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[Hideous Snake]

Hunt for treasure in a wild adventure!

In this single-player-focused game, play as a mechanic working with Deep Cut—a trio of swashbuckling musicians—and venture out into the mysterious Spirhalite Islands!

Customize your character, kit yourself out with mechanical gadgets and ink-splattering weapons, and take on waves of enemy Salmonids as you raid the islands for treasure.

Head out on raids

Pick a destination and see what goodies you can find. Fight Salmonids, gather salvage, and uncover the mysteries of the islands.

Score treasure

Scoop up purdy Spirhalite Crystals and other salvage that you find out there—you never know what might come in handy! Some stages may also contain rare relics that can power you up. You'll keep everything you pick up on solo raids, no matter what happens.

Tinker with your gear

Salmonids can put up a fight. Use the salvage you recover during raids to craft all sorts of enhancements back at your Hideout Ship. Whether you're upgrading gear, leveling up weapons, or enhancing home base, every little bit helps!

Inspect your gadgets

Each tank is compatible with its own range of specialized gadgets, which you can further customize using the loot you find. Equip the one that matches your play style—or swap tanks between missions to try a different approach.

Speed Tank


Power Tank


Tactical Tank


Get to know your treasure-hunting crew.

The Mechanic

Shiver

Frye

Big Man

Roll out with your bot buddy

One member of Deep Cut will raid alongside you in a powerful bot construct. Aside from helping in battle, you can jump off them to soar to new heights or build up powerful Showstopper attacks. Wield them wisely to unleash absolute heck!



Fight off hordes of Salmonid enemies that seem a little more vicious than usual, including some never-before-seen forms. On the flipside, the loot they drop can make your life easier in the long run. Salmonid numbers can get out of hand quickly, so watch your back!

Play your way

Find your sweet spot with Tourist, Raider, and Survivalist difficulty levels. Change it anytime! Just know that this only affects combat, not the loot you can get.



You can also join with up to three other players online* or via local wireless**. Call 'em in if you need help with a stage (or just want to splat Salmonids with a friend). The game will scale player power automatically to help make sure everyone has a good time.

 

[Hideous Snake]

Sorry I'm late and I'm bad doing OTs. Have fun!

Edit: big thank you for mr jshackles for the beautiful banner!

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Dude this OT is awesome! Bravo

I might still pick this up, even though my wife chickened out lol

 

[Alexios]

Noice.

 

[rkofan87]

Just got through the Tutorial really fun.So far feels a lot better than those single player campaigns in the regular splatoon games to me
Good ot By the way
ps for context I've only played a few minutes of the Splatoon 2 main single player and the DLC for Splatoon 2
but for some reason this gameplay does a lot more fun than those two gameplay loops did

 

[kevboard]

Play your way

Find your sweet spot with Tourist, Raider, and Survivalist difficulty levels. Change it anytime! Just know that this only affects combat, not the loot you can get.

damn... I almost changed my mind and bought it after seeing some more gameplay,
but this legit now makes it a definite skip

 

[Uncle Moe]

Well done, Hideous Snake ! Can't wait to chum a few Salmonids.

 

[rkofan87]

damn... I almost changed my mind and bought it after seeing some more gameplay,
but this legit now makes it a definite skip

why?

 

[kpopSuperstar]

The Splatoon art style is so good.

 

[jshackles]

Just started playing, loving it so far. Never cared about the other game's multiplayer modes, so I knew I'd dig this.

 

[Alexios]

why?

Cos everything else he made up about the game being bad or this or that like not having any platforming or whatever was debunked so that's all he has left

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

The Splatoon art style is so good.

Are the visuals at all better than Splat 3? I can't tell from watching videos and thats not a good sign. I care about graphics still and want Switch 2 games to be clear step ups over Sw1...

 

[Revolutionary]

The Splatoon art style is so good.

Yeah the art style is still great but I was expecting the game to look better for Splatoon's Switch 2 debut, honestly. It's definitely not using DLSS because it looks pretty soft during gameplay in TV mode.

However, I noticed it gets a resolution bump (and a 30fps cap) during cutscenes. Curious to see DF's analysis on this one.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Great job with the OT !

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Single player huh? I have ignored this series because I know it's multiplayer based and focused. Maybe there will be a demo I can check this out.

 

[Arsic]

Will likely grab this or beast in August after I complete halo remake.

I wish this had launched like 3 weeks ago would've been a no brainer then.

 

[Dacvak]

Damn, this OT makes me wanna buy the game. Well done OP

 

[Odinnii]

Played this shit for hours.

Getting addicted to a Splatoon looter-shooter was not on my bingo card.

 

[DreamcastSkies]

Will be my first Splatoon game.

 

[Indyblue]

This game is just fantastic

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Gottta wait until tomorrow, then I can play with the wife.

 

[Power Pro]

Gottta wait until tomorrow, then I can play with the wife.

Is she mad at you or something?

 

[Tarnpanzer]

Is there any way to salvage low level guns?

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Is she mad at you or something?

No lol. I'm finishing up exams in another city.

 

[Revolutionary]

Is there any way to salvage low level guns?

Eventually yes. It's an upgrade to HQ

 

[Hideous Snake]

This game is gooooood. I never got deep into original Splatoons but this game is wicked

 

[Hideous Snake]

Great job with the OT !

Thank you and thanks for the gold!

 

[Luipadre]

I love how the ink looks and feels in this game, so nice

 

[Aldric]

From what I've played (I'm in the second set of islands after defeating the first boss) this might be my favorite Nintendo game in more than a decade. If this keeps up and doesn't shit the bed it's probably going to end up better than Donkey Kong Bananza.

It's everything that I expected from a single player Splatoon spinoff. The series fantastic core gameplay is expanded in ways that make it one of the most mechanically satisfying games I've ever experienced especially in terms of movement options, the amount of customization is insane, the variety and quality of challenges is top notch. Some people were worried that the game would be repetitive combat encounters and nothing more but there's platforming EVERYWHERE, right from the start with exploratory sections but also more focused linear trials.

The game introduces new platforming mechanics the series had never seen before and uses them extensively, the level design and enemy placement force you to use all your traversal options properly, Salmon Run's strategic almost puzzle game aspect to the fighting where you need to take advantage of the unique enemies abilities that can be turned against them and help you get better movement is still there and it's been improved thanks to better level design and more curated enemy placement, it's all really impressive.

I'm playing on survivalist and the challenge is perfect, it's hard but not frustrating, definitely the hardest Nintendo game since Metroid Dread. I don't see the game's quality completely collapsing so this will likely end up joining the list of Nintendo games that got a tepid critical reception despite being modern classics like Tropical Freeze or Kid Icarus Uprsing. And I got a physical copy for less than 45 euros. What more could you ask for?

 

[CuteFaceJay]

You Splatoony Patoony's enjoying so far?

 

[Tobimacoss]

Damn, Nintendo turned a multiplayer game into a single player one, and looks quite good.

 

[Forth]

Between this and Bananza Nintendo have absolutely killed it.
Two absolutely incredible games.
Great OT.

 

[Tarnpanzer]

Damn, Nintendo turned a multiplayer game into a single player one, and looks quite good.

Octo Expansion for 2 and the Single Player of 3 was already good.

But I agree.

 

[cormack12]

I wish I had more time *sadface*

 

[Luipadre]

Goddamn this game is so fucking addicting. Gameplay loop is so fun, just beat the first real boss, that was awesome

 

[Luipadre]

Also there is random matchmaking afterall. You can press - on the map screen and you can help random people on random maps

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Currently level 15. Loving the game. Looks great. Runs great. Gets hard as hell. Talent wins.

 

[Luipadre]

Currently level 15. Loving the game. Looks great. Runs great. Gets hard as hell. Talent wins.

The more shit you unlock the crazier this game gets. It started with "eh its fun" Now i cant stop playing

 

[dragonyeuw]

God damn it, if I wasn't waiting on the battery revision I'd probably jump on the Switch 2 before the price bump and grab this. I loved the first Splatoon on Wii U, didn't play the two sequels. This sounds really good so far.

 

[Branded]

Goddamn this game is so fucking addicting. Gameplay loop is so fun, just beat the first real boss, that was awesome

Please use "addictive" to be more inclusive to us Europeans. Thank you.

 

[KU_]

Never got into Splatoon before, but these impressions are making it difficult to hold off.

 

[Mitsurux]

Played alot of this last night with my daughter co-op, game is really good. The gadget customization is really great. Can't wait to play more.

Never really cared for the main Splatoon games single player modes. But loved Salmon run and the standard multi-player modes.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I wish I had more time *sadface*

Ain't that the damn truth.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Played alot of this last night with my daughter co-op, game is really good. The gadget customization is really great. Can't wait to play more.

Never really cared for the main Splatoon games single player modes. But loved Salmon run and the standard multi-player modes.

I'm happy to read you had a good time playing with your daughter. I plan to do the same. She's loving it. My physical copy doesn't ship from Amazon until next week

 

[Mitsurux]

Has anyone messed around with controlling the crane on the base and pulling boxes out of the water? Fun little bonus game and you can get some decent stuff from it.

 

[Hideous Snake]

Has anyone messed around with controlling the crane on the base and pulling boxes out of the water? Fun little bonus game and you can get some decent stuff from it.

I did once. Raged and left Need a bit of timing and I was tired

 

[jshackles]

Has anyone messed around with controlling the crane on the base and pulling boxes out of the water? Fun little bonus game and you can get some decent stuff from it.

I tried a few times, got boxes, but they just had a few of the little blue gems in them so it felt kind of pointless. Is there actually good stuff?

 

[manfestival]

The wife was super excited for this game. Preordered it and everything . she got home from work and was playing this for hours. Game does look really cool though. The graphics are nice and smooth and the presentation is really neat.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Is there HDR support? If so, does it look good?

StarFox had excellent HDR

 

[Mitsurux]

I tried a few times, got boxes, but they just had a few of the little blue gems in them so it felt kind of pointless. Is there actually good stuff?

Yeah, there are darker colored boxes which contain other items.