![]() Pikmin 4 refines everything that previously worked in the series, improves what didn't, and adds a host of new content and play modes. Each in-game day sees you venturing out into uncharted territory to rescue the crew, recover other castaways, and look for clues to Olimar's whereabouts, racing the clock to achieve as much as possible before sundown. As part of a squad chasing Olimar's distress signal, you've ended up crash landing as well, with crew members left scattered across the planet. For most of the game, you're not playing as Olimar, but rather a new recruit to the wider Rescue Corps – and in a series first, your player character is customisable, with a decent suite of options in keeping with the game's cute aesthetic. Only this time, that's all just the intro. Strong Purple, durable Rock, speedy Winged, and poisonous White Pikmin all make their return too, with their own strengths and weaknesses to master. Yellow ones are similarly immune to electricity but also capable diggers, while Blues can wade through water unfazed. Red Pikmin are invulnerable to fire, for instance, allowing them to cross burning terrain and take on flame-spewing enemies. Like previous games, each breed of Pikmin has distinct attributes that help navigate the world and survive its threads. ![]() Once again, series' icon Captain Olimar has crash landed on a strange alien world that looks curiously like a beautiful human-sized back garden, and must rely on the abilities of the strange Pikmin creatures he encounters to recover missing parts of his ship. Whatever the reason, if this fourth major entry doesn't prove a breakthrough for Pikmin, we don't know what will – between releasing on the blockbuster Switch and offering the most robust gameplay mechanics yet seen, Pikmin 4 sees the series finally in full bloom. ![]() Or perhaps it's the series' gentle gameplay, exploring the world as miniature aliens while flinging hordes of colourful plant creatures around to recover trinkets or defeat enemies, that's never quite clicked with players. Maybe it was poor timing – Pikmin and Pikmin 2 released on the underappreciated GameCube, Pikmin 3 on the doomed Wii U – that led to it being overlooked. Even more recent series, such as Splatoon, have more deeply rooted themselves in the Japanese publisher's roster than this quirky series of quasi-strategy games, despite it being the brainchild of legendary Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. ![]() (There's a small chance this leak is incomplete, but that seems unlikely.) It should be noted that dataminers have deliberately kept the final boss a secret, so if that ends up being a returning enemy somehow, it obviously won't be on this list.Pikmin, as a franchise, is over twenty years old at this point, but it's never quite attained the level of acclaim that many of Nintendo's other first party properties have. With it, we now know which enemies, new and old, will be in the game and which enemies from previous games didn't make the cut. With the recent release of the Pikmin 4 demo, the game's entire Piklopedia has leaked (presumably).
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