Get ready to spray some apartment walls in the new Splatoon map.
Flounder Heights joins the map rotation in Nintendo’s hit third-person shooter for Wii U at 7 p.m. Pacific tonight, August 20. It’s a map with large vertical walls to splat and ascend, seemingly based on the danchi housing complexes that the Japanese government built from the mid-1950s to the ’80s to help shelter a growing population.
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Tomorrow at 7 PM PT – a mere 24 hours from now – Flounder Heights joins the #Splatoon map rotation! pic.twitter.com/94sttlRksv
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) August 20, 2015
“Try as you might, you can’t ignore the apartment building in the middle of the map,” reads a post about Flounder Heights on the official Splatoon blog. “It stands like a gigantic wall, looming over the battlefield like an ominous, erm, an ominous … apartment building, I guess. Will you make your stand in a hail of ink on the rooftop? Will you try and sneak your way through the middle? Whatever your strategy, there’s no getting into enemy turf without getting past this monolith.”