00:00Nintendo may be marketing Splatoon Raiders as a single-player game,
00:04but in reality it's a co-op horde mode with some light narrative wrapping.
00:09Splatoon 3's single-player campaign was a surprisingly fun-filled romp,
00:13but it appears that Nintendo's taken its inklings in a completely different direction for Splatoon Raiders.
00:19Splatoon 3's fiendishly creative platforming sections? Gone.
00:23Those gloriously Super Mario Sunshine-esque puzzles? Thrown into the sea.
00:27Instead, this Switch 2 spin-off doubles down on action,
00:31seeing players splat wave after wave of enemies in what's closer to an offline extraction shooter
00:36than a traditional single-player adventure.
00:39While you will still swim your way up walls and leap across the platform in each stage,
00:44blasting Angry Fish is very much the focus as you splat through different levels of wave-based action
00:50alongside your metallic explorer bot plodding along beside you.
00:54It's in its co-op game mode where Splatoon Raiders finally locks into place.
00:59Held into a raid with three other players,
01:01you race against the clock to defeat a slew of screeching salmonids and collect their eggs.
01:05With each completed run, you drill a layer deeper into the earth where even more fearsome foes await.
01:11The core Splatoon mechanics still feel utterly brilliant,
01:15making the simplistic act of swimming, leaping and shooting predictably enjoyable.
01:19Yet thanks to this overly simplistic series of shooting galleries,
01:23we're left wondering if Splatoon's true tentacle-stretching innovation
01:27is being saved for the next numbered sequel.
