A wave of Splatoon 2 tracks landed on Nintendo Music this week, and we have now been jamming alongside to the Splatfest sounds within the days since. Nonetheless, it appears to be like just like the replace contained a couple of extra tracks than Nintendo supposed, as a handful of them have since been eliminated.
5 tracks have been pruned this time — ‘A Brighter Future Awaits! (Grizzco recruitment video)’, ‘January 2017 trailer’, ‘Bonus Observe (After Octo)’, ‘Splatocalypse (Closing Splatfest Trailer)’ and ‘Inkopolis Memorial Mixtape’ — all of which, in accordance with OatmealDome on BlueSky, had been beforehand launched completely on the Japanese soundtrack CD.
Whereas they caught round, these “hidden” tracks might solely be accessed within the Nintendo Music app through search somewhat than the same old ‘All Tracks’ playlist.
The elimination was accompanied by the next message from Nintendo within the app’s ‘Notices’ tab:
Change of settings for some tracks.
Thanks for utilizing the Nintendo Music app.
There have been some tracks in “Splatoon 2” that weren’t scheduled to be launched which might be performed solely after they had been searched.
We’ve got made these tracks unavailable. Thanks to your understanding.
Weirdly, it appears to be like like in the event you saved any of the “hidden” tracks to one in all your private playlists, then you should still have entry to them. We would think about that is extra a bug than a hidden loophole, so take pleasure in ’em earlier than Nintendo catches on, we guess!
On the time of writing, it is unclear whether or not these mysterious tracks will ever make a comeback, although the particular wording of “not scheduled to be launched” above makes us suppose that we would see them once more in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later. Hey, it is Nintendo, who is aware of!
You’ll find the total line-up of the remaining tracks from this week’s replace in our unique article beneath.