I got this game just the other day thinking it would be a fun casual experience, like Switch games usually are, but no, out of the 30 matches I’ve played so far, I’ve only won 2 of them. This is NOT a fun or fair game for new players.
Imagine this: you’re a new player, you’ve played a total of 0mins of this game in your life, you’re forced to use the worst default level 1 gear in the game, but the game puts you up against a full team of LITERALLY 600+ hour veterans with meta builds, OP perks and weapons, who don’t just smash you, they wipe you out of existence, inking 99% of the map every, single, game… every match = you get spawn trapped 30 seconds in, and it’s impossible to flank the enemy to even the odds because of the impenetrable wall they’ve set up on these terrible fng maps.
THAT is the Splatoon 3 experience.
I’m not a casual gamer, I’m a competitive gamer; I’m a very GOOD gamer, and Splatoon isn’t rocket science, but the fact is your XP gain is slowed to a crawl when losing every game, which means it takes a million years to get new gear, perks and weapons which are locked behind levels. I’ll put it into perspective, I’ve played 30 games and I’m only level 4, ranked modes are unlocked at level 10, and some of the best weapons are unlocked at level 30.
If you’re not prepared to lose 500 games in a row, then don’t buy Splatoon 3 unless all you want to play is the single player. That is all.