Splatoon 3 Reviews
I jumped into the world of Splatoon as a newbie with this piece. And I was pleasantly surprised at how the game mechanics welcomed me. I learned everything I needed to within a few hours and felt like I benefited from many of the games. Good strategy in competitive play often made up for the unaccustomed console aiming, and I also learned that very quickly. The surprise was the often neglected single-player game, which was fun and took me through all the essential steps I subsequently capitalized on in the battles in Splatlands.
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Splatoon 3 represents a step forward in the series. It takes everything that made the previous two games memorable and delivers it in slicker, more fluid and more dynamic ways. It also opens more possibilities for solo gaming while maintaining the rich and lively online experience. Truly the best treatment the Splatoon series could get, its third chapter is another landmark in the Nintendo Switch catalogue.
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On the whole, Splatoon 3 is a family-friendly shooter that’s bright, dynamic, and well-polished. Depending on your experience, communication errors and lobby wait times can hold things back, but regular events to bring the community together, as well as the desire to dominate the leaderboard is likely to keep me coming back for more ink-fuelled anarchy for some time to come.
Splatoon 3 is a worthy successor in the series, expanding on everything players loved about the first two games while listening to feedback from fans and making changes to keep the game feeling fresh and new.
Splatoon 3 is pure joy in a video game. It gives you a dose of the familiar, splicing it with the new and giving it all a sparkling coat of paint. It’s a complete package that will continue to delight for years to come with updates and additions. Without question, this is the defining game in the franchise and one that is sure to provide an exciting, interesting and bold new future.
It’s more fun, more refined, and more accessible in every way, while somehow managing to surpass the previous games in style and presentation. Evolution, not revolution, is the catch of the day, and that’s fine by me if it’s served up as exquisitely as Splatoon 3.
Blending fun territories and weapons with easily accessible features, a variety of gameplay modes and a solid solo offering, this installment makes for the kind of game that does the Splatoon name proud.
Splatoon 3 improves a lot of the little nooks and cranies from the latest installment in the series. Its campaign and gunplay is better than ever, but at the same time it doesn't feel as fleshed out as it should, but even if is more Splatoon, that is pretty good in a way.
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Overall, Splatoon 3’s single-player and tabletop modes are refreshing, but the multiplayer modes and equipment play things super safe. There is a bucket load of enjoyable tweaks to the game, and Splatoon 3 is undoubtedly the most accessible and entertaining entry so far, but issues dating back to the original Wii U version (like voice chat and the stability of the online experience) are yet to be addressed, and after 7 years, it’s starting to wear thin. But despite the negatives, Splatoon 3 is a fresh coat of paint on a tried-and-tested formula and a perfect starting point for those looking to squid-jump into the series.
Splatoon 3 is easily the best title in the series now. With a brand new array of weapons, a dedicated and bigger hub world for multiplayer, and a lively community. It’s a game where you will feel the 3-minute matches feel like full-length matches in other games. This is easily one of the best games you can play with friends or even by yourself. Splatoon 3 takes the series to a new high and shows us that Nintendo still has the magic of making lightning in a bottle.
Splatoon 3 might not reinvent the wheel, but it more than makes up for it with the most fully-featured and polished entry in the series to date.
Bullets are replaced with gallons of ink in Nintendo’s take on the FPS Genre. Is Splatoon 3 a game worth spending a few (s)quid on? Find out in this Rapid Review.
Apparently, it’s a great year to be the third entry in a Nintendo series. After five years since the mega-successful sequel to Splatoon began taking turf on the Nintendo Switch’s modest catalog of shooters and online multiplayer games, the funky fresh post-apocalyptic marine life is back to cover more ground across the world. Splatoon 3 adds more than just another coat of graphical paint to its beloved formula as Inklings and Octolings come together for yet another wonderfully competitive and creative outing of fast-footed ink wars.
With an enviable amount of content across its various modes, a brilliant soundtrack, solid visuals, and an already insanely large player base, Splatoon 3 is a brilliant game I wholeheartedly recommend picking up. If it can fix the issues with its online matchmaking, it can be even better.
The first Splatoon game was a wonderfully novel experience and Splatoon 2 also managed to build on its framework while still feeling new. In comparison, Splatoon 3 doesn’t feel quite as fresh as those two initial games even with its new additions, opting instead to polish and refine the franchise’s tried-and-true formula. That being said, Splatoon 3 represents the pinnacle of the series’ shooting mechanics, which are further fine-tuned into splatting perfection. Add a campaign with fun and creative bosses as well as engaging multiplayer options and you have another colorful and addicting addition to the franchise.
With a massive amount of small refinements and some unexpected additions, Splatoon 3 is the most polished and robust iteration of the series. Online game modes have become mechanically richer and have a more intuitive interface, and Story Mode is a delightful surprise that, for the first time in the series, deserves to be seen as a must. If you've never experienced the series, this is the perfect entry point, representing Splatoon at its heyday. If you're a long-time fan, you might miss a deeply sounding new twist towards Splatoon 2, but the quality of life improvements and eradication of past frustrations will make a return to the previous game unimaginable.
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Expanding the amount of content available (including the incredibly smart decision to open the horde-mode like Salmon Run game mode up at all times) makes this game the best one yet and one of the most enjoyable multi-player shooters on the market. If you have been a fan of the series in the past, Splatoon 3 is a must purchase.
Even more colourful, engaging and eccentric than ever before, Splatoon 3 is bringing the same highly amusing casual and competitive fun of Splatoon's unique paint-based versus gameplay and polishes it closer to perfection, like topping up some old decorations with a fresh coat of paint.
Nintendo fun at it’s finest, maybe not the most essential sequel but a fine time around