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I'm a bit sick of Hitman 2 and Harvest Moon at moment, along with my other currently-played games, so I decided to give Pikmin a quick go and really rekindled my love of the thin, odd looking plants.

I never really remember Pikmin being as good as it is. I always liked it, but returning it seems wonderful, and more of a Nintendo game than Wind Waker and Sunshine. Building up 100's of slaves, racing against the clock to safety... I never really realised how great this is, and despite being a bit sceptical about the 2nd, I'm really looking forward to it now.

RBS is just plain wrong. Not liking this is foolish, it's a true Nintendo masterpiece and, in terms of gameplay, almost faultless (bar a few niggles when trying to seperate Pikmin.)

This is why a bought a GameCube.

Olimar is also an anagram of mario if you remove the L...

And loogie just isn't funny.

Dringo wrote:
> Olimar is also an anagram of mario if you remove the L...
>
> And loogie just isn't funny.

Mmm.. If Olimar sounds like Mario, Loogie sounds alot like Luigi..

Are Nintendo that unoriginal?

Bah, can anyone remember hwo to kill that massive beetle boss on the Forest of Hope? I did the level once, got 3 ship parts, then got to the boss and lost 60+ Pikmin because I just couldn't hurt it. The I restarted from that day again, got all the ship parts etc. but this time when I got to the boss, I brought some yellow Pikmin with, and they set them off for no reason and killed over 80. Should I be bothering with bombs or not?

Is that the one where you hit its' nose and its' wings open?

Yeah, just beat it before. Bit of a git, though, because I have to beat that and the massive birds in one day. Gah.

Heh, not nice I presume.

Bloody hell, it seems that a fair few Japanese mags are giving Pikmin 2 high scores...

Famitsu: 9 / 9 / 9 / 9 - (36/40)
Dorimaga: 10 / 9 / 9 - Total 9,33
Famitsu GC: 10 / 9 / 10 / 10 - (39/40)
Dengeki GC: 9 / 9 / 9

Best GameCube title yet...? Perhaps, these consistently great scores seem to suggest that.

tphi wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> Olimar is also an anagram of mario if you remove the L...
>
> And loogie just isn't funny.
>
> Mmm.. If Olimar sounds like Mario, Loogie sounds alot like Luigi..
>
> Are Nintendo that unoriginal?

It's Miyamoto, paying homage to older characters. It isn't hard coming up with a name, relating it to the Mario franchise is only spotted by the die hards.

Oh, by the way, those Albino-Pikmin don't poison enemies, supposedly they are immune to poisonous gasses that other Pikmin die when they try to pass through - similar to Blue Pikmin walking through water. Judging by their size, they should be able to reach small places too.

This will rock.

Pikmin's problems were it rushed you and it was too short.

A bit of epicising and more gameplay and classic is made.
The random level generator is a neat trick too.


Being the first sequel, it's the first game where the "level design" has been the main focus, now the game engine, graphics and basic game mechanics have been mastered.

Hopefully they've done something big with the Mario and Zelda engines.