I stopped being influenced by review scores a long time ago.
more people should do the same

The Stamp Out! minigame plays nothing like Splatoon. Splatoon is a third person shooter when playing it online, Stamp Out! is viewed from the top down. It's slow and doesn't have vertical heights for example. You can't change forms while standing in your own colour's ink. The singleplayer campaign of Splatoon will play like a platformer and not a turf based third person shooter. Safe to say there has never been a platformer like this. And yes, being able to change into a squid while in your ink is a core concept of the game. It gives you a whole new set of abilities. And well, Stamp Out! is a minigame, not a game. There has never been a full game built around this concept.

And yes, use of a controller is innovation, it's why the Wii won the last gen. I can't believe you had to ask that. You can shoot fireballs as Bowser by blowing into the mic while aiming with the gyroscopic controls of the gamepad. How sweet is that?

TV Show? What game is that?

Echochrome is interesting, but not the same. For example, you can cross a gap by changing the camera angle so the gap isn't visible anymore. The whole game is built around that mechanic. Unique game, but Captain Toad is clearly different. Only thing they have in common is the diorama levels and I never stated Nintendo invented those lol. They have a similar concept, but they tackle it completely differently. In Captain Toad you change the camera to explore the level, in Echochrome you change the camera to alter the flow of the level. You'd have to ask the creator of Captain Toad if he was thinking about Echochrome while creating this concept anyway. But regardless of that, they're quite clearly different in their approach.

And as you said, you haven't played SM3DL or SM3DW, so you can't comment on it.

Anyway, you do realize that two or more people can invent the same thing independantly from each other, right? Just because it already existed doesn't mean the thought process behind it wasn't innovative. I mean, it's always possible some small obscure indie game did something first, but what does that mean if almost no one heard of it?

Tell me about how the Mario Kart games or Pokemon games change a lot of things. As for NSMB - it's is fairly highly rated.

As I have said I was Just showing games that used the same concept or similar mechanics elements not that they played the same.

Depending on how a person classifies all those are inovative (and even smaller things) or none of those. But I won't disagree the way you described feels unique even if not inovative.

About the Control. The control itself can be considered inovative but the use alone not necessarily. DS had games you used the mic to blow and control. Several games used gyro on ps3/ps4. Using your definition I could say infamous is inovative because no other game allowed you to use the gyro to graffity a wall or the pad to destroy enviroment. Or Killzone not only because you had an unique drone to comand but you could even use the pad to order it around.

And I have no problem playing games highly inovative, minor improvements but unique game or even games "generic" but that I enjoy.

I haven't had the privilege of playing Splatoon yet, however, although there might not be many games where you are doing team based combat with paint that you can then travel faster through, it's still drawn from the concepts of capture the flag/territory grab (see many a 90s online FPS). It's not the first game to involve paint as the weapon/combat element (Jet Set Radio, Paintball, Epic Mickey heck, even Golden Eye on the N64 had paint as an option), heck there's a real world sport of that, and it's also not the first game where you colour in environments (Epic Mickey, De Blob) for territorial advantages (many a game once you "own" an area, you get perks from this, whether it's increased resources, additional abilities etc.)

So while yes, it's an original combination, none of it's ideas are actually original themselves.

True innovation, is actually a completely fresh idea or implementation, not a hybrid of existing ideas.

http://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/ratchet-and-clank-into-the-nexus-ps3/   if you read the description it is described as being a platformer and action/strategy/platformer. So im going to believe the word of some youtuber over the actual official classification that the publisher gave it?! lol ok man

But this game brings me to my next point, clearly it has elements from other genres. You can make as much lists as you want, fact is none of what you said those games did was NEW and no taking elements from multiple games and combining them is cool, it isnt exactly new as it has been seen before just in a differerent capacity. IE your whole what game combines 2d/3d elements like that. Its a silly question because you are asking what game plays exactly like that where very few games play exactly like each other, even within their own genre. (Tekken/VirtuaFighter) But its silly to suggest no other game had been released similar to it. There really just another isometric platformer thats been done before(Sonic 3D Blas)

Now if you find combining elements that existed before is innovative then we're just gonna have to agree to disagree

I don't give a shit what the description of the game is. You barely did any platforming in that game.

Congo is officialy named the Democratic Republic of Congo. Does this mean Congo is a democracy now? -,-"

Sonic 3D Blast isn't remotely similar to SM3DW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y71PZ3D9kY

How on earth this is supposed to be a platformer I don't know. Just because it has cartoony graphics? Metroid is more of a platformer than Ratchet & Clank will ever be and that's a Metroidvania game.

Knowledge is cumulative. You're pretty much saying nothing is innovative by this. Cooking food for the first time  is not innovative to you because creating fire and eating aren't completely fresh.

Throughout history we have built upon the knowledge of a past generation. I guess the steam engine in Europe during he Industrial Revolution wasn't innovative because the theory behind such a machine had already been established more than 2000 years ago... Knowledge doesn't start of from fresh every time. We'd still be cavemen if that was true.

And none of the games you described are remotely similar to Splatoon.

To be fair reviewers last gen were very generous some times. I like it better now, without 9's flying around every corner.

Since i don't have a PS4 yet, i will refrain my self from bashing any games, but from what is available now i would only get Resogun, and i am not sure if that counts =P. Bloodborne will change that though, can't see it under 85 on Metacritic (and under 90 would already make a lot of noise).

Funny enough despite the review scores almost everyone i've met claims they liked the order because they didn't have overblown expectations for it.