{"id":6056,"date":"2018-04-06T07:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T07:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.indiesmasher.com\/wp\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2018-04-06T07:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T07:40:28","slug":"splatoon-2-the-next-festival-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiesmasher.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/06\/splatoon-2-the-next-festival-starts-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Splatoon 2: The Next Festival Starts Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Released on July 21, Splatoon 2 is a title on Switch that continues to gather a\u00a0community of regular players. By taking over the elements that had worked on the Wii U&#8217;s episode of Splatoon, Nintendo has secured a form of success. Like every month or so, a new festival asks players to make a choice.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of January, the players had clashed to decide their tastes in terms of cinema. From this fierce struggle, it emerged that the players preferring comic films were better than those who fought for action movies. In February, they clashed over whether gherkins had their place in burgers or not and last month it was about which of the egg or the chicken had arrived first. New month, new festival:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Which team are you on? It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamBaseball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamBaseball<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamSoccer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamSoccer<\/a> when the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Splatoon2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Splatoon2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Splatfest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Splatfest<\/a> begins this Friday at 9pm PT! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EBa9opp83w\">pic.twitter.com\/EBa9opp83w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/981592538661511175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released on July 21, Splatoon 2 is a title on Switch that continues to gather a\u00a0community of regular players. 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