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GAMES SPLATOON 3

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Stay fresh!’ was the motto of 2015’s Splatoon, a vibrant and typically offbeat Nintendo take on the multiplayer shooter, in which two teams of four squid-like characters competed to mark territory in their squad’s ink.

Seven years on as vital as they once were. 3 is a refinement of a refinement: it feels less a sequel to 2017’s huge-selling 2 than an expansive update. But its cephalopod heroes have evolved just enough to make it worth diving in - those predecessors aside, there’s still nothing else on the market quite like it.

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