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You Need to check out Nintendo's Splatoon commercials for the music
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Thu, 14 May 2015 19:39:56
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Celebrities and real-life splatting contribute to concerted marketing A week ago we shared a TV commercial for Splatoon that had been released by North America, which replaced the funky tunes of the game with a new effort that featured some rather simplistic lyrics. It didn't go down well with everyone, but with a target audience of young gamers and - arguably - the Disney TV crowd, it made a good deal of sense. Since then two more of these TV commercials have been released. First up is "Squid Kid", below, which this writer doesn't feel is particularly catchy and, again, has pretty poor lyrics.



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Thu, 14 May 2015 23:38:50
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That is awful!  Grinning

Pleased I canceled this.

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Fri, 15 May 2015 00:55:42
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That is amazing! Grinning

Pleased I pre-ordered this.

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Fri, 15 May 2015 08:04:38
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I am going to pre-order on the basis of that commercial.

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Fri, 15 May 2015 08:41:59
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That is meh! Grinning

Pleased I didn't do anything with it.

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Fri, 15 May 2015 10:28:13
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It's hilarious, I hope they have those tracks in the actual game. Check out the other two videos in the OP.

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Fri, 15 May 2015 19:38:19
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Terrible commercial. It's not the 90s anymore

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Fri, 15 May 2015 20:28:42
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Dvader said:

Terrible commercial. It's not the 90s anymore

Half the people think it's terrible, half seem to like it cause it's funny.

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Fri, 15 May 2015 20:54:23
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Clearly Nintendo was going for the Eternal Darkness crowd with this one.

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Sat, 16 May 2015 07:16:52

It's cool in the same way "Everything is Awesome" was for The Lego Movie.

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Sat, 16 May 2015 10:11:27
edgecrusher said:

I've never seen that before, nice voiceover.

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♪ヽ(´▽`)ノ You're a kid now, you're a squid now, you're a kid, you're a squid, you're a kid, you're a squid, you're a kid now! Ink it all now, up the wall now! ♪ヽ(´▽`)ノ

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Sun, 24 May 2015 01:19:36

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Sun, 24 May 2015 11:00:26

Ugh, too long. Becomes annoying. But one good thing, I have never seen a trailer where they explain the gameplay mechanics so thoroughly.

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Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:48:55

This is how you do a song-themed trailer:



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Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:19:32
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The lyrics should have been:

"You are old now, you are bald now, now you're old, now you're bald and you have tatoos. Cut up a ninja, get rammed by a big guy, shoot in face, shoot in ass, slice up fools now."

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Sat, 13 Jun 2015 02:15:50
gamingeek said:

The lyrics should have been:

"You are old now, you are bald now, now you're old, now you're bald and you have tatoos. Cut up a ninja, get rammed by a big guy, shoot in face, shoot in ass, slice up fools now."

LOL

That would have worked, too.

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Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:24:07

The You're a Kid, you're a squid ad actually had good traction. In the game and on Miiverse it's being quoted multiple times. Everyone's into it.

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