#Power players madcap skin#

You’ll also get to pick a hairstyle for your little buddy, a Smallfry character originally from the series’ Salmon Run mode that’ll assist you through the game’s single-player content.

#Power players madcap skin#

This includes hairstyle (well, tentacle-style), skin tone, and eye color. In the dry post-apocalyptic wastes of the Splatlands, you’ll customize an Inkling/Octoling to your liking. If this represents your first Splatoon experience, don’t be alarmed the game literally teaches you all the basics upfront.

While Splatoon 3, which launches this Friday, doesn’t represent quite so vast a franchise reinvention as its predecessor, it still manages to do what Splatoon does best by wrapping intuitive, enjoyable gameplay in a weird and wonderful narrative complete with big personalities, strong level design, and outlandish lore. With additional modes, more weapons, and a much larger player base, Splatoon 2 seemingly did everything right-even down to making Octolings playable characters via paid DLC. The original Splatoon was a standout title on the oft-maligned Wii U, and its follow-up, 2017’s Splatoon 2, brought this nontraditional third-person shooter to its new home on the Nintendo Switch.