The only time product placement actually enhanced an experience. This game is a time management, real time strategy, dungeon crawler. I can't think of another game like it even the other Pikmin games. Its kind of mean and fucked up, but you can save constantly so its not unforgiving. Combat is supersizing deep once get a hang of it. It's not a numbers game, if you are just swarming monsters know there is a more effective way. Thowing pikmin, learning counter timing, and knowing when to call pikmin back before monster thrash. The elephant in the room is purple pikmin. People over state thier power, yes they are good at combat cus that's their roll. Every pikmin has a roll and you can't beat the game with nothing but purples. (And I'm not just saying that cus they are rare.) They are a power piece that needs to be managed like everything else and to those who say they invalidate reds, no the fact that they nerfed fire did that.