Pikmin 2 (GC)

Have you ever wondered if there's life on other planets? Or maybe there's life on this planet that we haven't yet found? Well, Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's mastermind, certainly thought about such things. Creative man that he is, Miyamoto developed this idea into a game, titled Pikmin, and released in 2001. Thanks to its monumental popularity, it's no surprise that Nintendo released a sequel, Pikmin 2, in summer of 2004. The story in Pikmin 2 picks up where the original game left off. Olimar, the tiny, large-headed hero of the first game, is the captain of a rocket for a freight shipping company. After crash-landing on Earth, he returns home, only to find his ...  Read the complete review

Before I write this review, I have to tell you a few things about myself. Firstly, I love video games. I'm not into fighting games or shooting games or anything, but I'm a huge fan of games like Zelda and Mario, that are fun but not to easy. Secondly, I am totally obsessed with cute things. I know a lot of girls are, but if I see something cute I have to have it. In my bed at home have a cuddly yoshi (so unbelievably cute) and a little cuddly thing that I bought from a gift shop in Edinburgh that says it's a haggis, although it looks nothing like one. I bought it anyway because it was absolutely adorable, even though it was £5 and I was running short on money. ...  Read the complete review

Pikmin 2 continues the travails of Captain Olimar, he's been rescued from the planet in Pikmin 1 using the endogenous Pikmin species to recover the parts from his ship. Now, he returns to his company but is told he needs to raise some cash to allow the company to survive so he returns to the Pikmin world and goes on a treasure hunt. On the world we encounter our old pikmin, red, blue, and yellow but eventually we meet three others. However, yellow has changed from bomb throwers to being able to withstand electricity, their use is similar to the original pikmin as they take down barriers except in this version the barriers are electrical instead of made of ...  Read the complete review

The gaming industry at the moment is full of sequels and licenses. While lack of imagination is a cause because of the spiralling costs of developing games and no guarantee of a return developers just can’t take the risks these days to develop new franchises. Even Nintendo are prone to this and while its first-party games are some of the best out there for this generation they have mostly all come from well-known franchises. Pikmin was its first attempt in a few years to create a new franchise on its new home console. Coming out a few weeks after launch it was defiantly a highlight of the GameCube roster and because a firm favourite even if it was a little short. As ...  Read the complete review

Pikmin is one of the only must have games on the Gamecube, not because there isn't better games but because it is the only brand new franchise developed by Nintendo on the system. In fact only Metroid Prime comes close to the inventiveness and freshness this sparkling new series from Nintendo offers. And so it is with great enthusiasm that we welcome the second in the Shigeru Miyamoto garden series of games. Fresh from their cameo appearance in Mario Golf, the red/blue/yellow Pikmin return for another collection of strategic puzzles. This time though Nintendo have made a few choice additions to the franchise. Olimar is no longer alone, Looie, Olimar dim-witted ...  Read the complete review