So this is mostly going into the singleplayer campaign, as I have played a good chunk of the multiplayer but I don't have as much to say about it. I find it very fun with friends, not something I have any intention of playing on my own. I'm also very bad at Splatoon so I don't think that aspect helps much either.

But I would still say the multiplayer is the majority of stars in this rating.

The singleplayer would switch intermittently between painfully boring and incomprehensibly frustrating. The level gimmicks do not feel as interesting or inspired as they were in the Octo Expansion, and it was more concerned with making use of some of the new exclusive Splatoon 3 items like the grappling hook, most of which I do not find smooth to use at all.

I do like how most of the levels are optional, because by the end of the game I had enough eggs to skip an entire world and that was nice. The music pales in comparison once again to Octo-Expansion, and the final act is the weakest so far in the whole series.

It really just feels like a check in a box before going to the multiplayer, and expelled no emotions from me whatsoever, that is except the piece of shit levels which give you one checkpoint for a 5-minute slog where if you miss one box or target, you're back to the beginning again.

I'm realizing after this game that as much as I want to be, I'm not a huge Splatoon guy. I have an infinite amount of respect for this series, but maybe it may be best if I steer clear of Splatoon 4.