before i just talked about the multiplayer but i finally got around to completing all of the story mode except for after alterna. this campaign was pretty fun! it kept me engaged for most of it and i love how all collectibles are in the overworld now. there are a lot of fun levels but some are absolute Buttfuck and the bosses are kinda lame. however! the final boss sequence was awesome ...but this is still your run-of-the-mill splatoon campaign. i know we weren't promised anything of the sort but the initial teaser for the campaign made it seem like we weren't just going to get the same weird floating disconnected levels from the past three (3) campaigns. i don't necessarily want splatoon to go ""Open World"" but i just want something different, man! also it took me way too long to realize that the platforming sucks balls in this series

the multiplayer is plagued by overly tedious leveling progression, worthless updates, a terrible communication system, and a lack of entertaining, new, or interesting content, making this one of the most disappointing and frustrating games i've ever played.
the online infrastructure is embarrassingly archaic and what's crazy is that all of the aforementioned problems and more have been present since the first game was released in checks notes 2015.

it's a shame because there's so much potential in splatoon but nahhh lets just add an old map and weapon here and there and have a pisspoor event every few months. Man



fuck this shitass game im gonna go hit the griddy gangnam style on fortnite now

yeah i feel pretty mixed about this video game right here. I've sunk about 50 hours into the multiplayer and haven't touched the campaign yet and while it is Pretty Fun, i can't help but constantly feel like i want more.
big fan of the squid roll, squid surge, new customization, QOL stuff, etc., but this really does feel like a glorified Kinda Big update to the previous game, which is what splatoon 2 also felt like. is the inevitable splatty 4 also gonna feel like this? yeah probably

Nintendo struck gold with splatoon back in 2015 (yet somehow this game has a lot of the problems from then, i.e., terrible comms system, constant connection errors) amidst their Big Fuck era of the wii u and realized, "okay this is awesome and people really like this, we can get away with half-assing a sequel and not only will we make big bucks but folks will not just tolerate it but Love it." and they did it again!

it feels unfinished? incomplete? i don't know exactly what word to use but it feels like a lot is missing here. im glad that people are enjoying this game but playing the multiplayer feels more like a rinse-and-repeat cycle of 'max out salmon run rewards and then maybe play a little bit more of that and turf war until i get bored' as opposed to...i dunno, just playing for funsies with a goal or 2 in mind.

and how the hell is there no brand new mode? (Tableturf fans you can suck my nuts (not really though))
it feels like they think that making salmon run available 24/7 (which is a stupid fucking sentence) is enough to justify them not bothering to add anything entirely new to the online.

overall to me splatty 3 really feels like it just lacks the substance to justify it being a brand new game. like sableyeruby said in their review and replies to said review, its a pretty Good Game in a vacuum but it reeks of FOMO.

i feel the same way about splatoon that i do about pokemon. this franchise is so fucking cool and its a damn shame that its plagued by AAA gaming fuckshit

okay bye guys im gonna go get 1200 points on salmon run and hopefully maybe get the dab emote by december ^_^