Splatoon Raiders Early Concept Made The Devs Feel Like The Bad Guys: ‘Everyone Who Played The Prototype Kept Saying, “Poor Salmonids!”’
Kotaku | 22.07.2026 00:00Splatoon Raiders reviews are up today and looking spiffy ahead of the game’s July 23 release, as is a fresh Nintendo Ask the Developer interview that goes into a deeper discussion of the game’s development. I love these even though they are heavily curated by Nintendo, as they always include cool concept art and details about scrapped content. This one also includes a pretty fascinating revelation about the design of Splatoon Raiders: it apparently used to be really, really colonialist.
