Trovicrump

Pikmin 3, is a pikmin game that tries to capture the essence of the original 2 pikmin games on the gcn, but fails to capture the essence without understanding basic concepts and how the added to the base game. Pikmin 3 fails at a couple important aspects, those being plot, linearity, and collectables. Pikmin Is a game franchise with a heavy emphasis on collecting items, battling enemies, and managing resources. it is a amazing rts game filled with puzzles and challenges. However, a part of the main experience of pikmin is collecting objects. In the first game, it is the ship parts, and the second, hundreds of unique objects which tally up to a total to let your progress, the parts are a requirement to progression. this is one of the most important parts of the game, and pikmin 3 has failed at making it interesting and essential. In pikmin 3 you collect fruit, and this fruit is supposedly essential to the main plot, but all it does gameplay wise is make sure you dont fail, and run out of food to survive the game. This is a bad decision on many parts, the only addition the fruit adds is more time, fruit is not required and adds nothing other than more days to get to the linear goal, which is always solving puzzles to get to a single boss fight. this leads all of the game to be set on a linear story driven path, where nothing you do except following it progresses the game itself, which is a downside to the very nonlinear setup of the first two games. The collectables are also boring: in the first two games the collectables were interesting and unique, the ship parts had a cool look and were unique in their own way, and pikmin 2 had you collect stuff you knew, chapstick, but in pikmin 3 you collect the same type of fruit, and alot of them are repeats. this is detrimental to pikmins core design and hinders the experience. I play pikmin to explore and collect, but I am not incentivised nor required to do so to progress the plot, and the game loves to stop you to force you to do something. The game is very linear, and its short too. The biggest part of the two pikmin games was collecting and here it serves no purpose to progression other than letting you continue the linear path it has set for you. in the first two you had to collect and find stuff to continue, and that was where most of the strategy came.. but all it seems like now is the puzzles and combat, which are done well I will have to give credit. In my eyes pikmin 2 is a stronger title than this but if you want to ease into pikmin play this game first.