Topic: Splatoon 3

• Is it safe to say, everyone has taken a moment to shoot their friend's holograms and dump ink on them?🤣😁 I do like seeing the friend holograms.
• Yeah, I didn't try joining people. I looked at the menu, but that was about it. Also, I have the feeling I was the only friend that was on team Paper.
• I got to Champion rank. If the recent battles menu shows all my battles, it's 6 victories, 7 defeats. I guess there's balance regarding wins and losses, but most of those defeats were brutal. But this is the demo, so, they don't have as much player data to match.
• Actually, I'm kind of disappointed with the Deep Cut performance in one respect. It doesn't look as cool as the Direct with the Deep Cut idols always being so high up on their flying platforms. I know you can zoom on them from the top of the steps, but it feels like a struggle.

@MarioLover92 @Fizza

@WoomyNNYes The first time I saw them, we squidbagged in unison. It was unironically quite touching.

@Fizza Nice, nice. Ahhhh, no one has squidbagged in my game!! Some of the holograms twirled around spinning in place, that was it.

The tricolor splatfest starts in an hour here.

@WoomyNNYes I assume you live in Australia (or are using the Oceania region time) then since it's already over here in Ireland/Europe?

@Fizza No, Eastern US. So, my time zone is possibly 5 hours behind you. For me, my splatfest is 12pm-6pm, tricolor 6-pm to 12am.

It's about 5pm here now.

@WoomyNNYes Ah, gotcha. Looks like I need to brush up on my geography XD

This is so much fun. I've played all three games, but for some reason I'm liking this the most.

Had a play of this demo earlier here in the UK, it was pretty cool, but I can't tell much of a difference between this and Splatoon 2 - is it just me that feels this way?

Does anyone else think the world and characters and art and basic abilities in Splatoon would make an excellent platformer or rpg? I'm not the most into battle games, but I think I would fall in love with a spinoff.

The demo is fun also though.

Right, now that the Splatfest is over (at least here in Ireland), there's one thing in particular I want to gush over more than anything else at the moment: the Aerospray.

The Aerospray MG/PG is my co-main weapon of choice in Splatoon 2, right up there with the Custom Dualie Squelchers and both regular Blasters. I absolutely love how much turf it covers, giving it easy and frequent access to it's specials. However, there's a reason I mentioned both of those Aerosprays: the MG, my usual preferred of the two, is so godawful at fighting that I have to constantly switch between it and the PG. Where the MG does well, it absolutely excels (like Splat Zones or Turf War for instance) but the lack of any meaningful offensive pressure (aside from the love taps brought about by the weapon itself) makes it painful to love at times.

So what if I were to tell you that 3's rendition fixes every single problem I had with the original?

You want to go hog wild with painting? The maps are even BIGGER than before. You want immediate, long-lasting pressure? Fizzy Bomb's got your back. And do you want an invincible, OHKO-ing on both startup and end special with a massive blast radius with a variable activation time? BLOODY REEFSLIDER. They made the Aerospray more offensive than the BLASTER. AND I LOVE IT.

In short: get ready to see me clutching my precious aerosol can close to my chest when 3 comes out.

I like it, but there's a nasty glitch Nintendo will hopefully catch. I got stuck in the lobby for over 10 minutes twice during the demo.

@Fizza Noticed this too, as I loved the aerospray in Splatoon 1 (I skipped 2). Definitely a lot more offensive options, though god, my aim is just beyond awful, haha. Got more frustrated with the game then I had fun with how I was fiddling with the motion controls and turning… shooters are just doomed to be not my thing or something, but at least it was kinda fun.

@FishyS Absolutely. I actually like the single player stuff in splatoon more than the multiplayer so if they went for a full-fledged adventure instead of a multiplayer shooter I’d be on board. One of the only reasons I might still get Splatoon 2 someday.

@FishyS The single player campaign in Splatoon is a platformer. I really liked the single player in Splatoon 2. I replayed Splatoon 2 single player and Octo Expansion single player several times. This Splatoon 3 demo was just to test the online multiplayer. Go check out Nintendolife's youtube review for Splatoon 2, if you want.

I see people say that in article comments every day. So, you're not alone.

I'm fine getting new content. There's new weapons, sub weapons, special weapons, new maps, songs, new single player, new stuff added to salmon run. If you're looking for a leap like from Mario 3D World to Mario Odyssey, this isn't that. It looks like they reused the game engine. The dev period was like two years.

I had no idea what was going on in the Tri-Color Turf War. Was the goal to ink the most ground or to control the Ultra thing? And what the heck even was the Ultra thing? It's at least cool that they did something new, but they did a horrible job explaining it.

I have never played a Splatoon game before (never owned a Wii U and just got a Switch a month ago), so obviously I wasn't very good in the roughly 45 minutes I played this today. I figured I might as well give it a shot given the hype and the fact that it was free and small to download, but I doubt it will be something I buy. It also doesn't help that I don't really play games online anymore as I prefer to just play single player stuff. I do have to give the series credit for doing something different with the online shooting genre though.

I had a good time with the Splatfest overall. I love some of the new specials, and out of the two new main weapons, I think I like the Splatana the best. I'll probably get the full game at some point, either as a gift or if I catch it on sale.

@Xyphon22 Apparently, getting the Ultra Signal activates the Sprinkler of Doom, which shoots ink around for the rest of the match (the color of the ink depends on which team nabbed it). I didn't even know the purpose of getting the Ultra Signal until I looked it up. Yeah - they could've explained it better.

I really enjoyed this demo. It was hard at first as I wasn’t to sure what weapon I wanted to play. But once I got the rolling it was amazing, the new abilities are a blast, the graphics are better then ever, the battle were just pure chaos.

Cant wait for this!

@Xyphon22 Pretty much, you have to color the most ground by the end, and collecting the thing pushes team scissors to team rock or paper, depending on which side picked it up.

It was pure chaos, but I loved it a lot!