Pikmin 4 is a truly exceptional game and among the best adventures of the Switch era. It so beautifully synthesizes the previous three Pikmin titles into something brilliantly familiar but likewise breathlessly new. There are no doubt growing pains in the many new ideas presented, but the spirit of curiosity and exploration which always buoyed the series has been blasted into the stratosphere here. The sort of game that reaffirms why Nintendo's status at the forefront of the industry is just unimpeachable