Games for Lunch: New Play Control! Pikmin
In a nutshell: Pikmin ... now with new play control. DUH!
3/9/2009 9:18 PM | 5 Comments | Page 2 of 3
Kyle Orland
Status: "You can't get quality video game editorial from a value menu!" "No, really, you can't."
0:19 I'd forgotten how slow-paced this game is. I want to yell at my Pikmin to go faster even as they lift the engine back to my broken ship. Am I getting impatient in my old age? Or maybe it's just that fact that I've done this already and I'm tiring of the repetition...
0:20 As darkness comes I gather the Pikmin into their onion home for the night and launch into orbit, as always. Olimar's diary notes the strange fact that the Pikmin follow me. I have to find 29 ship parts in 29 days. Let's do this.
0:25 Still fun after all these years: throwing Pikmin at ladybugs and watching the teeny tiny battles.
0:29 My massive army of 74 red Pikmin takes out a giant ladybug from behind with minimal losses. Using the Wii Remote pointer to aim at the bug and call back the used Pikmin is actually slightly easier than it would have been on the GameCube, I think.
0:34 Maybe it's my faulty memory, but I don't remember the Pikmin being this reluctant to help before. In the GameCube game, I think I just pointed them at an object and they'd immediately help carry it. Here they seem to ignore the objects unless I really force them onto it. It's OK ... if I throw them at the target it works just fine.
0:36 I pick up the "Eternal Fuel Dynamo," which would be a great name for a rock band.
0:38 I find a yellow onion and make my first yellow Pikmin.
0:42 As the day ends, I gather up the Pikmin stragglers I've lost during the day into my group of 93. They trundle into their onions for the night yet again. 28 days for 28 parts now.
0:44 Hey, I just got a crazy idea ... Nope ... my GameCube controller doesn't seem to work. I guess that'd obviate the whole "New Play Control" thing. Still, would have been a nice option for purists.
0:47 Why do I need to use my yellow Pikmin to take the yellow pods to the yellow onion. Why can't the red Pikmin be a little smarter?
0:50 Throwing Pikmin with explosive rocks at a big stone walls is pretty exciting, at least for this game. Is it made any more exciting by the "New Play Control"? No.
