Sea-Cucumber Phone
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Sea-Cucumber Phones are a piece of equipment that the player has in Splatoon 3.
Description
Sea-Cucumber Phones are flip-phones with a rounded shell and rounded spines on the outside of their screens, resembling those of a sea cucumber. All players seem to have them, although they are not usually seen.
The phone is popular worldwide, but its popularity originated with the youth of the Splatlands. The spines on the phone are all antennae, which make the phone troublesome to use, but allow the phone to get a signal from anywhere.[1] The phone's sturdiness and the strength of the antennae are factors that make it suitable for the Splatlands, and have led to it getting significant share of the market.[2]
Gameplay
Sea-Cucumber Phones can be used to listen to the Anarchy Splatcast in the background as an alternative to watching it, and players can be seen in Splatsville and Inkopolis Plaza using them. When using the Sea-Cucumber Phone to listen to the broadcast in the background, the dialog is shown at the top left of the screen, implying that the player is using their phone to listen to it. Players can obtain a Sea-Cucumber Phone for their locker by purchasing it from Hotlantis for 85,850 coins or via the Shell-Out Machine.
Story
Side Order
In Side Order (as stated in the 11th entry of Marina's Dev Diaries), Marina realizes that the Sea-Cucumber Phones, which she was planning to use as entrypoints into her virtual reality named "★Dramatic Days in Orderland★," have a security flaw that could be exploited to pull anyone into it losing their free will in the real world by using a process called "Grayscaling."
Gallery
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An Octoling using a Sea-Cucumber phone
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Splatoon 3 promotional art, featuring an Inkling using a Sea-Cucumber phone.
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In-universe advertisement for Sea-Cucumber phones, from The Art of Splatoon 3.
Trivia
- The Sea-Cucumber Phones replace the squid and octopi shaped smartphones from Splatoon 2, although squid-shaped phones are still visible on a table in Splatoon 3's iteration of The Shoal and on display in a shop in Splatsville. The smartphones are also still visible in Inkopolis Square, where Murch still uses his squid-shaped phone, and the player and offline stand-in characters also use the old phones.
- Big Man references the Sea-Cucumber Phone in one of the Anarchy Splatcast stage dialogues for Hagglefish Market.[3]
- When entering Hotlantis from Inkopolis Plaza or Inkopolis Square, Harmony will use a Sea-Cucumber Phone to communicate.
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning |
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Japanese | ナマコフォン namako fon |
Sea-Cucumber Phone |
Dutch | Zeekomkommertelefoon | Sea-cucumber telephone |
German | Seegurken-Telefon | Sea-Cucumber Phone |
Italian | Cetriollare di mare | Sea-cucumphone[note 1] |
Russian | Голотурифон (Pre-7.0.0) Goloturifon |
Holothuroiphone[note 2] |
Голотурофон Goloturofon |
Same above | |
Spanish | Teléfono pepino de mar | Sea-Cucumber Phone |
Translation notes
- ↑ From Cetriolo di mare (Sea cucumber) and Cellulare (Mobile phone, Cellular)
- ↑ From голотурия goloturiya (Holothuroidea) and телефон telefon (phone)