12th February 2003, 5:41 AM
GameCube review: Pikmin
Review Written by EdenMaster
You are Captain Olimar, and while on vacation your ship crashes on a mysterious planet. The atmosphere contains oxygen, which is poisonous to Olimar. You have 30 days of oxygen in your suit and you must recover 30 missing pieces of your spaceship to go home. Upon landing you find a strange object you name the Onion, as you near it, it stands up on little legs and pop out seeds. Within seconds of embedding in the ground, it sprouts. You pull it out to find it’s not a plant, but a living creature, you name it a Pikmin. You soon find that the Pikmin can carry capsules to the Onion to make more Pikmin. Soon there are enough Pikmin to attack the other creatures on this planet. The defeated creatures can also be made into more Pikmin.
You can have as many as 100 Pikmin follow you at one time, and they can carry spaceship parts you find back to the ship.
Pikmin is a fun game that can get you addicted, and its flaws are that the days can go by kind of quickly, and it takes a bit of practice controlling Olimar and the Pikmin. Nevertheless, I rate Pikmin an 8.5 and recommend it to anyone with a Cube.
Review Written by EdenMaster
You are Captain Olimar, and while on vacation your ship crashes on a mysterious planet. The atmosphere contains oxygen, which is poisonous to Olimar. You have 30 days of oxygen in your suit and you must recover 30 missing pieces of your spaceship to go home. Upon landing you find a strange object you name the Onion, as you near it, it stands up on little legs and pop out seeds. Within seconds of embedding in the ground, it sprouts. You pull it out to find it’s not a plant, but a living creature, you name it a Pikmin. You soon find that the Pikmin can carry capsules to the Onion to make more Pikmin. Soon there are enough Pikmin to attack the other creatures on this planet. The defeated creatures can also be made into more Pikmin.
You can have as many as 100 Pikmin follow you at one time, and they can carry spaceship parts you find back to the ship.
Pikmin is a fun game that can get you addicted, and its flaws are that the days can go by kind of quickly, and it takes a bit of practice controlling Olimar and the Pikmin. Nevertheless, I rate Pikmin an 8.5 and recommend it to anyone with a Cube.