"Those who do not embrace Dandori cannot survive this planet."

First time playing a Pikmin game after falling in love with the demo. Was always fascinated by the original back when it first came out after seeing images in Nintendo Power/GamePro of actual realistic, detailed items in the game. I'm pretty sure was the first time I ever saw stuff like that in a video game which I really loved to see back then as a kid (and even still today. Always neat!). With that, favorite moments of the game were acquiring the Wave Race: Blue Storm disc and killing a creature and having a gigantic thing of glazed ham fly out of it's corpse.

Tapping out with 238/239 treasures for I don't have the energy to complete Olimar's Tale to get the purple onion just to get that bastard gold bar/final treasure. I know my limits but the fact that I 99%ed the game says more than enough of my enjoyment. However, what truly makes this a 5/5 is that I actually spent time reading about the game's creatures in the Piklopedia. If I'm spending more than 1 minute in a game's in-game encyclopedia (let alone dedicating time to it) it's gotta be a near perfect game. Love the world, love the lite-ecology, love it all.

It's absolutely hilarious and I feel fully represented that all of Louie's Piklopedia entries are just ways to cook/eat every creature in the game. His Blue Pikmin entry is very concerning though but also I understand him.

Reviewed on Sep 17, 2023


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