My first time really giving Pikmin a go and I ended up enjoying it quite a bit!

The structure of the game having limited days and time within those days made managing time and resources a core aspect of succeeding. While it was stressful every now and then, I also found it to be very engaging and enjoyed trying to optimize the time I had each day.

The puzzles were fun as well, though I feel that the game's camera and overall graphical quality did make it a bit difficult at times to understand what I was supposed to do. Some things I did resort to looking up (such as yellow pikmin being able to be thrown higher, how to kill the breadbug, etc) but I chalk that up to this being a game from 2001. It does explain almost everything else pretty well.

The main thing I didn't enjoy was combat. I found myself missing my target pretty often, and I don't like how some enemies can just completely wipe your whole squad in one hit if you aren't careful. The game allowing you to restart a day whenever you want basically chalks combat down to trial and error until you figure out each enemy, which isn't horrible but did lead to some annoyances. Also the bosses I found to all be pretty meh.

Good game, looking forward to playing the next ones