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| PIKMIN 3: A DIAPER BABY GAME FOR LTITLE BABIES by Rafiki 07/17/2014, 2:33pm PDT | ||||
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| The original Pikmin had it right by adding a time limit to completing the game. You had 30 game days to victory, otherwise you lose and have to try again. Pikmin 2 removed it, much to the praise of people who hate fun and babies everywhere. Pikmin 3 imposes a time limit by requiring you to collect food and reducing your supply by one jar per day, but unless you're a baby or carry a dead mouse in your pocket you'll never run into this limit. I finished the game in 38 days and had 20 jars of food left, and had found about half of the available food in the game. It's a completely meaningless constraint. Underscoring how much more fun the game is with a time limit, there's a challenge mode with levels that give you only a few minutes to gather up items and harvest the corpses of enemies and you're awarded points and a medal based on how well you do. It's fun and challenging and triggers my OCD to get 100% and the highest score possible. There's even online leaderboards showing me how much better I am than most of the population.
On top of that, enemies and bosses just didn't seem as challenging as past games. I haven't played the other games in 10 years or so, so I might be misremembering, but in past games I could have entire armies eaten or crushed or killed. This time deaths were in the single digits on big encounters, and most enemies could be stunlocked by just constantly mobbing them with thrown pikmin. I blame Miyamoto for this. I read an interview where he talked about running into a group of kids and one of them, unprompted and without knowing who he was, made a comment that something looked like a Pikmin. Or maybe he was flashing kids in the park and that's what they said about his tiny yellow wiener, I don't remember the details. Regardless, I blame him for dumbing the game way down based on this one single coincidence. When I finished the game it said I took 15 hours and 30 minutes, which blew me away. I thought I spent maybe a third of that, so I guess one nice thing I can say is that you don't feel the game's length. In fact, just when I thought it was ready to start ramping up, it ended. I got this game for free for buying Mario Kart 8, so 10/10 best game ever!!!!! But if I had to pay $60? NOT RECOMMENDED. |
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PIKMIN 3: A DIAPER BABY GAME FOR LTITLE BABIES by 07/17/2014, 2:33pm PDT  Re: PIKMIN 3: A DIAPER BABY GAME FOR LTITLE BABIES by 07/17/2014, 11:31pm PDT |
