Splatoon 2 gameplay: Watch us fight a samurai octopus on a unicycle

The second boss fight in Splatoon 2 is a sword battle. You face off against Octo Samurai, an enormous cephalopod who brandishes a paint roller like a katana and rides around on an itty-bitty unicycle. Like the first boss fight in Nintendo’s ink shooter (due out July 21 for the hybrid home/handheld Switch console — read our preview), Octo Samurai is bursting with character thanks to striking visual design and excellent animations.

But the coolest thing about duking it out with Octo Samurai is that the combat switches up. Instead of going into the battle with any of the weapons you’ve unlocked in the campaign so far, you must use the paint roller. This gives the bout something of a fighting-game melee feel.