waterwraith rolled over the titan dweevil and instantly killed it

spawned into a cave sublevel and a bulbear immediately walked over the wall and ate half of my pikmin

auto lock on makes me want to KILL MYSELF

i don't know if it's just bias talking since it's been 10 YEARS since the last full game, but i REALLY really could not get super into this game like i could with the previous three. the dog (and ice pikmin) completely annihilate every challenge the game could possibly try and set up for you. the previous games offered a challenge of higher squad = higher risk of death due to having to manage a million babies, but higher power. in pikmin 4, you can just make them all board the designated tiny hitbox and then hold x at a boss until it dies.

i think the characters in this game are the weakest. i was already turned away by the custom character creation, since one of the main appeals of pikmin is how you were playing as people with actual lives and actual personalities. i don't WANT to play as myself, i WANT TO PLAY AS A 40 YEAR OLD MAN WITH A WIFE AND CHILDREN

ok minor complaints time. the music is MEDIOCRE! the fact that the story is [REDACTED] is MEDIOCRE! the rewind feature makes it feel like there's no real sense of FAILURE! and really? they really did that to MY alph? MY brittany? MY charlie? i will KILL YOU

also somehow they managed to make pikmin with gyro control bad.

the game does not let you put COVID as a username

i think luigi may have cheated on the final exam for his PhD because he's doing the same thing as dr. mario but infinitely more tedious.

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if you make the last phase of a final boss the easiest, i get to kill you.

whoever made perfecting love lizards as precise as it is has effectively reserved themselves a spot on my hit list.

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Godlike

i was going to make a complaint stated a thousand times over about how the game would be perfect without love rap and then i realized mc adore gives you very obvious cues with her hand gestures to tell you what she's about to say next

whoever made the flawless victory samurai kirby mission is going straight to hell.

this game repeatedly consisted of putting the story mode on hold so i can go hit a bomb around with a frying pan for 2 hours


WHERE IS SCOPE SHOT

i wish i lived in a world where i could take a train from japan directly to the himalayas

with their last breath, the fever team made their final hurrah, and unleashed nasu grave onto the world once again. then they removed him from the series forever again and puyo was doomed to not having the best character anymore

i think it is incredibly funny that throughout the game there are like 90 people in your party at once but only like a select 3 will talk during cutscenes so sometimes they just appear out of nowhere and you go "oh yeah i forgot they were there"