Sure, you’ll have to splat your foes in order to win just because they’re in the way, but you get way more points from painting the floor. What has always made Splatoon so clever is that anything you do serves the dual purposes of painting the level and taking out your enemies, but the former is much more conducive to team success than the latter. These can range from a deployable soda cooler that powers up your teammates to an aerial missile barrage and even a Crab Tank, which is a controllable tank that looks like a crab, naturally.
The weapons strike the perfect balance of “silly” and “easy to learn, tough to master.”Įach weapon comes with a sub-weapon (usually some form of grenade) and a special ability that charges up as you paint the terrain in a level. Aside from returning favorites like the Aerospray MG, an ink-shooting machine gun, and the Carbon Roller, a giant paint roller that flattens any enemies it touches, there are newcomers like the Splatana, a katana that splashes ink with each slash, and the Tri-Stringer, a bow and arrow that can be aimed either vertically or horizontally. There’s always been a nice variety of weapon types in Splatoon and the third game builds upon that with some great new additions. There is a teal versus pink combination that messes with me a little bit, but the good news is you can turn on “Color Lock” in the options menu to stick with the combination that works for you. Matchups like orange versus blue or yellow versus purple are both attractive to look at and functionally legible for a person who doesn’t see color correctly. These ink colors are randomized from match to match, and most of them contrast well enough for my colorblind eyes. Step into the enemy’s color, however, and you’ll be stuck in the mud (so to speak), barely able to move and totally unable to swim. Both Inklings and Octolings can quickly swim around in their own team’s color, which helps as a form of transportation and as a way to quickly refill your ink chamber. In Splatoon 3's main online mode, two teams of four cephalopod kids (called Inklings and Octolings) face off with the objective of painting in as much of the map in their team’s respective color as possible. Given that the original Splatoon was exclusive to the Wii U (which only sold 13 million consoles in its short lifetime) and plenty of folks probably didn’t have a Switch yet when Splatoon 2 came out four months after the console launched, an introduction might be in order.Īfter all, this may be a multiplayer shooter, but it works quite differently from something like Call of Duty since Nintendo makes games that kids can enjoy and whatnot. Oh, and you'll need a $20/year Nintendo Switch Online subscription to access the meat of Splatoon 3. You don’t reinvent macaroni and cheese every time you make it, do you? A different kind of "shooter" It’s video game comfort food that's been simmered to near-perfection. Put simply, this is the most Splatoon has ever Splatoon'ed.
It’s still the same beautifully simple game as before, but this time there’s more of it - more weapons, more levels, and more fresh gear to outfit your character in.
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With its third entry in the series since 2015, Nintendo’s take on multiplayer shooting is already getting a little long in the tooth. Splatoon 3 fits comfortably into the latter category. There are times when innovation is necessary and there are times when the best move is to just make more of something.
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