http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/games/popular/month/pikmin/?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss ]]> This Month's Most Popular Games Tagged 'pikmin' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/games/popular/month/pikmin/?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss ]]> en-us They're small. They're plantlike. They're Pikmin! And they can be a space traveler's best friend! Stranded on an unknown planet, Captain Olimar must enlist the help of these native Pikmin. Together, they must rebuild Olimar's spaceship and defend themselves from attackers. Time is tight. Cooperation is key. This innovative action-strategy game is unlike any other game you've ever played!

Features

Command masses of multi-colored Pikmin to accomplish tasks like defeating enemies, carrying valuable items, building bridges, bombing walls and more.

Each type of Pikmin has a different ability. Red Pikmin can withstand fire, blue Pikmin can survive in water, while yellow Pikmin can fly higher and destroy obstacles by using bomb-rocks.

Control the Pikmin sprouts individually, in groups, or in one large Pikmin posse of 100 creatures.

The surreal world of Pikmin is brought to life by amazing graphics and incredibly detailed, often hilarious animation.

Gameplay challenges include defeating enemies, solving puzzles and ultimately collecting all of the spaceship parts before Olimar's life-support system runs out. Captain Olimar has a limited number of days to explore the planet's wide range of environments. Each day is monitored by a constantly moving sun meter at the top of the screen. You have to make sure to complete your tasks and gather your stray Pikmin before the sun goes down, or they'll fall prey to the planet's nocturnal natural predators.

To produce new Pikmin, you have to defeat enemies and carry them back to the Pikmin nests, called onions. If you want to make more blue Pikmin, command your blue Pikmin to carry defeated enemies and food back to blue onions. If you need red Pikmin, then make sure to assign red Pikmin to carry fallen prey back to home base. Once you get the hang of it, it's not difficult to keep a healthy stock of all types of Pikmin in reserve. You can have up to 100 Pikmin out at the same time, but you can store as many as you'd like in the onions.

In addition to the different colors of Pikmin, each Pikmin can be grown into three different forms: leaves, buds and flowers. Pikmin begin their lives as leaves, but they mature into buds and flowers if you leave them in the ground after sprouting. Flower Pikmin are stronger and faster than bud and leaf Pikmin.

]]> 26 Jan 2007 12:34:31 Just when you thought you saw the last of Captain Olimar, the Hocotate native returns. And he's doing it for the money.

Features

Fantastic two-player Battle Mode

Two new Pikmin breeds

Scenario-based Challenge Mode

Tons of aboveground and underground levels to explore

The colorful, highly addictive Pikmin 2 makes you the master of the lovable half-plant, half-animal Pikmin.

The company Captain Olimar works for, Hocotate Freight, is in big trouble. A deliveryman, Louie, had his payload of carrots hijacked by a ravenous space bunny. Not thinking a ravenous space bunny would appear, the President of Hocotate Freight didn't have an insurance policy on the payload. Now the company is doomed, 10,000 Pokos in the red.

The only way to repay the debt is to scavenge the planet of the Pikmin for artifacts. After you collect 10,000 Pokos worth of items, Captain Olimar and Louie can finally return to planet Hocotate.

The Many Colors of Pikmin

Captain Olimar and Louie can't access the treasure by themselves. They call on the Pikmin to do their dirty work. Pikmin come in different breeds represented by color. Red Pikmin are immune to flame. Yellow can sail high in the air and resist electric shock. The blue Pikmin can swim and crack open rock forms.

Captain Olimar farms these Pikmin via ships called Onions. When the Pikmin defeat a creature, they take it to the Onion, which beams it up and plants new Pikmin for Captain Olimar and Louie to pluck from the ground.

Two new Pikmin, purple and white, evolve from other Pikmin. When you go into an underground level, you sometimes find either a purple or a white flower. You can throw five Pikmin into the flower, and the flower spits out either purple or white Pikmin. You will need to protect both types of these powerful Pikmin because they are in limited supply.

When your sensors detect an object of value, order the Pikmin to carry it back to the spaceship. It's just that easy. OK, it's not just that easy. Finding the treasure is the hard part. You'll find some of the treasure in seemingly inaccessible spots. Other treasure is guarded by nasty, hard-to-kill creatures. And those creatures like to have Pikmin for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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