The main issue I take with the difficulty spike is that part of it is significantly due to the silly decision of the player character being stuck in stagger animation until the player manually removes the stagger, for those yet to play the game this isn't when your stamina runs out this is just when you block or get hit later on in the game the character just remains in a slumped state and takes a few seconds to recover out of it when you press something it's just something added purely to reduce the fluidity of the player as it allows the bosses later on breathing space.

A nitpick I personally have are these damn cinematic power up moments bosses have in the middle of a fight, anyone who has played a ND game will know them where the game does like a mini cutscene during a fight before continuing the bosses later have them when they first power up in a fight and to clarify not when you go into the next phase of a fight just when they power up, it completely stops you dead in your tracks and resets the fights pace.

Finished Splatoon Raiders! Incredible experience from beginning to end. That grind at the end going down the tower to the final boss was quite the slog to get through lol but worth it.

Nintendo perfected the Splatoon gameplay loop with Raiders. That’s quite the endgame grind though lol. I’ve completed all levels and collected all collectibles, and nearly done doing all the spicy raids. Will probably call it quits there. Replaying all the levels AGAIN on super spicy will make the game feel like it’s passed its welcome at that point lol

Couldn’t have said it better. Splatoon Raiders really surprised me — in the best way. One of the top games of the year.