DzNutsKong
1996
1995
I love just about everything this game tries to do. The boss fights are very different from the rest of the series but are all very good. Most people hate Slash Man and the Wily Capsule but mastering those was some of the most fun I've had with the series. The charge shot doing 2 damage and the invincibility frames being shortened were both great changes and I love the collectathon aspect it has. Easily one of the best classic series games.
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1987
Not perfect but it's really not bad for a series's first entry, especially considering how early it released. Some of the weapons are really fun to use even if they hit similar spaces or outright suck. Game feels a bit slidy, there's some horrible jank and the level design and boss design both are far from perfect.
1985
2003
2018
Was horribly lacking content on launch. I bought this for full price one afternoon and finished it before I had to grab dinner that same day. The final boss is genuinely my favorite of any game I've ever played and there was free DLC added later to try and fix the content issue but my experience with the game wasn't good enough for me to want to go back to it.
2022
Splatoon is amazing. I don't play other shooters so it's hard to say much about it but the mechanics and game feel are both fantastic. The weapons are mostly really good as well both to use and play against. I'm not huge on most of the music and the map design is not great but the rest of the game is good enough for both of those to be easy to ignore.