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It's been a long time coming. After being announced last year and very little else being revealed since, we now have not only a new trailer, but a release date for the upcoming single-player entry to the Splatoon series. The game sees you exploring the Spirhalite Islands as you hunt for treasure, making use of familiar gameplay mechanics to fight the various aquatic adversaries you encounter on the way.

You can check out the trailer in this post, with the game set to launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 on the 23rd of July.

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[SecureBoot]

Nintendo directs are dead lmao

 

[Ondrashek06]

FINALLY, oh my god! I'm so excited for it!

And we now even have some sort of mutated Salmonid species! Even a mutated Smallfry

 

[firke_the_one]

I sincerely hope it's not another open(ish) world game

 

[Skelletonike]

I'll be getting it.
Shame that it releases just as my holidays are finishing (well, they finish on the 24th and I still have the weekend, so it could have been worse).

 

[Cranesbill]

What’s this again?

 

[Skelletonike]

What’s this again?

 

[limpbiz411]

Yeah cool i guess, where is splatoon 4? that's what we really want this looks like it could have been packaged in a splatoon 4

 

[Cranesbill]

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Oh ok thank you

 

[Skelletonike]

Yeah cool i guess, where is splatoon 4? that's what we really want this looks like it could have been packaged in a splatoon 4

Honestly, I'm way more into a single player game, I bought Splatoon 3 when it came out and got bored of the gameplay loop after a week.

 

[SDA]

A new Splatoon game was one of the very last things I was expecting to see.

 

[Mama Dizzys]

ive always enjoyed splatoon's gameplay feel, but outside of 1 i just dont really enjoy the online play since im not competitive in general

this was quite literally my biggest wish for the splatoon series since it started, so this is really cool to see

 

[anhminh]

Nintendo directs are dead lmao

They say that during Nintendo Direct too. Why bother making one anymore then.

 

[bonkmaykr]

I mean it seems cool but... are we really doing open world? Again?

 

[k7ra]

It's stupid how they release big updates as new game....
Better would expand with new stuff 1st splatoon with dlc expand packs.
I mean you can buy it as new game and merge with 1st as dlc or have as new game. So it would bring all new content in 1 game and there would be all stuff in one place who want it

 

[Mama Dizzys]

It's stupid how they release big updates as new game....
Better would expand with new stuff 1st splatoon with dlc expand packs.
I mean you can buy it as new game and merge with 1st as dlc or have as new game. So it would bring all new content in 1 game and there would be all stuff in one place who want it

on a single platform yeah i get that, but i dont know if i like the idea of switch 2 only full game sized dlcs for switch 1 releases

 

[Marc_LFD]

Hopefully this is fun for solo mode, I've played other Splatoon single player games and it felt like tutorials how to get used to it before playing online.

 

[Ondrashek06]

Hopefully this is fun for solo mode, I've played other Splatoon single player games and it felt like tutorials how to get used to it before playing online.

Ehh, I kinda don't think that Girl Power Station, IA3 and AA were tutorials, they were insanely hard levels.

 

[Ambers_Crimson_8K]

I love Splatoon, can't believe this will be the first one I don't have in my collection!

Even this isn't worth buying a Switch 2 for, so far not a single game they've released, has justified the existence of a Switch 2, or even brought any value to it.

Guess I'll wait another year or 2, until they release something worth while.

 

[ChronosNotashi]

I love Splatoon, can't believe this will be the first one I don't have in my collection!

Even this isn't worth buying a Switch 2 for, so far not a single game they've released, has justified the existence of a Switch 2, or even brought any value to it.

Guess I'll wait another year or 2, until they release something worth while.

Yes, yes. We all know you're a pirate waiting for someone to break the firmware so that you can pirate Switch 2 games and pretend you've always liked whatever you pirated (or whatever bs excuse that those who are guilty about their piracy use to try to justify their actions). Tell us something we don't already know about you.

Hopefully this is fun for solo mode, I've played other Splatoon single player games and it felt like tutorials how to get used to it before playing online.

To be fair, all the Splatoon games up to this point have more or less been a mix of singleplayer and multiplayer, with multiplayer being more or less the bigger draw. This game's going to have a much larger focus on singleplayer, with the multiplayer being limited to optional co-op (as confirmed through an official social media post).