I was so hyped for this game. It was exciting to see not only a new IP from Nintendo being headed by some of the younger staff but also the style for this game looked off the charts. Really colourful and snappy action based gameplay with top tier character designs and a really diverse and cool OST with metal and hip hop influences.

All that stuff still sticks in the final game, the style of this game impressed me back then and still does today. The unfortunate part is that...the gameplay doesn't really match up to it. The single player campaign kinda feels like a glued together create-your-own-splatoon mode that I never felt too strongly about and the multiplayer suite, whilst being the better of the two, still wore me out over time and never really clicked with me.

It's not that it wasn't fun to play, cus it could at times, i just personally felt like maybe something was missing. Maybe it was another design element to push it over the top, maybe it was more content, maybe it was having actual functional team talk and communication in a team based shooter where your success is based off other people: I actually don't know. Maybe all along this was always destined to be just an alright to good kid focused shooter but I got too suckered in too hard by it's production values. Woomy.