Splatoon is the game every noughties teenager would have loved

Nintendo's brash, punky shooter would have defined my teen years - if only it hadn't arrived too late

For a whole host of reasons, the start of secondary school marked a pause in my love of video games.

I'd spent my childhood playing grungy classics like Crazy Taxi and Tony Hawk's Underground. But on the cusp of puberty and thrust into a group of new personalities - most of which were much bigger and louder than mine - I did what most kids do at that difficult age and adjusted my interests according to my friend group.