Pikmin (GameCube)
Bah! The very mention of it in my last posting has urged me to have a wee play. This is such a glorious game and – as my evening gaming is currently filled with Doom 3 and Republic Commando, Pikmin makes for some shiny kid-friendly fun. Currently, I’m at the end of Day 2 with 2 ship parts and 2 onions. I aim to get as many bits as possible in the first few days in the hope of giving myself a bit of breathing space.
Pikmin, as those who have spent the last three years in a cave will undoubtedly by unaware of, was one of the Cube’s launch titles and was, in fact, the game which compelled me to buy a cube in the first place. It’s very cute and very natural – the type of game in which Nintendo excel and prove their position as top game makers of the current generation – regardless of what the sales figures may say. Basically, onions get fed with blobs and produce seeds which hatch into pikmin of various types which you can shuttle about the place to do your dirty work. In the time it’d take me to explain it, you could nip down to the shops and buy it – it’s only 20 quid new and if you have a GameCube, you NEED it. If you don’t have a GameCube…. well, you have my pity.
