![]() ![]() Pikmin 2 has easily been my favourite Pikmin game. I did miss collecting the treasures like in the previous games, just to see what knick knacks Nintendo would have you uncover, but they do continue the tradition of silly names for everyday items when naming the fruit There are also entries in the Piklopedia, with cute commentary from each of the crew. Over the course of the game you get to know Alph, Brittany and Charlie through short cutscenes and through logs entered at the end of the day. Because you never know when a freak accident could wipe out a chunk of your group, it always pays to keep boosting the number of Pikmin stored in the Onion. When creatures and pellets are fed into it, new Pikmin are generated - planted into the ground for you to pluck out. You only have so much time in each day to gather fruit and work on the main story objective, so it’s important to make sure you harvest the creatures you defeat and look for coloured pellets for the Pikmin to take back to their ‘onion’ ship. The three main Pikmin types are resistant to an element, whether it’s fire, water or electricity, but chances are those elements will make short work of the rest of your group. You need to be careful in the great outdoors though, most Pikmin will drown in water if you don’t watch for puddles. ![]() The crew themselves can’t directly attack creatures or pick up fruit or other items, so you need to control the Pikmin to do all the hard work for you. ![]() They’ll follow you around the area and can be thrown at obstacles or at enemies. Pikmin 3 has you out in nature controlling a group of up to 100 tiny Pikmin. It’s not a short game by all means at around 12-15 hours, especially playing on Normal difficulty, but the pacing in how the different Pikmin are introduced can feel like you don’t get much time with the full group. There isn’t much I can say about later in the story to keep it a surprise for newcomers, although it feels like it’s over before it's really begun. The story is straightforward, reuniting your crew as you collect fruit and try to find the key. It’s not that easy as the world is a dangerous one, filled with large animals who are happy to eat Pikmin, all of the Pikmin. Ever-helpful, the crew will need the Pikmin’s assistance to regroup, gather fruit and get back home. It’s not long before they discover the mysterious creatures we know as Pikmin. The crash scattered the crew across the region, and the Cosmic Drive Key has been lost. Intrepid explorers Alph, Brittany and Charlie crash land on the planet, just like Olimar had. They have found a suitable planet with harvestable food the planet PFN-404, which happens to be the same planet that Olimar (protagonist of Pikmin 1 & 2) had travelled to all those years ago. The planet Koppai is in desperate need of food to feed a booming population. It’s wild to think that it has nearly been 20 years since the series launched, hell it’s nearly been a decade since Pikmin 3 originally came out! After all this time can a Deluxe upgrade bring Pikmin back to the masses. Since the series debut on the GameCube, I have been a fan of the Pikmin games. While the Wii U may not have done as well as its predecessor, it carried an enjoyable library of games that are still getting ported to the Switch. ![]()
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