Pikmin 2 feels living in a way rarely seen outside of dedicated simulation games. Each creature's disposition, personality, and mechanical quirks mesh with the delicate and playful level design, all perfectly scored by an organically dynamic yamaha keyboard filled soundtrack. Each graphical interface flourish, temperate rainforest ground texture, squash-stretching honey ball-bouncing animation, and gentle sway of digital foliage is raised up to its just warmly burrowed living architecture-delving game player.