Splatoon 2 hates friends who don’t use Nintendo’s app

Nintendo is releasing Splatoon 2 for the Switch this Friday. Alongside that ink shooter, the publisher is also planning to introduce its new online app that enables players to group up and voice chat when in multiplayer matches. And it turns out that playing online without that app is a real pain.

We’ve put some time into Splatoon 2, and reviewer Mike Minotti thinks the series is still fresh now that it has migrated from the Wii U to Nintendo’s newest hardware. What is not so fresh is that you can’t party up with your friends through the game itself. Instead, during our play sessions, I had to wait for Mike to get into a game and then join him from the friends menu.