Gamecube Game Review: Pikmin

Pikmin is now available to rent or own for the new Nintendo gamecube console.
The game is based on this little cute guy in a moon suit.

His name is Captain Olimar. On his way home to Hoctate, (some planet) using his faithful ship which he calls Dolphin. Suddenly he felt a massive jolt in his ship. His ship lands on on a strange planet. He is not able to go back home. Due to the huge shake in his ship, 30 pieces of it were scattered throughout this strange planet.

His mission is to find all 30 pieces in 30 days.

In day one, he manages to meet these little strange creatures known as pikimin. The first ones he meets are red pikmin. These little guys have the ability to walk through fire.

As the day goes on, he learns that the pikmin enjoy helping him, and he wonders why. He begins to enjoy them. As he notices that he actually needs them for help in his mission back home.

But watch out, there are many enemies on this planet that enjoy killing and eating your pikmin army.

As time goes by, in this game you will come across yellow pikmin. These little ones can fly higher when they are flown.

Soon you will discover blue pikmin, wich can swim. Each and every pikmin is needed to preform tasks that Captain Olimar could not do alone.

Picking and planting pikmin is very fun. I have even had an army of about 200 of them. By the time night fall comes though, make sure you whistle and search around for your pikmin, otherwise they are left behind and eaten. It is very heart breaking to see them get chomped down on by that big red and white beetle creature.

Your pikmin will also grow with time. They will start off with a leaf dangling from the top of their heads, then they will get a bud, and eventually a flower will bloom. The flowered pikimin are much faster and stronger than the baby ones.

This game is by far a gamecube favorite so far. The graphics are awesome, and you will end up playing this for hours. Similar to the banjo kazooie games, where a person could seriously waste a week of their life playing it till the end.

I have not yet beaten this game, but I am sure I soon will.

I am just having fun exploring the strange planet.

The thing I hate is that I am on a 30 day time limit, and days are not that long. Some days I don't even recover a ships piece, which means 30 days, 30 pieces; it is going to be real hard to squeeze in 2 pieces in one day. I may fail. :(

Another thing I hate, is the monsters. Some of them are really really beyond hard to beat. I have had a whole army of 50 pikmin eaten in just one battle. Then I had to waste another entire day just making new pikmin.

Kids will have fun with this game, as well as adults. If they like video games.