Realistically, this should be a 2-or-2.5 by our usual metrics. There isn't much "objectively" wrong with this game. But we can't think of a game we had less fun with relative to how long we played it. We played this thing for a year straight, and what do we have to show for it? Hours wasted grinding away for basically nothing, 0 splatfest wins, and 2 entire times the community that loves to ask you to celebrate it oh-so much sent us literal, actual hatecrimes for wanting to... have fun with the video game we spent 95 USD on including the online price! And the single player is just a downgrade to Octo Expansion--sorry, if we wanted to play Octo Expansion, we already own Splatoon 2!

We realize we're just proving how "entitled" we are for giving this score, but we were asked for our opinion--and we'll give our opinion. The only reason you're not the worst game of the 2020s is a certain Pluralphobic Genshin Impact in the room.