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One of my favorite challenges pitted me against flying enemies on a small platform made of breakable crates: if I focused too much on aiming up and not on watching my footing, my enemies would lead me right into a pit. It’s easy to spot the DNA of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s shrines in many of these challenges: one level might ask you to carefully splat a giant 8-ball to nudge it toward a goal post, while another will have you sniping multiple 8-balls to drive them through switches in a demented billiards table with limited ink ammo in your pack. Ranging from hard-fought battles against gangs of much less friendly Octolings, to crafty puzzle rooms where missteps lead to instant failures, there’s such a wide range of possibilities of what can be done with Splatoon’s ink-based mechanics. It's easy to spot the DNA of Breath of the Wild's shrines in these challenges.Alongside the collection of thangs, there are around 80 challenges to undertake, which is where Octo Expansion positively shines. The macguffins you find by completing levels are literally called “thangs,” for example. There’s a lot of funny and clever writing here, with highlights such as when several characters get in touch with their hip-hop side to help the exposition along, and a particularly hilarious talking telephone tries to enable “contemporary speech mode” to better relate to today’s Octoling youth. Octo Expansion puts you in the role of an Octoling (who’s much friendlier than those in the other campaigns), codenamed Agent 8, and teams you up with the grizzled Captain Cuttlefish to find an ally and escape an underwater dungeon. The sheer variety and difficulty of challenges, encased in a somber and grimy take on Splatoon’s world, leads to a single-player experience that rarely pulls its punches. Many of its cleverly designed levels are not afraid to ask for a certain level of skill as they test you in more than just combat scenarios some demand precise platforming or evasion against overwhelming odds, while others tease your brain to manipulate the environment and guide vulnerable objects to a goal. If most single-player campaigns in online shooters are designed to get your feet wet before throwing you into the pool with other players, Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion is designed to throw you into the intimidating deep end.