Splortin' Squiddos: The Threequel | Splatoon 3 First Impressions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- I played a bunch of Splatoon 3 during the Splatfest demo! Here are my thoughts!
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I think the lack of a clear meta and use of the squid roles is because people are still figuring out the game, it can take months for a clear cut meta to form.
I think what could help a lot is if Nintendo made a video showcasing some ideas of what you can do with it, like how they handled Smash Bros Ultimate.
You can chain squid surge and squid roll off walls. You chain chain a squid roll with the dualies’ dodge roll. You can squid roll into using a special. Just stuff I learned from playing the Splatfest.
@@toastedmatt9387 bro they literally did
@@toastedmatt9387 I'm sure that's what the hero mode will do. whenever there's a unique mechanic, it tends to get explained in hero mode with a tutorial, a low stress environment to test the mechanic out, and then a situation where the mechanic would be useful.
Yeah but man I abused the heck of squid roll and even discovered some neat tech where you can do a certain motion to do squid roll directly forward it’s complex but fun and you can cancel it into subs and specials and retain armor which is really neat. I couldn’t imagine playing without it now lol
I can't put my finger on why, but this was the most fun I've ever had playing Splatoon and that's saying a lot.
Same but that's probably cuz the most I played was the Splatoon 2 demo which is barely 1min so this is truly my first real experience. Watching LPs were captivating on the first two games, and I had an interest, but it wasn't until deep into the main story and Octo-Expansion in Chugg's LP series when I had a burning desire to play Splatoon.
It’s probably because it’s the new game and it was a splatfest. Splatfests are normally more fun.
@@TheGravityShifter sometimes i play splatoon 2 and while it is fun splatoon 3 is just way more fun and improved for several reasons
@@Amexy-mr6lw I got introduced to the series at a good time then. I watched Chugga's his LP of the 1st and 2nd games as they came out so I'm all caught up on the story, lore, and idols. So now I get all of that with the definitive experience.
Yo I totally agree I wasn’t planning on getting this game before but now I really want to!
A lot of stuff stood out to me but I love the UI. Wipeouts are cool to signal pushes, deaths are easier to notice, but the best part is the special indicators. I was worried since I use a tacticooler weapon that it would be hard to find but it shows everyone right where it is while taking almost no room. Was so much fun.
Also funny enough at 3:47 u did a partial squid surge you can see the armor glow.
The goat on a arlo vid? Pog
I loved Splatoon 3 so much I just physically can’t go back to splatoon 2 if I tried
Gigachad Arlo has high ranked Splatoon pro player as friend without them even realizing
The footage that Arlo’s editors use tend to be taken from other people, typically said editors. This can be seen in this video with Kane’s name during the Training Room portion or Yoshiller’s Splashtag
I love the little flash that pops up when something important happens behind you (like a teammate dying or using special) that draws your eyes toward the icon that appears, really helps awareness with how fast the game is.
One of my favorite aspects of Splatoon 3 is that it seems to be taking the Smash Ultimate approach to speed and loading screens. The devs juiced the game engine to make screens go faster and got rid of the need for pointlessly waiting in a menu for the next match to start. I missed the days in which I could play squid jump on the wiiu gamepad so now having the ability to walk around instead of sitting there after every match is really appreciated.
There's also that thing upstairs which makes me think we'll be able to play the old minigames while we wait in 3!
@@internetguy7319 Yeah, I really hope they do something with the arcade machines and cafe area upstairs. Seems like a good opportunity to add just a little bit more to the lobby!
Yeah, my biggest complaint about Splatoon 2 was the “squid jump” game from the original Splatoon was removed with no replacement. The fact that 3 has a practice lobby immediately makes waiting for matches easier, and hopefully if they add mini games on release that would be even better than Splatoon 1
Honestly, the fact that there were so many noticeable and genuinely impactful changes in turf war make me so excited because the demo was only a FRACTION of the new stuff. We only had a few weapons, a few maps, and non of the ranked modes, story modes, customization stuff, salmon run, etc. i feel like it was very justified to have splatoon 3 be it’s own game
We do have Splashtags, player customization but we don’t have lockers, catalogs, emotes, etc.
Was it just me or did the new maps feel bigger? I played Splatoon 2 afterwards and it all felt smaller than in 3
@@cousinparty7266 We also didn't really have medals! Like, you could earn them, but they wouldn't appear for customization and stuff. I'm excited to see everything in action, especially with how much we get to make unique about our inklings/octolings.
@@horlzonline1131 I’m pretty sure medals are just a one-time thing that happen only for specific games and NOT a customization feature
But missiles are coming back and they were not in the demo so automatically the demo is better lol / j
It’s was pretty fun even though me and my fellow big man enjoyers got SCHWACKED to high heaven. The customization options are going to be cool and weapons and specials are rad
Yeah. It was fun. Tricolor Turf War really needs to be balanced better before the first official SplatFest. Losing, seemingly, purely on the fault of a poorly balanced system isn’t enjoyable or all that fair.
I think the reason we Scissors players lost was because Charlie (MoistCri1tikal(is that how you spell it?)) chose rock and he’s really popular and other people followed, tri color was also hella unbalanced
Yeah I thought it might not be fair when I saw the direct and dear god it is so lopsided against the lead team
@@Gavin_avi I was on team scissors. I thought that the defending team was gonna steamroll both mini-teams every time, but we got swamped more often than not. But the mode definitely feels unbalanced one way or another, I just can’t put my finger on it
@@Gavin_avi i can't really see one influencer guy dictating the results of a splatfest, really, especially someone who isn't, like, heavily involved in the splatoon community. if the people who tend to win more battles, average skilled somewhat experienced splatoon players, are piggybacking off of a content creators choice, it would more likely be off of a splatoon content creators.
besides, I think there are like three criteria that determines what someone chooses. the foremost one is whatever idol is repping the idea, then the idea itself, then at the bottom of the pecking order is whatever a influential community member chooses.
I love how the old Spawn points are taped
How did I miss that!
I really only saw that in the only time I was playing on Scorch Gorge, even though that's a new map. I must not have been paying that much attention otherwise
@@LegendofKal maybe its only on old maps? Thatd make sense
something small I noticed was that they changed the screen and music for losing. the music is a lot less dreary and instead of showing your team being sad, it shows the other team. I think this is a way of the Splatoon devs trying to get you to play for as long as possible. losing doesn't feel as bad as it did in 2
Funnily enough, I actually miss the losing animations. I'm so used to looking for myself in the team that shows up. But also I just like the character all the unique animations for those screens gives and now they seem to be dialed way back with only winning animations and despite still being weapon dependent they don't change with style or species. I suppose most people will be using their own emotes eventually so it won't matter but it did bug me.
I like it too though I miss my octoling giving me a judging glare like it's my fault she lost (which yes it is, but chill man)
I found losing really frustrating, so I like that they give out little awards and losing doesn't feel as bad.
Yeah even when you lose still an absolute banger and not just a feeling of frustration
The hub being bigger is... An understatement. At a guesstimate I'd say it's around 4x the size of 2's - A block with the loop of four streets and all the back alleys that implies compared to Splatoon 2's street. Splatoon 2's hub was smaller than Splatoon 1's but Splatoon 1's was an intersection rather than meaningfully bigger than 2's imo. Really helps give a lived in feel. Particularly the random ramp that leads to a vending machine and a bench about 2-3 stories above street level. Also love the fact the lobby has a second floor cafe and arcade which seemingly doesn't do anything (the food stand is on the same level as the training area) - Apparently I just like pointless areas in lobbies and hub worlds that don't really do anything except add flavour to the world.
The arcade looks like it might be related to tableturf battles, so it might be where you go for doing those online.
@@_pancakes1734 Oh that would be really neat and make a ton of sense, yeah, since once online tableturf opens (apparently not going to be online at launch which... Meh...) the actual tableturf area being being a back alley from the other multiplayer stuff would have put it weirdly out of the way.
@@Stephen-Fox With regards to tableturf not being online on day 1, there is at least one justification for it. It gives people time to build a deck - you don't have to rush build one to participate in online play, instead we should have a deck ready by the time it does go online.
@@Cream147player Hence my 'meh' response to it - I feel very similarly to hearing that as I do about the original Splatoon waiting until a certain amount of people globally had reached level 10 before unlocking ranked - It's a weirdly Nintendo choice, and not one I'm particularly fond of, but it's one that makes sense to me so I'm just kind of shrugging it off.
(Granted that depends on exactly how long it takes for Nintendo to unlock it. After 50k people have met the unlock conditions for online tableturf vs a week vs a month vs after three months will give me very different feelings about it in practice)
It was a shock just how few Paper players I fought. Almost entirely against Scissors. Even as Team Rock I felt bad for them in the Tri-Color Splatfest fights. They might need to rework some stuff in the future but the mode itself has potential!
You can't really get more idol dependent than rock paper scissors I think, so future ones might be better balanced in terms of players spread.
i mean its choices aren’t that opinion based. Most of the time the choices are opinion based (dogs or cats for example) also i was team paper lol
As a team paper advocate, we still did so flipping well, we really pulled our own weight
I also played Paper, I had a blast and won a lot of matches ^^
I mean i feel like even in rock paper scissors paper is really unapealling for some reason
As a person who played the crap out of Splatoon 1 and 2, I will say that everything feels a LOT more balanced ESPECIALLY compared to Splatoon 1, I really enjoy the new Tetra Dualies' set, it feels like it's more suited for the more Aggressive playstyle dualies typically have, without being overly aggressive in nature, I didn't feel invincible nor Vulnerable, and that's really nice. The city actually feels like, y'know, A city! Splatsvile is honestly really pretty either way. I appreciate the Developers letting people choose different hairstyles and brows Versus having everything locked behind a Gender thing, I have large Brows and long hair and I appreciate it, truly! I'm really excited to play the full game, Genuinely
I picked up Slosher during the splatfest because I wanted ink strike and that was the weapon class that seemed most appealing with it and I was like "Wow, base slosher is really good! Did they buff it?" Nope. I just slept on it in 2 because none of the kits appealed to me. I don't like tenta missle, bomb rush has always been tricky for me, and Baller is okay but not exciting. Where as the ink strikes were easy to use, really snappy, and even won me a game by throwing a couple right at the end and getting us a .2% advantage. I'm not much of a sub weapon user either, but at least splat bomb is straight forward to try and use. One of my new favorite weapons.
Balanced? I saw no balance. Either you're obliterating the other team or your team is obliterated. Splatoon 1 is the best. Plus the sickening woke non-binary crap being in Splatoon 3 is a massive turn off.
@@ItApproaches how did you manage to only have bad takes in this comment?
@@ItApproaches Splatoon 1 was the worst balanced???? Splatoon 2 was unbalanced but not as much as 1 by a mile, and Splatoon 3 seems really balanced. Also you think being able to have your Squidling or Octo Look Like whatever you want without extreme boundaries is woke? I don't understand the logic here??? Guys with long hair exist, Girls with short hair exist, they made it that way to include people who felt left out because of the somewhat limited options in 2.. but It's woke because it's inclusive?? Lmao what? Also the Octos and inklings do have genders still, the larger brows have the male voices, and the less of them have the female voices.. so this being about "oH ThEy'Re NoN-bInArY" is false, and now you just sound like a homophobic cop, policing people's fun and enjoyment, because God f-ing forbid, people are different from one another..
@@pokemon05100 You're asking me how was I able to be genuinely honest lol. Look if you fanboys want to suck Nintendo's D, you go ahead. I call shit out when I see it, I don't censor myself and enable shit quality.
I think Splatoon is ripe for more wacky weapons. Imagine a boomerang subweapon, or a paint can Slosher, or an instant-kill water pistol, or even something that uses paint thinner. The potential to do more is always there.
what about maybe a water/squeegee balloon that removes ink from both colors?
If they go with the idea of removing paint, they already have the Squee-G robots from single-player. And even the larger versions as seen in Splatoon 2. Could repurpose the small ones as subs and larger as specials
Splatoon design team is known to be a creative bunch so don’t be surprised if one of your theories come true
@@syro33 thatd be worse than inking, itd be pointless
The bucket being a paint can is super obvious for the devs to do, they literally made one thats a washing machine which is actually creative. Also the water gun would go against the game design and also would be pointless in certain modes. They already added the splatana which is there to be a heavy kill class anyways so a water gun would serve no purpose and would change the game too much.
Honestly after the splatfest demo ended I also just wanted to play more, so i went back to splatoon 2 just to be bombarded by a bunch of drawings from people stating, “Welcome home, cheater”
The games release cant come soon enough, cant wait to be in a splatoon phase again
I don’t understand why people are saying that. Are people salty about the splatfest results or are they saying anyone playing splatoon 2 after the world premiere is a hacker because it’s “abandoned”
@@donovanjoseph737 i think its a reference to a meme, It might be stating that we are “cheating” on splatoon 2 with splatoon 3, either that or im getting the wrong meaning lol
It was pretty funny to see that basically all the drawings were either that or people wanting to go back to splatoon 3
yeah people were just joking around, no worries
@@donovanjoseph737 cheating as in cheating on your spouse not like the hacking cheating. But it's more of a joke XD
@@RexZShadow ooooooooooh
I've had a few instances in which I've been able to do a bit of a sneak attack with the squid surge when I would find vertical areas and then try and catch opponents by surprise. The only problem with the squid roll is that I'll probably treat it how I treat dualies. I constantly forget that I can dodge with them and even when I remember I don't bother.
you dont dodge when you play dualies? you might as well just play a shooter then.
@@CoolMicrowave I don't touch dualies during regular matches but I will be handed them during Salmon runs.
@@tembieg5434 ah. i am a blaster main (grim range blaster to be specific, very difficult weapon to use), and i cannot use splatlings for the life of me. i love slow, high damage weapons, but the splatlings are just weird to me, so i completely get where you’re coming from.
@@CoolMicrowave many of the slower weapons are a no go for me. That's why I main good ol reliable inkbrush. I have a need for speed.
@@tembieg5434 i love the range blaster because of its incredibly high skill floor and ceiling. if you’re good with it, its almost always a 1 shot kill, and its just so satisfying. my favorite part is how nobody can say my weapon takes no skill, unlike a certain blaster that i hate *cough* clash blaster *cough*
I instantly pre-ordered the full game after the splatfest was over, I'm seriously hyped for this game. everything is so much smoother and the upgrade to a training lobby is such a quality of life upgrade like you said. I'm glad the ability to send friend requests to people you've played with was included with the demo too. team rock forever! 💙
It doesn't feel smooth to me after going back and playing splatoon 1 again. There's a very noticeable amount of input delay that makes it awkward to aim for me.
I played for 4 hours in handheld mode on Wi-Fi and it only booted me out ONE time. I had no noticeable lag or frame drops the ENTIRE time. The lack of connection issues compared to the first two games make me really hyped to buy this!
Funny, since my friend tried the demo for awhile and out of his roughly 6 attempts to play, over half had either communication errors, or a disconnect that ended the game early. He was not impressed, unfortunately.
@@VMan776 The splatfest had a lot of testing, balancing, seeing what people like, but mostly, servers. They were tweaking the servers at the same time as everyone was playing, so there would be some parts when the game was unplayable, and some times when it was almost perfect. It also depends on your region, or your friend's wifi.
@@richardgreen4539 It definitely had nothing to do with how it was set up. I had another friend playing on his switch while I played on my own in the same house and we could both play fine. Once he gave it a shot is when things kept breaking out of nowhere.
@@richardgreen4539 servers? No, it is peer to peer like the other Splatoon games which is sad.
I was surprised that I was able to connect to Asian lobbies from Minnesota relatively easy even on NAT Type D on a hotel connection! That is a BIG improvement over Splatoon 2!
Anyone still remember the "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" ads?
A lot of people still do
Well they technically brought it back in the Splatoon 3 beginner's guide so yeah even Nintendo still remembers.
I was on Team Rock and was pleasantly surprised that Rock got the most votes, I thought Big Man would just be the deciding factor for most people. Even more surprised that Scissors didn't get anything in any of the categories lol
I didn't understand that part, wasn't scissors winning in the first half before they were put in the middle for Tri-Color Turf War? How did they end up in the middle without winning the first category?
@@tacosunbirth they started out winning just from winning more matches and getting more points for their team, the only reason Scissors lost overall is because no one knows what King of the Hill is lmao
@@tacosunbirth rock won popularity, but scissors had more clout by halftime
@@nintySW I see then
If you ask me it was really obvious since the direct that Shiver would have way more fans than the other two members. That said I really hope their team doesn't wipe the floor in every single splatfest lol
Graphically, the animation has been vastly improved since splatoon 2 and so that's probably why you think it looks so much better
I chose rock because “it’s not just a bolder. It’s a rock!”
Yep. The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles.
I think I've seen your plaza post in that case
I hope they bring back the glittery ink for some of the splatfests
As a scissors team, tricolor battles felt incredibly rigged against us
It was.
I was hyped for the concept, thought there'd be multiple capture locations and we'd be able to capture them back.
But as it was it was all fighting over one tiny point, mess up once and you lose.
We were punished for a tiny, tiny lead.
It's not even like it switched when another team got ahead. Half time score made it become a permanent disadvantage.
yea it felt like a worse version of splat zones on sturgeon
it definitely was. either team getting 1 sprinkler of doom made winning very hard. not helped by the fact the time to cap the ultra signal is reduced every time they grabbed it. if both teams or one team had both sprinklers of doom it was almost impossible to win. and clout given to the attacking teams was like x4 more than the defending team
@@axatoniym1842 yea that’s another thing I didn’t like, if one pair won then another pair also won which makes sense on paper but then again this whole mode “makes sense on paper”
I like the idea of the mode, but it may need a little more fine tuning.
This was the first time I had played a splatoon game and I must say I was hooked. (Pun intended) I wasn't very good, but at least I was helping the team I was on a little bit. (R.I.P. Team scissors)
I think Splatoon really could use a long standing demo instead of short test periods before new game's release. The gameplay itself is just so unique and fun that I think for players unsure about the game, getting to experience that is the best possible selling point.
I know the feeling. When I first tried the Splatoon 2 test fire, after 3 seconds I was hooked and knew I wanted to buy the game. Something about shooting the ink just feels so satisfying.
@elfsong713 I totally agree! I think it's that Nintendo thing were they just know how to make an action feel so good. I can't wait to play the full game when it comes out!
@@Elijah24553 me too! I want to play Splatoon 3 right now!
I absolutly LOVE splatoon three, theres so much charm and effort to make the entire scene feel ALIVE.
Such as the idol you went with talking for you when you get the hyperlink
Or the halftime report that refreshes your vigor because now your like "I need to try harder for my team!" or "Gotta keep going, cant let the others catch up!"
Im super ready to start practicing squid rolls and not worrying about letting my team down or worry of "I could be earning clout" (and i didn't really have any reason to learn either as i was a splatling so they were useless)
I had so much fun during the demo that i don't think i can handle 2 weeks without it.
Team scissors was actually the red team in the middle on the tricolor turf war, and the game mode was clearly geared heavily against the team in the middle.
coming from a FPS junkie I hated the lack of QOL in Splatoon 2 and only ended up putting 15 hours into it. loved the concept but still felt it wasn't executed to the best of its abilities. played Splatoon 3 for a few hours and I have to say it feels like they fixed everything I had an issue with in 2 and now i am more hyped than ever to properly grind Splatoon and get into this franchise and community
You mimicked almost exactly what I said to my friends yesterday with not choosing based off the idol representing. Maybe if you're completely torn one way or the other, then it can be a tie breaker. But other than that, I was so passionate about paper. Like, one out of ten friends were with me on that. Also, I love the sorta playful jabbing of splatfests. It co.es so naturally to diss other teams, then just have so much fun together after. TEAM PAPER!
As a Team Paper contender, I’m happy with coming in 2nd! Congrats to Rock and GG to Scissors!😉
The results were region-segregated for the first time in 5 years (though HK and JP’s results were combined due to having the same time period). Basically, Paper was runner up in the West and Scissors was runner up in the East, so Big Man did get *some* love. 😊
So happy you had fun with the demo! For me it was surprising how fresh and exciting this game felt to me, all the tiny changes add up to make it feel like a big step up from the past games. Rest in Peace my fellow scissors teammates
Hey Nintendo Hero! Just wanted to say that I love your videos. Your editing is really good being someone who has experience with editing with Adobe
@@potatosensei1771 Thank you! I put a lot of time into editing so it's nice to hear someone appreciates it!
@@NintendoHero Yeah I always love it when before you do a video you play a song as you cycle through clips of what you're talking about and then go into talking. Its a nice change of pace.
First time playing a Splatoon, and i kinda loved it? Granted I could only play for a hour, but the SUPER quick gameplay made it feel like I could play however I wanted without to much commitment. The tricolor battles were interesting, and those regular turf wars were really intense. Think I might pick this one up!
They refined the character models and a good portion of the animations! As well, there's a a heap of minor graphical improvements that just make the game so pleasant to look at.
I love that it was a mix of people playing for the first time and returning people all playing together almost on the same level
That lobby was everything fans were asking for and more
Team paper was so tiny compared with the others I ended up on unusually consistent teams. Funny to learn I was on the same side as Arlo.
"Choose what you believe in!" I believe in Big Man and he believes in me :)
While I did pick for Bigman, I believe that Scissors are good, it's nice to throw the peace symbol and they're great to slice down your enemies!
I used the Squid Surge a little bit. I'm pretty sure its purpose is to help you get the drop on enemies who are on the ledge, rather than slowly hopping into their line of fire. It's really cumbersome to use though. It takes too long to charge and it's pretty easy to end up sliding out of the ink on the wall while doing so. Hopefully they'll give it a buff so it's worth using.
I chose paper too. Everyone chooses rock as their opening move, so I always go with paper. Can't wait to play more.
can I just say I love that the recommended video on the endcard is Arlo's Splatoon review from 2015 LOL what a throwback
I think the squid surge is more about the height you can get off the top of the ledge and the element of surprise that that carries with it, rather than just being purely faster overall. Really looking forward to this game!
I liked the game! My very first impressions of the game were, “Yeah, this is Splatoon.”
Which is not a bad thing because I’ve put thousands of hours into the series! The 9th can’t come soon enough!
I thought you meant the 9th game at first. Like "3's great but I can't wait for splatoon 9 to come out in 2052"
I love how much easier it was to do multiplayer. I had a group of four and it was really fun. The lobby element is 10X better, being able to squid around and test your build while loading. Excellent. We also chose paper because it was losing and needed a hand (pun intended).
I had fun with the bow. It had the horizontal range of a blaster and the range of a sniper. Also, despite the new lobby, the match loading felt much faster
"Don't choose based on the character, choose what you believe in!"
I believe in Shiver Supremacy
I believed in scissors power. But my scissors didn't cut deep enough.
well unless you were choose Frye, cause wow we were outnumbered by a wide margin
Team Scissors here. From what I figured out with Tri Battles, as long as we didn't let the other teams activate the signal, we had a chance to win. But once the signal is activated it's game over for Scissors and whoever activated the signal would win.
Paper player! I actually had a match somehow where me and my friend got neither ultra signal(rock got both) and yet somehow we still won that one? I'm unsure how but we did. I'd like to also clarify that by win I do in fact mean we covered the most turf.
@@willowtea3267 That's awesome! You deserve that win
@@willowtea3267 the way it works is that both losing teams are treated as a single team when I comes to the results, so if one of the losing teams get the victory, the other one does as well. At least I think that's how it works. But I only played a couple of tricolor battles, so I could be wrong.
@@Mikeinator_ yes, it's work like that. I played about 50 tri battle and I can confirm that you perfectly described the mode.
Not necessarily. I had one Scissors win where Paper grabbed both signals. We just barely won, but a W is a W, right? 😊
My girl Shiver won the first tricolour Splatfest 💙
"My girl"?
Isn't Shiver's gender still not confirmed or did I miss anything these past few days?
@@giantpinkcat I only heard that Shiver was androgynous
@@LucasThePhantomThief Not necessarily a gender. (Literally means indeterminate gender).
But I mean some androgynous people still have feminine pronou-
I mean referring terms.
@@giantpinkcat checked the wiki, apparently recent nintendo interviews and such said she is, in fact, a grill
kinda weird they'd be so ambiguous about it for the first little bit though if she was a girl the whole time
@@CabinetGremlin So I did use the correct referring term!
This was my first time ever playing Splatoon at all and I can definitely see why the franchise is doing so well. I don't usually play shooters but 'm really tempted to finally get this one.
I feel like splatoon three is just one giant quality of life update with new stuff (this is a GREAT thing)
Honestly, the demo was the most fun I have had with Splatoon in a long time. I have been playing it ever since the first one. I am super excited for 3 to come out!!
Splatoon 3 is looking to be super cool. The lobby is more intuitive than ever, the tricolor, despite being a bit unbalanced was super fun, and the taste of each weapon and map was excellent. I'm not really into one weapon but 3 does a great job of making you try different weapons. I really look forward to this game's launch.
Loved seeing the persuasive rock, paper, scissors posts in the city
I only played this for a couple hours during the splatfest but man, this was the most fun I've had playing Splatoon since I first started playing the first one.
The ghosts are totally real! I played with 3 friends in a call and we all flopped around in the lobby. I'm really happy splatoon added this feature to ques. I wish more shooter games would do that
gosh its so refreshing when Arlo does positive reviews!
A tip for climbing walls:
You don't have to fully charge the squid surge. On shorter walls it is faster to partially charge it.
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i haven’t played splatoon since the first game in like 2016, but i got this one as a christmas gift and i was immediately greeted by all these messages welcoming new players
it was so cute
Love your feedback Arlo! I had a lot of fun during the splatfest!
This world premiere has made me more excited for a game than I have been in YEARS, and that's sayin somethin!
i love the part in the game where the inklings say "its splattin time" and splat the enemy team
Brought me back to my peak Morbin’ days.
I love just how applicable this meme is
Truly one of the splats of all time (help I can’t control myself)
What you said about the game visually looking better is true. Each weapon has more flair to the ink when you shoot the weapon when compared to splatoon 2.
Opinions on Tricolor, at least from what I've seen, are pretty split based on what team you were on. Team Rock and Paper thought it was neat, for Team Scissors, it made them want to die. As a Scissors member myself.... I'll say I didn't play the demo much after the six hour mark.
I was Team Rock and despite wanting to no-life the Splatfest all day, I threw in the towel way sooner than I thought. Ignoring the fact that nothing here transfers to the full game, I honestly had my fill after 2 hours or so. It really just feels like more Splatoon to me. Not bad at all and I already have my copy preordered, but I'd rather just be satisfied with my demo experience and grind out the full game
I was like you, a butthurt scissors player. Until right near the end of the fest.
It turns out we weren't supposed 6o waste time holding the signal, we were supposed to split into 2 teams and rush down the enemy. You can actually get right into their spawn area, no invisible barrier or anything.
From there you just have to do your best to pin them and keep repainting their turf.
That's actually what the signal does, it perches right on top of the access point to their spawn and makes you take a little chip damage and need to repaint every now and then to make the jump.
@@rivetsquid8887 The strat I heard was the play defense exclusively and the one time we won, in the probably less than ten Tri matches I played, that's what we did. I was wondering if there was a method that the majority of us weren't figuring out. If I'm ever on the center team again I'll give it a try.
@@ExploDjinn yeah I'd have never figured it out if I hadn't seen the little ledge with the signal on it. I was like. "The coverage is so bad. What's even the point to putting it there?"
They've even made the side of the moving bridge like thing up there paintable, so you can get up to both layers of their space.
In the last hour or so, when I was dealing into teams that understood, I only lost 1 in 5 tricolor matches.
Unfortunately by then there was no coming back.
Honestly I think it's on Nintendo of America, for putting out a direct that explained the mode all wrong.
@@ExploDjinn I figured 2 defense and 1 offence on each side, but we didn't win a single one
I'm adoring this game. They really upped the UI, the content, quality. I am so excited. This was my first splatfest too, and I had a blast. Sorry team paper.
I’m really glad that you enjoyed this video. I was occupied for most of the day yesterday but fortunately I was able to play the demo for an hour and a half. Awesome video.
I'm glad you're starting to like it. More great stuff is about to come! 🤩
Just what I needed! Great vid as always
I love Splatoon 3 already.
I loved this video. Hearing you get all happy about the lobby system made me smile because it’s awesome truly. Getting to actually do something while you wait makes the game feel so much more fluid. I hope we can do something similar while we wait for salmon run because it will feel jarring. Overall though, I’m glad you’re enjoying it and giving it more of a chance when it comes to “getting good” lol (also I wanted to pick paper for the same reason that everyone was gonna pick rock, but my friends said no so I had to pick scissors lol
this and kirby's dream buffet are scary addicting with how naturally they move you from game to game with such little downtime
Splatoon is now a Threequel
I played a coupla hours of it last night, definitely really happy about all the quality of life stuff. I wanted to play more but I got pretty tired near the end and went and laid down. Definitely gonna be getting it on day 1.
Something super cool they changed: If a player disconnects very early in the match, you get a message stating as such and the match just ends.
Doesn't count as a loss, and you aren't stuck in a terrible steamroll for the whole 3 minutes.
I've seen so many people pick scissors just for big man and its ridiculous because its not about the idols! I'm glad someone said something about that
I played the Splatfest for ALL 12 hours, and I gotta say I’m proud of myself
Same! Splatoon 2 is my favourite game of all time, and something tells me I'm going to love Splat 3 even more.
As a Splatoon 1 and Splatoon 2 player, I was really excited for this Splatfest! And it was soo much fun. The game feels faster and better than the two older ones. The only thing I didn't really like was the Tri-Colour battles. They could've at least put more Maps to play it on. The mode itself is fun, but me and my friends were in Team scissors and had to play in the middle and got "bullied" before we finally understood how to play it. And I must say, its very stressful and the fact that we had the Tri-Colour battle like almost 10 times in a row while having to play it on the same map (which btw looks like they basically copy pasted it from Splatoon 2 into Splatoon 3) it got kind of frustrating.
I'm still hyped for the game, but I really hope they make some changes to that game-mode.
The Splatoon 3 Japanese twitter account actually made a post about how they are trying to iron-out server problems and re-balance Tri color battles :)
@@lgndrylucas1984 I hope they somehow manage to make it fairer! Thanks for the information
I believe that game was built from the ground up. Because I noticed soo many changes such as; all of the animations, the glowing affects, the water, the hair, and the gunplay.
i know arlo's prob not gonna read this but as a casual whose dabbled in compev and has better knowledge abt the movement and weapons i have a lot of stuff to comment on. Personally i never used to the squid surge but most of the maps in the premiere didnt rly have good places to use them. THE SQUID ROLL ON THE OTHER HAND OOOOOOOOH MY GOD, its such a good movement option also its not just reversing direction you can also squid roll sideways. Also when your in the squid roll animation you can control which direction you go and if your fast enough you can kinda roll forward. combining this sub straffing allows you to move insanely fast. Tricolor is kinda bad though i admit the balance is rly wonky, its almost impossible for the mid team to win unless you have a heavy support comp, also pure support stuff like tacticooler and big bubbler nothing like killer wail 5.1 or reef slider or else you almost instantly loose. That and you need heavy ink coverage weapons. For the 2 player teams its realy easy for them to win if they 1 player plays a super agro weapon like brush while if the other player plays a backliner with good AOE.
Uhhh thats all i rly had to say bai bai
Never thought I would hear the day that Arlo called me a normie...
Anyways, cuddos to all teams! And I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it Arlo!
I feel like the community aspect is emphasized way more here than in 2. Live teammates in the lobby, lively win animations, customizable tags, that kind of thing. And the hub is absolutely PLASTERED with community posts, it makes splatfests feel more like real festivals than ever before!
Choose in what you believe in? I choose whatever team Big Man chooses because I believe in him
I mean, I'm literally going through everyone's Splatfest videos because I'm essentially going through withdrawal right now.
I was having a great time but for me around the end of the Splatfest, something just clicked and I was having WAY too much fun playing!
I’ve been really loving it so far! The quality of life improvements are superb. I think some minor tweaking would be nice for tricolor but tbh I’m way more dedicated to story mode haha ^^”
The demo was so good, rock is the champion! Scissors never stood a chance in tribattles
Yeah that’s true tri battles are really unbalanced
Since I was in the receiving end of those poor chances, I can confirm you are correct. Me and my friend got spanked so hard during Tricolor. We only won one match out of like 5 of them.
@@scott_yyz they aren't, the direct just mislead us about the objective. You don't want to defend the signal at all. Turns out scissors was the only team with in inaccessible spawn, the other two teams entire spawn radius was reachable.
But most of us didn't figure that out until near the end of fest and a team sort of needs to coordinate to keep both teams pinned in place.
@@rivetsquid8887 which is exactly why it's unbalanced. Not only are the tri stages the exact same as the default stages, being too small and making it way too easy for the enemy to spawncamp the defending team, who gets the smallest piece of the stage, but with just this way and booyah there is little to no method of being coordinated at all.
Not only that but if one team gets the ultra signal you're already practically doomed for the rest of the match. If the losing team wins this (practically handed to them on a silver platter) they automatically get twice the amount of points that the defending team would have won hadn't they lost the tri battle.. The comeback mechanic is broken as heck.
@@razzledazzledorito6552 not really, you can chose anywhere in the spawn area to drop, all it takes is shooting one of the opponent's or rushing through with one of the new dodges for s. From there you could drop a beacon, grab the signal, or even free the other team and team up.
I still lost rounds after we figured it all out so it's absolutely doable. Even in rounds where you do get pinned, if you push hard enough and lay ink well, its pretty easy between two teams to outpaint from where they're stuck.
Plus it's way faster to reach mid than paint the pillar and climb up from defending start, so if you win the initial clash, you can hold your zone from the tower while still racking up a ton of percentage.
It's an exceedingly fair mode, but it requires skill, defending or challenging.
Looking good so far. Nice to see!
this is the first time i've had a chance to play a splatoon game, and one that's brand new no less, it's so much fun and i'm so excited to play the full game
Only thing I have to say is team scissors is raging right now
I almost chose paper, as I didn't really have strong feelings towards any of the three answers. If I was going to choose because of favorite idol though, it def would have been team paper.
In the end however, Shivers reasoning for why people should choose rock won me over. "A mighty fist triumphantly held up to the sky" indeed.
I love how there’s a lot to like, but the standout addition for arlo is the holographic squid party
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I agree with the sentiment that you should pick a splatfest team based on the actual category, not on which character is representing it. I picked team scissors, but only because that was genuinely the option I preferred. The fact that Big Man was representing it was more so a bonus.
As someone who loves Splatoon 2, this was a really fun experience. While I was always hyped for this game, playing in the Splatfest just made it even more obvious that I’ll love this game. I loved the small additions, the new movement options are really fun, I love the new weapons and subs even if I didn’t mess around too much, mainly sticking with the same 2 or 3 weapons for actual matches, etc. However, the Splatfest structure leaves some to be desired, specifically with the Tri Color Turf War. Let’s start with the good stuff, being the first half. This first half plays exactly like Splatfest’s after the overhaul they received during Splatoon 2 with some minor tweaks. It was great there and it’s great now, especially with the addition of Festival Clams, which you gain from winning 10x Battles and each one increases the chance of a 100x or 333x Battle. This addition makes 10x Battles even more important and add a more skill aspect to being able to participate in 100x and 333x Battles. As for the second half, that’s when the Tricolor Turf Wars are introduced and, like with a lot of other people, I’m not the biggest fan of these. On paper, this is a cool idea and I like that they’re basically a comeback mechanic. Unfortunately, it’s far too heavily in favor of the losing teams mainly thanks to the stage, Sturgeon Shipyard, not being built for this mode and how utterly busted those Ultra Signals and Sprinklers of Doom are. The Ultra Signals aren’t too hard to get to and there’s no cooldown after someone is killed trying to use one and the Sprinklers of Doom are even worse. Since they last for the rest of the match and they control so much turf, it’s near impossible for the middle team to win if one is activated. These things need to be nerfed, which there’s actually a number of ways to do that, from making them disappear after 15-30 seconds to putting a 10 second respawn timer on it if someone is killed trying to use it. However, this isn’t the only issue. From what I understand, you cannot get 10x, 100x, or 333x Battles during the second half removing the other change from the equation. Plus, there’s a nonzero chance this new gimmick replaces Splatoon 2’s Splatfest gimmick, the Shifty Stations, which were one of my favorite parts of Splatfests. All that being said, while I hope they improve the Splatfests, I’m still SUPER hyped for Splatoon 3’s Multiplayer and Singleplayer and to see how the meta grows and changes
Minor correction, you can't get multiplied Tricolor battles, I think I still got a 100x in the second half when I just played a normal Turf War game
Yeah, no more Shifty Stations is a huge bummer honestly, it was so cool having a unique map, often having unique mechanics (like areas getting closed off), that was only around for one Splatfest, really made it worth found out of your way to participate in the 'fest.
@@1unar_eclipse - yeah, meaning the leading team overall gets less chances at a multiplier match, which further weighs things to the trailing teams, who get a choice of whether or not to play in TCTW
Personally i thought the Splatana was to weak off a weapon at close range, the Stinger was great but it would be better if the fully charged shot did a bit more dmg or if they allow the mines it makes when charged stick to players as that is part off the dmg, those mines banish if a player is hit decreasing how much you do and it is not like the mines deal much anyways. They definitely need to make that Squid Roll unique to a button to use at any moment, maybe make it have a stamina bar off sorts so players don't abuse it and though the Squid Surge seems useless to climbing walls, it is good for surprising an enemy above a wall as you do get some air compared to climbing the wall normally, plus it is done in an instance always giving you the upper hand to catch the enemy by surprise. Maybe they can make the charge a bit shorter if even by 1 second (it doesn't really take that long to charge anyways but it is longer than just normally smashing B to climb faster)
This is all really awesome to hear :) excited for it!!!
Something of note about the Squid Surge: if you only have a wall partially inked, you can still squid surge and reach the top! This is particularly good for me and my fellow Inkbrush players, who would previously have to brute force our way up large walls by swimming and inking a bit, swimming and inking a bit.. til we finally reached the top.
It was mostly an issue in Blackbelly Skatepark, which is gone, but in its place of having a Big Wall is Scorch Gorge, so I'M happy
"Dont chose based on the character"
you just exposed 80% of rock chosers
Well Shiver *is* objectively the better idol of the trio.
@@HenshinFanatic You will stop slandering Big Man right this second, young man.
@@HenshinFanatic Yeah she is starting to grow on me
@@HenshinFanatic You just know what this guy gonna do when the Shiver Amiibo comes out.
Hey, I have the Bart Simpson mentality AND simp Shiver!
So generally I've heard the bow is undertuned and a lil weak. And from my experience it was. Like it could be fun to use and can do stuff but it felt weaker overall. And all it's special features like the jump shot and charge shot leaving explosives felt really unintuitive and like stuff that just happens when you use the weapon.
But the Splatana is a really solid weapon that just takes some practice and getting used to. It's precise and though it's like a melee weapon it has a good bit of range, so you have to get used to not getting in too close unless you can get all the way in and smack them with that instakill. Otherwise it has similar power to the inkbrush, 4 hits to kill, but you can improve you damage output a lot by being precise and using it's more advanced features. Definitely a weapon I really really liked.
The tricolor turfwars are definitely fun but it is kinda by design stacked against the team in the lead. Like even if you come third as a duo team, so long as the leading team did not come first, you win. And then you have to defend an objective which can really help the smaller teams win if they manage to grab one. I dunno, Like I think these tricolor turfwars should give point separate from the Turf Wars(Open) mode, so like either the leading team or the two behind teams get the points. Otherwise being in the lead at the end of day one will always be a pretty huge disadvantage.
And finally, the best thing to do in the lobby is assault the elevator with the Ultra stamp. It's the funniest thing to me. But I would like a little minigame to play like Squid Jump from Splatoon 1.
I only used the tri stringer and its super fun but needs a damage buff imo
Seeing Arlo play this brings a smile to my face as it seems a lot of big youtubers that never touched Splatoon took noticed and tried the game, hoping to see more Splatoon content creaters stem from Splatoon 3.
Thanks for making this video. I wasn't able to play any matches because I was out of town and stuck on mobile data. It's great to see how it all went. I'm so excited for the launch :)
I went with scissors because I didn't believe in anything with this Splatfest's choices. So I went with Big Man.
And that's what I'm going to do with the rest of the Splatfests, if I don't know what to choose, go with Big Man.
loved the demo, but i was also bummed about the squid surge and roll. im just frustrated that the game doesnt explain it better, ive seen people use them so well but for me it was super hard. as a 2 player, it’s just not my instinct to make such a strange input while playing. it’s not intuitive like the dodge roll. the surge only seems useful for getting a surprise on an enemy at the top
Squid Roll is nuts for slower weapons by giving them added mobility. Imagine Dynamo Rollers but they can dodge backwards to give themselves more space. Squid Surge seems really weak though, the only real good bonus is the bit of super armor before you hit the top. Dunno if it’ll get any use though if you can just spam jump to climb it faster.
@@nofilterneito what is squid roll? Is that the dodge in the opposite direction input?
@@nofilterneito yeah, i definitely see the use for it!! it just was really hard for me to pull off which i was not expecting, since they billed it as a big new mechanic. hopefully i can get the hang of it
@@zephyrias yes, that. I seem to recall that’s what they called it?
Has anyone else noticed that the "no ink" warning shows up just before you run out of ink now, as opposed to right when you do? It's such a small change but it allows you to plan so much better
I'm so glad you brought up the lobby, it's Soo ridiculously cool and such an improvement and nobodies talking about it!!!