Pikmin 3 continues the downward slope of intrigue from the previous games. This is about the point in the series where it threw away the survival aspects in favor of a chibi robo-esque miniature collect-a-thon structure. The main merit in this game is the visuals, which are better than that of 4. The textures are beautiful and the water is the best it has ever looked. The sound and animation of the juice being squeezed into the bottle at the end of every day is shit you would see on oddly satisfying TikTok. The Quaggled Mireclops encounter was the peak of my enjoyment with this game and I wish we had more stuff like it.