In essence it's starwars-brand starblade but the spectacle levels are off the charts. I always saw this game at various arcades I went to but I never actually sat down to play it all the way through until today. You'd think that playing a cursor-based rail shooter would suck with a big joystick but its actually quite playable, and they even use the big joystick to simulate a lightsaber for the bonus levels so that's cool. The cabinet for this thing is awesome tho, the screen is huge (though whatever projector display it has burns in like a mfer and ive seen more really dim cabinets than not) and the game has giant loud speakers and a big boomy subwoofer. It def gets ya in the mood for sure. The visuals are also pretty damn good too for the time, i think this runs on model 3 hardware? Overall its like a playable amusement park ride. Short, bombastic, fun, and exciting. Hard to really say no to tbh

This is the best pikmin game. Difficulty, quality of life, levels the gameplay, enhances what was amazing about the other games. Plenty of content, nothing feels light or not thought over or unfair. The only drawback is the world while game designed very organized and clean and smart, it feels a little less 'real' that past pikmin games drove, like the world is less of an ecosystem and rather a really cool game world. But the challenge is just so incredible, and the pikmin series pulls are like just so fun. Literally jumped and yelled when I saw him. It really is raising the bar for the weird genre that pikmin is