Pikmin 3 is a game developed by Monolith Soft and is an exclusive to Nintendo and the WiiU. Pikmin 3 is the third instalment of the real-time strategy based series 'Pikmin' following Pikmin 2 which released in 2004 for the GameCube to be later ported to the Wii.
The game is finally everything it aspired to be, with the wonderful motion controls the WiiU enables Pikmin 3 to use, it allows for a much smoother and realistic experience allowing you to take in all the wonderful HD graphics the game has. The game itself is by far the best WiiU game to date, which considering how much of a niche market the Pikmin series has, it is actually quite a big achievement, however there really isn't anything that it competes with right now it also isn't that much of a hurdle crossed.
You'll enter the world of Pikmin much like any other Pikmin game, the spaceship you are travelling on is going to crash into a "unknown" planet that seems abandoned and you will come across some strange but incredibly cute creatures known as Pikmin! This game is different however as you won't be controlling the well-known Ollimar... for some reason Monolith thought it would be a good idea to scrap the main character who is well known and a mascot for Pikmin in other Nintendo titles such as Super Smash Bros, and instead replace him with three likeable but incredibly forgetful characters. Perhaps I may just be bitter... but as a big fan of the franchise as a whole a phrase "don't fix what ain't broke" comes to mind. However there is something charming in this story and the ability to switch between the three characters and join up on where they are in the story is a nice touch and was a new concept until GTA5 did exactly the same idea and got called revolutionary for it... which somehow doesn't seem all that fair.
If you have played Pikmin before, not much has changed, you still play a heavily based strategy-adventure game where your mission is to collect various different spaceship parts and find out what happened to your friends. There is never too much bulk of mind numbing story in these games and it works that they don't include that. With a strategy game you want to be able to get straight into it. A nice touch to the this game is that instead of treating like you played Pikmin 1 religiously and throwing you into the deep end like Pikmin 2 did, they'll give you a very good playing tutorial to ensure you learn as you play which I found to be very comprehensive instead of blocks of unwanted text.
The graphics are visually beautiful and they have looked into every detail from shading to proportions. This coupled with the very fitting and peculiar OST Pikmin uses gives you the familiar Pikmin feel in an incredibly improved game.
Pikmin as a whole is a very single-player heavy game that requires focus, it isn't a game you'll be wanting to play around a bunch of people and once you complete the game there unfortunately isn't much else you can do, it hasn't got the same replay ability as fighters or huge online multiplayer games. But it has its charm and you'll remember it for a long time.
Pikmin 3 isn't going to be winning any award for revolutionary gameplay or incredibly immersive stories but it will definitely keep you captivated in its little world for hours. Everyone should give the game ago at least once because I'm sure everyone would enjoy it.
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