- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because
bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the
order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb
Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing
EUROPEAN and AMERICAN paintings framed by Gill & Lagodich include (in alphabetical
order): Milton Avery, Conversation in Studio, 1943; Jules Adolphe Breton, The Song of the Lark, 1884; Elbridge Ayer Burbank, six Native American portraits, Kah - Kap - Tee / Moqui, Wick - Ah - Te - Wah / Moqui, Ko - Pe - Ley / Moqui, Pah - Puh / Moqui, Shu - Pe - La / Moqui, Ho - Mo - Vi / Moqui, 1898; Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877; William Merritt Chase, North River Shad, c. 1910; Thomas Cole, New England Scenery, 1839; Jasper Cropsey, Blasted Tree, c. 1850; Gustave Courbet, Reverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau), 1862; Thomas Doughty, Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower), 1835; Thomas Eakins, Study for «William
Rush Carving His Allegorical Statue of the Schuylkill River», c. 1876 - 77; DeScott Evans, The Irish Question, 1880s, Marsden Hartley, The Last of New England — The Beginning of New Mexico, 1918/19; George Hitchcock, Flower Girl in Holland, c. 1887; Winslow Homer, Peach Blossoms, c. 1878; Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942; George Inness, Crossing The Ford, 1848; George Inness, Summer in the Catskills, 1867, George Inness, The Mill Pond, 1889, George Inness, Early Morning, Tarpon Springs, 1892; George Inness, The Home of the Heron, 1893; George Inness, After A Summer Shower, 1894, Joshua Johnson, Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, 1803/05; Otis Kaye, Heart of the Matter, 1963; Fernand Leger, Reclining Woman, 1922; Fernand Leger, Still Life, 1926; Edouard Manet, Still - Life with Carp, 1864; Edouard Manet, Bullfight, 1865/66; Julius Gari Melchers, Mother and Child, c. 1906; Jean - Francois Millet, In the Auvergne, 1866/69; Jean - Francois Millet,
Bringing Home the Calf; Jean - Francois Millet, The Shepherdess; William Sidney Mount, Bar - Room Scene, 1835; Camille Pissarro, The Place du Havre, Paris, 1893; Severin Roesen, An Abundance of Fruit, 1860; Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Essex Canal, 1896; John Singer Sargent, Venetian Glass Workers, 1880/82; John Singer Sargent, Thistles, 1883/89; John Singer Sargent, The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907; Elihu Vedder, The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887; Charles Wilbert White, This, My Brother, 1942; Hale Woodruff, Twilight, 1926; and more...