Wow. Pikmin 4, a decade in the making, lives up to impossible expectations and even exceeds them. To me, it felt like a love letter to Pikmin 2, while taking bits and pieces from 1 & 3 as well to make the best Pikmin ever.

I don’t have too many gripes with this game. The difficulty felt a hair easy, but it is easily the 2nd hardest game in the series. I also would have preferred more actual caves over dandori battles, but the challenges help make up for it.

The pros heavily out weight my minor gripes though:
- Every Pikmin type is back, plus two new types. 9 types of Pikmin and they feel well balanced.
- Absolutely gorgeous game. Arguably the best looking on Nintendo Switch.
- 6 incredibly varied and unique worlds.
- Awesome caves
- Most amount and most diverse set of creatures in the game.
- Treasure is back. I absolutely loved this aspect of 2 and they knocked it out of the park.
- The QOL improvements to the gameplay.
- Olimar having a side story that is basically a NEW PIKMIN 1!!! (This blew my mind.
- Oatchi.
- The story was very enjoyable.
- Night missions were fun and didn’t overstay their welcome.
- This is minor but it made me so happy that purple and white Pikmin finally got their own onions.

This, in my opinion, is not only one of Nintendo’s best games on the Switch, but one of the best games they’ve ever created. If this game does not get Pikmin the recognition this series so unbelievably deserves, I don’t know if it will ever happen. I sure hope it does because I don’t know what I’ll do with myself if there is no Pikmin 5. A game that has launched itself into my top 10 favorite games of all time. It’s that good. GOTY worthy.

I 100% completed the game in just under 31 hours.