The single player is great, well worth it!
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Game mechanics that arenāt explained up front
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Lore that isnāt spoon fed but found in items and collectibles
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Lots of dying and reviving without your āsoulsā (special points)
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Fashion being the real objective of the gameā¦
So weāre ok with calling Splat22n a Souls-Like, right? Thatās what Iām getting here
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- Arcane multiplayer experience that is difficult to get working.
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Looking at the upcoming Salmon Run schedule, it seems all the sessions have now been converted to 24 hours, instead of 12, hurray! Current sessionās weapon loadout blows though D:
What makes Salmon Run almost a horror game, for me, is getting stuck with a weapon I am not comfortable with at all.
my sister was surprised that I was so excited to buy a hockey jersey when I normally wouldnāt be caught dead in one. and itās interesting to think about how much my taste in fashion changes when you make me a skate-punk squid kid and put me in Inkopolis. on the other hand itās also interesting how it doesnāt change because I still favour the fake chuck taylor hi-tops and brogues over the faux air jordans and the like.
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Why are people so talented. 
Slowly slowly ranking up.
A- in Tower Control, B+ in Splat Zones and Rainmaker.
I need more money to buy things though!
It seems you can also scrub Splatfest Tees for ability chunks for 2000 (instead of the usual 20K).
#TeamTomatoSauce
Nice, had a go at league play yet? Itās kinda nice that itās a separate thing, since losing a million matches in a row doesnāt result in dropping your rank.
Also yep, Iāve scrubbed my splatfest tee about 4 times already
I just finished the story mode. at some point I feel like these games need to address the Octolingsā pretty legitimate grievances.
Picked the game up today. The actual matches are great. I canāt stop playing. That being said, everything else about the game seems designed to alienate me as a new player.
I donāt have anyone to play with, lol.
Otherwise Iād definitely give it a shot, haha.
Itād be an interesting experience to be sure.
The Inklings are tyrannical oppressors, albeit fashionable ones.
Agh, really bugging me that I can get clothes, and do training missions etc but canāt do Salmon Run or team matches due to some weird work wi-fi set-up. I can do everything else online, just not actual matches. Will so more single player today instead. I tried Ranked over the weekend a few times but each time it seemed to be full of people just inking stuff rather than going for objectives, or people way better at the game than me. Regular matches I seem to be able to hold my own OK so I am sticking with that.
Need to stop buying clothes as well. Actually run out of coins!
If youāre on the Waypoint discord people group up on there. Itās how Iāve played League.
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Tried ranked mode for the first time yesterday and found the whole process bewildering, to be honest.
As many people have pointed out, League mode is the only real legit team mode because itās the one where you actually get to organise with a team, but in order to unlock it you have to go through another mode where your progress is tied in part to how well the 3 other random people you are with can work as a team.
Then, the progression through ranks is very confusing. I feel like I did okayish, no better but after an hour of playing I jumped from C- to B-, and it feels like it might be fudging the numbers somewhere in the background. It didnāt really FEEL tied to my performance even if it was. It seems like the grading doesnāt really mean a whole lot, in which case why not just background it and make it just a matchmaking tool?
I really donāt understand why Turf War isnāt a ranked/league mode, since it seems no less legitimate than the other modes in ranked, and also I think so far I prefer it to Splat Zones and Rainmaker which are the 2 Iāve tried. I certainly prefer it to Rainmaker.
I know some people defend it but I really dislike switching modes every 2 hours. As it is, I donāt know what mode itāll be during the small window I have to play tonight, and then my next few days are busy, which means that I might have to wait until the end of the week to play this mode. I get they donāt want the playerbase to be split but also I just want to be able to play what I feel like when I feel like it. That sentiment extends to all the hoops they make you jump through in order to play with teams.
Other problem with teamplay is by pushing proper team play up to the āhigh levelā leagues that tends to skew the experience toward high level players, and I would much rather there were multiple leagues which catered to varying abilities. Iād be perfectly happy doing middling-well in the rubbish league (I might be better than rubbish, but as I mentioned, the game doesnāt do a great job at giving me a realistic idea of how well Iām doing). Or better yet, a non-league team mode where I can play with my friends.
I feel like 90% of these issues is Nintendo being worried about fragmenting the pool of players. This is valid since matchmaking already seems to struggle sometimes, but the ways they have tried to solve it are slowly chipping away at the goodwill created by the generally excellent feel of the game to play.
I am not!
Thatād certainly make it easier.
So my Switch is telling me Iāve played Spla2n for over 75 hoursā¦
I just hit level 30 tonight.
Time to retire.
75! Last I checked it was still just counting the days since I started playing. Now youāve got me worried.
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