Splatoon 3 Launches This Summer, Trailer Features Salmon Run Co-Op Mode - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 February 2022 / 1,807 Views
Nintendo during its Nintendo Direct today announced Splatoon 3 will launch for the Nintendo Switch this summer.
In the same announcement a new trailer for the game was released that featured the Salom Run co-op mode.
"The next wave of Salmon Run’s co-op action returns in Splatoon 3! But with this mysterious new giant Salmonid in the picture it might be a tougher challenge than swimming upstream!" reads the description to the trailer.
View the trailer below:
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I guess I'll try Splatoon 3, though I've had no luck getting into the previous two entries in the series. I don't really understand the appeal. The gameplay just feels extremely repetitive to me.
Not unlike any shooter though, right? It's always a pretty small gameplay loop. Run to objective, kill or die. If kill, defend and progress the objective. If die, respawn and try to regain lost ground/objective control.
That's every shooter in a nutshell. They just are repetitive.
I dunno. Probably 50% of my gaming is shooters, and Splatoon feels the most repetitive to me. Maybe it's not the gameplay so much as it is the environments, or something like that.
Not sure why you got down voted for that comment.......
Lol. Who knows? As for your other reply, yeah, could be the aesthetic. Even across different maps, it's a pretty tight theme.
Edit: Or the repetition could come from the short match times. It can feel like constantly starting over every 3-5 minutes. And sometimes matches can last 30 seconds to a minute if things really go off the rails.
While Salmon Run was my favorite mode in 2 and I absolutely want to get this, I too am yet to see anything that justifies Splatoon 3 instead of Splatoon 2 DLC. The single-player campaign will need to be more impressive than the first two or the Octoling expansion. Plus, there'll need to be more than a few maps or new enemies. We'll need totally new modes or gameplay twists.
Based on the previous trailers, it's going to be a bit different but not much. Really high level changes, but nothing game altering. Turf war will feel pretty similar. Higher rank modes will probably feel a lot different.
But change too much and it's not the same game. Too much the same and why bother? Always the dilemma with making a sequel.
But they did add I think 2 new ranked modes in Splatoon 2 as well as as completely alter the one with the gun that you have to take to the other base. The name escapes me. So I suspect a couple new ones and tweaks to previous modes.
The Wii u had a small userbase and they didn't expect the explosive sales on that console. That's why things were designed the way they were in terms of the rotating modes. I think 3 needs to give players a lot of incentive to play the "promoted" mode, but have any mode available at all times. Like every 5 or 10 matches of the promoted mode gets you a sea snail or whatever. Obviously not exactly that, but some way to get people to play a variety of modes rather than only two options at a time. The install base will be big enough to support people playing different modes at once.
Other than that, I think it's going to be fine. Definitely getting it at launch. Took some time off from Splatoon for about 2 years. I'm ready for a few hundred more hours.
I love Splatoon... but can we finally get an option to skip the two talking squid-girls when we load into the game? If I want to know about updates, current maps etc, I'll listen. If not, let me push a simple button and get into the game Nintendo! lol
Yeah, but 2 is a gigantic improvement over 1. It's like 10 seconds. And not at all of you leave the switch asleep while in the plaza.
True, but there still should be an option to skip lol. Sometimes, you just want to get into the game and go!
I agree. But I just meant they do seem to be listening at least. It's really only necessary for the splat fest results. They could even just make it that you walk up to a tv or something to initiate it.
You make it sound like this has been a thing. Has anyone else complained about not being able to skip the squid girls?
I thought so. Even if it was a minority of people, I think I've heard that complaint before.
I'm sure it'll be cool and all, but I haven't really seen anything that can make it a sequel.....it seems like an Overwatch to Overwatch 2 type jump.
Not really understanding Nintendo's strategy here. For a new ip, the first game was fresh and fun and definitely warranted a sequel. At this point, much like MK8dx, why not just add dlc to Splat2 and save a Splat3 for release with the new console?
Because it isn't selling like Mario kart. Splatoon 2 gets maybe 1 million units per year now. A sequel sells 10 million more.
Could also be that they're trying to move everything to the new servers and net code. Better to not keep updating the antiquated one... unless it's Mario kart and sells 5 or 7 million units every year.
Inklings/Octolings are too adorable sometimes. I don't always like seeing them in these precarious situations...
Really excited. I'm sure it'll feel different enough with all the small changes, new weapons etc.
Hopefully there's a completely new mode coming too and the single player fleshes out the world a bit more.
Seems that way. If you've played 1 and 2, you probably can guess how many and what kind of changes will happen in 3.
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