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Is Splatoon 2 a mediocre sequel?

Yes very mediocre. 66 14.38%
 
It's ok but more could be done. 81 17.65%
 
It's fine. Updates will come. 83 18.08%
 
It's a good sequel. 148 32.24%
 
It's an amazing sequel. 81 17.65%
 
Total:459
caffeinade on 12 August 2017

Fantastic game, lacklustre sequel.



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Cerebralbore101 on 12 August 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
I don't really think the sequel is mediocre at all. It's about the same level of innovation that comes with each new iteration of Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. 

Wroooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnng. At least about Smash Brothers. At least Mario Kart doesn't come out every 2 years though. Besides, some of the Mario Kart gimmicks implemented in some of the sequels change things a LOT. I don't think the same could be said for Splatoon 2

What was innovated in the Smash series? Changing specials the way they did, adding two new bombs, and focusing the maps more on confrontation did make a huge impact on Splatoon 2. 



Eagle367 on 12 August 2017

I loved splatoon. Just like with every franchise the second one was the best. Hopefully the third is better but history has shown that not to be the case



Just a guy who doesn't want to be bored. Also

librarian13579 on 12 August 2017
caffeinade said:
Fantastic game, lacklustre sequel.

Yeah, I would be really happy if Splatoon 2 were Splatoon 1. It would be a fantastic new IP.

I just had lofty expectations of what the sequel would be, and when your expectations are sky-high, it just didn't do enough to live up to the tremendous hype. An iterative sequel took me by surprise....Splatoon was SO innovative and SO fresh that I guess I expected them to keep pushing the bar instead of settling into complacency.



April 30th, 2011 - July 12th, 2018

caffeinade on 12 August 2017
librarian13579 said:
caffeinade said:
Fantastic game, lacklustre sequel.

Yeah, I would be really happy if Splatoon 2 were Splatoon 1. It would be a fantastic new IP.

I just had lofty expectations of what the sequel would be, and when your expectations are sky-high, it just didn't do enough to live up to the tremendous hype. An iterative sequel took me by surprise....Splatoon was SO innovative and SO fresh that I guess I expected them to keep pushing the bar instead of settling into complacency.

I never played the first game, so everything is new to me.
And I love it.

But, as a sequel it is quite disappointing.



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librarian13579 on 12 August 2017
mZuzek said:
librarian13579 said:

Yeah, I would be really happy if Splatoon 2 were Splatoon 1. It would be a fantastic new IP.

I just had lofty expectations of what the sequel would be, and when your expectations are sky-high, it just didn't do enough to live up to the tremendous hype. An iterative sequel took me by surprise....Splatoon was SO innovative and SO fresh that I guess I expected them to keep pushing the bar instead of settling into complacency.

You were foolish to set your expectations high like that, then. It was clear from the very first moment that this was going to be only an iterative sequel, so much so that at first people didn't even know if it was an enhanced port or a new game. That was also clear just from the development time, as it was about the same as the first game in that regard (somewhere around 2 years), which was already an indicator that it wouldn't be that ambitious.

That said, I think we can all have hopes that the eventual Splatoon 3 will be the one to really blow our minds, since it'll probably only come out on Nintendo's next system, which means it might have quite a long development time.

I knew about the multiplayer and how that was a bit iterative, but I thought there would be more surprises when it launched.

Like, SURPRISE! The single player is now much more robust. Or SURPRISE! There were hidden modes that we didn't reveal!

When I popped in the cartridge and there weren't really any surprises at all...that's when everything sort of deflated.

 

The situation with Splatoon 2 is actually eerily reminiscent of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was SUCH a Melee fanatic back in the day (played it for thousands of hours) that I actually camped out for Brawl and I thought it would be the next coming of Jesus.



April 30th, 2011 - July 12th, 2018

wombat123 on 12 August 2017

It's a good enough sequel. Nintendo honestly didn't need to do much with Splatoon 2 considering the failure of the Wii U and its small reach with the original game. Because of that, the basic premise of Splatoon is going to be fresh and new for the majority of Switch owners and different enough to justify a purchase for those that enjoyed the first game.



Ultrashroomz on 12 August 2017

I mean as a standalone game, Splatoon 2 is an addicting game with tons of fun to be had.

As a sequel, it feels more like Splatoon 1.5 to me, and besides Salmon Run, I feel the game barely has any new, significant content.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

zippy on 12 August 2017

It improves massively over the first game so no.



Qwark on 12 August 2017

Well the first one was very well done but it has as much evolution as going from one Mario kart to the other.



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