I've had to just stop playing this mind numbing experience. The idea at a basic level is not terrible but the level design is so uninspired, the pacing is extremely slow and the game keeps cutting the flow of gameplay at every opportunity for really long cutscenes of the Pikmin getting up to hijinx. It was cute to start with but oh man, it gets real grating as time goes on.

The enemies are weirdly over and underpowered at the same time, leading to some frustrating moments and the boss fights are as slow as the rest of the game.

But ultimately this does go against the idea of Pikmin. Pikmin sparks joy. This does not.