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These additions, while impactful, are admittedly small tweaks. Better yet, in Splatoon 3 you can now throw the eggs. ItвЂ™s the best showcase for SplatoonвЂ™s bizarre eccentricities and creepy character designs. Co-op horde mode Salmon Run is back, the deceivingly stressful industrial nightmare where you fight for eggs against waves of mutant fish. ThereвЂ™s new weapons, obviously, like Crab Tanks and Angle Shooters to lay down tripwires. Ironically, we havenвЂ™t seen much to prove that yet.

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This five-year gap for Splatoon 3 feels like a healthier gestation period to push the series forward.

A sequel which was oddly conservative for a company yet to release a new F-Zero over a lack of fresh ideas. While Splatoon 2 had many improvements, including a vastly superior single-player mode, it was a familiar experience. The original Splatoon had the disadvantage of being launched in 2015 on the Wii U, NintendoвЂ™s worst-selling console, so the hasty release of a sequel two years later on Switch felt like a rescue relaunch for their best franchise since Pikmin. For the North American tweet, youвЂ™ll find more life on the Isle Of Man.ДЇor western audiences then, itвЂ™s perhaps jarring when Splatoon is treated with the same prestige as a new Zelda, Mario or PokГ©mon вЂ“ even when itвЂ™s entirely deserved. YouвЂ™ll find the same results in the irrefutable science of tweet engagement, with the amount of вЂlikesвЂ™ on JapanвЂ™s announcement comparable to the entire population of Sunderland. The same Turf War gameplay video has almost double the views (2.3 million) on Nintendo JapanвЂ™s YouTube channel in comparison to the US (1.2 million), with only a quarter of their subscribers. The reception to Splatoon 3вЂ™s release date announcement demonstrates the sizable gulf. No wonder theyвЂ™re prioritised for the killer holographic Splatoon concerts.

According to Famitsu, Splatoon 2 is the fifth best-selling Switch game in Japan ahead of Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild.

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