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First Splatoon review?

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Oblivion

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Sounds kinda like SSB64, a great, fun, addictive game, but lacking in content.
 
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Manoko

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Oblivion said:
Sounds kinda like SSB64, a great, fun, addictive game, but lacking in content.
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That's actually a very good analogy.
Now we know what happened with its sequel, SSBM.

I hope the same will happen with Splatoon, but they will have to let go of their fears of living with their time (lack of voice chat) for it to become a real contender in the world of multiplayer shooters.

Just my two cents.
 
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noshten

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cheesekao said:
First off, I've never said that people should be outraged. I was merely comparing the difference in severity of the backlash Nintendo and other companies get.

Also,60 extra challenges are disc-locked-content as well. I mean come on, locking challenges behind Amiibos?
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How is anyone able to enjoy this game without having access to all this extra content?
That's right the content is the Single Player you've already played with different "challenges".
It's like saying how can anyone who hasn't bought the Compendium right now enjoy Dota 2
 
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espher

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Hatchtag said:
I'm fully expecting a ~75 metacritic. A 6-7 hour campaign + a 2 player versus mode + 2 online modes across 5 maps isn't generally thought to be $60 worth of content, but the core mechanics are fun enough that I doubt it'll be knocked too far down.
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Meanwhile, in other first-person shooters...

Granted, more modes/maps out of the box, but it seems nearly every shooter tends to devolve to a very small subset of both.
 
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iKhayal18 said:
WORST ASPECTS:
· The unbalance among weapons give advantage to the Splat Roller and the Splattershot (and short-range weapons) against the Splat Charger (and other long-range weapons).
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And we should nerf Little Mac!
I don't get reviewer, who don't factor in experience and the development of the meta-game before criticize balance-issues (as long as it isn't a broken element). You always have the easy-to-use/ hard-to-master style of weapons for beginners and high-risk/high-reward kind of weapon for advance players.
If long-range weapons would be easy to use, nobody would chose the short-range weapons. No matter how good they would be, if you can't reach anybody, then they are useless.

The Splat Roller is a noob weapon to kill noob players. If players will get more into the game, they will find ways around the weapon and players using it, need to be more cleaver with it (properly more sneaky).
 
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Rappy

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Metal B said:
And we should nerf Little Mac!
I don't get reviewer, who don't factor in experience and the development of the meta-game before criticize balance-issues (as long as it isn't a broken element). You always have the easy-to-use/ hard-to-master style of weapons for beginners and high-risk/high-reward kind of weapon for advance players.
If long-range weapons would be easy to use, nobody would chose the short-range weapons. No matter how good they would be, if you can't reach anybody, then they are useless.

The Splat Roller is a noob weapon to kill noob players. If players will get more into the game, they will find ways around the weapon and players using it, need to be more cleaver with it (properly more sneaky).
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Well they still gave it a 90/100 so they must think it wasn't that big of an issue. But maybe this just shows how flawed putting a arbitrary score to a review is.
 
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jariw said:
His whole rant about the amiibo weapons is just completely wrong
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I have the game, finished single player and can tell you 100% that he isn't wrong with this point.
the single player is good but really could do with this bonus as an extra, free for everyone.
This extra should be free and it's the first time i've thought so with amiibo stuff.
 
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cheesekao

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Las7 said:
How is anyone able to enjoy this game without having access to all this extra content?
That's right the content is the Single Player you've already played with different "challenges".
It's like saying how can anyone who hasn't bought the Compendium right now enjoy Dota 2
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Disc-Locked content is inherently bad. There's no two ways around it. Also, stop comparing a free game to a paid one with locked content.

Furthermore, I've also managed to get several hours of extra play time from challenge missions in games so let's not knock it yeah? Some people actually enjoy challenge missions.
 
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Inferno313

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Killscreen has posted a review.

82/100

That’s the kind of work Splatoon is doing: borrowing ingredients from numerous different recipes, throwing them into a pot together, and stirring until they stop feeling like separate ideas and begin to become unitary.

Splatoon, then, makes me optimistic about what games can do not with pastiche or duplication-as-serialization, but with sampling. We don’t have a genre convention to slot Splatoon into, and that’s a rare and wonderful thing.
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Gaspard

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JDSN said:
I think ill wait for more reliable sources, that youtube guy has a suspect reputation, but then again I understand why this particular review is front and center lol.
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Yeah I kinda don't buy the "what agenda lol" he's on about.

Let's wait until the review embargo is lifted before we can bicker about scores.
 
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Starwolf_UK

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Dubious nature of first review aside I wonder if there will be a rift in scores caused by the $60 vs. €40 price points. Or have most reviewers moved on form judging a game by its price?
 
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GhostTrick

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Starwolf_UK said:
Dubious nature of first review aside I wonder if there will be a rift in scores caused by the $60 vs. €40 price points. Or have most reviewers moved on form judging a game by its price?
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Even if the price difference is hilarious from Europe to USA, I think 60 dollars is not much a of concern for that game.
 
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GhostTrick

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Tricky I Shadow said:
The lack of content is really gonna hurt this.
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I don't think so. Content is fine, even though more would have been better. But the game clearly has some online flaws, especially lobbys waiting, no bots and other stuff like this. The fact that a game wont start and lobby can close after 5 minutes if not full will hurt it in the long run.
 
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I need to catch up with some of the later reviews, but the brief Guardian review told me everything I wanted to know: That the single player is a meaty offering. It called it "fully formed", and I have to say, I'm looking forward to trying it out more than the multiplayer at the moment. Looks amazing.
 
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