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The level where you got the new chainsaw weapon was really underrated ngl

I honestly did not expect the final phase of Mr. Grizz's boss fight to be shaving his ass

I really like the start fake out honestly. It does a good job of showing how Octavio and Cuttlefish haven't changed yet which is important for the finale. And the levels were so damn short that I can't really complain about em. As for the angle shooter yeah thats just the sub in general, its at your feet level, I'm guessing its due to the fact that its a tripwire but eh idk how needed it really is. But once you know where it fires I found it fine. Line Marker is also its name in Japan so I use that. I am curious what didnt work well for you with squid surge, I've never had any difficulty with that mechanic. It'l be an actual crime if we don't get the space suit and captain gear. I agree OE is def better.

The interesting thing about Marigold is that she and the various staff members across Splattsville a fresh-water fish; unless they're all just somehow the same character. They're goldfish, which are fresh-water. Every other character that isn't an inkling or octoling are based on salt-water creatures, sea creatures; even salmonids, salmons can live in both fresh and salt-water. But goldfish are exclusively fresh-water. Am I overthinking this? Probably. But considering there's a sunken scroll on her/them, maybe there's something to it.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the music of the campaign. BANGERS ALL AROUND.

I thought the three collected things were gonna combine into like, a helicopter to fly over the fuzz around the rocket, really did not expect it to actually be a chainsaw hair trimmer machine thing

9:56 There’s actually an in universe explanation for what happens to the inkling’s ‘soul’ (for lack of a better term) in one of the artbooks. Basically when an Inkling is splatted their soul returns to a spawnpad and the spawn pressurize ink, restore and inkling/octoling back into their physical form. I know I probably explained this poorly and it still does raise a lot of questions, but it’s the best we got.

Honestly fighting Darth Vader with a chainsaw at the end was best part of the campaign. I give it a 3 out of 3.

The different areas and the way we lost our gear at the start made me think of metroid games even with the music being so atmospheric sometimes

As a 🗿 myself i enjoyed the amount of 🗿 we saw in the first world and especially the level where you paint the giant 🗿 🗿/🗿 would 🗿 again

It kinda broke my heart when I lost for the first time and Mr. Grizz knocked the chainsaw out of my hands and said "It's mammalin' time" and mammaled all over Earth.

My favorite part of this game was when Denji from chainsaw man came and chainsawed all over those guys

Splatoon 3 story mode was absolutely amazing. I can’t get over how incredible it is. I can’t believe I am saying this but I think it actually beat Octo Expansion for my personal favourite. Not for difficulty, but for the story, the lore, and the plot twists. The ambiance of Alterna is amazing to be in. The snowy and artificial environment feels so shrouded in mystery and I hope we get more lore about it in the dlc

The Angle Shooter level worked perfectly fine with me. I beat it first time

Notable for walking everywhere in addition to the stickers you unlock a drone to dump all the extra power eggs you have into, each day you feed it 999 eggs and the next day you get a notification in the lobby terminal and get either a locker deco (which is how you get multiple moais) or food tickets, or 10k coins, or rarely TTCards, essentially its a second daily gatcha pull that uses story mode currency. IDK, pretty worth.

I was a bit annoyed to find out that the 3 thangs didn't turn into like a helicopter or something, but instead they just became a... CHAINSAW?!

The moment in the ending when they reference the chainsaw from the shining 🔥

I loved the hero mode, especially the final boss. CHAINSAW!

Glad we get use a chainsaw to fight mr griz

I didn't hate Splat2n's hero mode as much as Mr. Spaceman but I'd agree Octo Expac is best. The story was more compelling and the aesthetic was so much cooler. That final stretch where you were freeing yourself felt powerful. That said, Mr. Grizz and the Happy Little Workers motifs gave me chills. Definitely a much better final boss! Also, I haven't watched Chainsaw Man yet.

I thought the parts were gonna make a helicopter. I didn't expect a chainsaw.

With that shining reference, it got me thinking how different that one classic scene would be if he had a chainsaw instead!

"You don't need to repeat any level" Say that to the person that thought after alterna was unlocked after beating every level with every weapon Hi, that's me

Pretty much agreed on all fronts. Octo just barely beats it out but it’s still fantastic. Really do hope to see more of Deep Cut when the DLC happens. Chainsaw

"What's next" World tour, its going to be a world tour. Peices of evidence that support this include: 1: Marina and Pearl are on a world tour, which was revealed in a SRL post, and they where both used to tease it in the direct 2: cuttlefishes dialogue after you beat the campaign, being "being a hero, well... it's a real trip. A voyage if you will. Some kinda tour... where you go places", and in 2's campaign they hinted towards octo expansion with tartar in Marie's shack, so it's not like that would be the first time they've done that. 3: no that's pretty much it

This was a pretty good breakdown of the pros and cons. For some reason I personally couldn’t get myself to enjoy ROTM anywhere near as much as Octo expansion, but it’s still a pretty solid campaign. I just think it relied way too much on previous mechanics. Like… do we really still need to be doing propeller lift levels in 2022? And I didn’t really like the final boss that much, felt a little too much like a playable cutscene (half of it is literally just a cutscene). I’m glad other people were able to enjoy it, though, and I’m really looking forward to the DLC. I hope they find a way to shake up the formula again, because I agree, we really don’t need Octo expansion 3

When you go back to alterna after you've 100% it there's a little sheldrone that you can pay 999 power eggs to fly off and get you something each day. In my experience it's mostly been things for your locker but I did get some ability chucks one time.

I'm gonna go watch your old videos and you can't stop me

Not into multiplayer so Splat falls off on me, but can I just say I LIT UP when I saw the clip of big man going into the ground and seeing that puddle colour. The the name and what he did after. So glad they referenced that. It was chainsaw good.

Holy shoot I just found your channel and checked out a lotta your stuff; it's all great, keep up the great work! 💛

Honestly, a level i really like for the name and dialogue alone is "octohoppers dont have a sense of humor (and they hate puns)". The diolague is literally just callie and marie making puns the whole time DESPITE IT MAKING THE OCTOHOPPERS MAD AND IT DOES NOT HELP 3 IN THIS SITUATION!! I like to think the octoballer level canonically comes after that one since they continue to make puns in it

“Angle shooting” is a term that refers to playing underhandedly while still within the rules. I’m not sure where it came from, but it’s thrown around in competitive Magic the Gathering a lot Edit: the term comes from poker

That part where it suddenly goes evil dead on us with your ink/octoling losing a hand but replacing it with a chainsaw was out of left field. But I still love it

*revs chainsaw* Great video cap! I haven't completed all the levels in Story Mode (real life also demanded I spread it out over the course of a week) but I will say I did enjoy the overall story itself. The build up to it being Grizz was done well, even if his actual design was a meme. I was kinda hoping he'd be some kind of Grizzly-Tardigrade hybrid seeing as the latter is well, a water bear! I also liked the final stretch of levels (and in OE as well for the same reason) since they actually seemed to have a connected personality? They reminded me a fair amount of the test chambers in Aperture Science, honestly. One of the gripes I had with it though, very little commentary from Octavio about his people/soldiers now being used by someone else! Kind of the downside to getting separated from him after that initial encounter, I feel like he could've really benefited from being a part of the campaign in some way. Hopefully with Marina being who she is, he'll get some proper character development in the DLC.

Honestly a lot of these criticisms just seem like issues you personally had from lack of using specific moves or sub weapons, the angle shooter is perfectly fine, and the squid surge is really easy to use once you use it a handful of times

Chainsaw, love seeing you playing Bang Bing on your Bang Bing Bass

Splatoon 3 Hero Mode is where the overwhelming majority of my hours went so far. I'm a total beginner to Splatoon; never played 1 or 2. A lot of fun and creative levels, and I'm super glad I didn't have to beat any one level more than three times. Yes, I 100%'d it with *every* weapon option. I think people called this 1000%. I don't think there was a single level in the game besides the bonus postgame level where I couldn't find at least one weapon that could clear it quickly, so it is definitely a beginner-friendly mode. I enjoyed the lore and music a lot, too. The "spiderman" level music as well as the music from the fourth stage of the Rocket level are now on my playlist. There were about 10 levels where I had a huge amount of trouble clearing it with one particular weapon, and the majority of them were ones in which you had to destroy targets in a time-sensitive manner. The 60 balloon mission and the clay-shooting mission, both with the Classic Squiffer, can rot in hell. I spent about 2 hours grinding through each of them like a chainsaw grinding through a tree. As for the Nintendo Treehouse mission that has apparently grown to become infamously hard with the bow, I had a lot of fun working on it until I finally got it right. It definitely felt like the level was designed to be fun with it. The secret bonus level, I found the 1st (platforming) section and the 3rd (puzzle) section rather easy. Only had one death in each. Mostly because I played them very slowly and methodically with no time limits. the 2nd (rail shooting) took me an hour and a half and the 4th (the Octolings) took me nearly 2. So yeah, definitely some very rough patches to push through, but it was all a great time. Feeling like I could take on some Octo-Expansion-like difficult levels and love it. I was thinking it'd be cool to try it myself but Splat 2's still $60 and the DLC still $20. 80 bucks for 80 levels and a dead multiplayer scene is a very hard pill swallow so I hope we get another huge, high-quality single player campaign in upcoming Splat 3 DLC. In case anyone's wondering, I'm only Level 11 and I'm turfing ground in Turf Wars with the Aerospray and Reef-Lux. Trying to figure out ways to get better. People keep saying I should play Motion Controls. Maybe sometime I'll 100% (not 1000%) the story again with motion controls to get comfy with that, too. Great video; thanks for the review.

Hot take: The alternative theory of Mr.Grizz being an inkling would've totally ruined the rest of story mode for me. The Alterna logs conclude with the reveal that it was the hopes and dreams of humanity that gave the people of splatoon 'souls'. Having the game end with an inkling being the grand world ending villain would just show that inklings and the like are doomed to make the same mistakes humanity did - proving Tartar right. I think that difference in motivate between those two and Octavio is very important. Octavio embodied that human desire to perseve, not wipe out all life.

4:00 this actually isn't too much of an issue because everything that has actually important stuff is visible the ones that only little buddy can find only include power eggs

Honestly, I hope the DLC story involves Salmon Run heavily, especially if you can get Grizzco weapons like the blaster or the chainsaw. Maybe the real Mr. Grizz flies back down to earth and learns from his mistakes, and he refines the fuzzy ooze to be removable, so we can get furry ink/octolings as a customization option similar to Octo Expansion unlocking playable Octolings

I like the running gag Splatoon has making fun of silent protagonists with the awkward pause after someone introduces themselves.

I can’t believe there’s a chainsaw weapon

I love the Splatana Stamper, because it looks like a CHAINSAW. The Texas CHAINSAW Massacre is one of my favorite horror movies.

Only confusing part was Big Man acting like a pacifist and then whipping out a freaking CHAINSAW!

To be fair, it's kinda obvious that Splatoon 2's Hero Mode is basically a retread of the first game's due to the original game being on the Wii U and Nintendo obviously wanted to onboard anyone who hadn't played the original, since the Switch turned out to be way, way more successful. I honestly like it for what it was.

7:50 I recently got and started playing XenobladeDE so needless to say that line was the funniest shit to me Now I can't help but imagine the final boss but MetalFace double-teams on Grizz alongside Hugefry, which needless to say, its hilarious both as a mental image, and imagining what MetalFace would be like in that situation

I think my three biggest complaints for the story mode in Splatoon 3 were: 1. A lot of the levels were extremely short. Some shorter than others. 2. A lot of the levels felt compact and closed off compared to the bigger open areas in the first and second game. 3. There are less bosses than the other games and the bosses didn’t feel as surprising since you mostly knew what/who they were going to be after the first boss. I liked reaching a boss in the other two games and being greeted with an ominous silhouette of them before entering the level.

Why they didn’t call the angle shooter a ‘High-Lighter’ really confused me

i also did the entire simgle player in one sitting and i had already taken a chainsaw to my sleep schedule and started at midnight. so i was in a constant state of sleep deprivasion the entire time through. fun times

7:27 come on Nintendo you have to remember all.

The dlc story mode is already out, it's called chainsaw man

1:37 For someone who only started with Splatoon 3, the fake out start was a great way to get used to controls and basic mechanics. Having full gun and armor is cery noob friendly lol. The lil' plastic gun you get in Alterna would have put me in pain

That Splatoon 4 image was peak comedy. Also gals on the feet would be silly.

Don't mind me just leaving a comment for the KZfaq gods (also I've never used the chainsaw splatana weapon but it sure looks cool)

first of all, great video as always. love your stuff, seriously. and don't be so harsh on your old videos, they're not good, but like, they're not *bad.* i've seen way worse lmao. at least most of them are still funny. my own takes: ough i have quite a few thoughts on splatoon 3 hero mode. preface: i really liked return of the mammalians and 100% agree with your campaign rankings, though im not sure it would be a cloooose second, just second. i do kinda have my own criticisms tho regarding the presence of callie, marie, cuttlefish, and cap 3 (why were they there??) and deep cut (i wanted the game to double down on them being goofy assholes, i think it would've been funny) but i actually loved the story for most of the same reasons you detailed, especially what you said about little buddy. loving the story is kinda a hot take among other splatoon lore nerds because they think it's really dumb, but idk, i don't want splatoon to start taking itself seriously or go full edge, lmao. also i'm still super relieved grizz isn't a human. have a good one!

I don't know how I quite feel about the story mode in Splatoon 3. On the one hand you get more character interactions, a great final battle and some cool bosses. But I feel like it was even more of a letdown then Splatoon 2. Probably because the levels feel way to short, too easy and took away the exploration aspect of the first two games. Since they decided to take the Octo expansion pack route of level designing. Of course the DLC is amazing since it was meant to be harder with a lot of variety in it's challenges. But in Splatoon 3 it didn't meet those expectations and it doesn't really match well with it's story. Since there's very little point into going the challenges except for getting the salmon eggs to remove the fuzzy ooze. Which it feels like were wasting our time dragging across the levels instead of having fun in those levels.

My favorite part was where you Deep Cut stole a chainsaw

Also by 100% completing the map in alterna you unlock a drone that gives you stuff (mostly decorations)! It's just a way to spend power eggs but neat nonetheless

just out of curiosity for your ranking do you think octo & 3 or 1 & 2 would be ranked differently if the order was reversed (2 before 1, or 3 before octo)? and if so is it mostly the "been there done that" that ranks the second of each type lower?

6:29 You also get access to the Sheldrone which will find and send a random item to the lobby for you to pick up once a day if you pay the drone 999 power eggs.

I stole your chainsaw! YES, IT WAS ME!

I love that one song that goes bing bang bing, really makes you feel like a chainsaw

I loved the part where DJ Octavio got ripped to shreds with a chainsaw

surprising how few ppl know about sheldrone

i actually agree with the exact rankings you gave the story modes

i just started playing when 3 came out and wow i am obsessed. this is my first shooter and i finally beat the story mode just to find the extra level. i NEED to beat it for my sanity but i'm 200+ attempts in at this point. when you said it took you 50 minutes i almost cried lol chainsaw

glad to know i wasn’t the only one who thought i was building metal face

Tip for angle shooter if you hold down the button it shows you where it will shoot better

Aay! (I remember helping after being beaten and gave a space helmet!)

i didnt notice until near the end but the loot anchors also showed up as “areas of interest” on the maps of the islands

"But don't watch my old content, because it's BAD" I've been following you for a while, your old content is A-OK. (chainsaw)

I'm sorry, but saying "squid surge doesn't work" while showing a moment that was voted #1 Most Skill Issue in the high school yearbook is just a little funny. Otherwise, great review and I overall agree with your take on the game!

if you look at the hidden log you see mr grizz's younger self and his original form per se. I think its pretty safe to assume that when we shooted the fuzzy ooze out of him, he just shrank. the ooze was making him furrier and bigger. what makes me think this is the fact that the after alterna grizz statue is just a small average bear, but now featuring big buddy (i dont remember his name in english)

Chainsaw. Also this about something mentioned in the spoiler section. . . . . . . This has been mentioned elsewhere but in addition to everything else you pointed out about Lil Jud, if you play him in Tableturf all his cards are salmonid cards and his card sleeve is salmon run themed.

5:35 this bit where you're complaining that the grouped up balloons are hard to hit where you chose not to use burst bomb was p funny

During the credits you actually see mr Grizz alive floating in space so I think he’s still running Salmon Run and we were supposed to take his dialogue as him saying he’s done with the evil plans and just doing salmon run for fun now?

The splatana stamper looks like a chainsaw

My favorite part was when little buddy turned into a chainsaw and went “it’s buddying time” and chainsawed everybody

i thought his shirt was just the black part with some INSANE cutouts

Chainsaw, also pretty hopeful we will get a FLUDD weapon

dunno if anyone mentioned it, but lil judd has a heavily salmon run (and chainsaw) focused tableturf deck, so :thinking:

ay yo the muisc of splatty 2's hero mode was good shit!

SPOILERS without context and only using one word: Crystals

the thubnail is a potential meme 😭😭

Loved when Vader said "it's mammal time" and pulled out a chainsaw lightsaber to kill Cuttlefish

I completed everything in hero mode, so all I gotta do now is literally step every where?

Damn, who would’ve though there’d be a chainsaw man reference in splatoon 🤩

Cool video and I like a chainsaw!

4:05 You actually don't need that ability to locate treasure on binoculars! In fact the binocular sensor was the reason I wanted the sensor ability 😅 I thought I'd be able to find the treasure with the sensor normally... I was so disappointed

Didn't know that plat2 hm had a chainsaw, damn, why did i skipped 2 completly 😭

Splatoon 3s story mode was cool

I have to agree on your list of single player campaigns. At least Nintendo is noticing their mistakes and can (chain)SAW forward into the next DLC.

I see the Splatana Stamper as a big chainsaw

Question: how do you 100% the story mode? I've beaten all stages with all the weapons, found every treasure in the map, pop all of the blue balloon riddles, and also the red balloon that is patrolling in the sky. It doesn't get me 100%, what am I missing?

I can’t wait for the Splatoon 3 DLC story where we must defeat Liquid Judd and his Metal Gear because he believes himself to be the inferior clone to Lil Judd.

Chainsaw man review next?

I had an easy time w fryes boss battle. I don't get why people kept dying to the tornado. I just faced the tornado and shot it?

Chainsaw please, Ser; I need a Captain to sail me through the moonless nights so I can live again, and I trust you to be a true Captain for my FriendShip, please. Take it and don't give it back away ever again, please.

Yep great video. CHAINSAW!