Lol Reviewers think Splatoon 2 should be an expansion but after seeing tournament gameplay and all that the pace is faster and the weapon balancing is completely different(250+ hours of Splatoon btw). Expansion my dogThey've played it, you haven't (at least not the full game), so if a lot of them feel that the game doesn't deviate enough from the first game to feel like a full sequel then they are probably in a better position to judge that than you are. Also it's not unheard of at all that the pace and balancing of a game changes over the course of its life, I've experienced it even in the few MP games that I've played, so that's certainly not a point that means this is deserving of being called Splatoon 2.
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