Objectively, probably the best Pikmin game by sheer amount of content alone, but I think I still prefer 2 and 3 more.
And I don't like the Dandori challenges/battles being incorporated into the base game. I am a completionist, but I've never touch the challenge modes of Pikmin games. I don't want to get good at Pikmin, I just want to play Pikmin, but this game requires you to get good at Pikmin to play it. i just wanna vibe man, but still, 5/5 stars just cause this game has FORTY HOURS of content.

It's not my favorite game in the trilogy, that honor goes to Danganranpa 2, but this is the biggest brained game I have ever experienced. Every single conceivable criticism you can think of about this story can be whisked away with an in universe explanation, and by god this game is an emotional rollercoaster with plot twists that will punch you in the gut and make you question life. All the while it has some of the best written and most lovable characters I've ever seen and having some damn good murder mysteries to solve.
While I don't like the ramifications it presents about the rest of the series it still blew my mind so I can't hate it completely. EASY 5/5 stars.

Also it has a Xenoblade Chronicles X reference so make that a 6/5