Writing this a few days after beating the story and then beating After Alterna after a fair amount of painful attempts, I loved the story mode of this game. More on the level of Octo Expansion which I felt was a more immersive story experience than the main game, this one combined elements of all prior stuff and gave us what I would say is the best single player work from the series, which of course is impressive for a game pretty much entirely marketed as a multiplayer game. As for the multiplayer, it's good too. Largely similar of course but with lots of returning maps, as well as new interesting specials. Some good stuff (Crab Tank), some annoying stuff (Reefslider please go away), i'm sure the whole process will be ironed out by professionals eventually but i'm having fun with it right now. Salmon Run is back to give me something to do when i'm doing particularly crap at battles, and it's as fun as before (your mileage may vary) with some interesting new bosses. Overall having a lot of fun with it right now, but time will tell if it holds up, or goes up or down in my estimation I guess.