The WORST Splatoon Game in 2023 

Splatoon fans in 2024-2025: Splatoon 2 is underrated

I miss Splatoon 2 a little bit but only cause weapons like Dynamo and Nautilus had better kits there.

While it is arguably the worst, Splatoon 2 was undoubtedly important to the series, since most current Splatoon fans got likely their start there, as well as introducing Salmon Run and playable Octolings. EDIT: It also brought us Dubble Bath (DIY Remix), the importance of which cannot be overlooked.

i can't believe they were like "yeah we should bring damage up back, it was so great"

I know most only talk about the bad when it comes to Splatoon 2 due to how bad the endgame meta became because of the broken specials, Main Power Up and etc, but there were some positives. Splatoon 2 introduced both the Splat Dualies and Splat Brella weapon classes, which at one point in time during Splatoon 2's lifespan were decent weapons and were rather fun to use (at least until players figured out how broken Tenta Missiles were, and before Main Power UP and some of the kensa shooters were added into the game which had Missiles). Shifty Stations were also pretty fun as it made each Splatfest feel unique since each stage was unique and had their own gimick (I wish they had introduced some of the single player assets in some of the multiplayer stages but with the current Splatoon 3 maps... I don't that's going to happen). And as others probably already mentioned Splatoon 2 also introduced Salmon Run as a gamemode and created a entire sub-community of dedicated Salmon Run players that wouldn't existed without Splatoon 2 and there's also the Octo Expansion that introduced playable Octolings and a great and challenging single player story. Yes, the competitive scene (and ranked/turf war in general) did suffer at the end with how bad the special design was and resulted in a single weapon class dominating the game due to them having said broken specials that worked with the main weapon, but there were other parts of the game that were good.

As much as Splatoon 2 was goofy at least it had better splatfests

I remember when Splatoon 2 first came out. I was so excited, it felt like July 2017 couldn't come sooner. I loved it when I played it, but I thought that the only thing different about it from Splatoon 1 was the addition of Salmon Run. Whereas 3 has WAAAAAAAY more additions from 2. I have around 575 hours in Splatoon 3, and I'm still not bored of it.

How can a game look so fun and so infuriating at the same time, splatty toon never change

how the actual fuck did we play this game for five years bruh

Every Splatoon game has that broken/op aspect to them, the problem with Splatoon 2 though is that none of the meta/op stuff was fun to deal with, global ranged specials will low-skill floors, main power-up, shooters only, etc. Other problems with Splatoon 2 include but not limited to: -Unskippable news that's twice as long as Splatoon 1. -Salmon run being closed at certain times -Having the worst single-player campaign (Unoriginal, Unchallenging, and Inferior final boss) -Despite simultaneously having the best single-player campaign as well, it is sadly locked behind a paywall. -Bad motion controls -Coins being mostly worthless, you cannot upgrade gear with coins in this game for some stupid reason; -Worse multiplayer soundtrack (?), though this is a matter of taste -Having nothing to do while in the waiting room (no minigames nor being able to practice with weapons)

“Chara’s mob squad of editor” made me laugh lol

good luck with the streamer awards! just know im voting for you dude!

kinda just miss some of the maps :(

I miss Splatoon 2.

We owe a lot to Splatoon 2. Since the wii u didn't sell well not many people played the first game

People will lie about the issues splat1 had tho 😭

Splatoon 2 will forever had a special place in my heart.

as bad as the game is, I do have many great memories spent in it. And I as probably many others will remember it fondly solely because of that. That camera movement is atrocious though wowie

I totally agree with you. Splatoon 1 was iconic for being the first Splatoon game, Splatoon 2 while still good was somewhat disappointing with the way it felt super goofy and all over the place. Splatoon 3 has fixed many of Splatoon 2's errors and it feels like the dominant Splatoon game

My favourite part about Splatoon 2 was the ink, it looked a lot more satisfying than either 1 or 3

Nah, dont relate. I’ve been playing this franchise nonstop since 2015, and I can confidently say that all Splatoons have been an super fun time for me. I love how all the games have their own unique personalities and I still love each one of them even with all their issues. I honestly don’t think any of them are fundamentally worse than the other. And I can’t wait to make fun, frustrating, and happy memories with Splatoon 3😊

"I would've been fine playing Splatoon 1 another five years" Ngl... Same lol

Regardless of how I feel about the gameplay, maps, story mode, controls, weapons, etc., one thing I really liked about Splatoon 2 was the interesting and unique music. I like the music in all three games, but something about the experimental feel of 2's hit with me.

I voted for you in everything I think would fit your streaming. I love your content and watching your vids and I can't wait to see what you have in store for us next. ♥

I wish the special's were broken like in Splatoon 1. The special's in 3 and especially 2 feel so tame and not very "special" imo.

S1 & S3 >>>>> S2 easily

I think it depends on what you want in a game. Splatoon 1 had a broken, unfixable meta with countless problems, but people like it more than S2 because it was chaotic. I personally like S2 more just because it was more polished and had more content, if it the meta was missile, armor, and ray

I use to like Splatoon 2 it was first introduction into Splatoon but the more I played the more I faced the special of Tenta missles,String ray and the horrible terrible Ink armor. And I played E-liter backline is the role I’m much more comfortable with and you always seen the same weapons being played while in Splatoon 3 you see a little more diverse in weapons instead of always seeing Gal 52,Kensa splatter shot,N-Zap and Jet. Tho I do miss some of the music in Splatoon 2,the shifty stations and some of the gear like Gas Mask I hope they bring that into Splatoon 3. Overall I like Splatoon 2 cause I made friends through and I found a shooter game I actually enjoy. Will I ever go back to Splatoon 2? Heck no I love Squid Surge and Tri-stringer too much to go back.

so i just got splatoon 2 today. i have never played any splatoon games before. and from what i have played its pretty cool. i am not used to the controls yet lol. i plan on getting 3 for my birthday next weekend. im still happy about getting my first splatoon game.

*clicks on video* “Splatoon 2 is the akward middle child-“ Me: ive seen enough, im satisfied

I do miss splatoon 2. its my first splatoon and the memories i made with it where special to me. might be the worst objectivly for some people but its still my favorite splatoon (until I played splatoon 3 for a while longer that is. I value memories I make with games a lot)

Watching this made me feel like Chara purposely only left a frame of him dying to Splashdown lol

I played a single match of Splatoon 2 zones yesterday. I'm never doing that again.

Splatoon 2 is the only game in the series I completely missed out on, don’t ask how it’s a long story. Despite being a Splatoon 1 veteran there is a huge gap in my Splatoon experience until recently. Wish I had gotten the chance to go back to it, but now that 3 is out I don’t have much incentive to.

I miss Pearl and Marina. Best Splatoon mascots

I went on splatoon 2 servers a few days ago and it is like maintenance will end in 5h

I actually miss MPU because of how silly it was I really loved Splat 2 when the meta was already broken, it made everything more *Chaotic*

Splatoon 2 kinda has the weakest personality music wise Edit: (not including octo expansion, only multiplayer)

"this is not overwatch" had me rolling dude LOL

can you not turn motion controls off on splatoon 2 like you can in 3? i only just got into 3 so i have no idea how 2 was.

13:07 He legit embraced his inner Anna

Dude is a rising star, let’s do this!

Splatoon 2 is better than 1 and 3 because more team-minded specials(armor, bubble blower) , and better team-minded weapons (tenta sorella brella, tenta brella, nzap) and etc.

1:48 say no more I’ll vote as many times as possible B^[

Hey i have 2 questions whats your main and do you use motion controls

The maps on sploon 2 never allowed me to cook.. but now that I have sploon 3 I’m Gorden Ramsey

Hey does anyone who watches his streams know what he’s laying his controller on and where he has it positioned. It seems like a comfy place for motion aiming

Good luck in the streamer awards DUDE! Btw I voted for u in rising star

dude my motion controls would go crazy on splat 2 so much. I thought it was my joycons fault. so it happend to everyone?

Yes! My jumping splashdowns. How I’ve missed you

I played this the other day and it was a lot more boring than I thought it was going to be.

Chara dies 25 times each match lmao.

Tbf, Splatoon 2 for the context that it was released in, was a pretty good game. not only did it come out two years after the first one, which is a pretty small time gap. But it was one of the first games to come out on the switch. So not only did they have the pressure to make a good sequel, but to port the game to a new console which wasn't even released at the moment and was still in it's development. And out of all the games from 2017, splatoon 2 is the only one that still gets talked about after all these years (I mean, remember when we said ARMS was gonna be the next splatoon?)

Yeah the online play wasn’t fun, but the hero mode and most of all the Octo Expansion was fire. Splat 3’s story mode is fun- but I hope Splat 3’s dlc is also great

Personally I had more fun with Splatoon 2 than Splatoon 3 mostly due to having more time playing 2 than 3 bc time. The maps in 3 feel more annoying, I’ve run into more disconnects with 3, and the Splatfest in 2 felt for creative and fun. 3 definitely improved on many things 2 did like Salmon run and skipping news. Yet it doesn’t give me that “new” feel that I’ve barely touched it

This video made me want to play Splatoon 3

9:20 spinning head detected

As someone who played splat 2 again recently, it's both fun, yet very infuriating at the same time lmao

"charas mob of editors" LOL

I never played splatoon 2, I played 1 and loved it. I only got my switch last year and knew splatoon 3 was coming so I never bought 2. I recently bought 3 and really enjoy it. I was considering also buying 2 but I ended up deciding not too and this video helped me make a decision

Me having splatoon 3 but going to buy sploon 2 and o to expansions: uhhhhhh is okkkk…

I’m gonna go back to this game sometimes and have fun by treating this game like a joke

reasons to play splatoon 2: squid beats easier salmon run octo expansion ????

didnt Watch a single minute but i already know its good.

How do I nominate? Edit: Nevermind that was a stupid question lol

Splatoon 3 is my first splatoon game and I love it, I actually got used to gyro aiming very quickly, I never felt confortable aiming with the joysticks on controller, always preferred mouse for this kind of game.

Splatoon 1 is completely broken balance-wise but fun as hell. Splatoon 3 is mostly balanced and still very fun. Splatoon 2 is very unbalanced and heavily promotes not actually engaging in fights and instead just spamming specials. Oh yeah and don't forget the game was left on a very boring quad shooter meta.

I personally think 3 is the worst currently because it just feels like 2 with new features. Doesn’t stand out to me. Hopefully this direct today gives us a big Splatoon 3 update

i play both 2 and 3. for some reason i still enjoy playing 2 as much as i enjoy playing 3

I mean, at least in this game you can flank. Can't say the same of Splatoon 3 as of February 2023.

I kinda miss bubble blower tbh

If I’m going to be dead honest. And please don’t get mad at me, but I think Splatoon 3 kinda ruined my love for the Splatoon series, yeah there’s some cool new features but….. it just didn’t feel the same. Splatoon 2 was the first Splatoon game I’ve ever played like many fans, I never had a wii growing up, I got a Nintendo a couple years ago and one of the first games I had was splatoon 2 and I loved it! I was so in love with it I practically did everything possible in the game. I went as far as buying every weapon and every clothing in the game even buying all the amiibos. And trust me I have about 1500 hours on Splatoon 2. I was so excited for Splatoon 3 but I think my excitement went down when they revealed the idols and here’s why. During the time I was waiting for this game to come out I created a very accurate fan fic in 2021. I loved the characters so much that I made, that I even made them an idol group. I was so confident Nintendo would like them that I was thinking of sending them into Nintendo. And may I say there’s 3 members in the band……..kinda sus Nintendo. But my hopes and dreams were shattered when they revealed shiver cause she looks very! I mean very! Similar to my guy idol Toevin. But basically I had a lot of fun playing the world premiere. Until the full game came out. Almost every battle I played I lost… and trust me I was no noob in splat 2 I was level 82. This got so bad I stopped having fun and so was my best friend. We both stopped playing splatoon intirely. Something was just not fun about it anymore. And I went back to Splatoon 2 and I instantly was in joying the battle. So I just decided to let it go. To find a new favorite game. And I did, I gave pokemon a try and I really liked it. And I played undertale for the first time and it’s now my favorite game. Bro I ligit ditched totk for that game still haven’t even finished it yet because of undertale. But anyway I really hope someone else can relate to me

Splatoon 3 is just splatoon 2.5. Nothing much major changed. No new modes. Splatoon 2 had way more hype, literally nearly every night discord channels were packed in voice chat playing splatoon 2. New weapons were mega hype! Like the umbrella, not just reskinned ones. And than fort nite came out and killed it off a bit on switch and slowly died out from there. Everyone has moved on from the switch a bit now.

I play splatoon 2 more than 3 now due to maps alone. I only turn on splatoon 3 during a good grizz rotation or splatfest/big run. Im weird I know since it takes forever to get a lobby 🤣🤣🤣

The only thing I miss from Splatoon 2 is the slick special bar ui and the old stages and the music. I don’t miss missles tho, the art style kinda looks greasy with a bloom effect tho idk why.

splatoon 2 doesn’t feel so chaotic and I prefer that

I didn’t know you played Pokémon dude! What’s your favorite Pokémon in gen 9? Ink armor and missles were awful… stingray is alright (personal favorite)

Splat2 may have issues, but it at least has better maps

Splatoon 2 brought US Salmon Run 🫠🫠🫠🫡

facts

REALLY GOOD VIDEO!

Game Awards vote submitted!

splatoon 2 is wild 😭 ppl killing each other cause splatoon 3 is here

Yes

Shifty stations

Splatoon 3 has more issues though

Only thing good about splatoon 2 in my opinion is Octo expansion, clam blitz, and the introduction into salmon run

The community is strong in this one

crazy how I was calling this game shit for years and only now people see it

8:05 I feel like this should be a primary shoe ability in Splatoon 3, being about 1/3 to 1/4 the paint size, dealing 30 damage very close to it, 20 near the center, and 10 at the edge, along with having a different jump marker. I only play Splatoon casually, so I don't know if this is too strong, weak, or should not be in the game for other reasons. Edit: Another nerf of it would probably be that it only works for your first super jump.

I've never played Splatoon 1 but I much prefer the weapons and specials of Splatoon 2 to Splatoon 3 and really miss them personally.

i still love splatoon 2 so much despite the chaos, but one thing thats objectively better in splat2 than in splat3 is the hitmarker animation, fight me

Everyone's calling Splatoon 2 the worst right now, but if a 4th game gets made, I bet it's gonna be another Smash situation where people will start making fun of 3 and saying 2 is underrated.

the ost for splatoon 2 was the only good thing.

If we didn’t have 3 two would’ve been the Best out of the two.

Finally! I've been saying this since forever Splatoon 2 just has better story mode, remove that and you're left with an inferior copy of splatoon 1 splatoon 1 was way more fun to play, didn't take itself too seriously and on top of that wasn't afraid of unleashing weapons that were broken to the ground, instead it decided to make everything else counter that broken option with an equally exploitable alternative the changes Splatoon 2 did to "fix" what wasn't an issue on the first place made it lose a lot of the charm the original game had and I sicerely wish splatoon 3 had an option to revert all these changes

Anyone els unironically miss mpu? I'm not a bamboo main I promise.

Wdym splatoon 2 is peak

I like Splatoon 2 better than 3 tbh.

I hope they bring Port Mackerel back.