Splatoon 3 Side Order DLC Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

Splatoon 3 Side Order DLC Review, As Agent 8, you wake up to discover Inkopolis Square has been drained of colour and its residents have gone missing. Alongside a drone who claims to be Off the Hook member Pearl, ascend the floors of the Spire of Order and strengthen your abilities as you climb the tower in a single-player experience that’s designed to be replayed over and over!

Splatoon 3 Side Order DLC Review Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 10.8GB 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.
• Roguelike shooter gameplay.
• 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. The handheld and big screen have seperate menus.
• Amiibo support.
• Color the floor with your ink color, transform into a squid travel faster in the ink, and replenish your ammo.
• You can use the ink to climb walls, jump over obstacles, and go through fences.
• The train station takes you to either Inkopolis Square or Inkopolis Plaza.
• Single-player game mode.
• You create a character from a list of hairstyles, eye color, eyebrows, etc.
• Color the floor with your ink color, transform into a squid travel faster in the ink, and replenish your ammo.
• You can use the ink to climb walls, jump over obstacles, and go through fences.
• The opening part is setting up the story and scenario.
• Fast loading times.
• You play a character called Agent 8.
• Basic tutorial pop-ups that are more of a refresher.
• In-game cutscenes and character interactions.
• Uses its own Squid language.
• The color has been taken from Inkopolis.
• Color chips can be earned after each floor is clear and give new buffs, abilities, etc, and are color-coded and you equip them in each color slot.
• Damage numbers show as you shoot.
• You are working your way up a tower and start at the bottom every time with a boss fight at the top.
• Every floor has a set objective.
• You get three lives per floor.
• Enemies take damage in your ink.
• Your drone partner can carry you if you fall far and whilst being held you can shoot.
• Combo counter as you take people out.
• Breakable objects in the game world.
• Uses a cool CCTV-like camera cut at the end of a level and has hi-tech-looking ui and screens.
• A floor consists of a practice dummy and a cage to take you over to the main floor, when in the cage you can’t shoot but you can drop out whenever you want and fly in on your drone.
• Blowing up portals within a level causes a huge ink explosion and portals spawn enemies.
• Auto saves between floors.
• The floors do incorporate multiplayer modes but in a solo setting so things like holding down an area and splatting everyone or shooting an antenna to move it etc.
• Earn Membux from each floor after completing the objective.
• Satisfying gameplay loop.
• Bite-sized floor challenges.
• You still get your bombs and special moves.
• Works as a good way to help you with online.
• Later floors will let you pick the objective and each has a difficulty assigned.
• All new enemy types are called the Jelletons.
• Very basic puzzle elements to floors as if you plan and work out what stuff you can make clearing a floor easier or/and faster.
• The combo counter builds which can have bombs and rewards drop.
• The end of the level shows the time taken.
• Membux can be used to continue the floor if you lose all your lives otherwise you start the floor again from scratch.
• Photo mode.
• PRLZ is the main currency and is used to lower the difficulty of the spires.
• The game turns into a roguelike after the opening spire run.
• At the end of every run, you turn your collected color chips and Membux into PRLZ.
• Spend PRLZ on your character – max lives, damage reduction, max armor, and broken armor jump. And your drone (who is Pearl) drone action slots, drone gauge Turf charge, and drone ink mine.
• Over time you unlock new entries to spend your PRLZ on and can be real game changers.
• Keys can be found and these are used at the lockers to get new rewards like diary entries, banners, new weapons to use, etc.
• Palettes will have a weapon, most common tone (chip) secondary common tone, and abilities and bomb types. They are loadouts.
• The Foyer is a huge practice area and you have access before any new run.
• Floors are randomized in terms of objectives and difficulties for each objective.
• Towers will have rewards at certain levels and you see them on the map after finishing a floor.
• You are collecting and encountering items to fill in – the color chop collection, the Jelleton field guide, and the Dev diary.
• Many rewards can be used outside of the DLC and used online.
• Some cool level layouts and designs.
• Hitting floor five gets you a bonus of PRLZ but then has the next run giving you 500 Membux to start with and floor 5 has a shop.
• Your best run gets shown on the map every run.
• Gets very addictive.
• Bonus floors can appear for a bigger one-off reward.
• You can spend PRLZ on the starting floor position.
• End of run breakdown showing what killed you and all the chips you collected and then how many PRLZ you get after they are converted.

Splatoon 3 Side Order DLC Review Cons:

• You get very little info in terms of owning the DLC and where it is.
• Such a slow starter with a lot of stop-start cutscenes and character interactions.
• In tight spaces, you go first person and it all goes a bit weird along with not always being able to see your ink level.
• The story is not front and center.
• Having a level timer feels a bit redundant.
• It’s slow going between floors and not that snappy.
• Cannot skip the cutscenes.
• The game can definitely get overwhelming and that can be frustrating for new players.
• You don’t get all the information like you can drop early from your drown by pressing shoot at a certain angle.
• Some levels are a pain as they stack the game against you but in a cheap way like shoving a load of enemies in a small space.
• Hard to know what objective you are playing, just the difficulty and reward are clear with the objective just being an icon.
• The game doesn’t have a huge pool of modes to play.

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