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from: Nintendo Amazon Minimum Age: 72 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Nintendo EAD EAN: 0045496390150 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Nintendo Manufacturer: Nintendo Platform: GameCube Publisher: Nintendo Sales Rank: 4185 Studio: Nintendo Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Pikmin is a little ant from space, looking to get back home as fast as possible. Help him get the parts he needs to finish his repairs! Real-time action and intuitive controls combine with gorgeous cartoony graphics for a whole new gaming experience! Amazon.com Review: As stranded, miniature spaceperson Olimar, you must find the missing 30 parts your spaceship needs to get you back home. The parts are scattered across a forested area crowded with giant (when compared to our hero's size) animals and other hazards. Our hero stumbles across a race of part-animal, part-plant, all-bizarre creatures he names Pikmin. Olimar has to learn how to lead the Pikmin around the forest as he uses the abilities of the different-colored Pikmin to overcome the many obstacles in his path. Learning when and how to make the best use of your Pikmins' skills and traits is the essence of the game. You can control up to 100 Pikmin at a time while figuring out which Pikmin are best suited for a particular task. Some are better fighters, while others can survive in water or handle explosive bomb rocks. However, even the best Pikmin herder will have to sacrifice a few of the plant-headed beasts for the greater good. It's the making of new strategies to minimize losses that makes Pikmin challenging and fun. For a first-generation GameCube title, the graphics, sound, and music are fantastic and show an awesome amount of detail. Though it's no Pokémon, this game should appeal to wide-eyed younger gamers as well as seasoned vets. The controls are intuitive and feel perfect for the standard GameCube controller. However, learning to position the camera can be a tad frustrating during some of the more tense moments, as it has only a few magnification levels and needs constant adjustment. The biggest obstacle Olimar faces is time. He has only 30 days (each day is about 15 minutes in real time) in which to find the necessary parts. While this keeps the pace of the game up, some may find such limits somewhat frustrating, as it means there will be a lot of repetition and rethinking of strategy. It also means that diligent gamers may find Pikmin a rather short game. At the end of your gaming day, Pikmin is one of the best games on the GameCube. --Mark Brooks Pros:
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 Rating: - My son can't get enough of this game.My 14 year old son just can't get enough of this game. It is fascinating. Rating:  - PIKMIN!I just really love the Pikmin game. It is so much fun with all the little aliens. It does get harder as you go and is great! Rating: - PikminPikmin is one of the first games that came out for Nintendo Gamecube. I remember playing it at my neighbor's house and it was instantly one of my favorite games. It is about seven years later, and owning only a Sega Genesis and an Xbox, I decided that I had to own the Cube. The first game I bought was Pikmin! In Pikmin you play as a very small man named Captain Olimar. His ship crash lands on a planet (Earth, which is never exactly stated but is pretty obvious for numerous ... Read More Rating: - So fun, so cuteThis is a game among games. You control some plant-like little cute creatures. They look up to you for leadership. You provide it and try to lead them to their independence. Fantastic game for all ages. Rating: - Buying a present for an 11-year old.Pikmin was the requested present for an 11-year-old friend. The product was delivered on time and as promised. Good job. |
