I haven't really delved into real time strategy games that much (Spore is probably the only game that is even close to this among my played games), so I figured that Pikmin would be a great start. Also, I love playing Olimar in Brawl, so I figured I should find out how his game is to play. And I honestly had a blast. It was super easy to get in to, and pretty addictive while I was playing it. It was very fun to control all the pikmins and to make them do different things. It was cool how every area was almost like an open world where you could collect things in whichever order you wanted, and it felt natural after a while to just bring a whole lot of pikmins into the field and structuring their duties difficulties. I made some of them collect other pikmins so that my pikmin count would increase, and others would just follow me along to battle all of the different enemies that this planet offered. It was pretty hard to find all the ship parts, but I managed to get every one of them, even though some seemed to not even be required. The music and the atmosphere were other huge pluses, especially the music. The sliding guitar chords played in the third area was such a cool song, and I immensely enjoyed my time there. But probably my favourite aspect of the game was that it made you learn through trial and error in a way that didn't feel unfair or unfun. You simply had to test what would work. I remember seeing the enemies that breathed fire in the third area, and thinking "I wonder if the red pikmins are immune to fire", and they absolutely were.A related story is that the first time I got near water, I actually lost half of my pikmins through drowning, but it didn't take that long to get them back fortunately. Olimar's narration made the game feel more immersive, and made me love the day system, because I could always look forward to Olimar's funny comments at the end of the day. There were of course some things that I enjoyed less, like how it could take a long time for pikmins to react to my commands sometimes, but I feel like it would have made the game worse if that was absent, because it would make the pikmins feel less like living creatures and more like mindslaves. I wish it could have been done a bit differently, but as it is, it is not the worst thing in the world, and it was not really something I thought a lot about when playing through this game. I recommend this game to everyone, because it is very accessible, cute, sort of sad, and fun!