Imagine for a moment that you are traveling through space on a vacation from everyone and everything. Your boss isn’t yelling at you, your spouse isn’t nagging you to clean or take out trash, and your kids aren’t hounding you for internet usage or money for the mall. That’s right you are traveling to paradise and some alone time when suddenly a comet hits your spaceship and spirals out of control. You crash land on this lush planet only to discover that your ship is in pieces scattered throughout the land, the air is uninhabitable for you and your oxygen supply will only last 30 days. What game is this?
Pikmin was released December 2, 2001 for the Nintendo GameCube. You play as Captain Olimar. The environment may seem intimidating and very large at first until you make your first discovery. Olimar can control the bipedal plant like humanoid characters that he calls Pikmin. Luckily this game will walk you through how to play in the first day (and a little bit more in the proceeding days). This is helpful so that you know what each of the different colored Pikmin can do. Olimar has 30 ship parts scattered about the land and only 30 days of oxygen available to him.
This game is a great mixture of puzzle solving, strategy, and adventure. The world is beautiful (ground-breakingly so, at the release of the game) and the sound amazingly draws you in. Pikmin has a great control scheme and is easy to play. On top of the story mode there is also a nice challenge mode that unlocks once you have completed the story adding more replay-ability to this super fun game. Pikmin is rated E for everyone and can be found at video game retailers. 9.5 out of 10 due to shortness of the game.
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