First time playing Pikmin 2 (sorry Duracell). There are so many more improvements from the first Pikmin. As a kid when Pikmin 2 first launched, I wasn’t thrilled on the treasure hunting aspect, preferring more the survival setting and the 30 day limit… well as a kid I was also stupid 😭! I LOVED going through this game finally and collecting all sorts of treasure and going into the Piklopedia (not spell checking that) and looking at what Olimar had to say about it. Another thing I enjoyed about Pikmin 2 is just how much more of a challenge this game can be compared to 1. I don’t know if it’s because this was a new experience for me as opposed to me beating OG Pikmin multiple times throughout the years but some of those caverns you enter… oh boy.

Speaking of challenge! My coworker told me today that i didn’t REALLY beat the game because now I have to rescue Louie and get the good ending. I told him i got the the best ending if you hate Louie. For real tho, I can already tell this last area is going to test my patience and I’m actually super excited for it (except 100 purple pikmin, screw that)!