History VideoGame / Splatoon3

* SensoryAbuse: The Splattercolor Screen is intended to [[InterfaceScrew wash out colors to shades of white and grey and replace sound with white noise]] on enemy screens. Unfortunately, the original version [[https://www.ign.com/articles/splatoon-3s-newest-weapon-is-actively-hurting-the-disabled-community worked too well on some players]], which led to an update altering the effect so the screen becomes darker instead of lighter.

** Your first victory of the day (whether in Turf War, Anarchy Battle, or Salmon Run) gives you a huge 7,500 experience point bonus for both your character and catalog level. The Catalog's maximum level is 100 and sticks around for three months, so if you want every reward, the most time-efficient method is by snagging the victory bonus and doing a couple more games to fill up the rest of your Catalog tracker for that day.

** The Tacticooler special puts down a soda can-shaped standing beverage cooler, which gives drinks to you and any teammates near it that grants numerous temporary buffs, which includes increased swimming and running speed. On top of that, if you and/or the others got splatted while still under the buffs, their respawn time lasts only a second. Special Power Up abilities increase the effect's duration.

* RareRandomDrop: The Shell-Out Machine has a chance to dispense sparkling capsules, which contain much rarer and more valuable prizes than usual, such as rare cosmetics or 10 each of every Ability Chunk in the game. Each Catalog season has a designated rare title and rare Splashtag banner, which have a drop rate of 0.6% and ''0.1%'' respectively. Some players were not enthused to discover that their specific RNG seed on the Shell-Out Machine made getting the gold capsules effectively impossible, with some players having their drops buried ''1,000+ draws deep.''

** The main theme of this game, Clickbait, can be found quite often. In addition to its normal position as a multiplayer track, it's the tutorial theme, plays from the terminal at the lobby, is the main Tableturf Battle theme, and has two separate remixes for Big Runs.
** In the Inkopolis Plaza hub, the train once again plays a rendition of "Calamari Inkantation" when approaching and exiting the station. The jingle gets replaced by "Clickbait" during Big Runs.

* RecycledLyrics: From the energetic Splatfest song, Anarchy Rainbow, its chorus' first line is borrowed at the 3:20 mark of Daybreaker Anthem, a more sober song that plays immediately after Splatfests when the energy winds down into catharsis.
* RedBaron: Each player has a customizable title displayed alongside their name in multiplayer, which shows up at the beginning of a match and whenever they splat you.
* RespawnPoint: Once again, death isn't much of a concern thanks to characters being synced up to respawn points. The respawn points seen in the 4v4 multiplayer modes have been changed, with the static, grounded spawn point that was shared by an entire team now being replaced with individual spawning drones that allow the player to select where in their home base they want to land, giving them temporary invincibility in the process. The Scorch Gorge stage even has the old spawn points covered with tarps, as opposed to the retired devices being removed.
* {{Retraux}}: To fit the chiptune music overlaid onto it, part of the Chill Season 2023 trailer uses highly pixelated gameplay footage to emulate old videogame sprites.
* RewardsPass: Besides the usual daily rotations of shop items, ''Splatoon 3'' introduces catalogs, the game's version of this. Catalogs contain special [[TemporaryOnlineContent time-limited]] items, poses, and tags that you can earn from Hotlantis by increasing your Catalog Level. Each catalog goes up to Level 100 and lasts for three months before being replaced by a new one with its own bevy of rewards. If you manage to reach Level 100 before season's end, Harmony will give you bonus Catalogs to use until then that give a Mystery Box every ten levels. Raising your catalog level during a Splatfest period also rewards you conch shells to use with the Shell-Out capsule vending machine, with experience gain for catalog levels also increased by 20%.

* RooftopConfrontation: Crableg Capital is a multiplayer battle stage set on an under-construction skyscraper. Towering cranes loom over players as they duke it out on the rooftop's scaffolding, taking advantage of the various building materials left around as cover.

** Splatsville is easily the most ambitious version of the HubWorld thus far; not only is it big enough to fit Inkopolis Plaza and Inkopolis Square inside it quite handily, it manages to blow them out of the water in terms of fine details, like with the row of incidental shops opposite the gear vendors, the overhead walkways above the parkette behind Grizzco, or the small alleyway connecting the two that becomes full of food vendors come Splatfests.

* SensoryAbuse: The Splattercolor Screen is intended to [[InterfaceScrew wash out colors to shades of white and grey and replace sound with white noise]] on enemy screens. Unfortunately, the original version [[https://www.ign.com/articles/splatoon-3s-newest-weapon-is-actively-hurting-the-disabled-community worked too well on some players]], which led to an update altering the effect so that the screen becomes darker instead of lighter.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: The Japanese-exclusive Splatfest of November 2023 was about what people call certain red bean paste-stuffed cakes -- ''Kaiten-Yaki vs Ōban-yaki vs Imagawa-Yaki'' -- reflecting how the dish has multiple different names in various Japanese dialects. To highlight this, Shiver repeatedly states that it makes no sense to argue in favor of teams based on how the dishes taste (they're all the same dish), each Deep Cut member describes the dish identically ("Red bean paste tightly bound in a warm and crumbly crust"), and all three Splatfest team symbols are the same with exception to a small text bubble on them.

* ShipTease: ''Side Order'' already laid on the Pearl/Marina subtext pretty thick, but it doesn't end with the campaign -- part of the choreography for Off the Hook's new Inkopolis Square song "We're So Back" involves Pearl and Marina giving a MeaningfulLook into each other's eyes before Marina puts her arm around Pearl's waist for a suspiciously long time. Promotional art for their Splatfest song "Suffer No Fools" likewise features Marina heavily leaning against Pearl while putting an arm around her shoulder, something that might not read as intimate if it weren't for everything surrounding it.