Splatoon 3 Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

For our Splatoon 3 Review, we visited Splatsville, the city of chaos, the adrenaline-fueled heart of the dusty Splatlands. The folks who live here are a little rowdier than what you might find in far-away Inkopolis.

Splatoon 3 Review Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 5.4GB download size.
• Import Splatoon 2 save (optional) to get Golden Sheldon tickets, early access to a game mode and settings, and online rankings.
• A character creator for you and your little sidekick.
• Opening tutorial section.
• Full gyroscope controls (optional).
• 3rd person shooter gameplay.
• In-game cutscenes.
• Exceptional soundtrack.
• Familiar controls.
• Splatsville is your hub town where you can freely roam the streets, enter and use the shops, do deals, read and write messages with others and do some online play.
•  Controls can be inverted with sensitivity sliders. Handheld and big screen have seperate menus.
• Amiibo support.
• Color the floor with your ink color, transform into a squid and travel faster in the ink and replenish your ammo.
• You can use the ink to climb walls, jump over obstacles and go through fences.
• Multiplayer stages are cycled in and out with two being in rotation at a time.
• Booting up the game will give you a brief rundown on any updates, events, and stages available from the studio team.
• An online hub that is a seperate place where you can practice, choose game modes and buy new gear.
• All gear has stat changes on them.
• You are free to roam the online lobby whilst the game match makes.
• Splashtags are player cards you can customize and show off in-game.
• Earn EXP and level up to earn cash and new gear.
• Lobby terminals allow you to view replays, Battle logs, replay codes, edit your splash tag, change nickname, change region, and get stuff.
• Matches are automatically saved and can then be viewed and uploaded.
• Fast travel between the shops and locations.
• Photo mode.
• Emotes can be used.
• Level up gear and weapons by using them to make them better
• Sheldon passes are needed to buy gear and come in Silver and Gold versions.
• Test weapons before buying them.
• Friend list avatars will appear in the online lobby and clicking on them will show up stats.
• Medals are awarded in multiplayer for things like most splats covered the most ground etc.
• Fast matchmaking.
• In Single-player, you are collecting power eggs and using them to clear out the ooze in the hub areas which in turn opens up new stages and Collectibles.
• You can replay levels.
• Hidden Collectibles and rewards.
• Slight puzzle elements.
• The Crater area is basically the tutorial.
• Alterna is the new hub world you explore.
• Sardium is collected and used to unlock new upgrades.
• Six sites within the single player, are basically six areas containing levels.
• Splat enemies and fund collectibles to get upgrade points.
• Stages are big with a lot in them.
• Constant checkpoints.
• The catalog is where you earn catalog points as you play and rank up for rewards, you spend your points on unique gear.
• The kicker is your personal space to buy and hang up rewards and items.
• Weapons and gear unlock to buy as you level up.
• The salmon run is back with optional tutorials. For the unknowing, this is a team-based Co-op event against Ai where you collect eggs, fight bosses, and deposit eggs into baskets.
• The salmon run has its own set of maps in rotation like the multiplayer maps.
• The salmon run has its own leveling system and rank rewards.
• Salmon run rewards are – work suits, decorations, stickers, and banners.
• Earn multiplayer rewards in the single player.
• When the maps change whilst you are in the shops or world, it’s a pop-up whereas before it would do the whole cutscenes thing.
• The Shoal is where you go to do local wireless play.
• Shell out machine is a capsule mini-game with random rewards.
• Food and drink need tickets to buy things but they grant exp boosts, cash boosts, etc.
• You can view other players’ lockers.
• Auto saves regularly.
• Matchmaking can be done solo or by grouping up with friends, joining friends from your list, etc.
• You can post messages/drawings you make with the in-game ink pad.
• Earn upgrade points in the hubs by painting the walls and floors.
• Stages have more to them now, puzzle elements, racing, unique usage of weapons, etc.
• The Salmon run is available all the time whereas last time it was time sensitive.

Splatoon 3 Review Cons:

• Shops are still locked behind a player-level rank even if you import your save.
• Same formula as before.
• No way to skip the opening studio intro.
• The location rotation is still not ideal.
• No increase to the player count.
• Doesn’t offer any sort of bot match.
• You really do feel weak online and it takes hardly anything to splat you.
• The gear always comes down to practicality over looks.
• Cannot rebind controls.
• The tutorial is very basic.
• If you swap weapons between rounds, you cannot then quit out.
• Had an Amiibo error popping up a lot at random times.
• Can feel like the skill level-based matchmaking is a bit one-sided at times.
• Online is the same as last year at least gameplay-wise.

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Splatoon 3:

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Developer: Nintendo

Publisher: Nintendo

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