this is my first experience with splatoon outside of playing like two rounds of splat 1 at a friends house nearly a decade ago (person aging rapidly gif) so take that as you will.

i really like the gameplay loop of splatoon. i'm not very good at it, nor do i really want to put in the effort to be that good at it, but i have fun whenever i turn it on. i never finished the story mode and mostly go in for splatfests and salmon run at this point, but i don't really feel like there's a need for it to be anything else for me personally. maybe because i'm not very competitive or i'm always playing with babies because i haven't been playing this for a decade like some people but i'm never enraged by this silly squid game, i'm just here to paint the ground and laugh at weird usernames

theres obviously problems i have with the game, like how the entirety of salmon run's leveling system works, but as a first-time player in this franchise, i think it's pretty neat.