My Foamstars thoughts as a Competitive Splatoon player 

This game won't kill splatoon, but it will kill RU-vid's bitrate

Finally someone talking who isnt blinded by the hate bandwagon

Glad you see the light too. I love Splatoon, but Foamstars has its own thing going that I think is getting into as well.

I hope this game gets some kind of option to tone down visuals because gameplay of this game genuinely gives me a migraine

I've been playing a lot of Foamstars lately and despite what I've said, it's a very fun game with a lot of its own charm! I still prefer Splatoon but I'll definitely continue playing Foamstars. It'll have to wait for a while because Side Order. Look forward to more Foamstars content from you homie🙏🏽❤

Thanks for making this video and sharing your thoughts. It's nice to see a competitive Splatoon player talk positivley about this game. I'm a casual Splatoon player and am loving Foamstars too! I hope the game does well.

Great video! As a splatoon player who doesn't have a playstation nor am I really interested in foamstars at all, I'm happy to see such solid content for the game and I'm glad you made this. Also what you say about being able to change characters/weapons in solo queue before the game is exactly my feelings about Splatoon. Like literally the one thing that I hate most as a charger main is going into solo and being paired with other backlines and suddenly we have no ability to push. Like literally every other competitive shooter game lets you coordinate weapons/characters with your team before the game starts, it's so frustrating! Just give us a minute to change gear/weapons after getting matched Nintendo!

Awesome video! Im glad you released it! Id like to add that im pretty sure you can reload you ammo without the reload button by not shooting for an extended period of time, but it's real slow. I might be wrong about that but im like 80% sure

More people gotta sing the praises of the foam. I’m tired of the slander

Never played Splatoon, was hyped to finally get to play something like Splatoon, immediately became worried when I learned the primary game mode wasn't the same as Splatoon's ink domination mode or whatev it's called... finally played it... I am shocked by how much I love Foamstars. It is fundamentally so different from any other shooter. It's weird because on paper, so many mechanics just seem to come out of left field or even conflict, and then you play it, and it somehow all works. It actually kinda makes it difficult to describe the game's mechanics and what I like about them, because how do you start. How the foamed up mechanic organically fosters teamwork while encouraging aggression? I completely agree Smash the Star is especially well designed. For people who haven't played Foamstars, one of the biggest things about Foamstars is everybody has super powerful walls. You can easily track enemies and allies, and if you're close enough, you can even see their silhouette which communicates hero identity, vector, and facing. This obviously makes flanking very difficult. Thing is... Almost all the attacks and abilities have short range, move slowly, and / or are heavily telegraphed. If you're paying attention and haven't overextended into opposition foam, you can usually avoid getting chilled. But the same goes the other way around so the best way to secure a chill ( they're not called kills ) is to dive an opponent and pointblank spray them down. But these are conflicting mechanics because how do you safely dive an opponent who has walls? Figure it out. It's a tiny bit like chess how the game goes, "Here's all the information you need to succeed; btw, everybody else has the same information. Figure it out." No fog of war is nuts. Crazy fast, crazy chaotic, the better you can process the information overload, the better you'll do. You have to operate under the assumption the opponents know everything you are doing so there's no point in trying to hide and go invisible; so instead, you're always doing something. Observing, anticipating, planning, foaming. Always. There is never downtime. It's possible the game breaks down when all players are communicating and coordinating in organized, competitive play. I can kinda see that happening, but at the same time, I just play solo casual so I wouldn't know; but man, this is the most fun I've had in a competitive shooter in a long time. I easily rate Foamstars over The Finals, Call of Duty, etc.

Smash The Star is heavily influenced by kid icarus uprising's multi-player.

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So i was playing around with slideboard cancelling for jump extension.. Seems like tonix and jet can do it with their shots during charging status. Baristador and rave breaker can do it with their shots/sprays as well which is probably even better than tonix and jet because they can cut their jump at any time and just spray. Then there's agito who can extend the jump via shot cancel but not properly. Agito will still shoot enough to sort of pad his fall but his shot is in no way the same as using his shuriken to extend his jump.

4 new characters and 5 new modes in the first year seems likely. I hope the game will have enough success to keep it up.

This game is so good in my opinion an soundtrack helps with rough matches with it's catchy an banger soundtrack

This game is fresh t0 escape splat00n fans drama,it’s am enj0y these f0amstar party gameplay

It’s just a shame a lot of people shit talked this game. Before I played it I looked up reviews and there was a lot of hate. I still tried it and immediately loved it. Just gotta get the player count up. Good video bro. Hopefully it gets recommended to people looking into the game.

Wanna send thanks for not blindly hating this game. It's fun. But it feels like its one of those games that not many gave it a chance and hated it without even playing it. I dint jnow why people are on the hating campaign on this game. Hope it has legs enough to keep going. It's mad fun.

Saw ads for this game for ages, and brushed them off since they annoyed me. Downloaded the game recently off of a whim and I’ve gotta say I enjoy the charm it has. The only negativity I have towards f2p games like this are wondering whether they’ll be active in a year or so, so it makes me hesitant to dedicate time to it, as opposed to a tried and true series like splatoon. That being said I’ll be trying it more over this weekend since it is pretty fun. Hope the devs support it in the long run and give people a good reason to stick to it.

Im hearing you can slideboard cancel Jet's shot to unload everything at once. The guy claims tonix and agito cannot make use of it somehow.. he says tested all characters. I wonder if you can verify.

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I enjoyed the video and this is not a critique of it Idk why people are pitting these games up against each other when they are for separate systems and not everybody has enough money or interest when it comes to owning both a switch and a playstation If Splatoon or foamstars were playable on the same systems then i would understand, but why can't playstation players have a game that is similar?

awesome video! i know you talked about this a little on stream but my biggest issue with the game is how bad and corny the writing is..... it really makes the game *feel* like a cynical cash grab even if the mechanics are solid

It's like the only people reviewing this are splatoon players lol I just want to see what someone with a fresh take has to say about the game. Most reviews are just "it's not splatoon so it sucks!" so thanks for not being so biased in your review, very well done. I've only played a tiny bit of splatoon on wii u and I enjoyed it, but based on what you say about the differences, I think I might actually like foamstars more. I always prefer higher ttk shooters over low ttk, and I love hero shooters. I'm a long time overwatch player, some foamstars might feel somewhat familiar to me, even the screen clutter!

I think the balance is terrible with some characters being useless and others being really strong but I mean like the game is fun so that's good.

They should make the MTX cheaper

the pastel colors look nice on paper but in game it's so bright! overkill. the game seems fun but my eyes cannot take it...

Overwatch levels of "what am i even looking at right now" lmao

this game is made by a color blind person or something xD it's so difficult to see in this game holy hell man. they even tried to put outlines on characters but even that doesn't seem to help.