Splatoon 3 - New Season Challenge (Fresh Season 2024)
4With a new season comes a New Season Challenge—and this will be the penultimate one, covering Fresh Season 2024. This time, only one new stage was introduced (presumably, Bonerattle Arena took up the resources for the other one, or they’re winding down). As a result, the other one is a returning stage, Mincemeat Metalworks. Though technically, Mincemeat Metalworks underwent some remodeling over Chill Season 2024, which technically makes it count as a new stage, even if most of it is familiar.
Wasting no time, the New Season Challenge began at the very start of the month, at least from my perspective in Pacific Daylight Time. I played the second session, as I was at work when the first session began, and between preparing to leave, the drive home, and eating dinner, there wouldn’t be enough time for me to play this one during then:
March 1st, 2024: 4 PM to 6 PM, 8 PM to 10 PM
March 2nd, 2024: midnight to 2 AM, 4 AM to 6 AM, 8 AM to 10 AM, noon to 2 PM
Since only Marlin Airport is all-new this season, I’ve put an emphasis on this. Set on a series of buildings between an airport gate and the runways, you can see a lot of the airport through here, between the planes, the utility vehicles, and even the airport mall inside. An airport was a theme I had predicted would turn up in Splatoon back in the first game shortly after Hammerhead Bridge was introduced, though not necessarily in Splatoon 1. I’m glad it has happened, even if this took about seven years.
00:2 - Match #1
Marlin Airport
Turf War (New Season Challenge)
Hydra Splatling
Color Scheme: Action Movie Poster
Song: “No Quarters” by Chirpy Chips
Octolings: 5
Welcome to Marlin Airport! This stage is pretty big, and, as a callback to Ancho-V Games, of sorts, it has platforms that move when the fans attached to them are inked. I have no idea how this affects the people using this building though, especially the two of them in the middle, which move vertically. I noticed, right off the gate, that people activate these platforms for the sake of activating them, getting in my way and what i’ve planned. As a result, I was getting those flashbacks to Ancho-V Games as I was palying, especially using a long, slow weapon like the Hydra Splatling, which requires me to plan everything several seconds ahead as I play.
04:17 - Match #2
Marlin Airport
Turf War (New Season Challenge)
Hydra Splatling
Color Scheme: Fruit Snacks
Song: “Sea Me Now” by Front Roe
Octolings: 7
Hey look, one of the opponents is named “Blackrose.” Capitalized that way, this player may be named after the character in .hack//SIGN. (WIll these punctuation marks get in the way of this description? This time, I decided to actually get on the rising platform to see how I could do, though I preferred that moment where I got someone with an Autobomb while standing behind it. I can’t say if I do any better or not, but I don’t like that I’m constantly moving against my will, preventing me from aiming properly.
07:57 - Match #3
Mincemeat Metalworks
Turf War (New Season Challenge)
Neo Sploosh-o-matic
Color Scheme: Jam & Marmalade
Song: “Shifting Stars” by Riot Act
Octolings: 6
Old stage, new music—Riot Act has entered the Splatoon music scene, and this is one of their two new songs. I moved on to the Neo Sploosh-o-matic because by this point, I have a good idea of the layout of Marlin Airport—using a long-range weapon like the Hydra Splatling let me observe the landscape while inking and battling in a way that short-range weapons can’t. So of course, I get Mincemeat Metalworks. In this match, most of my splats came in pairs, it seems. I wonder if that’s a consequence of the opposing team sticking closely together.
11:38 - Match #4
Marlin Airport
Turf War (New Season Challenge)
Neo Sploosh-o-matic
Color Scheme: Blueberry Lemonade
Song: “Sandy Side Up” by Front Roe
Octolings: 6
Marlin Airport seems to be kind to short-range weapons, for that matter, especially in the middle, allowing me to do stuff like fire off Killer Wail 5.1 shots at close range, which I did at least twice here. (Of course, you have to reach the middle first.) Three of my opponents have similar names—they were likely working as a coordinated team. Plus “Agent 8.” It didn’t seem like it from my perspective though! (Probably not ploiky’s either, who accumulated 11 splats in that match!)
15:16 - Match #5
Marlin Airport
Turf War (New Season Challenge)
Painbrush
Color Scheme: Blueberry Lemonade
Song: “Tentacle to the Metal” by Damp Socks feat. Off the Hook
Octolings: 4
And I also switched over to the Painbrush. This thing is kind of slow, but Curling Bombs let you travel through dry ground and enemy inked ground like a breeze. This thing also has such ridiculously wide piles of ink thrown around that, as you can see, I got someone attempting to close in on a teammate via jumping off a high ledge before they even landed. (And I spotted another patch of completely uninked ground, this time on the opposing side.)
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