Splatoon is a series we've struggled to get into, and a large part of that feels like the fault of some rather boring single-player campaigns that fail to make us interested in learning the ins-and-outs of the game for multiplayer. Thankfully, this game's single-player campaign (After an initial scare!) is a banger with maybe a SINGLE level that feels like dead weight. No longer are there collectibles in the levels themselves, forcing us to look over ledges instead of just playing the levels like normal people would.

The multi-player is also a blast, with the fun Salmon Run mode, the exciting Rainmaker mode, feeling at-home as a former TF2 player in Tower Control, enjoying some classic Splatzones, and avoiding Clam Blitz at all costs. The game feels hilariously out-of-balance when everyone, both casual and ranked players of all skill levels, are forced to queue together into the same games in Splatfests and the name of the game just becomes spawn camping, but there can be fun even in that chaos sometimes. Excellent stuff all-around.