Splatoon: Splativerse/World of Inktasy

Splatoon: World of Inktasy is the second Idolventure released for Splatoon: Splativerse. It follows the Turfmaster, the Beatlings and Felice as they get trapped inside a magical videogame, where they must beat it to escape. It is a satire of videogame tropes and RPG tropes; with the characters lampshading on how different videogames are to real life. It also features Off the Hook as supporting characters, although they were not shown in any of the trailers.
==Startup==
To begin this expansion, you are given a Famicom-looking cartridge in the Splatdex. Upon selecting the cartridge or by viewing the World of Inktasy poster in Akrasville, you are asked "Want to go on a adventure inside the realm of fantasy?" with the World of Inktasy logo on the bottom right.
The scene cuts to Felice & the Turfmaster leaving a store on the streets of Akrasville Palmyra. 	The scene cuts to Felice & the Turfmaster leaving a store on the streets of Akrasville Palmyra.
Felice 	I've only seen this game on a commercial. I thought this game was past its time. This was their last copy. I'm not buying anything like this again.
Felice 	He charged me 15000G, which is ridiculous to me. Normally you'd pay 6000G for that.
Dara & Finn, the Beatlings run up once they see the game. 	Dara & Finn, the Beatlings run up once they see the game.
Dara 	Wait there, Felice! Is that... (looks at the cartridge)
"World of Inktasy"? I've been looking for that game!
Finn 	Felice found it first? Wait for me!
Felice 	Calm down guys. This ain't the time to be bragging here. Thing is, this thing cost me too much, and I only got into it due to the commercials and why all the kids were even talking about it!
Felice 	Lets go to my house, and we'll see if this is worth all the hype.
The next scene cuts to Felice's house. At the entry of the house, Felice takes off her sneakers, leaving her barefoot wearing her pink T-shirt and jean shorts, and then everyone else follows Felice inside. The shots show an overview of Felice's house. 	The next scene cuts to Felice's house. At the entry of the house, Felice takes off her sneakers, leaving her barefoot wearing her pink T-shirt and jean shorts, and then everyone else follows Felice inside. The shots show an overview of Felice's house.
Felice 	Guys, this is a very expensive house! Don't touch anything, just don't use anything, and we'll head to my living room to play this.
Everyone heads to Felice's living room, which has large speakers and a wall-mounted TV. Felice walks down to her Famicom with the box. 	Everyone heads to Felice's living room, which has large speakers and a wall-mounted TV. Felice walks down to her Famicom with the box.
Felice 	So, we're going to be playing this. Keep in mind, I have things to do later on, but I suppose we got some time to play.
Felice opens up the Famicom box and puts the World of Inktasy cartridge inside the Famicom. Felice then powers the red switch on. Nothing happens, and the music fades out. 	Felice opens up the Famicom box and puts the World of Inktasy cartridge inside the Famicom. Felice then powers the red switch on. Nothing happens, and the music fades out.
Dara 	That's a little odd. What's going on with this? Must be very old for its time.
Felice 	Well, I've cleaned this place up very nicely, and its kinda strange of how this is not even working. This game console has never broke down on me ever, but I'm not sure what's going on.
Finn 	Have you tried resetting it, and see what happens?
Felice 	Fine. I'll reset this thing, and see if that fixes the problem.
The game boots up normally, except when a kill-screen appears and absorbs everyone in a flash, dropping the controller and the screen going wonky in colors. The screen fades out to the intro text except with 8-bit glitch sounds and effects in the background.	The game boots up normally, except when a kill-screen appears and absorbs everyone in a flash, dropping the controller and the screen going wonky in colors. The screen fades out to the intro text except with 8-bit glitch sounds and effects in the background.
==Plot==
Felice, the Turfmaster, and the Beatlings find a videogame called World of Inktasy, which is a Famicom cartridge with a old-fashioned boxart. They then, put the cartridge inside of Felice's Famicom at her house, and then after a 8-bit incident, they are then absorbed into the game.
===Inside the Game===
As the darkness from the blackout covers your vision for a unknown amount of time, you eventually slowly recover to a unexpected twist...
Felice and everyone else arrive inside a fantasy field. They then all realize that they're dressed in completely different clothes; a princess uniform for Felice, ranger uniforms for Dara and Finn, and a hero uniform for Turfmaster. Felice then realizes that they were then absorbed into the video game, and that she needed to get out of the video game world right now to get ready for her next concert in time. However, a mysterious ghostly human hand comes in and swoops Princess Felice away. The three are determined to save Felice and get out of the game.
After exploring through the fields and fighting through the monsters, Dara lampshades that he cannot fight the boss until he splats more monsters because of some generic numbers. Finn tells them thats just level-grinding in a nutshell. After clearing the first area, the trio moves on to the town to begin asking for help and where to go to save Princess Felice. Dara begins to question the fact that 90% of the time that the NPCs in the game will always give them information and that the only people who can finish the plot are themselves. Meanwhile, Felice is trapped with the Dark Lord, a villain who is hidden and unrevealed with convenient shadows as to not spoil their identity.
The party eventually travels on and acquires a map. Using this map and after being guided by the NPCs, they come across a wizard's house, where they meet Marina, the Wizard. Marina then "joins their party" as the fourth member. Marina says that there is a Dark Lord that has Princess Felice, and the only way to get out of the world is to "win the game". 
After going through what Dara and Finn claim to be pointless filler (collect 3 keys to open the magical gate) by going through three random paths away from the gate, they open the gate to the Dark Lord's castle, which summons out four Inkling guards, but then things go abrupt when the game turns from turfing action to a turn-based situation. After defeating the guards, they go inside the Dark Lord's castle. They find Princess Felice in a iron cage with the Dark Lord turning around from her throne; revealing to be Pearl.
Pearl claims that in this video-game, she'll "take over the world because she's evil". Dara claims that's the worst supervillain motivation that he's ever seen, Pearl says "that's how videogames work". After splatting Pearl, Pearl eventually jumps out of the balcony, but there was no key to freeing Felice. After some time, Pearl flies back up with the Endboss Dragon, the so-called final boss of the game. After splatting the dragon several times, Felice's cage breaks and then the Endboss Dragon finishes them off, Felice jumps in to defend the allies from with her level 99 Bubbler, and then screams out her singing voice to defeat Pearl. The menu pops up, which shows Felice as a level 99 Princess with 9999 HP, goes to the skill select and uses Redemption. Pearl is then redeemed, but the game collapses, indicating that the game is completed. Felice guides everyone to the area where they started, and they escape just in time the game completely blows up.
After getting back to Felice's room, Pearl and Marina were nowhere to be seen, meaning they were just imaginative in-universe characters. Dara claims that they'll have no idea what they for themselves just saw. Felice realizes that during that when they were inside the game, the time was completely frozen, meaning time did not pass at all while they were inside the game. Finn tells Felice to "take her time" when preparing for her next concert and that there is no rush, with everyone laughing in the end. After the 8-bit credits with the duet song (Beatlings and Siren Wish) Conqueror playing, the words GAME OVER appear with a 8-bit fanfare playing, Felice in response, says "HEY!"
==Characters==
	
Felice
The Princess	Princess Felice is the character that gets kidnapped by the Dark Lord in World of Inktasy. 
Dara
Ranger	Dara is the Ranger in World of Inktasy. He serves on ranged combat.
Finn
Thief	Finn is the Thief in World of Inktasy. He serves on supportive roles, such as stealing gold from enemies and debuffing them.
Marina
Wizard	Marina is the Wizard in World of Inktasy. She serves as a mage; doing heavy damage via magical spells.
Pearl
Dark Lord	Pearl is the Dark Lord, the main villain of the game. 
==Gameplay==
The gameplay remains unchanged from the original core. Stages are begun from the main map, and there is a 8-bit style transition when it comes to beginning stages.  
===New Enemies===
 	
Octometeor 	Based on the Octostriker which only appeared from Splatoon 1, this Octarian wizard is capable of casting ink meteors on you, which explode with a large area of effect.
Octorang 	A Octarian thief capable of attacking behind cover with a boomerang.
Octoleech 	A unique Octarian. He is capable of reducing your remaining ink with a dark lightning spell, and then using that ink to cast a shield explosion around him incase he is attacked.
Dark Octoling	A Octoling wielding dark weapons. The male equivalent has a sword and can fire riptide waves with his sword, though they cannot ink. The female equivalent instead has a wand which casts blaster shots.
Octomag 	A shielded Octarian that has a magnetic shield, meaning it will pull all bombs towards him and then tank it with his shield.
Ink Mirror 	A shield that if inks, it reflects back with its own ink color. This also applies to the enemies, which is used in some stages.
Boulder 	Boulders are like 8-balls, but are much larger. They can squash Octarians and Inklings as well, and are too heavy to be affected by ink fire.
Phantom 	These ghosts resemble Octolings. They cannot take damage and must be dodged.
===Video Game Cliches===
Video Game Cliches are represented as overused tropes in videogames. They are earned by playing through the DLC.
 	
Respawning 	"When you die in a video game, it isn't game-over for you, unlike in the real world."
NPCs Explain Everything	"Whenever you run out of ideas on how to progress the plot, let the NPCs do it. Need I say more?"
Turn-Based Battle 	"Ahh, the turn-based battle system, where you can't just fight with real pacing."
Grinding 	"You don't have this? What you need to get this? Just keep on farming these guys, you'll get it."
Game Over 	"Ahh, you ran out of lives or you beat the game. Guess what? Game over for you!"
==Stages==
There are 29 stages and seven bosses to fight (eight if including the final boss's second phase). There are also additionally 16 optional stages to clear, and after you clear all of the stages, you get to defeat Inner Pearl, which is a harder version of the final boss, except instead of having a ludicrous AI, Inner Pearl has upgraded movesets and patterns as well. The stage selection is represented with a fantasy-style map, which gets drawn as you progress. They are styled like the Octo Expansion stages, where you have to use varying weapons (which are the weapons with medieval-themes like the E-Liter being the Cross-Liter) to clear the stage. If a subweapon is labeled "MAX", that means that the subweapon will always maximize, otherwise it won't. Octarians will return in a pink-color, but will be dressed in Final Fantasy-style costumes and their ink has a 8-bit aura. The bosses from Splatoon 1 are featured as remixed versions. Since Octostomp was already reused for Splatoon 2, Octostomp is replaced with a new boss to replace it; Octotide.
===Main Stages===
 	
Octotide: Ride the Tide! 	Weapon: Splatterscope & Burst Bombs
Octotide is a new boss to replace Octostomp from Splatoon 1. He is a robotic star tank that fires ink waves and Inkstrikes towards you. Just like the other Octoweapons, he must be defeated by exposing his weakpoint (tentacles) and splatting them three times.
Octonozzle Capped: Heads Up! 	Weapon: Splat Bombs MAX
Octonozzle Capped is a remix of Octonozzle, except he now has a cap to protect his top. He now has turrets which fire ink shots after you and mortars on top as well.
Octowhirl Spark: Feel the Burn!	Weapon: Explosher
Octowhirl Spark charges up much more faster and is much more durable than his regular counterpart in Splatoon 2. As noted, he sparks ink when he charges up, and after he whirls his way toward you, he casts another whirl which fires ink in all directions, which then during this phase, one of the batteries has to be shortened so when the next time he performs this, he cannot twirl sideways, drowning him in ink and exploding his weak-point.
Octomaw Alpha: Hungry for More!	Weapon: Inkjet (Ink Lightning)
Octomaw Alpha fights differently than his regular counterpart in Splatoon 1, where the entire ink is covered in Octarian ink but it regenerates afterward. The Octomaw instead swims underneath you and jumps up as it centers you. During this phase, he exposes his teeth where you need to shoot explosions with the Ink Lightning Splatling. He upgrades to gold teeth and then platinum teeth. Platinum teeth instead fires lock-on splashes toward you. You have to aim for his mouth's weakspot accurately before he can break and expose the tentacle to splat.
====Epilogue: Battle Against the Dark Lord====
The first phase against the final boss (Chaotic Storm) where you stage against Pearl, begins with her pulling out two of her proprietary Lux & Umbra, which are two dualie blasters. Pearl, instead of dodge-rolling, she teleports across the field with her magic. She can Booyah Bomb as well.
The second phase (Hero's Requiem) is where Pearl summons out Endboss, her dragon and then rides on it. Marina in response casts a spell on you, where you ride on a cloud to take her down in the sky with the Ink Lightning spell (Splatling). The dragon casts constant Killer-Wails, as well as using brush claws as well. After destroying each of the scales and then removing the bubble on Pearl, you have to splat her, knocking her back down.
After this, everyone is back at Pearl's throne room, Felice, having been freed from the cage, protects everyone from Endboss's hyper wail, and then uses a spell on Pearl, clearing the game and then redeeming her at last. This however, sets off a earthquake, eventually realizing that the exit portal has opened.
Felice 	It looks like the game realm is collapsing! We have to escape!
Everyone, including Pearl and Marina, escape to the portal that just opened, supposely the exit to the game. The screen fades to white. 	Everyone, including Pearl and Marina, escape to the portal that just opened, supposely the exit to the game. The screen fades to white.
Felice 	We're back, at last! Hopefully I'm not behind my schedule...
Dara, Finn, & the Turfmaster get up, only to see that Pearl and Marina, despite being in the game, were not with them anymore. Everyone was dressed back in their regular clothes, instead of their fantasy-style costumes.	Dara, Finn, & the Turfmaster get up, only to see that Pearl and Marina, despite being in the game, were not with them anymore. Everyone was dressed back in their regular clothes, instead of their fantasy-style costumes.
Dara 	Wait, where's Pearl and Marina? I thought they were with us.
Felice 	They're video-game characters, and we were taken in by the cartridge. We did have some fun, right? Pearl and Marina were never with us from the beginning.
Dara 	Pearl and Marina will definitely have no idea for what we just saw...
Huh? The clock hasn't moved at all. From what I can tell, it has been only a minute since we tried to play the game from the beginning.
Felice 	Good. I was too worried about missing my concert. As you know, I had a concert planned today, which if you remember, I complained about missing it, but it seemed like all is well to me.
Finn 	Don't worry Felice, take your time. We've had fun with this game, but now we understand what those Inklings on the streets were talking about.
Everyone laughs afterward, and then the scene cuts to black with a 8-bit tune. 	Everyone laughs afterward, and then the scene cuts to black with a 8-bit tune.
===Optional Stages===
===Warp Zones===
There are six Warp Zones in the game. They take you to a segment of side-scrolling stages. Unlike all of the other optional stages, the Warp Zones are hidden and are only found via secrets within the stages. They have 8-bit graphics.
==Face Chats==
Face Chats are the expansion's equivalent of Marina's Chatroom. They are earned after clearing the respect Warp Zone, with a hidden one for completing every stage before the secret boss. As noted, the videos are chats with face-cams, and they explain additional lore about the Beatlings and Felice herself.
===Session 1===
In this session, the Beatlings try to connect with Felice, and Felice says hi back to them for the first time. 
===Session 2===
In this session, everyone talks about the trend of idol duos. Felice even states that Akrasville hadn't even heard of idol duos by the time she started her idol business. She posts a photo of her from 12 years ago, doing yoga at a gym, stating this was taken before she had ever heard of the Squid Sisters and such and the early years of her career.
===Session 3===
In this session, Dara talks about being in Gladiusburg, a country connected in between Inkopolis and Octopia, and the common differences between Inklings and cuttlefish.
===Session 4===
In this session, Felice talks to the Beatlings about Akrasville, and how a society who had never heard of Turf Wars eventually caught up to Inkopolis.
===Session 5===
In this session, Dara and Finn talk about how they met, Dara worked as a electronic DJ and Finn worked as a rockstar, posting photos of their past careers. A recording of their original music is also present.
===Session 6===
In this session, Felice talks to the Beatlings about why she chose to be a solo idol instead of a idol duo like everyone ese. She also posts a photo of a unnamed cuttlefish idol duo that she once competed against in the past, plus a recording of their music. 
===Bonus Track===
In the bonus track from clearing all of the stages including the final boss, and at the same time you unlock the secret boss, the seventh hidden Bonus Track is unlocked. In this bonus track, Felice talks to Pearl and Marina about the World of Inktasy game, with both of them stating that the game was sold out everywhere, and that Akrasville has one last store that still sells the game. This eventually leads up to the events of the Idolventure.
==Gear==
===Curses===
Curses are a special kind of upgrade, that gives an advantage but reduces something in return. For example, Poise reduces the special/sub damage you take by 10%, but reduces your swim speed by 5%. They can only stack 3 times as the cursed sets are only comprised of 3 parts, however.
 	
Poise 	You will take 10% less special/sub damage (stackable with Defense), but you will swim at 5% less speed.
Haste 	You will attack at 10% increased speed, but your damage is reduced by 10%.
Berserk	Your damage with regular weapons is increased by 10% (stacks with Power), but your ink regeneration is reduced by 5%.
Reload 	Reduces subweapon cost by 10%, but reduces your primary effectiveness by 5%.
===Inktasy Gear===
This is the gear that you can obtain from playing World of Inktasy. As World of Inktasy has a medieval theme to it, they will consist of armors and weapons themed after the Dark Ages.
 	
Wizard Blaster	A blaster that resembles a wizard's wand. 
Cross-charger 	A charger that resembles a archer's crossbow. 
Dwarf Stamper 	A stamper that resembles a dwarf's hammer. 
Knight's Quill	A inkquill that resembles a knight's sword.
Pixel Love 	A aura that gives your ink a 8-bit vibe.
====Cursed Gear====
Cursed Gear is unique from regular gear. They will have only one main slot, which is a curse. They cannot be expanded at a Gear Specialist. All of these cursed gear will have three parts each; hat, shirt, and gloves.
 	
Dark Knight Gear	A dark swordman's uniform, which is heavy to wear. Has the Poise curse.
Octomancer Gear 	A dark wizard's uniform, which is uncomfortable to wear. Has the Berserk curse.
Striker Gear 	A dark thief's uniform, which is bulky to wear. Has the Haste curse.
Hunter Gear 	A dark hunter's uniform, which is complex to wear. Has the Reload curse.
==Trivia==
*This is the first Splatoon plot where an idol is fought as a boss and serves as a main villain. (excluding Callie from Splatoon 2)
*The computer that Felice uses on the Video Chats, resembles a iMac Pro.
*According to one of the video chats, Felice says that in the past 13 years, her first competitor was a retired cuttlefish idol duo which predated the Squid Sisters. This may be a reference to the unnamed Cuttlefish duo (cream and chocolate) that appeared as a image in Octo Expansion and in the artbook, which is also nicknamed by fans "Cuttlefrisk".
*Many of the clothes in the expansion are loosely based on the classic Final Fantasy games.
*The GAME OVER post-credits scene uses the game-over music from the original Super Mario Bros.
*A promotion for this expansion in Japan had a boxart dressed to look like a Famicom game, with a cartridge mockup as well.
*The 8-bit side-scrolling sections are based on a "missing trailer scene" from a earlier Splatoon 1 trailer, which showcased a 16-bit Inkling.
*Off the Hook gets additional songs, 2 being solos, and 1 epilogue song together. Chaotic Storm is Pearl's solo, and plays during the first phase of the final boss, Lost Order is Marina's solo, and plays as her introduction, and the epilogue song is Reunited Victory, which plays after defeating Pearl's dragon.
**Additionally, the equivalent of Fly Octo Fly (final boss theme performed by idols) is Hero's Requiem, performed by both the Beatlings and Siren's Wish, and is the first Splatoon song to feature a choir-like tone.
*The chat names of Dara, Finn, and Felice are;
**Dara: @DaraDash
**Finn: @Krab-Bee-Rockstar
**Felice:@PopGoddess
==Gallery==
Inktasy.png|Logo
Inktasyintro.png|Intro text
Inktasyintrojapan.png|Intro text (Japanese)
Inktasydialogue.png|Dialogue box
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