Pikmin

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Pikmin
Pik-min!
Protagonist(s): Captain Olimar Genre(s): Real-Time Strategy Rating(s): E Platform(s): Nintendo GameCube Nintendo Wii Nintendo Switch Release: GameCube JP: October 26, 2001 NA: December 2, 2001 PAL: June 14, 2002 Wii JP: December 25, 2008 EU: February 6, 2009 AU: February 26, 2009 NA: March 9, 2009 Developer(s): Nintendo EAD Publisher(s): Nintendo Country: Japan Series: Pikmin Successor: Pikmin 2

Pikmin is a 2001 real-time strategy puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. The game was created and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, and is the first entry in the Pikmin series. The game's story focuses on an alien pilot, Captain Olimar, who crash lands on a mysterious planet and must make use of a native species called "Pikmin" to find his ship's missing parts in order to escape within 30 days. Players take control of Olimar and in directing the different varieties of Pikmin to exploring the game's various levels, overcoming obstacles and hostile creatures, in order to find and recover the missing ship parts.

Plot

You play as Captain Olimar, a man of high vocabulary and an employee of Hocotate Freight. After all the hard work from his profession, Olimar decides to take an interstellar vacation in his personal ship, the S.S. Dolphin. He puts the ship into auto-pilot. With no real place in mind, Olimar relaxes within the comfort of his ship. Suddenly, a meteorite smashes into Olimar's ship, and he is knocked unconscious. Meanwhile, 30 parts of his ship careen towards a seemingly undiscovered planet. Olimar awakens to find his beloved ship in ruins! He must find all the necessary ship parts with the help of his newfound friends, the Pikmin, in order to get back to his home planet before his 30-Day life support runs out.

Why It Rocks

1. It was a very innovative RTS game. Instead of having objectives to kill enemies or other war like objectives, the game is about collecting items and puzzle-solving.
2. Each Pikmin has their own abilities. Reds are immune to fire and are the strongest in combat, Yellows can be thrown at great heights and can carry bomb rocks, and Blues can go in water and can't drown.
3. Another thing which isn't in most other RTS games. You can freely control the leader instead of having to click to control.
4. The game represents nature very accurately and most of the animals and plants in this game are based on real wildlife animals and other organisms.
5. Beautiful graphics for an Nintendo GameCube game and the graphics are to represent the beauty of nature and wildlife.
6. Very well done story.
7. Very challenging as you must collect all the ship parts in 30 days to get the true ending.
8. Very fun and great exploration of every area in the game.
9. You can increase the number of Pikmin by having the Pikmin carrying defeated enemies and Pikmin pellets by carrying it back to their ships which are called Onions.
10. Creative boss fights.
11. Amazing music!
12. The Wii version adds pointer controls that have more precise aiming, as well as a feature to redo a previous day. Because of this a lot of players consider the Wii version better than the GameCube version.
13. In 2023, this game along with Pikmin 2 was re-release on the Switch in HD.

Bad Qualities

1. There is a game breaking bug where the Libra (one of the mandatory ship parts) can bounce out of bounds, forcing you to either get the bad ending, or restart the day from the last save.
2. The 30 day time limit can be stressful for those not used to it.
3. The Yellow Pikmin aren’t really that useful in this game compared to later games in the series.
4. SMOKY PROGG!!! This boss is a pain to kill, as he kills a lot of Pikmin instantly when he is touched.
5. It takes nineteen blocks on the GameCube memory card.
6. It can be glitchy at times, especially the Yellow Wollyhops (Yellow Wollywogs in the GameCube and Wii NA versions) and broken physics.

Trivia

• In the disc, there's a Windows executable in it, which is used for debugging, This makes it the only Nintendo "game" to be "released" for computers.
• It was one of the first Nintendo games to launch Nintendo GameCube.
• Originally, all Pikmins would have the same color, but with small changes, but it was moved to the iconic three colors so as not to confuse what to choose.
• The only reason Yellow Pikmin carries Bomb Rocks instead of Red and Blue Pikmin also have the ability to carry Bomb Rocks which it originally should have be added is that the Yellow Pikmin would be useless if the Red and Blue Pikmin were also capable of carrying Bomb Rocks.
• One in every 100 copies of this game, inside the game packaging, has a bag with seeds, which would become a flower bacopa (Chaenostoma cordatum) (ironically, this flower is also officially called "pikmin flower") that is the inspiration for the flowers on the stem on the Pikmins' heads.

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