Was Splatoon 3 Ever GOOD?!

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It's always important to remember: we complain only because we care. As many problems as this game has had, I maintain its the best Splatoon game. Just wish it was even better

It can all be summed up by "hit the ground running, then sprained it's ankle"

Splatoon 3 is good and getting better as the game goes on imo. With everything getting put into the game such as music, stages and kits. I'd personally be fine with the content finishing in a year which is what is said to happen, but who knows what can happen

3:39 as an suuuuper casual player... no, the maps actually suck even more. None of them have any form of identity whatsoever - all of my favourite stages have some kind of gimmick or an actually unique and fun layout. Saltspray and Moray are exactly what I mean - people love those stages because even though competitive players say they are trash, they are just unique and fun to play on to me. These new maps are so trash, they are all tiny and boring and repetitive and I hate basically most of them rip. I don't hate the two new maps but they are still pretty boring aside from the visuals.

overall i like this video but i strongly disagree with multiple things you mention, the idols in this game are the worst, they dont feel like a team in the slightest, octo expansion was better than this game's story mode, off the hook weren't "one hit wonders" they made more music as well, shifty stations were WAY better than tricolor since they at least were new maps and had fun gimicks unlike tricolor which slightly edits pre-existing maps, salmon run has 2 bad maps and the only one you called bad is great, i agree with some of what you say but overall you shit on things that are good and called a decent amount of good things bad

7:49 what

You’d think it’d all add up to be a better experience but I just remember Splatoon 2 so much more fondly than I now regard Splatoon 3. Maybe it’s cuz it was my first splatoon game idk… I tend not to regard sequels as highly as originals. I think it’s mostly the maps that do it for me honestly—they’re so bad it’s very hard to look past them. I love the movement options, and that’s one of the things that matters that I’ll say they most definitely did better, but if the maps prohibit their use there’s not much point. I’m trying to like the new maps from this season but I’m having a hard time so far… hopefully that’ll change soon. I’m more fond of 2’s ranked system too—rank-up battles are abysmal (the bar system was much more forgiving yet felt more rewarding to clear) and I don’t really understand passive seasonal de-ranking instead of what 2 did. It feels like they improved on 1’s ranking with 2’s method and regressed back to 1’s style in 3 by making the modes all combined also—that part alone discourages me from ever playing the modes I don’t like as much in series. Even X (being there and getting there) was better imo. The extra difficulty and the impending threat of being kicked out made playing matches much more enjoyable (in a risk vs reward sense) I’ll say—not to mention, as harsh as 2’s X ranking was, somehow 3’s is worse lol. It’s funny cuz they said the reason they weren’t adding new modes was to refine the old ones, yet zones not only was not changed but is worse somehow imo lol. Tableturf is fine i suppose… I never play it and don’t like it so I can say that’s a me thing, but it’s no replacement for squid beats lol. I can always appreciate folks appreciating the additional customization options, but personally I don’t consider them justification for missing other stuff. I’m willing to see how the rest of the update cycle goes tho and update my opinions accordingly. I will say that overall this current season is much better than the last season so it seems there’s hope.

I honestly feel like shifty stations are just a little better then tricolor, mostly due to it having a unique map gimmick and the maps being twice as better then most splatoon 3 maps. Tricolor is still good, I just wish like you said it could be 3 teams trying to take control of the signal and not just 2v2v4 because that’s stupid. Splatoon 3 is amazing and I can’t wait for the game to die and splatoon 4 releases 😁

One major thing I agree heavily with is the kits. It is pretty bad that so many guns have been left to wait for extra kits, and some that already had good kits got first priority. Slosher, splattershot, aerospray, jr, etc all got extra kits while their first kits were already really solid. While the brella's just recently started getting new kits and have been bad since day 1...

Let’s be honest, the only thing wrong in this video is that ROTM clears Octo Expansion, OE is so much better in so many ways. ROTM copied the escape sequence from OE with the actual final boss part being different. ROTM final boss was grand as it was in space and really linked with Splatoon 2 with Grizzco but Octo Expansion is just amazing, the vibes the story and the characters. When Agent 8 finally reache the surface it’s an amazing scene. Great Video!

In my opinion it started off as a banger but now it’s just stagnating because of the update schedule. Like add more weapon kits mid season, add stages mode season, or just make up something new and exciting for people to do!

Splatoon 3 is definitely in my opinion, is the most fun I had with out of the 3 games by far, even though I'm a player who plays casually and competitively with my brand new team and on my own sometimes, the maps for me really turn me off from playing this game too much, cause I mean look at most of them, but for the most part I love everything about this game, just wish some stuff could have been handled better and I believe when this game is completely done with updates and patches, this game will be the absolute peak of the trilogy by far.

The answer is no it’s not good. Anyone who’s played the previous games knows this one is the worst in the series in terms on the online multiplayer.

No. It wasn’t, and it never will be. The game kills the vibes of the originals and the ranking system is downright discriminatory to the point it’s developers should be in prison for a very long time. Splatoon 4 please come out sooner

3:35 I'm not even a competitive player, despite my love for anarchy battles; but even in turf war, I hate the fact that there are no flank routes, especially since I like sneaking up on my opponents.

idk about yall but shifty stations were the best thing ive ever seen in my entire life

Honestly, I love nearly everything about the game, the weapons feel amazing, I love the gear and the fact that it can be adjusted, banners and lockers are very simple additions, but I adore them, tableturf is really fun, salmon run feels better than ever, I found the single player way more fun than splatoon 2’s ,and I personally never experienced that many issues with the online, though I know some people really do, so I hope it gets fixed. The only things I don’t like that much are the maps and challenges, but even the maps I don’t mind all that much because squid roll and squid surge are so fun the maps don’t feel as bad, is s2 they would have felt horrendous, but in this game they don’t feel all that bad to me. I want the game to be better, I know it can be better, but it’s definitely not as bad as many people make it out to be.

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I haven't played Octo Expansion, but you saying S3 Story mode CLEARS it has got to be an interesting take.