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Pikmin 2001
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Completed
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Time Played
--
Days in Journal
1 day
Last played
February 19, 2022
Platforms Played
Strategic survival in an unknown world
Pikmin isn't a hard game to love but it's easy to dislike sometimes, the charm of the characters, the world and the way the Pikmin and Olimar interact with it is pretty cool in a sense. A fun strategy game with a time limit that is pretty scary at first but more than possible to overcome after learning the intricies and annoyances the game offers.
The whole game oozes of classic Nintendo charm along with the gameplay requiring some decent planning and perfect placements at times. When the gameplay flows, it flows extremely well with multiple pikmin moving one object while building another and gives you the dopamine hit when you finally solve a hard puzzle and obtain one of the pieces for your ship. The whole concept is something really cool too: A pilot that crashed on an unknown planet and has to rebuild their ship in 30 days or they perish when their life support runs out and thus you bond with the natives of the world, the Pikmin as you both work together to rebuild your ship solving what puzzles and defeating what enemies you'll find along the way.
Despite all that, there are a lot of things this game could use at least in the gamecube original. Controlling your pikmin is generally okay but there are some nasty and tedious quirks to it that I found annoying throughout the playthrough. An example is let's say you need to get through a stone wall and the yellow pikmin with bombs are the ones you want to control right now, you can't select which color you'd want to control so you'd have to split them up and select them in order to proceed normally and you'd have to do this for every time you want to pick a specific color for the task at hand. This fails to mention if you have multiple yellow ones, you'd have to split the yellow ones with bombs and without so they don't blow each other up. All of these encompasses with a time limit that gives you another level of stress and anxiety, especially if they're barely learning the basics of the game.
Pikmin isn't a game for everyone but it's an interesting title in Nintendo's repertoire that has mostly been known for platformers and adventure games up until this point. Expect to reset a lot if you don't know what you're doing or suffer a lot of death in a day. A charming strategy game that when it works, it works really well with some hiccups along the way.
How glad I am that I persisted in my search without losing hope...
Now I can leave this planet without any regrets.
Pikmin isn't a hard game to love but it's easy to dislike sometimes, the charm of the characters, the world and the way the Pikmin and Olimar interact with it is pretty cool in a sense. A fun strategy game with a time limit that is pretty scary at first but more than possible to overcome after learning the intricies and annoyances the game offers.
The whole game oozes of classic Nintendo charm along with the gameplay requiring some decent planning and perfect placements at times. When the gameplay flows, it flows extremely well with multiple pikmin moving one object while building another and gives you the dopamine hit when you finally solve a hard puzzle and obtain one of the pieces for your ship. The whole concept is something really cool too: A pilot that crashed on an unknown planet and has to rebuild their ship in 30 days or they perish when their life support runs out and thus you bond with the natives of the world, the Pikmin as you both work together to rebuild your ship solving what puzzles and defeating what enemies you'll find along the way.
Despite all that, there are a lot of things this game could use at least in the gamecube original. Controlling your pikmin is generally okay but there are some nasty and tedious quirks to it that I found annoying throughout the playthrough. An example is let's say you need to get through a stone wall and the yellow pikmin with bombs are the ones you want to control right now, you can't select which color you'd want to control so you'd have to split them up and select them in order to proceed normally and you'd have to do this for every time you want to pick a specific color for the task at hand. This fails to mention if you have multiple yellow ones, you'd have to split the yellow ones with bombs and without so they don't blow each other up. All of these encompasses with a time limit that gives you another level of stress and anxiety, especially if they're barely learning the basics of the game.
Pikmin isn't a game for everyone but it's an interesting title in Nintendo's repertoire that has mostly been known for platformers and adventure games up until this point. Expect to reset a lot if you don't know what you're doing or suffer a lot of death in a day. A charming strategy game that when it works, it works really well with some hiccups along the way.
How glad I am that I persisted in my search without losing hope...
Now I can leave this planet without any regrets.