Obviously missing a lot of the charm and sauce of the original, but it still has a pretty satisfying gameplay loop. Designing your own park was the big draw for me to keep playing - getting more and more happy points to turn into watts to turn into payment for the toys building up the park was so fun and I had fun building all of it.

The sound design is a little grating coming from the GameCube original, but nobody could hope to achieve what Hirofumi Taniguchi did. It's not bad, but it just doesn't hit the ears quite right. I can't decide if it's tacky or subversive that Miasmo's theme samples those GarageBand-ass horror stings.

There were times where I thought "this would've looked so nice on the GameCube!", mostly because the color design here is just so bright and neon everywhere, but also for the graphical fidelity. I'm still satisfied and a little impressed with what they pulled off, and the graphics never got in the way of my enjoyment.

It should probably be a 3 star game, but I really did get addicted and beat it really fast, so that's what the half star is. I will probably not be getting every sticker, but I do want to make the entire park green at some point. I only got one row left!

A much different beast from the first two Pikmin games, but an incredible and beautiful experience nonetheless.

This game is gorgeous in every way, the music is incredible, the story goes back to the first game's roots and it mechanically improves upon it.

The Deluxe edition is absolutely the definitive edition. It controls better because they fixed the cursor when playing on a "traditional" controller (Wii remote controls for Pikmin have always been bad, sorry) and it also fixed some tiny performance hiccups the original game had. It also adds all the DLC plus side stories, the ability to play the ENTIRE STORY co-op, little achievements to encourage playing again... it's great.