Amazon Maximum Age: 17 years 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: 3926 Studio: Nintendo
Features:
Explore a lush garden from an ant's perspective
Watch as plant life and objects interact together in beautiful 3D graphics
Experience the different personality traits of different types of Pikmin including Bud, Leaf, and Flower
break down walls, defeat giant bosses, and build bridges with all your Pikmin
Store Pikmin safely in the nests when you're not playing
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:
Very innovative and original
Gorgeous graphics
Great sound and music
Amazing blend of action and strategy
Cons:
Time limit causes players to repeat tasks
Experienced strategy gamers may find Pikmin ends too quickly
Difficult to control camera during tense moments
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
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: - Pikmin
Pikmin 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 reasons). Olimar figures he will die there because important parts to his ship were scattered everywhere and he only has 30 days before his space suit fails and the poisonous oxygen that permeates the planet kills him. Just when it looks like all hope is lost, he stumbles upon a red object that, once he approached, appeared to come alive.
The red object he deems an Onion, and out of this onion comes a seed that implants itself into the ground where seconds after a small sprout shoots up. Olimar picks the sprout and that is where the first Pikmin is discovered. It isn't long before Olimar realizes these Pikmin could help him search and gather up the pieces of his ship, and the hunting begins!
There are three different kinds of Pikmin and a huge load of enemies looking to eat them. The red Pikmin, the very first Pikmin you acquire, is the strongest out of the three and they are immune to fire. The yellow Pikmin can be thrown very high and far and they can use bomb rocks, which can be found inside tin cans or skulls, to defeat enemies or to knock down rock walls. Last, the blue Pikmin, can go in water without dying.
Pikmin is a great game to play and I will continue to enjoy it's awesomeness.
Rating: - So fun, so cute
This 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.
- PIKMIN!
