in the direct tomorrow! this did not age very well edit: hoping Again with this next direct! edit 2: OH MY GOD WE GOT SIDE ORDER INFO
@@Jacquis303 I think It Is the case Here. If we look back to OE Announcent in the 3.8.2018 Nintendo Direct It was three months away from the release. And on June 14 during the World Championship 2018 we GOT the release date. Maybe this time they Will show a trailer, then in January with the Splatoon 3 World Championship 2024 they Will reveal the release date.
This trailer fooled everyone, we didn’t get a cool dark deep story we just got a goofy lighthearted low stakes dlc with a silly message at the end about fun and colors. I like side order, but I’m severely disappointed that we didn’t get a dlc more reminiscent of this trailer
This feels like Side Order's plot is gonna be way more depressing than even Octo Expansion, which had an around 15 year old kid go through some of the scariest things in the entire series.
Did you guys see the pic where she has different shoes like the ones in octo expansion? And we heard the theory where she was in her own mindset, maybe it's her gaining memory's back?? Hopefully people see this lol :)
I’ve looked at some of the images and i’ve come to a conclusion for what happened to Inkopolis Square. spoiler warning in case that matters to you. In a lot of the images, there’s this black ink that covers the ground. Then it shows this fish thing that might’ve been the one who spread the black ink. Maybe this black ink is able to drain the color of everything it comes into contact with? We know this is the real inkopolis square because the eshop says something along the lines of “Find out what happened to Inkopolis Square”. That means this black ink / the fish is a huge threat to all these inkling and octoling and Agent 8, Pearl, and Marina are going to stop the fish before the ink spreads to other areas. Obviously I may be completely wrong, but it’s just a theory. Edit: After the new trailer was revealed, I’m actually quite surprised that I was right about the fish and the black ink. We still don’t know much about the story, besides it being hinted that we’re searching for Marina.
it looks like a bootleg inkopolis square. Like the shops and everything are in the same place but if you look at the lobby entrance it looks different.
This has to be in Agent 8 mind inkopolis plaza and inkopolis square are just some squares away from each other so one of the can't just be completely fine and the other be in a post-apocaliptic state
I don't think anything happened to Inkopolis Square since we can see present day Inkopolis Plaza intact Definitely leading on 8's mental image of the place
@@LittleSparklingStarsOrder. Splatfests are technically "chaotic". Marina wants peace and no chaos. They changed the splatfest lobby to a different tower so that NO ONE will be able to go to splatfests
I don’t know if this is just the music being distorted but at 0:19 i hear pearl talking and i dont think its marina because if you compare the voices it will definitely sound like pearl and marina has a much deeper voice
Man, this is almost verbatim to Breath of the Wild 2's announcement. Short teaser with flashes of lore for us to speculate, and most of it adds up to nothing I remember all the hype seeing Ganondorf return, the theories about the Zonai, and all those vast sky islands. So much was was obviously cut from TotK and people are realizing quickly When I saw this trailer I thought we'd see more on the origins of Marina and more of her story, maybe how Pearl comes in to her life and more scoop on Off the Hook. And then Marina really isn't the focal point of the final product at all... idk what's going on internally at Nintendo, but I know I'm just growing more and more skeptical about their trailers
Honestly, Splatoon has seriously delivered each time they brought out a project. The last Expansion was one of the funkiest things I've ever seen. This trailer implies some dark and weird stuff about Octolings and is full of clever references for a bit of a medical horror feel. Even Inkopolis Square from Splatoon 2 appears to have undergone coral bleaching, a serious real life environmental issue.
@@goldenninja9053 also some images (specifically the one with the giant black spikes poking from the ground) and some audio cues re reminiscent of longterm nuclear waste warnings theres also imagery similar to brains and neurons firing impulses. who knows what sort of screwed up stuff is gonna happen in this dlc, im excited for it tbh
my theories for this trailer 0:16 we see pearl holding something, something that appears to be round with a warm color glow. this is a stretch but I think it could be a salmon egg 0:20 we see an octoling holding what seems to be a charger of some sort in their left hand. another stretch but I think what she's holding in her right hand can be a slosher model or an egg canon? but a logical answer would be an ink tank. 0:21 we see a shadow of an inkling (pointy ears) that seems to have short hair. I looked through some of the band members and i don't see any who have short hair like this. meaning this could be a new character. 0:24 I feel like just barely in the distance I can see an inkling or someone standing there? but again its very very unclear. 0:25 we see an octoling with long hair. their hair is similar to agent 8's so it could be hers just grown out and longer. but they have pointy ears which would indicate that they're an inkling 0:25 / 0:26 we see an octo standing on what seems to be floating platforms. in the octo expansion chat room pearl talks about how marina made her own turf war map in a very short amount of time. cuttlefish says that floating platforms are octarian tech and should not be trusted. my theory is this could be marinas turf war map but that's very unlikely 0:26 we see pearl with glasses on in inkopolis square. this could be where the dlc starts just like how in octo expansion we were greeted by cuttlefish looking down at agent 8 0:26 we see a large reddish brown object with glowing red eyes. I think this is the fastest frame in the whole trailer. I'm not exactly sure what this is but the thing that I think it looks most like is horrorboros/the zap fish. 0:26 we see agent 8 looking at puddles of black ink. I believe this is the first time natural realistic black ink has been seen in the franchise 0:27 I don't know what this is but the thing i thought of first was sanitized tartar 0:27 we see multiple octos walking. not sure if they are both agent 8 or something else a big stretch again is the ring that's on the paper swans neck in inkopolis square is missing but again I doubt that will mean anything. along with the paper swan the screens on inkopolis tower are rearranged and a satellite has been added. in the inkopolis plaza dlc that came out a few months ago we see a few shop keepers have returned. one however that's not there is flow who ran the hat shop in splatoon 2. my theory is that maybe they were forced to move shops due to the coral. I'd like to also mention how marina's name in the french translation has always been coralie. finally it was announced recently that there's a new band called Yoko and the gold bazookas. the small idol to the right appears to be wearing dead coral on their hat so I wonder if they will have anything to do with the side order dlc. edit: upon reading the sunken sea scrolls today and attempting to unlock them all i saw in tentakeel outpost theres a small telephone about the same size and looks identical to tartar above marie's little caged owl/bird animal. i thought this was just the same thing they did with mr grizz in splat3 where you can see his old statue behind the squid sisters in alterna. but i checked older footage that was before octo expansions release and the phone is still there. i think nintendo hides stuff in plain sight when it comes to that sort of thing. my theory is that lil judd will probably have to so with the side order dlc considering he wears the grizzco ear piece and eyepatch in the offical art edit 08/06/23: at 0:22 i realized the spikes shes standing next to resemble those post nuclear war warning spikes! either this is just a creative detail or maybe its from when the war that killed the humans happend?
0:25 the octoling has a lack of suction cups and their hair is pointy like an octoling, is this an experiment to make a mix of inkling and octoling because there was clones but uh
BUT maybe it was a Cuttlefish after all since it does kinda represent the Cuttlefish idol stuff in octo expansion (and most of the art here doesn’t even show the hair textures, not talking about suction cups)
I really want Agent 4 to make a return here. They’re the only one of the agents that hasn’t shown up yet, and if we’re going through memories, the mem cakes might come back too. It’s a prediction i have, but i’d want 4 to come back. Ally or Villain, doesn’t matter.
maybe they work similar to captain 3?? someone who helps you out but doesn't really say much? though it would be great to have dialogue from agents lol. but honestly, i can see agent 4 making a return FOR SURE. i mean, this is based in inkopolis square, which is where the events of splatoon 2 took place, so 4 could very likely show up somehow.
in one of the images, there are three octolings that look kind of identical on what looks to be a conveyer belt, so the character we play as might be a clone of some sorts.
this dlc has like. a theme of death ??? white corals are dead corals and we also see what seems to be a dead fish / fossilized (?) creepiest thing we've seen yet and im loving it
hey dude I know this is late, but the octo expansion is free on the nintendo+ expansion online pass! That's what I did. Maybe just get a month of that and you'll have access to all that library as well as octo expansion!
The biggest reason why people (myself included )wish that Side Order ended up more like this trailer, is because it doesnt feel like Splatoon. Something is just off, and it's so different from anything else that you wonder what this is about, since it's very obviously NOT the same as the other silly campaigns. This is the same reason people praised Octo Expansion, and the Side Order we got is just another silly campaign that is very believable as Splatoon, and the whole digital world makes it feel like there's less stakes/
I completely agree. I feel like we didn't get what we were expecting, but we did get some surprises. Really wasn't expecting an Acht face reveal, let alone dedfish in 3D at all
Remember in the Final Fest poster thing it looks like Agent 8 is going for Order instead of Chaos. But it looks like Inkopolis Square if Order wins against Chaos. The Square however looks " Coral Bleach" Like global warming. Even tho the deca tower looks different. And looks like a normal building, I'm probably Excited for Side Order to be released since I already got the Inkopolis Plaza DLC
EVERYONE PLEASE LISTEN!!!! The salmons are assured in Side Order. In the sixth row in Stickers, at the rewards box in grizz industry, the second item is a sticker called "GCI-XLSMN neon" the "GCI" I have nothing for, BUT!!!! "XLSMN" literally means "Extra Large Salmon" and at the 0:26 part of the video, there's what shows to be a haunting large image of a red eyed salmon like creature. The image and the sticker itself BOTH look EXACTLY the same in comparison!!! if anyone actually sees this. SPREADING IT LIKE WILD FIRE!!!
this dlc looked really lonely nostalgic and creepy, in my opinion we should get agent 8 to be alone whole game except at the end, it looked like we whould get back story of agent 8, coral bleached octoling enemies, also we should get more sanitized octolings like acht that were close friends of marina, becouse she didn't wanted to leave them, like souless husks that are just roaming around, getting lost in memory, while acht whould be only one that regained memories bc of partial sanitazation, to help marina understand that she has to let go of past she can't change
yeah side order was definitely rly fun and well done overall but it doesn’t rlly live up to the haunting, mysterious feeling this trailer evokes, so I’m a little sad about that
I see a lot of people on this comment section saying that they completely discarded the concept of this trailer but it's honestly not completely true, they just made it more hidden, the dlc focuses on the dark past of marina and the octoling race, we can clearly see that in the backgrounds of the levels there are a lot of childhood toys and stuff that probably belongs to marina (pianos, comics, building blocks, figurines and stuff that appears at the first 10 floors), another big hidden detail is that Asynchronous Rondo and Pinging Marciale both sing tortured version of Ebb & Flow and Fly octo Fly, knowing that they are created by marina it really leads to differents interpretations of what that tortured singing means, maybe she is not completely happy about her life so she decides to make her a perfect world so she can just be happy while hiding her past? Idk but hey it's just a theory, a GAME theory!
Just think of it this way, would you rather have a game with a cool story and lots of lore that is an absolute tediumfest to play or a game with a story and lore that is somewhat lackluster, but one of the best gameplay wise.
I have a theory: In one of the images, you can see a photo of Marina, where she appears glitchy. In the octo expansion, when you kill a sanitized Octoling, they also look glitchy before they disappear. What if Marina was/is a sanitized Octoling (her hair in Splatoon 2 also looked sanitized) and tartar tries to make her disappear. I think Marina is loosing her memories, maybe that’s why the Inkopolis plaza is white. That could also be the reason why she has this universe hair. Maybe she tried to get that sanitized ink out of her hair, so tartar can’t control her anymore. I think you play in Marinas head and that Octoling is something like Marinas inner self, trying to get her memories back.
@@gabrielruiz5590 I also think that lil Judd will be the enemy in Splatoon 4, because you can see a small box on the table in the grizzco room, and this box has the same pattern as lil Judd. I bet he’s the new owner of grizzco
@@Mei_SatoBro you are right at the beginning I couldn't find that little box but I already saw it and you are right it has the design of Lil judd It would be epic if in splatoon 4 he was the main villain
@Epic gamer It's "sister," actually, but I'm glad to see someone agrees. And besides, even with Chaos having won, things are still relatively normal. Inkling and Octoling culture is flourishing, the war with DJ octavio has come to an end, and splatfest culture has become so beautiful.
Well no, if order won it would have not been like this. This is because order LOST the splatfest. If chaos lost we would of had side chaos or something similar.
Not necessarily. I think the developers confirmed that they haven't even started thinking of an actual concept for the game until the results of the final Splatfest were in!
i hope someone makes side order based off this trailer by modding it, like putting the horrors of this trailer into the mod if i knew how to mod, i would gladly make it like this (my english is trash)
Everyone in the comments seems to be harping on the fact that we didn't get a darker story for Side Order based on what the flashes of concept art showed us. People. It's SPLATOON we're talking about here. On what planet would Nintendo turn Splatoon, one of their most light-hearted and wholesome IPs, into something dark and scary (aside from the lore, of course)? Don't get your hopes up with Nintendo, they know what works and they refuse to change it. I have to agree that some of those concept artworks are fire, tho. Like the alternate elevator and those shots of Pearl and Marina, those DEFINITELY should've made it into the game.
Day 68 okay i might have gotten the timezone thing wrong in my comment cuz of someone else wording it wrong but atleast THIS IS the final day! It was fun to wait for the dlc to arrive^^ and watch out for spoilers!
This is pretty interesting. Hear me guys 0:02 feels like waking up slowly in a uknown place.... realizing you dont know where you are. 0:06 feels like suddenly remembering stuff and the music slowly rises 0:10 where we start suddenly remembering more and more getting closer to the point. 0:14 suddenly remembering an possible incident? 0:17 like traumatic flashbacks and overwhelming things playing at the same time, like marina calling and ambulance and the sounds ringing around your ears while it hurts. 0:22 this could be a picture of marina finding something... not so good. 0:24 panicking more and more just to- 0:27 snap out of it. Like you lost your memories. Like and instant snap to reality. 0:33 exhausted and just feeling so tired
at 0:21 we see a new character. you can tell because the pants and shoes are both all black. no charecters confirmed to be in side order so far have fully black pants and shoes. (pearl has black pants and white shoes in side order, marina has bright orange pants OR blue pants, and deadf1sh has black boots and some kind of skirt) the shadow's ears also implies its an inkling!
I noticed that in the background at that exact moment 0:17 it sounds like someone is talking but reverb. My guess is thats marina talking to us somehow . But since in one of the flashing pictures we see what looks like a cloning procidure maybe the one whos talking to us is a clone of marina of sorts idk.
i think they definitely had to cut stuff out to release it in a timely manner, especially considering the fact that it was internally delayed several months... i feel it in this trailer and honestly felt it while playing as well i do love how it turned out and in terms of gameplay its my fav of the story modes but seems like it just took too long to develop unfortunately -- especially when they had to develop it alongside pushing out updates for multi
It's funny how back then I loved the vibe of chaos, but now this is what speaks to me.. this elegance. I think chaotic elegance is what would move me most, so I'm glad we get to experience both chaos and order..
before side order was even revealed (and i think before splatoon 3 came out) i had a dream where the splat3 dlc had you playing as agent 8 and working together with pearl to restore inkopolis which had been taken over by CHAOS and hordes of HUMAN BABIES and also you saved dedf1sh. was this kind of a prophecy? who knows
Something I noticed the Octoling has a similar hair color as Splatoon 1 and 2 Elite Octolings I was thinking that the Octoling might be a former Octarian Army member, which would explain her more mature body shape compared to 8's, and if her hair is a similar color to the Elite ones it could be providing further proof of their connection It might be a complete coincidence, but it's important for us to analyze all the details in this trailer to get an idea on what's going on
I got a good theory, so remember that in the text if team orded winned marina was going to make a new world? What if, this, is the world Marina was talking abaut? If you look at the color theme of team order the colors can be found all araund here, and agent 8, was tecnically in the trailer of the event in team order, so this is my theory
Marina's dialogue if she won said that she already likes the world how it is, just that she wants everyone to respect each other's opinions and differences (kinda how Splatoon 3's chaos is, everyone has different cultures but accept each other and celebrate together), so not really unless Nintendo changed their mind cuz order didn't win anyways
In retrospect, the concept art certainly does paint a darker, more sinister portrait of the Side Order story than the one we actually got. I wished the devs fleshed out the story way more than they actually did.
Something about this trailer feels a lot more "dangerous" and "organic" than the virtual world approach we got. The flashes of red ink, the use of more pale/darker (almost bone-like) colors and the focus on the coral patterns makes me think that apart from the aesthetic being a lot more dark and creepy they probably had a _VERY_ different approach to the story than the final one. I could be wrong, but man, I really wish the final Side Order felt this lonely and creepy.
@@painterguy6469 I agree 😭😭 I kinda feel robbed tbh
It feels like they had an idea, made a lot of the assets, but then realized that they didn't have enough time to finish their project and rushed to the finish line, cutting as many corners as possible. It makes me sad :(
@@Ghostplasmas I agree 😭😭 Like damn wtf
This trailer compared to the final result will make me so sad for as long as I play Splatoon.
This trailer gives me a mix of sadness, nostalgia, eeriness, and curiosity. It makes me think of what happened to Pearl, Marina, 8, and even 4, after the final splatfest.
Manifesting 4 inclusion 🙏
@@wellokthen3834 like bro, they did 4 dirty
@@kirbo7762 I think it would be better if agent 4 was the final boss of the dlc or idk
@@kirby4603 Holy Shizzle, yes!! We got Agent 3 in Octo Expansion AND Return of the Mamalians! It's only fair that 4 finally gets some time to shine!
@@Aruna_Shadows that’s what I’m saying! 4 has do much potential!
Honestly the fact that so much of the concept art and ideas werent in the dlc is sad
I only count 2 images
a lot of it was! a glimpse of Acht in the elevator, our first glimpse of Marina Agitando, a shadow of a parralel canon, the foyer, a version of when eight wakes up after beating the initial spire(the 10 floor one), though it doesn't show marina due to spoilers, tentacles similar to the ones used by Overlorder, as well as what appear in the background of your initial battle against overlorder on floor 30, and concept art of jelletons! Also worried marina made it in the final game in one of the last main story cutscenes when she tries to plead with Order.
A lot of the concept art made it basically.
I know right, I have a feeling that side order was supposed to be a dlc with a dark story and a lot of things going on, but it probably got rushed, perhaps i could be wrong, but still kinda sad :(
I'm not disappointed of how side order ended up, but man we could get the most dark, creepy and wholesome story mode from all the saga. All this concept arts and lonely feelings were completely interesting and honestly hyped me more than the next trailers that released. It look liked the devs were cooking so good why they stopped and cooked again?😢
they remembered that splatoon is meant to be e for everyone game lol.
@@WolflFlavoredTea they could make sm that is dark but not too dark, like how they did w octo expansion
....you sure it wasnt too dark? I mean come on the telepgone and the whole sanitized ink creation process was kinda...not so pg. Not that I'm complaining though i like me some nightmare fuel in my games@@lunamoth105
@@WolflFlavoredTea have you played the Last 2 story modes before side order???
@@juliansiles5410 yeah i have. And even then they both were originally planned to be even darker. Have you seen the octo expansion concept art?!
After beating side order 1000% I was left with a little disappointment that the story wasn't as deep as we all thought it was going to be. I was hoping that the images we've seen in this trailer might have more touch on side order. Also the music, I like side orders ost but the whole creepy music box music made the game seem more mysterious and unnerving. Overall side order was good but to me it wasn't as good like octo expansion
It’s clear the devs had so many ideas and a much much more fleshed out story. But have way thriugh realize they didn’t have enough time to finish everything up and had to cut a bunch of it. I loved Side Order. Over 20 runs of it. I wish we got the more lonely and eerie atmosphere and story originally planned.
There should be Pearl and Marina badges as rewards for completing Side Order.
And an item, a decoration for your locker, the two Pearl&Marina badges, and an accessory somewhat like we got in Octo Expansion
@@dxrkerrxses like beating the secret kettle and getting bear ears
We got a off the hook banner, so there's a chance
Possible spoiler warning
Someone found that Nintendo leaked Inkopolis Square as a reward for beating aside Order in the files.
@@kellyannmolinaro6428 hmm surely we didnt know that
I'm a little disappointed that Side Order didn't live up to this trailer. All this trailer does is establish a tone: mysterious, introspective, somber, and epic. It looks like NieR; Octoling. Now, you would think that a purely vibes-based trailer would actually get the vibe right, but nope. Side Order is a fun little adventure where you hang out with your friends in cyberspace and fight a little octopus guy. And I enjoyed it, but it is NOT what this trailer made it out to be.
What we thought we were getting: more octo expansion.
What we got: 4 lesbians stuck in an elevator.
I still loved it either way.
I felt it too. Still I can’t dislike the final results. But I can tell we were hoping for a rlly mature and creepy story
I think they changed it to give more meaning to the word "Order"
@@nolanschotanus2769lmao 4 lesbians stuck in an elevator💀
@@nolanschotanus2769that name lmaooo
This honestly looks like it's gonna be creepier than Octo Expansion.
I mean octo expansion had a coolish feel to it
This just feels sad and weird
I’m honestly wondering who’s gonna be the next villain for the dlc
@@thatoneguy2535 have a feeling it is going to be this fossil thing that can be briefly seen at 0:25. Notice how its eyes are red? No normal skeleton does that. I have a theory that it may be a Bake-kujira, a skeleton ghost whale that is said to bring pestilence or diseases. I have a feeling that this place could be another realm or another plain of existence and the Bake-kujira is the ruler of this realm and is probably using Marina for its own sinister purpose.
@@thatoneguy2535little Judd?
That’s such a damn high bar.
@@thatoneguy2535yeah but it's literally about the murder (BLENDING) of over 10,000 octolings, mind control, mass genocide, and memory loss. but honestly i agree with the whole vibe thing. the lore is dark but the vibes are cool and fun.
I think Marina is in trouble
Commander Tartar was on Team Order, the team Marina was on
In Splatoon 2 Callie was the villain as her team had lost
Perhaps the same thing happened to Marina. Notice how in the one image of just Marina she appears glitchy.
Her hair also appears to have a galaxy design in the various Splatoon 3 artworks of her. Is this just how she appears in her album colors since she thought it looked pretty, or is that how her hair looks like in universe? Honestly really excited to see what her galaxy hair looks like in 3D, but if her hair is indeed galaxy patterned could this mean something or is it just to be pretty?
That’s not my main point though
I think Marina might have been sanitized, and part of the story is trying to find her and restore her to her former self. That’d explain her and Pearl’s mysterious absence from the game while Callie and Marie still appeared throughout it.
That's a very well thought out theory
Off the Hook are on world tour, and Marina makes an appearance in the Splatune 3 album interview.
This is a good theory, but it is also a stretch. I feel like Tartar and the Octarian army can play a big role only cause it's attached to Marina and 8's memories. Either way I still cannot wait for this dlc and I am so glad it's all being very secretive!
Oh for fuck's sake how many times do I have to say this... Splatoon 1's final splatfest had no impact on 2's story. Regardless of who won, Callie would have been the villain and Marie would have been the mentor. The devs stated in an interview that they originally wanted 1's final splatfest to affect the story, but they decided not to since 2 was already far into development by the time the Callie vs. Marie splatfest happened.
Plus, look at Callie's main ink color and Octarian ink. Doesn't it make more sense to have her as the antagonist?
Anyways with that rant aside, everything else forms a solid theory.
actually a lot of the photos appear glitchy and if she were sanitized (ignore this part if I got your idea wrong) Commander tartar is already dead and she would be instantly gone and sanitized
and yeah it’s her splatoon 3 design outfit because she’s also wearing the same outfit
and also marina and pearl have almost no relation to the Squidbeak splatoon which is why they don’t appear in story mode and they’re on world tour
i love side order as it released but dang none of this made it in, none of the images were explained, the brain coral never appeared, the entire tone seems to have shifted during that year, the red ink and nuclear warnings are absent, and the sad and melancholic feel of the music was replaced with more splatoony music over the depressed music box. i love side order as it is but the colourlessness and lack of things we teased here really dissapoints me as opposed to what we were teased.
along with that, the cloning line wasn't in it and might have been replaced with the boring old production one, the orange splattershot and walkie talkie from one of the artworks didn't appear, and the elevator here that looked bigger and more formal was replaced with the smaller more sleek one.
Finally someone said it. It wasn’t necessarily bad but I feel like this teaser hyped it up to much, The music, the ambiance, the cloning?? I was kinda disappointed playing it and seeing it was max 1 hour long. I am a huge fan of octo expansion and I was hopping it was as good. I feel like it was just a bunch of waisted potential. They could’ve done so much more, and yes I know it is a rouge like but it had almost 0 story,like come on. What made octo expansion good was the story and side order was definitely lacking it, I just wish they focused on the story instead of the replay ability.
@user-ck9xs8es4t its an ink tank, not a walkie talkie
@aylinaci5806 well I didn't know that! it's so blurry!
are you talking about the orange thing she holds in the right hand? I was talking about the tying on her waist lol
what i picked up from this:
-pearl and marina appear to not be “color washed”
-clones on a conveyor belt
-black ink
-the centerpiece of inkopolis looks like an elevator, maybe that’s how we travel through levels?
-pearl and marina are mostly shown separately
-a mysterious figure is seen in the background walking away from what looks like tentacles on the hair of an inkling (or it could just be a rock idk 💀)
I guess you could even say
White washed-
@@JaydeeArrr 😭😭😭
@@JaydeeArrr SILENCE WRENCH
I think the shadow figure is agent 3 or 4
more likely agent 3 cuz he joined order while 4 joined chaos
The fact that Agent 8 found the 10,000 year old nuclear warning pillars makes this more scary i hope we get to see them in the actual game but i doubt it since this is nintendo
I hope we see them too but they’re probably just gonna be lost in the concept art 😵💫
Sadness
*Sigh.* What we could’ve had… The fandom was absolutely robbed.
robbed ? nah it was ASSASINATED for real . i wish they focused on the lore instead of the game play , cuz side order is ..
watching this 2 days after it comes out hits so hard, shit man, this was a year ago now
I find it clever that in the trailer, they manage to have the audio be distorted but still sound very beautiful. If you really listen t the trailer's music, you can hear certain tones don't line up as they should, weird intervals and melodic cacophony make the song sound distorted, like an old Tape that ain't playing right. But the music designers still managed to make it sound super pretty
We should’ve gotten this version of side order😭😭😭😭
Yes.
watching this after beating side order…surreal.
Looking at this trailer after the release and man, it's sad that the dlc doesn't look like this. I would have loved a maybe psychological horror approach from splatoon but hey, at least we have more pearlina stuff😅
Its clear a lot of content was scrapped due to time crunch.
You know what? I won't even answer this comment. I'm tired of these.
I feel like it's the splatoon 2 plaza after chaos won and it's been abandoned after everyone moved to splatsville, it makes me think of what happened to pearl and marina
this is about inkopolis square tho
@@chaoticsicki uhhuh that's why I said the splatoon 2 plaza
They appear to be fine at the moment, as they collabed with a band and produced a few songs in Splatsville.
But, while Pearl looks alright in this trailer, Marina seems distressed, and the Octoling player appears to be in danger
In game lore/world inkopolis square and deca tower are not abandoned right after other game comes tho.
inklings and octolings we play as every game are different from eachother
@@jakcesleepingrn5739 but they sure lose a lot of traffic, since you can see in a sunken scroll that sheldon already closed his store once on inkopolis plaza sometime during splatoon 1 & 2
I know that plaza and square aren't just abandoned after their respective games, but they lose their status as popular meeting points, so as the business move into another location, so do the cephalopeople that use the services provided by these businesses
(Although i don't think they're abandoned, this is certainly not the same square as splat 2's one)
Looking back on this now, this seemed a lot more creepy and dark then what we got in sideorder. A little disappointed by it since I was really looking forward to a darker story, but it was fun nonetheless
this makes me realöize how the lobby in this trailer looks way different than how it ended up in the actual dlc
Well I’m back here after it released and I can confidently say that it’s fun and addicting but I wish we got whatever this trailer was supposed to be
Its crazy how much thay changed
Also it looks way mor white
i miss this version of side order it would have definitely had way more lore than we got
I have a feeling that MatPat would have a field day with this trailer!
What were they cooking and why can't I experience it
Just read the interview.
Or if you wanna save time then I'm just gonna say that the interview with the developers sums up as "SO never had dramatic changes and everything was stablished early in development"
@@HIMB667 awe, that's unfortunate. I guess it was just my brain making a whole ass fanfiction in my head.
That image of 8 surrounded by the nuclear waste warning spikes feels so eerie along with the isolated imagery (minus Acht's foot in the corner of the elevator basically proving your point). I'm probably just really salty from how I feel like the story of side order is shallow, minus marina's diary entries
anyone know any songs that have similar enough vibes to the music used in this trailer?
SO’s final ost is good dont get me wrong but i wish it had more songs like this :/
The final boss ost, New World Order reminds me of this.
here's to hoping that we get more side order info in the direct tomorrow!
this did not age very well
edit: hoping Again with this next direct!
edit 2: OH MY GOD WE GOT SIDE ORDER INFO
only a splatfest announcement…
@@calzoneyyy *BRUH* Moment
Maybe this month! Though I don’t have hope either cause the DLC was delayed internally again to March 2024 😅
direct tomorrow!!! there's always a chance
@@Jacquis303 I think It Is the case Here. If we look back to OE Announcent in the 3.8.2018 Nintendo Direct It was three months away from the release. And on June 14 during the World Championship 2018 we GOT the release date. Maybe this time they Will show a trailer, then in January with the Splatoon 3 World Championship 2024 they Will reveal the release date.
This trailer fooled everyone, we didn’t get a cool dark deep story we just got a goofy lighthearted low stakes dlc with a silly message at the end about fun and colors. I like side order, but I’m severely disappointed that we didn’t get a dlc more reminiscent of this trailer
FR
Same, this has a "vibe" that just cannot be described.
This feels like Side Order's plot is gonna be way more depressing than even Octo Expansion, which had an around 15 year old kid go through some of the scariest things in the entire series.
I love that it continued the mental stuff and expanded it even more adding themes like Fears, nostalgia and memories!
Did you guys see the pic where she has different shoes like the ones in octo expansion? And we heard the theory where she was in her own mindset, maybe it's her gaining memory's back?? Hopefully people see this lol :)
I’ve looked at some of the images and i’ve come to a conclusion for what happened to Inkopolis Square. spoiler warning in case that matters to you.
In a lot of the images, there’s this black ink that covers the ground. Then it shows this fish thing that might’ve been the one who spread the black ink. Maybe this black ink is able to drain the color of everything it comes into contact with? We know this is the real inkopolis square because the eshop says something along the lines of “Find out what happened to Inkopolis Square”. That means this black ink / the fish is a huge threat to all these inkling and octoling and Agent 8, Pearl, and Marina are going to stop the fish before the ink spreads to other areas. Obviously I may be completely wrong, but it’s just a theory.
Edit: After the new trailer was revealed, I’m actually quite surprised that I was right about the fish and the black ink. We still don’t know much about the story, besides it being hinted that we’re searching for Marina.
it looks like a bootleg inkopolis square. Like the shops and everything are in the same place but if you look at the lobby entrance it looks different.
This has to be in Agent 8 mind inkopolis plaza and inkopolis square are just some squares away from each other so one of the can't just be completely fine and the other be in a post-apocaliptic state
A GAME THEORY!
I don't think anything happened to Inkopolis Square since we can see present day Inkopolis Plaza intact
Definitely leading on 8's mental image of the place
@@LittleSparklingStarsOrder. Splatfests are technically "chaotic". Marina wants peace and no chaos. They changed the splatfest lobby to a different tower so that NO ONE will be able to go to splatfests
GOODBYE SIDE ORDER TRAILER #1... I'LL MISS WATCHING PAUSING YOU FRAME BY FRAME
I don’t know if this is just the music being distorted but at 0:19 i hear pearl talking and i dont think its marina because if you compare the voices it will definitely sound like pearl and marina has a much deeper voice
a ton of people heard it
Man, this is almost verbatim to Breath of the Wild 2's announcement. Short teaser with flashes of lore for us to speculate, and most of it adds up to nothing
I remember all the hype seeing Ganondorf return, the theories about the Zonai, and all those vast sky islands. So much was was obviously cut from TotK and people are realizing quickly
When I saw this trailer I thought we'd see more on the origins of Marina and more of her story, maybe how Pearl comes in to her life and more scoop on Off the Hook. And then Marina really isn't the focal point of the final product at all... idk what's going on internally at Nintendo, but I know I'm just growing more and more skeptical about their trailers
goddamnit I knew I felt that too…
I didn’t want to believe it but this is so incredibly painfully true.
I swear if this DLC will be whack I will
R I O T
We wait and see
Honestly, Splatoon has seriously delivered each time they brought out a project. The last Expansion was one of the funkiest things I've ever seen.
This trailer implies some dark and weird stuff about Octolings and is full of clever references for a bit of a medical horror feel. Even Inkopolis Square from Splatoon 2 appears to have undergone coral bleaching, a serious real life environmental issue.
@@lilpetz500 I looked up the coral bleaching thing, and I swear you might be onto something here.
@@goldenninja9053 also some images (specifically the one with the giant black spikes poking from the ground) and some audio cues re reminiscent of longterm nuclear waste warnings
theres also imagery similar to brains and neurons firing impulses. who knows what sort of screwed up stuff is gonna happen in this dlc, im excited for it tbh
@@LUPITHE0NZ I'm excited for it too! I love a good mystery/thriller-esque story that messes with you a bit, which this may be leaning toward.
my theories for this trailer
0:16 we see pearl holding something, something that appears to be round with a warm color glow. this is a stretch but I think it could be a salmon egg
0:20 we see an octoling holding what seems to be a charger of some sort in their left hand. another stretch but I think what she's holding in her right hand can be a slosher model or an egg canon? but a logical answer would be an ink tank.
0:21 we see a shadow of an inkling (pointy ears) that seems to have short hair. I looked through some of the band members and i don't see any who have short hair like this. meaning this could be a new character.
0:24 I feel like just barely in the distance I can see an inkling or someone standing there? but again its very very unclear.
0:25 we see an octoling with long hair. their hair is similar to agent 8's so it could be hers just grown out and longer. but they have pointy ears which would indicate that they're an inkling
0:25 / 0:26 we see an octo standing on what seems to be floating platforms. in the octo expansion chat room pearl talks about how marina made her own turf war map in a very short amount of time. cuttlefish says that floating platforms are octarian tech and should not be trusted. my theory is this could be marinas turf war map but that's very unlikely
0:26 we see pearl with glasses on in inkopolis square. this could be where the dlc starts just like how in octo expansion we were greeted by cuttlefish looking down at agent 8
0:26 we see a large reddish brown object with glowing red eyes. I think this is the fastest frame in the whole trailer. I'm not exactly sure what this is but the thing that I think it looks most like is horrorboros/the zap fish.
0:26 we see agent 8 looking at puddles of black ink. I believe this is the first time natural realistic black ink has been seen in the franchise
0:27 I don't know what this is but the thing i thought of first was sanitized tartar
0:27 we see multiple octos walking. not sure if they are both agent 8 or something else
a big stretch again is the ring that's on the paper swans neck in inkopolis square is missing but again I doubt that will mean anything. along with the paper swan the screens on inkopolis tower are rearranged and a satellite has been added. in the inkopolis plaza dlc that came out a few months ago we see a few shop keepers have returned. one however that's not there is flow who ran the hat shop in splatoon 2. my theory is that maybe they were forced to move shops due to the coral. I'd like to also mention how marina's name in the french translation has always been coralie. finally it was announced recently that there's a new band called Yoko and the gold bazookas. the small idol to the right appears to be wearing dead coral on their hat so I wonder if they will have anything to do with the side order dlc.
edit: upon reading the sunken sea scrolls today and attempting to unlock them all i saw in tentakeel outpost theres a small telephone about the same size and looks identical to tartar above marie's little caged owl/bird animal. i thought this was just the same thing they did with mr grizz in splat3 where you can see his old statue behind the squid sisters in alterna. but i checked older footage that was before octo expansions release and the phone is still there.
i think nintendo hides stuff in plain sight when it comes to that sort of thing. my theory is that lil judd will probably have to so with the side order dlc considering he wears the grizzco ear piece and eyepatch in the offical art
edit 08/06/23: at 0:22 i realized the spikes shes standing next to resemble those post nuclear war warning spikes! either this is just a creative detail or maybe its from when the war that killed the humans happend?
0:25 the octoling has a lack of suction cups and their hair is pointy like an octoling, is this an experiment to make a mix of inkling and octoling because there was clones but uh
Yeah, I do see it
0:21 I swear on my life that’s 4. It’s her hair I know my baby anywhere
BUT maybe it was a Cuttlefish after all since it does kinda represent the Cuttlefish idol stuff in octo expansion (and most of the art here doesn’t even show the hair textures, not talking about suction cups)
I’m crying! 😭 The music box just hits different now! 😭😭Side Order will not disappoint! Bawling my eyes out right now! 😭😭😭😭😭
"Trailer from march 8th 2023 Nintendo Direct"
I didn't expect you took the trailer from future
Oh god! After the Overview trailer,Watching this this teaser feels like different than now
I really want Agent 4 to make a return here. They’re the only one of the agents that hasn’t shown up yet, and if we’re going through memories, the mem cakes might come back too. It’s a prediction i have, but i’d want 4 to come back. Ally or Villain, doesn’t matter.
maybe they work similar to captain 3?? someone who helps you out but doesn't really say much? though it would be great to have dialogue from agents lol.
but honestly, i can see agent 4 making a return FOR SURE. i mean, this is based in inkopolis square, which is where the events of splatoon 2 took place, so 4 could very likely show up somehow.
@@inviisibleIf agent 4 is in the side order, they probably won’t talk, as Marie has said that agent 4 doesn’t talk much.
@@idkwhattoputherestopreadingnow yeah that's likely, but obviously it would be nice to have some agent dialogue
@@inviisible fr
Agent 4 is in the new side order promo art!!
Inkopolis Square…how i miss you…
in one of the images, there are three octolings that look kind of identical on what looks to be a conveyer belt, so the character we play as might be a clone of some sorts.
Perhaps a sort of Shipbreaker like mechanic where you play as clones of another person
this dlc has like. a theme of death ???
white corals are dead corals and we also see what seems to be a dead fish / fossilized (?)
creepiest thing we've seen yet and im loving it
Dead fish? Dedf1sh?
this reply aged well
(Replied on the website to it didn't catch the person I was initially replying to, i'm talking about the guy that said dedf1sh)
@@ThighFishbrother how did u predict this
I wanna play this so bad, I cant afford the dlc, even the octo expansion pack, But still i'm looking forward for this!
hey dude I know this is late, but the octo expansion is free on the nintendo+ expansion online pass! That's what I did. Maybe just get a month of that and you'll have access to all that library as well as octo expansion!
The biggest reason why people (myself included )wish that Side Order ended up more like this trailer, is because it doesnt feel like Splatoon. Something is just off, and it's so different from anything else that you wonder what this is about, since it's very obviously NOT the same as the other silly campaigns. This is the same reason people praised Octo Expansion, and the Side Order we got is just another silly campaign that is very believable as Splatoon, and the whole digital world makes it feel like there's less stakes/
This looks so unsettling, but cool at the same time! Can’t wait
Goddd im so fucking dissapointed with what we got after remembering this trailer in all honesty
Word 💀 I love the gameplay but cmon man I wanted 8 trauma
This is a game for kids, they probably had to tone it down
@@Yozhi2 splatoon2's dlc was dark too I dont think it would be a problem
@@dawnchorus8556 True
I completely agree. I feel like we didn't get what we were expecting, but we did get some surprises. Really wasn't expecting an Acht face reveal, let alone dedfish in 3D at all
Hold on?.. this was made 11 months ago so that means the trailer has been out for over a year? I REALISED THIS WAS A THING IN JANUARY😭
So much for this i guess
After seeing the second trailer this looks like an very early concept
Hopefully the full DLC keeps some of the loneliness aspect felt in this particular trailer.
I can't believe this has been teased almost 1 year ago... Time surely flies, isn't it?
Splatoon 3 is gonna give us every lobby in its history, watch
it's gonna look like the other lobby from the outside but it'll take you to the splatsville lobby when you get in
yo bro where you destroying that splatter shot jr?! side order ain’t drop yet bro! Don’t worry, side order drops February 22, listen!
I was never squid smart im octo smart, makes me more intelligent
Remember in the Final Fest poster thing it looks like Agent 8 is going for Order instead of Chaos. But it looks like Inkopolis Square if Order wins against Chaos. The Square however looks " Coral Bleach" Like global warming. Even tho the deca tower looks different. And looks like a normal building, I'm probably Excited for Side Order to be released since I already got the Inkopolis Plaza DLC
Okay but what if I told you that I'm from the future and a new DLC came out. Wow I'm so smart fr
EVERYONE PLEASE LISTEN!!!! The salmons are assured in Side Order. In the sixth row in Stickers, at the rewards box in grizz industry, the second item is a sticker called "GCI-XLSMN neon" the "GCI" I have nothing for, BUT!!!! "XLSMN" literally means "Extra Large Salmon" and at the 0:26 part of the video, there's what shows to be a haunting large image of a red eyed salmon like creature. The image and the sticker itself BOTH look EXACTLY the same in comparison!!! if anyone actually sees this. SPREADING IT LIKE WILD FIRE!!!
Edit: A Side Order of Extra Large Salmon, that's what it is!!!!
Bro was kinda right???
I KNEW IIIIT
It's been a year already...
I noticed the Spire of Order in this trailer is different than the one we actually got
this dlc looked really lonely nostalgic and creepy, in my opinion we should get agent 8 to be alone whole game except at the end, it looked like we whould get back story of agent 8, coral bleached octoling enemies, also we should get more sanitized octolings like acht that were close friends of marina, becouse she didn't wanted to leave them, like souless husks that are just roaming around, getting lost in memory, while acht whould be only one that regained memories bc of partial sanitazation, to help marina understand that she has to let go of past she can't change
Day 67 only 1 day left because of timezones!! Are you guys as excited as i am?
ok, honestly i have no idea what to expect here but id LOVE a psychological thriller sort of game. that would be so cool.
yeah side order was definitely rly fun and well done overall but it doesn’t rlly live up to the haunting, mysterious feeling this trailer evokes, so I’m a little sad about that
I see a lot of people on this comment section saying that they completely discarded the concept of this trailer but it's honestly not completely true, they just made it more hidden, the dlc focuses on the dark past of marina and the octoling race, we can clearly see that in the backgrounds of the levels there are a lot of childhood toys and stuff that probably belongs to marina (pianos, comics, building blocks, figurines and stuff that appears at the first 10 floors), another big hidden detail is that Asynchronous Rondo and Pinging Marciale both sing tortured version of Ebb & Flow and Fly octo Fly, knowing that they are created by marina it really leads to differents interpretations of what that tortured singing means, maybe she is not completely happy about her life so she decides to make her a perfect world so she can just be happy while hiding her past? Idk but hey it's just a theory, a GAME theory!
Just think of it this way, would you rather have a game with a cool story and lots of lore that is an absolute tediumfest to play or a game with a story and lore that is somewhat lackluster, but one of the best gameplay wise.
@@TheSlideCell the second option, but in my experience I really liked the lore and ambience of SO and the gameplay is amazing.
I have a theory:
In one of the images, you can see a photo of Marina, where she appears glitchy. In the octo expansion, when you kill a sanitized Octoling, they also look glitchy before they disappear. What if Marina was/is a sanitized Octoling (her hair in Splatoon 2 also looked sanitized) and tartar tries to make her disappear. I think Marina is loosing her memories, maybe that’s why the Inkopolis plaza is white. That could also be the reason why she has this universe hair. Maybe she tried to get that sanitized ink out of her hair, so tartar can’t control her anymore. I think you play in Marinas head and that Octoling is something like Marinas inner self, trying to get her memories back.
I already read your comment 3 times and you know? Your theory makes sense, even if it happened in the dlc it would be great, very good theory 👍
@@gabrielruiz5590 thank you! ^^
@@gabrielruiz5590 I also think that lil Judd will be the enemy in Splatoon 4, because you can see a small box on the table in the grizzco room, and this box has the same pattern as lil Judd. I bet he’s the new owner of grizzco
@@Mei_SatoBro you are right at the beginning I couldn't find that little box but I already saw it and you are right it has the design of Lil judd It would be epic if in splatoon 4 he was the main villain
isnt she on tour tho so it couldnt possibly make sense but i love the theory
Watching this after it came out 🥶
3 days remain
If this is what a world of Order would have been, then maybe it was for the best that Chaos won. Not that I was against it at all, I voted for chaos.
Same here brother I was full team anarchy
@Epic gamer It's "sister," actually, but I'm glad to see someone agrees. And besides, even with Chaos having won, things are still relatively normal. Inkling and Octoling culture is flourishing, the war with DJ octavio has come to an end, and splatfest culture has become so beautiful.
@@waves2378 yeah I can’t wait to see what the explanation is to the bleached inkopolis square
Well no, if order won it would have not been like this. This is because order LOST the splatfest. If chaos lost we would of had side chaos or something similar.
Not necessarily. I think the developers confirmed that they haven't even started thinking of an actual concept for the game until the results of the final Splatfest were in!
i hope someone makes side order based off this trailer by modding it, like putting the horrors of this trailer into the mod if i knew how to mod, i would gladly make it like this (my english is trash)
i probably will with Side Rainbow
@Gian69104 I will watch the gameplay when it releases, thanks!
I love how one person is defending the final product as if Nintendo is going to reward them. i would've loved psychological horror with pearlina
Everyone in the comments seems to be harping on the fact that we didn't get a darker story for Side Order based on what the flashes of concept art showed us.
People. It's SPLATOON we're talking about here. On what planet would Nintendo turn Splatoon, one of their most light-hearted and wholesome IPs, into something dark and scary (aside from the lore, of course)? Don't get your hopes up with Nintendo, they know what works and they refuse to change it.
I have to agree that some of those concept artworks are fire, tho. Like the alternate elevator and those shots of Pearl and Marina, those DEFINITELY should've made it into the game.
I think the story is dark enough as it currently is, I just wish side order was longer. I beat the thing in my third try.
@@memeyboi569 I beat it on my 42nd try. As it turns out, I'm not very good with rougelites, haha.
3 games in and Nintendo is popping off with dark trips down memory lane or is it just me
Day 68 okay i might have gotten the timezone thing wrong in my comment cuz of someone else wording it wrong but atleast THIS IS the final day! It was fun to wait for the dlc to arrive^^ and watch out for spoilers!
In the end we will never actually see what "side order" was hidding
NO WAY THIS IS ONE YEAR OLD
This is pretty interesting. Hear me guys
0:02 feels like waking up slowly in a uknown place.... realizing you dont know where you are.
0:06 feels like suddenly remembering stuff and the music slowly rises
0:10 where we start suddenly remembering more and more getting closer to the point.
0:14 suddenly remembering an possible incident?
0:17 like traumatic flashbacks and overwhelming things playing at the same time, like marina calling and ambulance and the sounds ringing around your ears while it hurts.
0:22 this could be a picture of marina finding something... not so good.
0:24 panicking more and more just to-
0:27 snap out of it. Like you lost your memories. Like and instant snap to reality.
0:33 exhausted and just feeling so tired
at 0:21 we see a new character. you can tell because the pants and shoes are both all black. no charecters confirmed to be in side order so far have fully black pants and shoes. (pearl has black pants and white shoes in side order, marina has bright orange pants OR blue pants, and deadf1sh has black boots and some kind of skirt) the shadow's ears also implies its an inkling!
Why is it the expansion packs are always more disturbing and intruiging than the main story mode???
Damn, someone finally destroyed Inkopolis square, it was hell in there.
I noticed that in the background at that exact moment 0:17 it sounds like someone is talking but reverb.
My guess is thats marina talking to us somehow .
But since in one of the flashing pictures we see what looks like a cloning procidure maybe the one whos talking to us is a clone of marina of sorts idk.
Insane that it’s already been a year since this dropped and now it’s coming out super soon
i think they definitely had to cut stuff out to release it in a timely manner, especially considering the fact that it was internally delayed several months... i feel it in this trailer and honestly felt it while playing as well
i do love how it turned out and in terms of gameplay its my fav of the story modes but seems like it just took too long to develop unfortunately -- especially when they had to develop it alongside pushing out updates for multi
It's funny how back then I loved the vibe of chaos, but now this is what speaks to me.. this elegance. I think chaotic elegance is what would move me most, so I'm glad we get to experience both chaos and order..
And if order had one we’d have “front chaos” and we’d be playing as agent 4 trying to save pearl
@@ZeusMakesDoodles and instead of a pearl drone, we would get a marina robot/cyborg or something like that
RELEASE DATE IS OFFICIALLY FEBRUARY 22!!!!!!!
Makes me think of the underground city in nier automata
I’m praying that Nintendo announces it at pax west the day before it releases
40 days from now!!!
2 days from now!
You think pearl and marina will return in this story?
The end of the dlc will be their wedding
@@carlosceacerosalas3973 Dlc leaks 💀
Pearl is in one of the images that flashes briefly and the initial DLC announcement had Pearl and Marina's silhouettes.
No
They were confirmed to appear in the DLC and there was one picture of each of them in the Trailer!
Yall need to slow down the video there are some images u have not seen
This trailer has a somewhat disturbing feel to it
before side order was even revealed (and i think before splatoon 3 came out) i had a dream where the splat3 dlc had you playing as agent 8 and working together with pearl to restore inkopolis which had been taken over by CHAOS and hordes of HUMAN BABIES and also you saved dedf1sh. was this kind of a prophecy? who knows
It makes sense, as out of chaos can come order.
Something I noticed
the Octoling has a similar hair color as Splatoon 1 and 2 Elite Octolings
I was thinking that the Octoling might be a former Octarian Army member, which would explain her more mature body shape compared to 8's, and if her hair is a similar color to the Elite ones it could be providing further proof of their connection
It might be a complete coincidence, but it's important for us to analyze all the details in this trailer to get an idea on what's going on
Remember, 5 years passed between 2 and 3.
Anyone know what instrument that is for the melody of the Side Order trailer?
It sounds like an organ/music box, but I’m not sure what kind it could be
It sound like a kalimba to me but idk
it is most definitely a kalimba
Now that I think about it, yes. The kalimba is most likely used here.
i cant wait any longer we need side order in september/october at least!!
They should make it so that deep cut gets corrupted like all of the splatoon 2 bosses did in octo expansions and you have to fight them
This is better than the game probabably
Who else is here after Side Order released?
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Guys, WE WON!
I got a good theory, so remember that in the text if team orded winned marina was going to make a new world? What if, this, is the world Marina was talking abaut? If you look at the color theme of team order the colors can be found all araund here, and agent 8, was tecnically in the trailer of the event in team order, so this is my theory
Marina's dialogue if she won said that she already likes the world how it is, just that she wants everyone to respect each other's opinions and differences (kinda how Splatoon 3's chaos is, everyone has different cultures but accept each other and celebrate together), so not really unless Nintendo changed their mind cuz order didn't win anyways