Welcome back to the Game Trade Reviews, where I post my in-depth takes on whatever random ass game my friend wanted me to play. This time around I’m taking a look at a game that got a rerelease pretty recently, Pikmin 2. I played Pikmin 3 on the Wii U almost as soon as it got released, and I adored it. For whatever reason I never went back to try the older games until this opportunity arose. I still haven’t played the first Pikmin game, and it’ll be some time before I finish Pikmin 4. As such, I won’t focus too much on comparing this game’s quality in the context of the series. Not to say I won’t bring up any comparisons at all, but I will do my best to evaluate this game on its own terms. I must also mention that this review will contain spoilers, though this is not exactly the kind of game where spoilers matter that much. With all that out of the way, let’s get into it.
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Hi I’m back, I’m done with grad school. Got a degree and shit. Pretty cool. Remember that Nintendo Direct where they announced Pikmin 4? Some of you might not have watched that at all. So Shigeru Miyamoto’s telling us he wants to tell us some stuff about Pikmin. That’s promising right? Yeah it was, Pikmin 4’s coming out this month. Good shit. But before there was Pikmin 4 there was an explanation of Pikmin Bloom. They gave us a mobile game before Pikmin 4. If it weren’t for the announcement afterwards I would have bitter feelings towards the game. I probably wouldn’t have tried it. Fortunately, I got my Pikmin 4, or the anticipation of it. I couldn’t resolve that anticipation with Pikmin 4. Instead I could give Pikmin Bloom a shot right away. I never got into Pokemon Go! yet I went for Pikmin Bloom. How did I get taken in so thoroughly? Let’s get into it.
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