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Splatoon 3 Discussion (Nintendo Switch) [game]
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02/18/21, 01:48 |
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Man, what a weirdly-paced trailer, haha. It really had a vibe. Going from the mysterious apocalyptic opening to that deliberate train ride (with that standing fish) to the muted town. And then the drums kicking everything into gear. A bold construction. I guess Splatoon trailers are always weird, though. The Octo Expansion trailer was stylishly nutty, too. @DrFinkelsteinHaha, with this announcement and the 2020 Animal Crossingpocalypse, we have truly entered the Finkelstein era. @Secret_TunnelI wanna brag about calling this, but I'm going to save the brag for calling Mario Golf! Anyway, I think that the Spla3een campaign will be more like a traditional campaign. Which would be a cool, novel twist to distinguish this game. I hope that the levels aren't all brown and grungy, though! |
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I'm...not sure how to feel about this! Okay, so, I actually love the original Splatoon. I think it was one of the best new Nintendo IPs in years and my GOTY 2015. It felt so fresh and original and fun. But I felt the sequel didn't quite add enough onto the game for my tastes. It was still very good and I played it plenty, but I found its launch features lacking outside of the (very fun) Salmon Run, and by the time they doled out some new Ranked modes, I had moved on. I'm somewhat worried Splatoon 3 will feel similarly "hurried out," rather than the ultimate Splatoon experience. Just kind of my gut feeling due to it being on the same hardware/engine and looking almost indistinguishable from the previous games. I dunno, maybe I'm just being a negative Nelly, but the trailer didn't really convince me a whole separate game is, like, necessary? In other words, if a logo saying SPLATOON 2 EXPANSION PASS: CANYON CALAMARI popped up instead of SPLATOON 3, I wouldn't question it at all. Of course, it's still early and to be fair, it will have been a full five years between the games, so maybe they're cooking up some truly fresh seafood for me to chew on again. @AnandYou and me both on Mario Golf! |
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I did a write up on the whole Nintendo Direct as a whole. However I'll share my Splatoon 3-specific thoughts below. ------------------I was really hoping for one final surprise, as I think we all do with Nintendo Directs. This Nintendo Direct… the first one in over five-hundred days, couldn’t have picked a BETTER surprise. The final trailer opens up on a rock ridge. I did not know what this was about. Then it cut to a desolate canyon. Subway cars were buried partially in the ground. I too, didn’t click at all what this was. Then it cut to a third shot, of a character in a hood sitting on a rock. My brain slowly realizing what I was seeing was a bit of Nintendo magic. The hood gets pulled down and I finally realize that the person under there is a Squid girl. I screamed out in existential joy as my synapses fired off and put together the puzzle being fed through my eyes. Those subway cars were disheveled because of the Chaos that the Final Fest brought. I started to feel like I was seeing the sequel to one of my favorite games and franchises of all time. Over the last three+ years I have put over 1,060 hours into the sequel and I’ve even started dabbling into the original again (of which I put hundreds and hundreds of hours into that). I have squids on my walls. I participate in every Splatfest I can. There was even a splatfest on the day a friend of mine got married and I participated in that splatfest from my hotel room, thirteen floors up, in a state far from where I actually live. I was able to have my cake and eat it too that day. Sometimes I feel like I love Splatoon more than Zelda or Mario but saying so feels blasphemous. I just chalk them up to being different incomparable experiences, and in stating that, I must say, I love Splatoon and it’s my favorite franchise! It was funny to realize that I didn’t even notice that ‘Little Buddy’ was a salmonid right out in the open. My brain had needed more time to register it all. You better believe it!The trailer did a great job at continuing to be vague. I wasn’t sure if what I was seeing was a true sequel to Splatoon 2, or if it was some kind of DLC pack. The DLC in Splatoon 2 is delightfully tackled and thorough. I wouldn’t have put it past Nintendo to see a DLC pack again. However I know the fan base and the sales are so high for Splatoon 2, and the timing has been so long since the original release, that I really felt like this was my moment. This was Splatoon 3. The trailer continued forth in the desolate landscape, making me laugh all the way. Seeing the salmonid look like my own Baby Yoda is hilarious and intriguing. I’m watching The Mandalorian now and it’s hard to ignore how cute that character is. Finally our Squid Girl was in a mysterious city. By now I really suspected we were seeing the sequel. And then as the delicious euphonic goodness of a remixed musical track from Splatoon 1 swelled up… CONFIRMATION!BOOM! There it was! Splatoon 3 was confirmed. I had been wishing and hoping for this day. As much as I love Splatoon 2, I have long since maxed out every single piece of gear you can collect. I have put so many hours into the multiplayer. I have 100%ed the story mode and the DLC. I have milked Splatoon 2 for every ounce of surprise and splendor. Now I am going to get to start that all over again. I’m a bit of a simpleton and I would be pretty happy with more clothes, stages, and story. However I think we’re going to see some new weapons and mechanics that change the game a bit. I hope this is true, to keep things fresh, but I don’t think they’re going to muck up the core gameplay. In that previously mentioned tweet of mine where I listed my five MEGATON moments for this Direct, Splatoon 3 was the first one. I am so overjoyed that I managed to receive it. The remainder of the trailer looked great too. We saw gameplay in a new arena, which looks way more organic than usual. From a Japanese twitter account for the game, it seems that due to the Chaos and story, we’re going to see more organic stages going forward. I do hope they’ll bring back some old classics from Splatoon 1 and Splatoon 2, but more so the original as I miss some of those stages. They deserve to be updated as Splatoon 2 did. There isn’t much else to say about all this right now because I can’t reiterate how much in love I am with this trailer than I already have been. I am a happy Nintendo fan. I’m a Squid Kid for life. I will have to wait till 2022 for the release though… bummer! Hopefully it’s a Spring 2022 release though. Barely a year away… |
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I am loving this game so far. I lament like others that there should be something new and cool mode-wise, but at the same time, what Splatoon 2 put out there is certainly built up and improved. Salmon Run has so many new bosses, and super bosses; new stages, and is 24/7. Turf War has new stages and so many subtle refinements. It feels different to play but only slightly. Tighter than ever. New maneuvers make things interesting, along with the new weapon, sub-weapon, and special types. Even on the same Splatoon 2 levels that returned, strategies need to be revamped. Then single player... I'm enjoying this a lot so far. Made it to the 'second' hub. Those who know, know what I'm talking about. I'm enjoying the exploration. It's very Bowser's Fury in essence actually. So while it's not truly open world, it's quite adequate at making that feeling there nonetheless. I can imagine future games going open world in the single player but it will take iteration that they're just clearly not ready to make yet. Lastly, matchmaking is really stellar compared to past games. Easy to join matches. Easy to find out who is doing what. Easy to ENSURE your friends are on your team, if you want them to be.
Great title so far. Very pleased. |
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Huge news! Splatoon 3 did amazingly in Japan over the weekend. I'm curious what global sales were, but this alone puts it at the 32nd best selling game on the Switch... by just Japanese launch weekend sales. 3.45mil in 3 days is the best launch result in Japan for any video game ever regardless of platform or franchise. Splatoon 3 has already sold more than at least... Metroid Dread, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Mario Golf: Super Rush, Octopath Traveler, and Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle.. and it's not far from passing Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity or Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I wonder if there's any chance it'll beat Splatoon 2, which sits at 13.30 million as of March 2022. I'm still skeptical because I just feel like this is about sales timing and not so much the numbers. It could have a sharper start but a quicker leveling off. So many people would have gotten their fix in Splatoon 2, and despite it being an improvement in pretty much all ways, Splatoon 3 may not cater to those beyond the hardcore fans or milder fans. Light fans may ignore. It's super dope though. I've been playing that Tabletop game too... and I actually like it a lot now that I've gotten into it more. There's a real, "just one more game" feel to it. They're quick enough to play but they're always a different experience. It's a bit less dynamic and expandable than something like Salmon Run, so I see why it wasn't deemed to be the next true mode in the series, but I would like them to keep adding maps/cards/expansions to it in Splatoon 3 and beyond. I dig it! |
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