I play Splatoon for the story. I can't make myself be consistent with any kind of online game, even one in a franchise I love as dearly as this. And thankfully, Splatoon 3's Story Mode (titled "Return of the Mammalians") didn't disappoint. I don't think it's as good as Octo Expansion, but it took the best parts of that and combined them with parts of 1+2's base campaigns to give us the best base game campaign in the series so far.

The multiplayer is still fun as ever, with a number of QoL changes that shake things up a bit, but I've probably put less hours into it than any Splatoon game thus far.