~Beyond the Border~ > Akyu's Arcade
Splatoon 2: Your new octopus wife is here
Third Eye Lem:
Oh, the Octo Expansion is out?
...OH GLUB, THE OCTO EXPANSION IS OUT! I better grab it then...Oh, and the new Amiibo too I guess.
commandercool:
Wait, are the new Amiibo out? I don't think they are, are they? I checked and I couldn't find them or any evidence of them anywhere.
Third Eye Lem:
Well, I saw pictures of them, but it might be a while until they actually come out. Still want to get them, though.
commandercool:
Alright, I 100% cleared Octo Expansion. It is great, play it. The soundtrack is incredible, it's challenging but fair, the last boss is super silly and fun (and does not in any way involve DJ Octavio, it's a completely new character and battle), and Off The Hook and Captain Cuttlefish get a lot of fun characterization.
Spoiler: Unless I missed some lore, it seems to be canon that every single one of the 10,007 test subjects that went through the Deepsea Metro trials before you died, which is pretty surprising for Splatoon. And many of them got liquefied by a giant blender, which is unexpectedly grisly. I fully expected a cutscene after the secret boss where all of the test subjects who were killed get reconstituted somehow which would explain why there's a whole army of Octolings in Inkopolis all of the sudden and not just two, but all you get for beating the (extremely difficult) secret boss is a plain accessory.
That's my main complaint about the whole experience honestly, Spoiler: the anticlimactic secret boss.. Small issue though. Everything else is excellent.
Third Eye Lem:
Is it necessary to beat the S2 main story to understand the Octo Expansion's plot?