Always been quite conflicted on pikmin 2 there's alot I like, for example: like well the pikmin formula we all know and love is back with great new (and needed) quality of life improvements, the soundtracks' really good like before and visually killer for the time, it's quite a charming game between things like: the story, tons and tons of genuine real world items and brands which sells the fact the pikmin planet is a deserted earth and emphasises the scale of olimar, louie and co. being a really cool attention to detail, the new piklopedia which is a really cool feature and perfect for a game like this, the new bingo battle multiplayer and returning mission mode are both awesome, but the biggest new game changing addition are the caves which are great... in theory it's a bold new thing for a sequel to try and stand-out with and even promises to make the original game's issue of short length rectified!
But for all the seemingly cool things pikmin 2 does it comes with some caveats: for one the world isn't completely new (yeah it's the same planet hur hur) but the environments you explore are kinda new but also quite heavily retreaded, very familiar and sometimes literally ripped parts from pikmin 1's levels which is quite lame for a sequel to be honest and screams corners cut and in general it's not quite as well designed as 1 in my opinion, still good but the stitching of new and old is maybe the cause of this? not to sure but the biggin here is the caves which are a semi-randomly generated series of a varying small to large amount of floors consisting of enemies, treasure to collect and treasure you sit around and wait to be collected then repeat till the end with a boss and for the most part that's all there is to them not a big fan overall if you couldn't tell alot of them are visually bland, samey and just kinda dull to sit through things like the fun pikmin mechanics and again cool treasures kinda sorta save it and also there are some genuinely really rad (rare) but rad caves like the submerged castle where the gameplay turns kinda, sorta a little survival horror which is a really cool shake up but again those are rare gems in the muck.
all and all yeah pikmin 2 good just kinda held back in some ways, going the extra mile but also going backwards and yeah lol... also the game's not that hard, harder than 1 & 3 but get good
But for all the seemingly cool things pikmin 2 does it comes with some caveats: for one the world isn't completely new (yeah it's the same planet hur hur) but the environments you explore are kinda new but also quite heavily retreaded, very familiar and sometimes literally ripped parts from pikmin 1's levels which is quite lame for a sequel to be honest and screams corners cut and in general it's not quite as well designed as 1 in my opinion, still good but the stitching of new and old is maybe the cause of this? not to sure but the biggin here is the caves which are a semi-randomly generated series of a varying small to large amount of floors consisting of enemies, treasure to collect and treasure you sit around and wait to be collected then repeat till the end with a boss and for the most part that's all there is to them not a big fan overall if you couldn't tell alot of them are visually bland, samey and just kinda dull to sit through things like the fun pikmin mechanics and again cool treasures kinda sorta save it and also there are some genuinely really rad (rare) but rad caves like the submerged castle where the gameplay turns kinda, sorta a little survival horror which is a really cool shake up but again those are rare gems in the muck.
all and all yeah pikmin 2 good just kinda held back in some ways, going the extra mile but also going backwards and yeah lol... also the game's not that hard, harder than 1 & 3 but get good