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Pikmin 3 Review Thread [UP2: All reviews are live]
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Only 12 hrs long?
Finding out Purple and White Pikmin aren't in the main campaign is heartbreaking. I would have rather had Purple Pikmin take the functionality of Rock Pikmin. I always hated Rock Pikmin. Pikmin are like plants-bugs. Rocks are not plants. >:I
No swarming also bums me out but the lock-on mechanic is enough of a compromise for me.
The lack of treasures seriously bothers me. The amount of flavor text you'd get from Olimar observing these things is really going to be missed.
What do you mean lack of worlds? As in it's just one map? That would bum me out as well. :/
No swarming also bums me out but the lock-on mechanic is enough of a compromise for me.
The lack of treasures seriously bothers me. The amount of flavor text you'd get from Olimar observing these things is really going to be missed.
What do you mean lack of worlds? As in it's just one map? That would bum me out as well. :/
crisdecuba
Member
I would like some additional commentary on the game length, if possible. Or more specifically:
1. How does the length of the main game compare to the length of Pikmin 1 and 2? And as reference, Pikmin 2 was rather larger than 1 due in particular to the inclusion of the caves.
2. How does the length of the total game (i.e. getting everything) compare to Pikmin 1 and 2?
Thanks!
1. How does the length of the main game compare to the length of Pikmin 1 and 2? And as reference, Pikmin 2 was rather larger than 1 due in particular to the inclusion of the caves.
2. How does the length of the total game (i.e. getting everything) compare to Pikmin 1 and 2?
Thanks!
metalslimer
Member
12 hours is not bad at all. Pikmin 1 was shorter and i believe i beat pikmin 2 around that time.
Same! well, okay, I played the first one for about 15 minutes at a party back when it was first released on GC... but I honestly have very little memory of how it plays or anything.
I'm getting it simply to have something new on my Wii U, and it does look rather cute and different from what I usually play.
Interceptor
Banned
12 hours sounds perfect for me. Thanks for this
Sort of. they don't show the monsters' part so we can't know for sure yet.
To be fair this is one of the few Nintendo games where you can see a valid excuse for lack of online.
A hundred or so individual Pikmin characters on screen at the same time each with their own movements and attacks, all happening at the same time. That's a hell of a lot of data to deal with. It's stuff like lack of online in Game & Wario/Nintendoland that there's no excuse for.
Consider every RTS out there with online multiplayer and far far more units. Unless I'm missing something special about Pikmin, I don't see why this is a valid excuse.
Why is there such an uproar for online multiplayer in a Pikmin game of all things?
It's primarily a single player experience. The multiple characters are simply a device to enable players to multitask and make more efficiant use of their days. Sure it could lend itself to co-op but that was never the series' intention.
Are people really so desperate to play the bare bones local multiplayer?
It's primarily a single player experience. The multiple characters are simply a device to enable players to multitask and make more efficiant use of their days. Sure it could lend itself to co-op but that was never the series' intention.
Are people really so desperate to play the bare bones local multiplayer?
I agree. it's primarly a single player game. thanks god.
they could have added the online for the multyplayer mode, tough. btw..I don't care so much about this aspect in Pikmin.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
Add another review to the OP!
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Spieler Eins
Member
Please don't be the dumbass robot parody, please don't... oh god, just when I managed to forget about them.
Do they really get review copies?
Well, if they've played the game, they either got the Japanese version or they just broke the embargo by a week. So, if they got a review copy, I guess it was their last one. ;p
Outtrigger888
Member
Sounds good to me. I expect to take longer as ill probably daze out a lot looking at the environments and listening to the sounds/music.
Seems like a game i would beat more than once.
Also the challange modes with online leaderboards is going to add a lot as well.
Im also excited for bingo mode, when I get the chance to play it.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
They reviewed Luigi's Mansion 2 a month early, and never show their own footage. Take a guess.
GotchaForce
Member
What modes does the game have other than the single player?
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
I really preferred Pikmin 1 over Pikmin 2, so I'm definitely looking forward to this game. It seems to be more along the lines of the 1st game, but longer and more creative.
Annoying Old Party Man
Member
I started this last night... boy is it wonderful...
I declare this officially the ushering of Nintendo to the HD Era
Wonderful production values, so much color, amazing attention to detail, such a blast to play! It's also the first game I don't really want to play only on the gamepad, feels like you're missing too many small details.
I declare this officially the ushering of Nintendo to the HD Era
Wonderful production values, so much color, amazing attention to detail, such a blast to play! It's also the first game I don't really want to play only on the gamepad, feels like you're missing too many small details.
Metroid Killer
Member
The game is out next Friday in Europe! Now should I buy it via Eshop or get it at retail? Wasn't there some rumor that the eshop would have a discount? Or was that only in Japan? When are games usually available in the eshop, at midnight?
Yes, at list the 1st party games are available at midnight.
12 Hours seems a bit too much to me, I completed it in 9 Hours, but that was my first Pikmin experience ever, and I even lost some time doing more of what was needed to only complete the main story.
I'm well over 12 and going for 15 now trying to complete the game at 100%!
Buy it as soon as it's available, it's an AWESOME game!
I'm well over 12 and going for 15 now trying to complete the game at 100%!
Buy it as soon as it's available, it's an AWESOME game!
I'd would have bought it even it was light green. Red is even better.
£40 in the eshop. Cheaper to buy retail.
But I have had £50 stored on the eshop since November last year waiting for this. And waiting. And waiting.
TheRedSnifit
Member
Update and stuff
Also don't forget the 30% off Wonderful 101 if you buy through eShop.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
"Familiarity is both the worst and best thing about Pikmin 3."
Pikmin 2 came out almost a decade ago. What a dumb complaint.
Visualante2
Member
for comparison they gave pikmin 7 and the sequel pikmin 2 an 8
this game is caught in a weird limbo, yes it is easy to control the game with the wiimote, but the game pad functionalities makes this game so much better and you always want that controller in your hand...
I support reviewers giving nintendo crap for making the gamepad features great while the game pad controls are less than ideal. They shouldve addressed that in development.
To those talking about tutorials and hand holding, no reason to worry about it. There are barely any tutorials, no more than needed to learn the basic controls, they're super brief and well integrated especially because you pick up optional tips along the way. There's no significant hand holding either, at the very worst the characters drop a single line without interrupting the game saying stuff like "If I finish this bridge I can get t
o the other side" no more than that and I'm not even sure if they still do that after some hours, but I don't think so. The only reason you'll see someone complain about this is if someone goes in with the mindset of hating on tutorials and even a microsecond of someone explaining things sends him in a blind rage, something not too rare on GAF nowqdays.
o the other side" no more than that and I'm not even sure if they still do that after some hours, but I don't think so. The only reason you'll see someone complain about this is if someone goes in with the mindset of hating on tutorials and even a microsecond of someone explaining things sends him in a blind rage, something not too rare on GAF nowqdays.
So what? It's still familiar gameplay with not a whole lot of fundamental additions. The "decade old" argument is also quite misleading, since Nintendo re-released both games as Wii versions not even five years ago.
The Edge review is pretty fair, really.
Edit: 9/10 from Next-Gamer.de
Interceptor
Banned
I really want to have the box, but on the other hand you get a discount on TW101 if you buy this... and no spinning noise.
Visualante2
Member
I don't see the digital discount as appealing. you pay over the odds on one game to get a borderline fair price on the next? maybe if this Daisy chained all year it would be worth it. anyway it will be interesting to see how this one charts
Snowden's Secret
Banned
I'm not sure what you mean by "pay over the odds" but you get 10% of all your digital purchases back in eShop credit, so that's functionally a 10% discount off all games (in addition to whatever promotion this is).
Brainiac 8
Member
Yea, I just finished a run through of the first two games to prepare for Pikmin 3. The first game I clocked in at around five hours. The second game I clocked around 12 or 13. That was to 100% them too.
So the time to finish this will be around the same as the second game.
Trickster
Member
Doesnt that quote basically translate to pikmin 3 doesn't really do a lot of new things. And that's good in since pikmin 1 and 2 were good games. But bad in the sense that you want a sequel to not be exactly like it's predecessor?
The Librarian
Banned
Link doesn't work for me.
Was taken offline. There is a note on the main page: Our review of Wii U's next great hope
will be published at 6pm BST.