I had the first game when I was a kid, and the time limit used to really stress me out. I was so afraid to mess up that I never actually ended up beating the game.
After having completed 4, I decided to go back and buy this bundle, and finally get my revenge on Pikmin 1.
It ended up being pretty straighforward and I beat it in basically one day, with more than half of the in-game days left to spare.
Really shows how 20 years of life and playong games chamges you and your perspective on games.
The next day, I booted up Pikmin 2, and oh boy, it is a very different beast. I think one my friends had lent it to me as a kid, and one of the only things I remembered from it is how I disliked being only able to get purple and white Pikmin from caves (I think as a kid, I was so afraid to lose Pikmin that I spent days farming them, so having such a strong restriction in 2 bothered me).
I feel like the target audience for Pikmin 1 and 2 are pretty different :
1 is fairly chill after all, even if it is horryfing to see your Pikmin be eaten, drown or fall to their death.
2 is overtly trolling you at points. While you progress in caves, bombs or ennemies will sometimes drop on you from litteraly nowhere, and the design of the ennemies in conjuction with the randomly-generated level layouts can be very frustrating. I think back of it with a chuckle now, but on my first playthrough, I was definitely not laughing.
Nonetheless, both games are little gems, but the second one took me at least 4 times longer to beat than the second. Even though they look very similar, what they achieve is very different, and I ened up warming up to Pikmin 2's tough love after all.
Give them a try !
After having completed 4, I decided to go back and buy this bundle, and finally get my revenge on Pikmin 1.
It ended up being pretty straighforward and I beat it in basically one day, with more than half of the in-game days left to spare.
Really shows how 20 years of life and playong games chamges you and your perspective on games.
The next day, I booted up Pikmin 2, and oh boy, it is a very different beast. I think one my friends had lent it to me as a kid, and one of the only things I remembered from it is how I disliked being only able to get purple and white Pikmin from caves (I think as a kid, I was so afraid to lose Pikmin that I spent days farming them, so having such a strong restriction in 2 bothered me).
I feel like the target audience for Pikmin 1 and 2 are pretty different :
1 is fairly chill after all, even if it is horryfing to see your Pikmin be eaten, drown or fall to their death.
2 is overtly trolling you at points. While you progress in caves, bombs or ennemies will sometimes drop on you from litteraly nowhere, and the design of the ennemies in conjuction with the randomly-generated level layouts can be very frustrating. I think back of it with a chuckle now, but on my first playthrough, I was definitely not laughing.
Nonetheless, both games are little gems, but the second one took me at least 4 times longer to beat than the second. Even though they look very similar, what they achieve is very different, and I ened up warming up to Pikmin 2's tough love after all.
Give them a try !