No just the plaza, and even that i dont think looks that amazing. Theres no cool change or anything to the actual splatfest. No cool stage gimmicks or gameplay variation to make it feel a little special. Just the same old turf war and horrid tricolor.
It's pretty good but as someone who didnt care for splatfests before I don't really feel a reason to play it. Im just watching everyone in the plaza LOL
7:50 I will be that someone The last minute music depends which team gets the second signal. If no one gets the second signal then the generic background music will play. But if a team does, everyone will get a special last minute theme sung by the team who got the second signal Squid sisters will sing a remix of city of color OTH will sing a remix of ebb and flow Deep cut will sing an original song
Cool detail: City of Color was the first Splatfest song, thus representing the Past. It's specifically Spectrum Obligato ~ Ebb & Flow. Debuting in Splatoon 3, it represents the Present. Deep Cut's song is one we haven't heard before, representing the Future.
This map legit feels like a shifty station that isn't called "shifty station" and I'm all for it. Might not be as crazy as others but feels kinda like M.C. Princess Diaries to me
ThI’m s stage don’t hold a candle to MC princess diaries bringing back an old special for a splatfest and the hyper bombs were cool interactive features of the stage this new stage don’t got that really
i actually like this more than MC princess diaries, and yes, i have played both. The amount of detail present here (crowds, panel screens, idol performance, dynamic music, etc) makes the stage feel more full and alive than MC princess diaries. MC makes for it with awesome gimmicks like the hyperbombs and princess cannon, which are awesome! But once the novelty wears off the stage terrain is somewhat bland and flat, whereas the terrain of Grand Splatlands Bowl has more verticality and strategic elements (climbable support beams, inkrail to mid, dynamic platform, etc). It also happens to be the 4th vertically symmetrical stage in splatoon which is kinda cool! Overall i can enjoy playing this stage for a lot longer than MC princess diaries because i find it more interesting to strategize in. that’s just my opinion tho!
This one was an amazing map for salmon run but there’s just no good entrance points for the attacking teams. And the defending team can get locked into their corner if the attackers do really good.
@@rawoo9385 but u will get less clout if they win instead of you, it's just poor game design really. getting more clout incentivises u to attack them even if they are technically on ur team
Actually yes the music changes in the last minute depending on which team grabs the second ultra signal! In your match team present grabbed the second signal so off the hook started singing in the last minute. The same happens with past and future :)
Worth noting too that there's no second Sprinkler of Doom, the second signal makes the idols that take the stage shoot giant fizzbangs while they cheer for you.
I’ve never really been into any of the Splatfests in Splat 3. Some of them were fun for a bit, but I didn’t really care about them at all. But this Splatfest is actually so tremendously cool. Especially the new hub with all of the idol groups preforming. They did a phenomenal job making it feel like an actual performance, and not just some characters on a screen
Same! I've spent more time playing matches and vibing in the crowd of jellies this fest than I usually do! I do hope they pull a Splat 2 and replay the splatfests for those who couldn't experience them for the first time...
@@5omewhat0fal0serIt's been confirmed it will be possible with an idol amiibo (any Callie, Marie, Pearl, Marina, Shiver, Frye, Big Man) to revisit the grandfest hub at any phase, including the final 2 hours that might be hard to be in for certain timezones (mine is from midnight to 2 am)
It’s actually so so so cool how the idols are in the back of the stage once both signals are captured, I NEED more people to notice that. Not just like the pngs like THEY SHOW UP BACK THERE
This is so nice, I want to cry...This feels like the grandest thing they've done for Splatoon no doubt, and it's fantastic, and the song as always is top tier
0:35 If you check photo mode you can see that they hust aggressively compress anything that isn't directly in front of you until you take a picture lol
Spawn areas are extremely large. Getting signals is harder than most maps but 2 signals cover 50% of the area that isn't spawn. There are some routes, but the areas are quite flat and simple. Imo it's not the best tricolor map, but it isn't the worst. It's fitting for the grand festival, but it could have been better, like a little more complexity with routes, and especially the drop from attacker spawn (literally 1 straight edge). The venue and the music are very cool (and the fact we got to play tricolor every day differently I applaud), but since they have made a tricolor stage for almost every splatfest, I don't feel like we got the coolest stage.
Salmon run framerate issue is prob bc of the cpu Tbf there's many salmanoids with their own adaptive AI, and all the eggs that have interactive flags Also the jelloes become low poly when far salmanoids don't Also there's def moving texture magic going for the jellies that are really far in the moutains Overall super impressive but samon run is basically a diff thing with its own problems
I'm on team past and have only gotten a mirror match once. That might be why we're winning honestly EDIT: I can't believe we won, wow. It's gonna be really interesting to see Splatoon 4 looks with the past in mind
Most likely, I'm on team present and around 70% of my matches are mirror matches, I genuinely regret picking this team because of all the mirror matches. It hasn't been that enjoyable
Past here, ive mostly only run into Team Present, with Future making cameos literally twice. I honestly feel bad for Team Present bc of all the mirror matches they're getting but tbh i feel like thats why Past is winning rn...
Sad he only got mirrors!! The music is so much more different in non mirrors depending on who gets the signals (im on team present and have been in plenty of non mirrors)
also the music for this tricolor has the same song done by each of the 3 idols, which the game would switch between them on the fly based on who's in lead at the moment in the match, the now or never is replaced by a squid sisters remix, ebb & flow, and something new for deep cut ( not sure if determined by the team you pledged, or also by whose in lead at the time it goes into one minute remaining ) but in the game's files, its one track with 3 layers
To me, this Tricolor map feels pretty attacker-favored (at least in the less-than-amazingly-skilled environment of fest turf war.) Though it would be interesting to see a mode with more of the sort of king-of-the-hill focus this stage the Bowl has. (Every game of Tricolor I played ended either in the defending team staking out on the raised platform and holding it all game, or losing that position and never taking it back.)
@@weirdpuppet326 I said in my games it feels that way. I did not run into many intelligent players (and I saw maybe 5 players using anything with more range than a Splattershot Pro over the course of 4 hours) so it might just be that defense is really hard to carry on if the matchmaking gods curse you with hold-forward Sploosh players for teammates
@@weirdpuppet326 I’m on team past, and I think I won like 2 out the dozen or so games I had on defense, in in both of those games I had two or three teammates match my 10+ K/A record. It kinda sucks, cause it feels like team Past is gonna just get stomped in Tricolor and lose the category for sure. Also, unrelated, but is it just me or are the team placements on the map pre-determined? _Every_ game I played on office put Team Past on the left side.
I didn't play that many matches on the stage (maybe seven or so), but I for one felt it to be quite defender favoured. If at least one or two defenders camp the raised platform, it's pretty difficult for attackers to successfully grab the signal. Only say attackers win once, and that was when one of the attacking teams was running double Vanilla Tri Slosher and most of the rest of the lobby didn't know how to fight the thing.
When you lose against another team, the music is actually a remix of that team's game's victory theme (Past - Splat 1; Present - Splat 2; Future - Splat 3), which was pretty hilarious. In a mirror, it's just your own game's losing theme.
@@unl3ash3d95 Both my and the other team got spawncamped for the whole 3 minutes with both of us having less than 9% of the map colored, and the defenders having 80+% colored and spawncamping both of the teams... Yeah that did not bod well for my judgement of it
@@TheFrantastic mb that could’ve been me 😂 when ur defending it feels like that’s the only way to prevent the enemy team from getting near the ultra signal. Did u happen to be an octobrush or aerospray user?
I saw a *lot* of battles with Teams Present & Future. I did see Mirror Matches, but, it wasn't as bad as past Splatfests. I contributed over 700k clout to Tri-Color Battles, something I've *never* done before. I also reached Splatfest Ruler +9, also has never happened before. Also, this the first game I have been able to take part in Splatfests. I only missed the Global Testfire/ Launch Celebration Splatfest for this game. Also, I only found out TODAY the idols appeared on a stage at the Grand Splatlands Bowl. I was too focused on Battles to notice anything other than the screens they were on.
I used both hydra splatlings, both decavitators, both wellstring Vs and the inkline tri stringer in the few times I played on this map. I had a much more fun time when using the mint decavitator and charcoal decavitator.
Come what may- whether we stand for the past, present, or future-, we will shine like the brightest stars on this stage for these final hours of the Grandfest!
Chara where is your reaction to the Emojis or whatever? They're called on the d-pad. Anyways, I wish they would have put this amount of effort into the actual gameplay but this is amazing. I love the stage. Love the just everything about this final fest and I hope that maybe in a couple days we can go back there as a fourth option. I don't know it'd be kind of cool
I love this fest but the stage is kinda bad… it’s way too defender heavy, favoring weapons with falloff damage way too heavily due to the high ground, (don’t even get me started on dynamo camping) and puts attackers in a position where they have no way to get in unless they get lucky enough to actually grab the signal, at which point it snowballs. Tbh I cant blame them too much, because the issue as a whole just stems from tricolor itself, and really the mode just needs a rework.
I would like to add a disclaimer that a lot of people may have had different experiences, but as of about 12-13 hours after the map dropped people figured out how to camp with falloff damage perfectly, and with the little amount of ground in attackers spawn, weapons with high points for special can’t actually do anything.
And these fizzbangs count towards the special meter of the player who got the signal. This means that it's strategic for the player with the more powerful special to get the second signal, if possible.
This Splatfest really feels like a celebration of Splatoon up until this point. Huge props to Nintendo.
Medium sized props
No just the plaza, and even that i dont think looks that amazing. Theres no cool change or anything to the actual splatfest. No cool stage gimmicks or gameplay variation to make it feel a little special. Just the same old turf war and horrid tricolor.
@@faithfighter3691ok fun police
Yeah up until this point cuz Grand Splatlands Bowl is so ass 😭
It's pretty good but as someone who didnt care for splatfests before I don't really feel a reason to play it. Im just watching everyone in the plaza LOL
Whichever team gets both signals has there idols come in and fire fizzbangs, as well as providing a new remix in place of now or never
Second signal only. First signal does not matter who gets it
@OlmiOP
Really? I thought it was only when you get both.
Well, time to sink my money into the amiibos for the "remember the grand fest" mode
@@TheSongHolder Isn't the remembering mode just for the hub?
@@OlmiOP My bad
I was wondering what effected that
7:50 I will be that someone
The last minute music depends which team gets the second signal. If no one gets the second signal then the generic background music will play. But if a team does, everyone will get a special last minute theme sung by the team who got the second signal
Squid sisters will sing a remix of city of color
OTH will sing a remix of ebb and flow
Deep cut will sing an original song
Thats so sick
Just edited my comment after playing tricolor a bit more, still hype af
Cool detail:
City of Color was the first Splatfest song, thus representing the Past.
It's specifically Spectrum Obligato ~ Ebb & Flow. Debuting in Splatoon 3, it represents the Present.
Deep Cut's song is one we haven't heard before, representing the Future.
@@crazyshark1016 Nintendo has such good attention to detail
i got ebb and flow!
This map legit feels like a shifty station that isn't called "shifty station" and I'm all for it. Might not be as crazy as others but feels kinda like M.C. Princess Diaries to me
ThI’m s stage don’t hold a candle to MC princess diaries bringing back an old special for a splatfest and the hyper bombs were cool interactive features of the stage this new stage don’t got that really
@@unl3ash3d95 pearl can only scream so much :(
i actually like this more than MC princess diaries, and yes, i have played both. The amount of detail present here (crowds, panel screens, idol performance, dynamic music, etc) makes the stage feel more full and alive than MC princess diaries. MC makes for it with awesome gimmicks like the hyperbombs and princess cannon, which are awesome! But once the novelty wears off the stage terrain is somewhat bland and flat, whereas the terrain of Grand Splatlands Bowl has more verticality and strategic elements (climbable support beams, inkrail to mid, dynamic platform, etc). It also happens to be the 4th vertically symmetrical stage in splatoon which is kinda cool! Overall i can enjoy playing this stage for a lot longer than MC princess diaries because i find it more interesting to strategize in. that’s just my opinion tho!
This one was an amazing map for salmon run but there’s just no good entrance points for the attacking teams. And the defending team can get locked into their corner if the attackers do really good.
It’s been two years now and people still don’t know not to attack the other team of two in tricolor
Nah this splat fest is different. It literally affects the outcome of the next game I think. (Hopefully)
@@Stryder-yeah but attacking your co-attackers still loses you the match
@@rawoo9385 in other splatfests I understand, but this is war
@@rawoo9385 but u will get less clout if they win instead of you, it's just poor game design really. getting more clout incentivises u to attack them even if they are technically on ur team
Ha! Me be like, TF you doing?! Haha
Actually yes the music changes in the last minute depending on which team grabs the second ultra signal!
In your match team present grabbed the second signal so off the hook started singing in the last minute. The same happens with past and future :)
With their respective idol group*
Worth noting too that there's no second Sprinkler of Doom, the second signal makes the idols that take the stage shoot giant fizzbangs while they cheer for you.
@@rawoo9385SO THATS WHY IT FEELS LIKE THE OTHER TEAMS HAVE INFINITE FIZZBANGS LMAO
I’ve never really been into any of the Splatfests in Splat 3. Some of them were fun for a bit, but I didn’t really care about them at all. But this Splatfest is actually so tremendously cool. Especially the new hub with all of the idol groups preforming. They did a phenomenal job making it feel like an actual performance, and not just some characters on a screen
Same! I've spent more time playing matches and vibing in the crowd of jellies this fest than I usually do! I do hope they pull a Splat 2 and replay the splatfests for those who couldn't experience them for the first time...
@@5omewhat0fal0serIt's been confirmed it will be possible with an idol amiibo (any Callie, Marie, Pearl, Marina, Shiver, Frye, Big Man) to revisit the grandfest hub at any phase, including the final 2 hours that might be hard to be in for certain timezones (mine is from midnight to 2 am)
It’s actually so so so cool how the idols are in the back of the stage once both signals are captured, I NEED more people to notice that. Not just like the pngs like THEY SHOW UP BACK THERE
The devs seriously cooked for this Splatfest. I was blown away how good everything is
Theres actually (including the Grand Splatlands Bowl) 17 tricolor stages
Pog
I love that the idols don't start singing Three Wishes until the player gets to the stage, as if they were waiting just for you, so sweet :)
Prochara didn't recognize calamari inkantation 💔
This is so nice, I want to cry...This feels like the grandest thing they've done for Splatoon no doubt, and it's fantastic, and the song as always is top tier
devs cooked in paris and didnt forget any seasoning
0:35 If you check photo mode you can see that they hust aggressively compress anything that isn't directly in front of you until you take a picture lol
The final minute of the song will change depending on who grabbed the second ultra signal
I admit, I got a bit emotional seeing this Grand Fest at night and playing in Turf War or Tri Color and hearing past game music
It’s hard to notice, but whoever gets the last signal gets their teams idols up dancing where the cannons are along with free bombs. It’s sooo cute!
This better not be the end of splatoon. If it is, I'll march all the way to japan and into nintendo headquarts and cry all over their office carpets
It's one of the biggest games in Japan, this isn't the final Splatoon game lol
Grand Splatlands Bowl casually being a 2/2 good stage in both modes it was built for damn
Spawn areas are extremely large. Getting signals is harder than most maps but 2 signals cover 50% of the area that isn't spawn. There are some routes, but the areas are quite flat and simple.
Imo it's not the best tricolor map, but it isn't the worst. It's fitting for the grand festival, but it could have been better, like a little more complexity with routes, and especially the drop from attacker spawn (literally 1 straight edge).
The venue and the music are very cool (and the fact we got to play tricolor every day differently I applaud), but since they have made a tricolor stage for almost every splatfest, I don't feel like we got the coolest stage.
Whichever team your on, there is a special 1 minute left theme!!
I'm surprised the switch isn't an oven at this point. Like how is it better then salmon run framerate????
I’ve pulled mine out of the dock when I was idle in the lobby. I can confirm that it is officially an oven.
Salmon run framerate issue is prob bc of the cpu Tbf there's many salmanoids with their own adaptive AI, and all the eggs that have interactive flags
Also the jelloes become low poly when far salmanoids don't
Also there's def moving texture magic going for the jellies that are really far in the moutains
Overall super impressive but samon run is basically a diff thing with its own problems
@@Psycho0Noobsalmons get low frame rate in the distance. But it’s really the distance. It might help if they went low frame rate earlier.
i like how the idols announce the teams, and even saying "ready?... GOOOOOOOOOO!" at the start
I'm on team past and have only gotten a mirror match once. That might be why we're winning honestly
EDIT: I can't believe we won, wow. It's gonna be really interesting to see Splatoon 4 looks with the past in mind
Most likely, I'm on team present and around 70% of my matches are mirror matches, I genuinely regret picking this team because of all the mirror matches. It hasn't been that enjoyable
Future, it's like 30-40% here
@@lauraleach1545 Oh wow, really? I wonder how many mirror matches Future has been getting because I haven't seen them at ALL
Past here, ive mostly only run into Team Present, with Future making cameos literally twice. I honestly feel bad for Team Present bc of all the mirror matches they're getting but tbh i feel like thats why Past is winning rn...
Future here, I’ve gotten none and I’ve played like 30 some hours this fest
I don't care what anyone says, this is the best tricolor stage, no question. This is what tricolor should have always been.
Sad he only got mirrors!! The music is so much more different in non mirrors depending on who gets the signals (im on team present and have been in plenty of non mirrors)
also the music for this tricolor has the same song done by each of the 3 idols, which the game would switch between them on the fly based on who's in lead at the moment in the match, the now or never is replaced by a squid sisters remix, ebb & flow, and something new for deep cut ( not sure if determined by the team you pledged, or also by whose in lead at the time it goes into one minute remaining ) but in the game's files, its one track with 3 layers
To me, this Tricolor map feels pretty attacker-favored (at least in the less-than-amazingly-skilled environment of fest turf war.)
Though it would be interesting to see a mode with more of the sort of king-of-the-hill focus this stage the Bowl has. (Every game of Tricolor I played ended either in the defending team staking out on the raised platform and holding it all game, or losing that position and never taking it back.)
Bro you did not just say it's attacker focused
@@weirdpuppet326 I said in my games it feels that way. I did not run into many intelligent players (and I saw maybe 5 players using anything with more range than a Splattershot Pro over the course of 4 hours) so it might just be that defense is really hard to carry on if the matchmaking gods curse you with hold-forward Sploosh players for teammates
@@xraenon1664 what team were you on? Cause if future was defending I can definitely understand why you’d think that :/.
@@weirdpuppet326 I’m on team past, and I think I won like 2 out the dozen or so games I had on defense, in in both of those games I had two or three teammates match my 10+ K/A record.
It kinda sucks, cause it feels like team Past is gonna just get stomped in Tricolor and lose the category for sure.
Also, unrelated, but is it just me or are the team placements on the map pre-determined? _Every_ game I played on office put Team Past on the left side.
I didn't play that many matches on the stage (maybe seven or so), but I for one felt it to be quite defender favoured. If at least one or two defenders camp the raised platform, it's pretty difficult for attackers to successfully grab the signal. Only say attackers win once, and that was when one of the attacking teams was running double Vanilla Tri Slosher and most of the rest of the lobby didn't know how to fight the thing.
When you lose against another team, the music is actually a remix of that team's game's victory theme (Past - Splat 1; Present - Splat 2; Future - Splat 3), which was pretty hilarious. In a mirror, it's just your own game's losing theme.
I finished a gig at 12pm, but played on this stage for 1 match just before the fest closed at 1am. Glad I got to see it since I missed the Big Run!
Easily the best tricolor stage and final fest/major fest. This shit is peak
Still think Zelda triangle takes it
@@unl3ash3d95With all the spawn camping right in your base? Hell no
@@TheFrantastic it’s more fun imo but the other stage is balanced better
@@unl3ash3d95 Both my and the other team got spawncamped for the whole 3 minutes with both of us having less than 9% of the map colored, and the defenders having 80+% colored and spawncamping both of the teams...
Yeah that did not bod well for my judgement of it
@@TheFrantastic mb that could’ve been me 😂 when ur defending it feels like that’s the only way to prevent the enemy team from getting near the ultra signal. Did u happen to be an octobrush or aerospray user?
I saw a *lot* of battles with Teams Present & Future. I did see Mirror Matches, but, it wasn't as bad as past Splatfests. I contributed over 700k clout to Tri-Color Battles, something I've *never* done before. I also reached Splatfest Ruler +9, also has never happened before. Also, this the first game I have been able to take part in Splatfests. I only missed the Global Testfire/ Launch Celebration Splatfest for this game.
Also, I only found out TODAY the idols appeared on a stage at the Grand Splatlands Bowl. I was too focused on Battles to notice anything other than the screens they were on.
The middle platform goes up whenever somebody is on it, like the tower in tower control and the lifts in brinewater
I really hope we can also play the big run stages in PBs soon too
Maybe
I used both hydra splatlings, both decavitators, both wellstring Vs and the inkline tri stringer in the few times I played on this map. I had a much more fun time when using the mint decavitator and charcoal decavitator.
I had literal dreams of us having the idols cheering on for us in the battles man its so cool I miss this already
I love allll of this.
I became a pro camera man for a minute with that concert
away so i can’t play the grand fest. Map Looks super fun!! Hope everyone enjoys
Come what may- whether we stand for the past, present, or future-, we will shine like the brightest stars on this stage for these final hours of the Grandfest!
I love this Grand Festival so much!
He sounds really uninterested := lol
Chara where is your reaction to the Emojis or whatever? They're called on the d-pad. Anyways, I wish they would have put this amount of effort into the actual gameplay but this is amazing. I love the stage. Love the just everything about this final fest and I hope that maybe in a couple days we can go back there as a fourth option. I don't know it'd be kind of cool
I did em off screen (there was no major reaction)
@@ProCharaVodDump well what do you think?
@@ProCharaVodDump I'm dumb sorry
Team future:Chara is on present we lost😭
I love this fest but the stage is kinda bad… it’s way too defender heavy, favoring weapons with falloff damage way too heavily due to the high ground, (don’t even get me started on dynamo camping) and puts attackers in a position where they have no way to get in unless they get lucky enough to actually grab the signal, at which point it snowballs. Tbh I cant blame them too much, because the issue as a whole just stems from tricolor itself, and really the mode just needs a rework.
I would like to add a disclaimer that a lot of people may have had different experiences, but as of about 12-13 hours after the map dropped people figured out how to camp with falloff damage perfectly, and with the little amount of ground in attackers spawn, weapons with high points for special can’t actually do anything.
Cool Chara has made an apperance
The new battle music is so panic inducing. Way too much chaos with the three themes togethers, feels like a boss battle
Did anyone else’s jellies become more square shaped as they got further and didnt load fully?? 😭😭😭
i stopped playing splatoon 3 because i cancelled my switch online... man i miss this game
I cant believe i missed the grand splatfest 😭
After halftime I only my team present every match I played
Damn they cooked
Will bring back last resort for grand festival for fun
What a shame he didnt hear presents signal got song because it was all mirror matches
Such a peak fest
Wait omg they did make a new stage? I wasn't playing cos I thought there wasn't anything new.
M.C. Princess Diaries 2, I guess.
Plz Nintendo, let us play all the tricolor and the splatfest maps after the event just like spoon 2
grand fest map looks a lot like saltspray rig
Why is there no second giant sprinkler?
Instead of the second sprinklers its the idols launching fizzbangs
Oh, thanks. I was so confused 😂
And these fizzbangs count towards the special meter of the player who got the signal. This means that it's strategic for the player with the more powerful special to get the second signal, if possible.
@@Gaming32ior, hear me out, reefslider spam 💀💀
@@Gaming32i actually the sprinklers always contributed to the special meter😭
missing out on grandfest sucked ass, but atleast with clips like this, i can still enjoy it.
Why would people want to be watching someones reaction to the music of a game lol
I just came back from work, and I saw this spoiler JESUS 😂
5:32 Yugioh 5Ds fan spotted
So which one is Chara? Because I’m questioning whether it was him or not that I beat
Future is so done for :(
The only issue I have with this is that the final fest stage is bugged, only the first sprinkler of doom is able to spawn.
It's not a bug. When you grab the second signal, your team will have fizzbangs launched out of the cannons on the stage.
@@thesecondtonysoprano ohhhhhh
@@thesecondtonysoprano this actually explains a lot
He talks like moistcr1tikal
Light blue? You mean green?
Idk u picked present
Can't say i liked this map
Feels like trash on attacker imo
We made it guys we made it the END OFF SPLATOON 🥹✨⭐️
I doubt it's the end of the series, but it's almost definitely the end of this specific storyline.