Tossing Pikmin is the majority of what you’ll be doing on the touch screen, and the controls work well. You can activate your Pikmin whistle to gather the little guys to Olimar, use a jetpack to float a short distance, and of course touch where you want to toss Pikmin in the level. The shoulder buttons will bring up a map that’s sometimes helpful, but all other gameplay happens with the touch screen. You directly control Captain Olimar by having him walk around with the D-pad or circle pad. In case you aren’t in a store or don’t have the box on hand, I’ll describe the gameplay quickly. Here, it shows players a kind of mini-tutorial of just how the game is played, so you know exactly what you’re getting into with Hey! Pikmin. I touched on this with a review of Miitopia, but as we were given boxed copies of these games I was able to check out the description on the back. What’s interesting is that you still play the game in a style similar to the console games in that the Pikmin will be tossed all over the place to solve puzzles and get items out of reach. The world is no longer a smattering of landing zones, but structured with more traditional levels which have a mostly linear flow. This game also mixes up the usual formula of gathering resources within a set amount of days by removing any deadline. Hey! Pikmin differs from previous games in the series and you can tell right away by the 2D perspective. In all seriousness, I’m a huge fan of the Pikmin games and was very excited to see what this 3DS game had in store, so let’s see how it turned out! Dolphin 2, it’s the Pikmin’s time to shine. Since he’ll need all the help he can get in refueling the S.S. Luckily Pikmin live here, and Captain Olimar is just as good with using them as he is at wrecking spaceships! Well this time it seems they only ran out of fuel, or Sparklium as the game refers to it. Well they didn’t, and so we’re on another unknown planet. Why does someone with this track record keep getting sent on missions if they always end in some calamity? Maybe they should send someone else? Of course, it seems like any time someone gives this guy the keys to a spaceship, he’s got to crash it in the middle of nowhere. Dolphin 2, going through space on another journey.
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