Amazon Maximum Age: 17 years Amazon Minimum Age: 72 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Nintendo EAN: 0045496960025 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Nintendo Manufacturer: Nintendo Platform: GameCube Publisher: Nintendo Sales Rank: 1288 Studio: Nintendo
Product Description: MODEL- DOL-P-GPIE VENDOR- NINTENDO FEATURES- Pikmin Straight from the creative mind of Nintendos own Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator of Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong and more), Pikmin is an inventive new kind of game perfectly suited to show off Nintendo GameCubes awesome potential. Referred to as an "inventive life simulation," Pikmin is an action- strategy game featuring incredibly life-like environments inspired by Mr. Miyamotos own garden in Kyoto, Japan. Players control a spaceman named Captain Olimar who has crash-landed on an unusual planet. The goal of the game is to help Olimar collect his vessels lost parts, which have been scattered all over the planet. Luckily for Captain Olimar, the planet is inhabited by strange little creatures called Pikmin. Pikmin are plant-like life forms that come in three different colors: red, yellow and blue. Each type of Pikmin has unique strengths which Olimar must use to his advantage. Red Pikmin can withstand fire, blue Pikmin can survive in water, while yellow Pikmin can fly higher and destroy obstacles by using bomb-rocks. Players can control the Pikmin sprouts individually, in groups, or in one large Pikmin posse of 100 creatures. * Unlike most strategy games, the basic controls in Pikmin are very simple. Mr. Miyamoto has made excellent use of the new Nintendo GameCube Controller. The main Control Stick controls Captain Olimar, while the C- Stick controls the swarming mass of Pikmin. While youre moving Olimar in one direction, youre free to move the Pikmin in any direction youd
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: - 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.
Rating: - You need some practice!
What's weird about Nintendo is that they made a game with a time limit. Pikmin is really fun but with a time limit. The graphics make the game beautiful, otherwise the gameplay is excellent. Sure it can get repetive, but other than that it's really fun! I would strangely recomend practice for people who think this game is hard. So I would suggest to rent this game or buy the sequel for practice.
The Story
A Capt. by the name of Olimar, just came back from the worst intersolar vacation. While he was drinking tea to calm his nerves he was struck by a meteor. He crashed landed on a strange backwater planet, thus meeting the Pikmin.
The Pikmin
What would be Pikmin without Pikmin?! Nintendo sure did make a cute little alien thing. Though it is sad to hear the cry when the die, and see the coloured ghosts fly upwards, I still enjoy the little things.
The Enemies
Enemies are the backup in the game, some are hard others are easy. Others are stupid (going in water and killing themselves). Pikmin hate the enemies, but Capt. Olimar is doing them a favor to kill the beasties and breed Pikmin!!
Overall
Overall the game is excellent, even though the time limit may be the worst asset of the game, it's pretty good once you collect tons of the ship parts.
Rating: - I was "Pik"ed!
For this item, I'm a little disappointed. I ordered the Pikmin 2 game, but was sent the Pikmin game. When I went back to the Amazon site, the page was gone. Since we were on vacation at the time, didn't even notice that it was confirmed incorrectly. Because Amazon is sometimes "Amazonian" to approach, trying to rectify it was useless. As for the game, my children play it and think it's pretty good, though they really wanted the Pikmin 2 game. Oh well!
- Pikmin
- I was "Pik"ed!
