Pikmin 4 is the best game Nintendo released this year by far. Tears of the Kingdom can eat dirt-
Okay but seriously, this game was a great time. Loved sinking 40 hours into it and collecting everything and being a C-tier Dandori player. Can't really speak to how it stacks up to the others since Pikmin 3 is a vague memory from the switch release years back and I haven't played the first two, but Pikmin 4 is peakmin for sure.
Things that bothered me because I'm too tired to make them into actual writing so a list:
-Character creator is pretty lackluster and I wish there were more options to it, or just putting us back into original characters like the past games.
-Loading times can get very long.
-The characters are insane backseaters. A majority of the time, the Rescue Corp won't shut up about losing Pikmin, using the survey drone to observe the area even when most of it is mapped already, and repeating other things even till the end of the game. I understand why it happens but it does feel pretty patronizing like Nintendo doesn't trust me to do things on my own. Wish there was on option to turn it off. Speaking of...
-This game is absurdly easy outside of a handful of the caves and almost the entirety of the sage leaf cave challenges, but I don't really see it as a huge problem outside of the ongoing use of days without the limit and the timer being pretty useless now.
-The 3 limit on Pikmin types to use in the areas suck.
-Night missions are disappointing tower defense missions. Feel like they could have been the "hard mode" to what is the usual, low key daytime exploration.
-Wish day exploration could lead into night exploration rather than them taking place on separate days.
-No enemy respawns make the worlds feel a bit dead on returns.
-Auto locking can be really finicky and the lack of an option to turn it off is baffling. The worst manifestation of this is the 7th sage leaf challenge, one fell jump, where I fought more with the auto lock than the actual enemies I had to kill quickly.
-Louie still hasn't been choked out.
Okay but seriously, this game was a great time. Loved sinking 40 hours into it and collecting everything and being a C-tier Dandori player. Can't really speak to how it stacks up to the others since Pikmin 3 is a vague memory from the switch release years back and I haven't played the first two, but Pikmin 4 is peakmin for sure.
Things that bothered me because I'm too tired to make them into actual writing so a list:
-Character creator is pretty lackluster and I wish there were more options to it, or just putting us back into original characters like the past games.
-Loading times can get very long.
-The characters are insane backseaters. A majority of the time, the Rescue Corp won't shut up about losing Pikmin, using the survey drone to observe the area even when most of it is mapped already, and repeating other things even till the end of the game. I understand why it happens but it does feel pretty patronizing like Nintendo doesn't trust me to do things on my own. Wish there was on option to turn it off. Speaking of...
-This game is absurdly easy outside of a handful of the caves and almost the entirety of the sage leaf cave challenges, but I don't really see it as a huge problem outside of the ongoing use of days without the limit and the timer being pretty useless now.
-The 3 limit on Pikmin types to use in the areas suck.
-Night missions are disappointing tower defense missions. Feel like they could have been the "hard mode" to what is the usual, low key daytime exploration.
-Wish day exploration could lead into night exploration rather than them taking place on separate days.
-No enemy respawns make the worlds feel a bit dead on returns.
-Auto locking can be really finicky and the lack of an option to turn it off is baffling. The worst manifestation of this is the 7th sage leaf challenge, one fell jump, where I fought more with the auto lock than the actual enemies I had to kill quickly.
-Louie still hasn't been choked out.