Splatoon 2 isn’t perfect, and I hope Nintendo is listening
On the plus side, Nintendo has demonstrated that they are listening. The developers issue patches to tweak weapons and fix exploits. They’ve obviously heard some complaints following the original Splatoon, thus the option to skip the overly talkative comments from Sheldon the weapons dealer.
I just hope Nintendo is listening to everything. Sure, pure Nintendo fans are a forgiving bunch. They’ll put up with the Quality of Life-related problems because they want the Nintendo experience buried beneath.
Here’s the thing, the Nintendo Switch is a successful platform. It’s pulling in gamers that skipped the Wii U, and it has the potential to pull in more mainstream players than the Wii did. Those players are used to an online experience that’s, in a word, modernized. What they’re getting with Splatoon 2 might put them off gaming online with Nintendo moving forward.
Heck, I explained the voice chat system to a friend thinking about getting a Switch to play with me, and he was blown away. We’ll be using Discord on our phones, but the fact that we even have to in the modern age is absurd. We’ve been chatting in games for more than a decade now without issue.
I like Splatoon 2. It’s a great game. I’m hoping Nintendo makes it even better by meeting modern demands to satiate the masses.
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