A great, short, story driven experience. Some beautiful visuals and a great thriller plot. The setting is perfect for a walking-sim by the end you really have a good mental map of the forest with its many winding paths and shortcuts. The ending might not be to everyone's taste but I think this game really highlights the story telling potential the medium possesses. The writing is at times a bit cheesy and occasionally very dumb (When they find the walkie talkie being a painful example) But otherwise its really fantastic and can be beaten in just a couple of sittings (took me about 3 and a half hours) I highly recommend turning off the map marker as doing actual orienteering using the compass and landmarks really adds to the whole experience and is baffling that the game isn't like that by default.

Fantastic game, but the main story feels like it stops just as it gets going. The side-story content with olimar is fine as a way of remixing the story levels with different goals but isnt substantial enough to feel like its a significant addition. It would be better if it was a madatory part of the story rather than optional. It does strangly introduce/ spoil blue pikmin before you come across them in the main stroy though. The side-missions are also fun at first but when you realise its just 5 levels with different enemy layouts 4 times over it feels less satisfying to play through them all.