It's good, although the pikmin AI is abysmal and it makes the game a real pain to play. Somewhat I'm poisoned because I've played 3 Deluxe already (for reference, I give it an 8), so I felt the level design has yet to hit it's peak - it's good, but not 3 Deluxe good. The enemies in the game are actually quite fun and good but the lack of variety of pikmin makes it a little less interesting to go around and fight things, and I especially felt this way about the final boss who I felt was a little more annoying than fun at times. The music was good and I actually enjoyed collecting ship parts instead of fruit. The 30 days actually caught up to me very quickly and I got stressed about it which is more than I could have ever said for fruit in 3, so I really enjoyed that aspect. Unfortunately the biggest annoyance ended up being the pikmin cpu/AI, which kept getting stuck on things/falling off sides of stuff, which-really soured my gameplay experience. I felt myself go insane every time 5 pikmin stopped to pull grass on nectar even if I didn't tell them to, or if pikmin stopped to help another carry stuff. i only found out that i could spam up and down on the cstick to make them sit in a line while i walk in the last level, so that definitely would have helped a bit