Charming lil creature em up actually. I wish every Japanese game had a kids & adult mode to determine how much kanji is used in the reading, genuinely the most innovative thing about this game which I never see brought up.
Visually it's easily one of the best games on the Gamecube. The textures are just detailed enough to have a sense of photorealism for the player to feel immersed in a world like our own, while also having quite vibrant colours to make the Pikmin stand apart. Overall a great approach.
I don't have any particularly strong thoughts on most of the music, but I do find it really funny how this song outsold the actual game (going by Japanese sales alone) and how surprisingly (unsurprisingly?) melancholic it is for this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2ePovKMtg
Where Pikmin shines is really the gameplay. I was worried at first about the time limit, but even playing fairly suboptimally as I was, I still managed to just barely squeeze by in under 30 days for every item. Not letting the player access the map immediately was a neat way to make the UI diegetic. I wasn't very big on the actual battles in all honesty. A lot of them boiled down to tossing as many Pikmin as possible at certain enemies until they died, and ones like the water boss were easily killed by exclusively using blue Pikmin. The rapid throw of Pikmin was also a bit tight due to requiring a bit of a precise circle with the c-stick. Micromanaging with the bomb rocks and such was a bit of a chore I found. Still, the exploration itself was mostly fun and the time-cycles were well implemented, really got a sense of how tearing apart big gates was a colossal feat for these tiny little creatures.
Overall, the game was a charming little thing to play for a few sessions. It was just the right length to make any grievances mostly forgivable and a satisfying clear. I will probably play the sequels before I die but I wasn't ultra invested to jump straight into Pikmin 2 since I've heard it's extremely long, and skipping entries in series' is for cowards tbh
tldr 7.2584/10 would pickmen as my partners
I subtracted 0.5 stars because I received a copyright complaint from my ISP for pirating it
Visually it's easily one of the best games on the Gamecube. The textures are just detailed enough to have a sense of photorealism for the player to feel immersed in a world like our own, while also having quite vibrant colours to make the Pikmin stand apart. Overall a great approach.
I don't have any particularly strong thoughts on most of the music, but I do find it really funny how this song outsold the actual game (going by Japanese sales alone) and how surprisingly (unsurprisingly?) melancholic it is for this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2ePovKMtg
Where Pikmin shines is really the gameplay. I was worried at first about the time limit, but even playing fairly suboptimally as I was, I still managed to just barely squeeze by in under 30 days for every item. Not letting the player access the map immediately was a neat way to make the UI diegetic. I wasn't very big on the actual battles in all honesty. A lot of them boiled down to tossing as many Pikmin as possible at certain enemies until they died, and ones like the water boss were easily killed by exclusively using blue Pikmin. The rapid throw of Pikmin was also a bit tight due to requiring a bit of a precise circle with the c-stick. Micromanaging with the bomb rocks and such was a bit of a chore I found. Still, the exploration itself was mostly fun and the time-cycles were well implemented, really got a sense of how tearing apart big gates was a colossal feat for these tiny little creatures.
Overall, the game was a charming little thing to play for a few sessions. It was just the right length to make any grievances mostly forgivable and a satisfying clear. I will probably play the sequels before I die but I wasn't ultra invested to jump straight into Pikmin 2 since I've heard it's extremely long, and skipping entries in series' is for cowards tbh
tldr 7.2584/10 would pickmen as my partners
I subtracted 0.5 stars because I received a copyright complaint from my ISP for pirating it
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Shoulda used a VPN bro...
Pikmin goated
Just wait until 2, it's even better
Valri
10 months ago