Pikmin 4

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8.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 613 Ratings

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  1. aniball92
    Aug 22, 2023
    0
    Es un juego increíble una maravilla técnica, innovadora, jugabilidad perfecta para un dandori que ademas es en tiempo real y te ayuda a mejorar la mente y a pensar de forma creativa.Dandori es una técnica japonesa que ayuda a la gente a organizarse mejor. Hasta ahora, no era tan conocida, sin embargo, con la llegada del videojuego Pikmin. El Dandori es planear las cosas con antelación yEs un juego increíble una maravilla técnica, innovadora, jugabilidad perfecta para un dandori que ademas es en tiempo real y te ayuda a mejorar la mente y a pensar de forma creativa.Dandori es una técnica japonesa que ayuda a la gente a organizarse mejor. Hasta ahora, no era tan conocida, sin embargo, con la llegada del videojuego Pikmin. El Dandori es planear las cosas con antelación y actuar eficientemente. Tal vez el significado de Dandori no descubre conceptos que sean extraños para todo el mundo: planear, ejecutar y ser más eficiente.Sin embargo, parece que no lo entendemos con la profundidad que se merece, y desde el punto de vista de la cultura japonesa, adquiere otra dimensión. Como lo definen los japoneses Dandori es un concepto que abarca tres palabras. Para Miyamoto, cada entrega de Pikmin es una nueva oportunidad para aprender a manejar el Dandori. Para Yuji Kando, diseñador general y diseñador de niveles de Pikmin 4, la base de los juegos de Pikmin es el Dandori, que es el elemento que enseña a los jugadores a hacerlo mejor con cada intento.… Expand
  2. twinkytwonk
    Jul 30, 2023
    3
    This, for me, is the Etsy pikmin I've even played and probably the worst Nintendo game too. Nintendo have made some of the best games ever and all represented a challenge. In contrast, this game is so simple that even a 5 year old could probably finish it without losing a life. The only thing they'll struggle with is reading the pages of forgettable text which, as if there game wasn't easyThis, for me, is the Etsy pikmin I've even played and probably the worst Nintendo game too. Nintendo have made some of the best games ever and all represented a challenge. In contrast, this game is so simple that even a 5 year old could probably finish it without losing a life. The only thing they'll struggle with is reading the pages of forgettable text which, as if there game wasn't easy enough, explain everything. Thereby removing and discovery. There is also some sort of story but it's mind numbing. In fact, this is the first time I've ever feel asleep whilst playing a game!

    A truly monotonous borefest.    … Expand
  3. Ilovepikimin
    Aug 2, 2023
    0
    Very repetitive contente i love pikmin but take it an 0 this time srry:( pikimin 3 better
  4. Irvindavid
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gráficos muy malos y aburrido los FPS van muy mal
    Esperemos en la nueva consola de nintendo arreglen el rendimiento de juegos anteriores    … Expand
  5. phansfem
    Jul 25, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. one of my most anticipated games of all time as a diehard pikmin fangirl! ...oh no.

    I was bored for a lot of this nearly 30-40 hour game, this game is long, and yes, i beat the entire thing, did all the louie stuff, beatthe final boss, got all 8 of the onions, got all the castaways, the treasures, olimar's shipwreck tale, all of it.

    So positives: Very charming and very pretty game! Very beginner friendly too (at the beginning anyway) and definitely nintendo's second attempt to not alienate non rts players like they did with pikmin 2. The characters are still funny sometimes and I loooove Louie shenanigans, his antics really succeeded in making the later half interesting, especially after i had to grind purples by playing the sage leaf stuff just to get the golden bar treasure (one of the worst gaming experiences of my life to be honest). i love oatchi as a character too he's very cute and so are the pikmin! Strangely enough, the CAVES managed to be the most fun part of the game for me, which was astounding considering pikmin 2 made me never want to think about them again. The bosses are AWESOME too! The final boss had like one really stupid phase but other than that they're all cool fan service or groovy long legs (best part of the entire game) the puzzles were fine, dandori battles were fun to blow up all of louie's pikmin and win, the dandori challenges were fine too. Oh yeah! Don't think I'm not gonna point out how much smarter/convenient the pikmin AIs are, even if I think a lot of the new stuff like rewinding or the idlers alert and homesick signal is easy baby mode (until the ending bits), the tools and countless accessories you can get are very useful! the music is fine.

    okay so negatives: this game is long. in my opinion, way too long. I feel like the game is too big for its own good, both in playtime and size. Half of the time I'm spending sitting on this dog walking around these beautiful but pretty barren feeling areas. They're nothing like the small yet lively areas of the previous games. They're so boring to navigate through because they take forever and it also doesn't want to make me replay this game like ever again. i admittedly don't like how the night expeditions take up a day too, which means the total day count is going to be up in like the 40s, which is a new high for pikmin. at the very least the expeditions were entertaining enough (although way easier than they were made out to be). all in all, very unsatisfying for someone like me to want to optimize like I do 1 or 3, there's little incentive I could have for wanting to go fast to get my objectives, especially because the objective just doesn't get at me like 1 or 3's either. I don't care about wanting to know these castaways or my crew, there is simply too many damn characters for me to properly like any of them. I don't care to go faster or have any personal motivation like Olimar getting to see his family, Koppai's food crisis, or hell, even the debt had more personal motivation for me because those casts were tiny and easier to know them on a deeper level. Don't get me started on the leaflings, I straight up never want to hear the word "dandori" again. The only characters I could reasonably care about were oatchi, olimar, and louie and to a small extent shepherd, colin, and yonny (because they're the only rescue corps who actually feel like they have a presence on anything in the game) its also just not fun to finish from a gameplay standpoint too because playing with two different controlling captains is a cool idea but it felt like most of the areas were built around being able to jump, which the captain can't do, but oatchi can't use the charge ability which is useful on certain spots, so half the time it just felt more convenient to have the two together because everytime i'd try to split up it would just be inconvenient, both by clunkiness and also because there'd be SOME obstacle in the way i'd need the other captain for. Learning the area would be a good solution but guess what the areas are still stupid massive and learning all of that would be a giant headache. i hate the camera, it feels like its trying to focus more on the pretty landscapes than the gameplay i needed to look at. if you want to show off the pretty landscapes, give me pikmin 3's koppad camera, boom easy. i also hate the auto aiming stuff, trying to work with it has gotten my pikmin thrown into the void or made collecting something super annoying more often than not i much would've preferred what they did in pikmin 3. Maybe I just don't like open worldish games.

    okay im done now. pikmin did it again, made a new game with the same formula but a completely different play structure than the last installments, again! There's now a new pikmin game for a different selection of players, making selecting a definitive best even more impossible. This is still a good game as its hard to screw up pikmin, i just didn't like it as much...    … Expand
  6. iwishforducks
    Jul 23, 2023
    4
    I'm a huge Pikman fan. I played 1 and 2 on the Gamecube, 1 and 2 on the Wii, Pikmin 3 on the Wii U, and Pikmin 3 Deluxe on the Switch. This is easily the worst Pikmin game out of the series.

    1. The controls are overcomplicated and poorly implemented This game has a lot of buttons that you can press. I found myself fumbling the controls 10 hours into the game still. There's just too    I'm a huge Pikman fan. I played 1 and 2 on the Gamecube, 1 and 2 on the Wii, Pikmin 3 on the Wii U, and Pikmin 3 Deluxe on the Switch. This is easily the worst Pikmin game out of the series.

    1. The controls are overcomplicated and poorly implemented
    This game has a lot of buttons that you can press. I found myself fumbling the controls 10 hours into the game still. There's just too many buttons to remember, all of which are extremely contextual. The game stops you from throwing more than the minimum Pikmin required onto objects.

    2. The dog takes too much focus away
    There's a progression tree for the dog, and the dog can pretty much do everything the Pikmin can do. Pikmin latch onto the dog, which takes away the feeling of having a mass army trailing you. Some tasks REQUIRE the dog too.

    3. There is a really bad auto-lock on in this game. You can't turn it off.
    There's an auto-lock feature that causes your cursor to snap onto enemies and objects. It's really sticky and I couldn't get used to it. Some may find this helpful if they have trouble aiming in games, but it can be really hard to target the enemy you want with the auto-lock. The manual lock-on isn't great as it randomly decides to disengage.

    4. The game constantly backseats you
    The characters in this game never shut up. They will constantly backseat you. If you leave a Pikmin unplucked, they will remind you to pluck it every few minutes. If a single Pikmin catches fire, they will tell you to whistle it back. They state the obvious no matter how many hours you've been playing for.

    5. The tutorials drag out for forever
    Pikmin 1, 2, and 3 gave you access to Pikmin and the core "Pikmin" experience of growing your army fairly quickly after a minimum of 2 minutes. In this game, it takes about 30 minutes (if you don't skip the dialogue, about 10 minutes if you do) in order for you to get access to an Onion and grow your Pikmin. Even after this, the game constantly interrupts you for another hour with cutscenes telling you what each and everything does.

    6. The game tells you what Pikmin to use
    The game recommends what type of Pikmin you should bring. Every area in this game can be completed with the three recommended Pikmin. The dungeons in this game also tell you what Pikmin you should bring, and automatically sets your squad of Pikmin to those types. You can change it after the fact, but there's hardly any ever reason to change your Pikmin up. On top of this, there is a 3 Pikmin type limit that stops you from mixing up your squad in unique ways. There is no strategy or thought to what Pikmin you want to bring out.

    7. The writing in this game is atrocious, and the story is convoluted.
    All of the dialogue in this game is completely flat. It's not even memorable or laughable bad. It's just garbage text with no meaning constantly being spewed at the screen. All of the characters are one note. The story retcons the events of Pikmin 1 and so it desperately tries to make the stories of 2 and 3 make sense, but it fails to do that.

    8. The game is too long and has no replayability
    The entire game is progression based. Once I put this game down I got sick to my stomach at the thought of having to play the game again and do the progression mechanics all over again. The length of the game actively harms the good of it. To 100% the game's campaign, it takes about 20 hours. Speaking of which...

    9. There is no mission mode
    The campaign in this game is more or less the only way to play. You can play the Dandori Battles mode against your friend or against a CPU, but you have to unlock all the maps through the story. Get bent if you want to download this game and play against a friend. Gotta unlock it all first.

    10. The co-op in this game is not true co-op
    Player 2 is forced to throw pebbles and items. They don't get to play as a captain.

    11. Too many puzzles
    Half the caves in this game are puzzles. Not a whole lot of strategy, just puzzling. Some may enjoy this more, but I didn't.

    12. The music in this game is generic and forgettable
    The music in this game is... can I say this? Can I just say it's flat out garbage? Not a single one of the songs stuck with me. Almost all of it is generically whimsical. Any returning tracks are butchered beyond belief and don't fit in the game.

    13. You don't blast off into lower orbit
    This is a "returning fans" opinion, but one of the most memorable things about Pikmin was flat-out removed. You instead go off and land somewhere else on the planet. Doesn't ruin the game, but it's still worthwhile to mention, I think.

    Character limit stops me from talking about the positives, but the negatives end up outweighing the positives in the end. Pikmin 4 feels less like a strategy game and more like a puzzle adventure game. It feels like it wanted to be mainstream and streamlined too much and so all in all it was a fairly forgettable experience compared to the original trilogy.    … Expand
  7. bowsers2
    Jul 22, 2023
    4
    Pikmin 4 has probably the best over-world design in the series, but serious mistakes have been made.
    - It’s way Too easy.
    - The few Boses are embarrassingly 1 note, bad AI & a pushover. - Nighttime mode is a pointless add-on. - Caves design is worse than the over world. - Music is either copied or worse than the previous Pikmin games. - Full Item & command wheels is desperately    Pikmin 4 has probably the best over-world design in the series, but serious mistakes have been made.
    - It’s way Too easy.
    - The few Boses are embarrassingly 1 note, bad AI & a pushover.
    - Nighttime mode is a pointless add-on.
    - Caves design is worse than the over world.
    - Music is either copied or worse than the previous Pikmin games.
    - Full Item & command wheels is desperately needed. Instead of the unresponsive awkwardness Nintendo have implemented.
    - Most seriously, Like all of Nintendo’s games the AI is a simplistic joke. But you won’t ever hear Nintendo cultist complaining about that fact…..proving their cultism. I want better games. Cultism want worse games.
    And so many more issues.

    Nintendo still hasn’t made an overall good Pikmin game. That it takes over potentially over 5 Pikmin games to finally get the basics right across the board is a joke. I also blame N cultists for this situation.

    Still, the basic formula of a Simple tactical & task driven game, still has moderate pleasure to its fundamentals.    … Expand
  8. OnlyOneHere
    Jul 27, 2023
    2
    This game is complete garbage. The greedy developers are charging $60 for an indie quality game. The graphics are complete trash. The textures are pukeworthy. The animations are laughable. This whole art style stuff is just an excuse for developers to be cheap and lazy. When I pay $60 I expect top-notch AAA quality. That is exactly what this game lacks. The physics are beyond horrible. TheThis game is complete garbage. The greedy developers are charging $60 for an indie quality game. The graphics are complete trash. The textures are pukeworthy. The animations are laughable. This whole art style stuff is just an excuse for developers to be cheap and lazy. When I pay $60 I expect top-notch AAA quality. That is exactly what this game lacks. The physics are beyond horrible. The gameplay is boring and repetitive. The story is terrible with poorly written dialogue. The auto-lock is annoying. Boss fights are poorly designed.

    The local co-op campaign multiplayer is a complete joke and very limited. All the second player does is throw stuff. Are you freaking kidding me? This isn't a true co-op experience. Pikmin 3 Deluxe offers an actual co-op experience, so why can't they do it with this game? It just goes to show how greedy and lazy these developers have become. I recommend you pick this game up until it's $10. Although it's unlikely it'll ever drop that low, so I don't recommend this game at all.

    This game came with a free Pikmin steel water bottle at Walmart online. The only thing the developers got right, even if it has nothing to do with the actual game. Probably sold out by now, but the fact I got a Collector's Edition quality item at no extra cost is biblical. And no CDPR, your stupid stickers and "free DLC" is nothing to brag about. You want to be "consumer friendly"? Then give me something like this. Seeing how Sony games are a bunch of movies, they need to ship their games with good quality popcorn and a 2L soda at no extra cost. That's the least they could do after increasing the price to $70 for just half of the game. You do that Sony, I won't give you a zero guaranteed. If developers are going to release expensive garbage, at least be generous enough to give me decent physical items for free. Here's a 2 for the generosity, even if this game deserves a 0.    … Expand
  9. Dwindle5913
    Aug 19, 2023
    0
    As a giant fan of Pikmin 3, my partner and me were looking forward to Pikmin 4 for months. After finally playing the game it was a giant disappointment for us. The "coop" mode which was the most important feature for us was basically removed.
    Adding a stone throw mechanic so they can write "local coop" on the package just feels like getting cheated.
    In general a large step backwards    As a giant fan of Pikmin 3, my partner and me were looking forward to Pikmin 4 for months. After finally playing the game it was a giant disappointment for us. The "coop" mode which was the most important feature for us was basically removed.
    Adding a stone throw mechanic so they can write "local coop" on the package just feels like getting cheated.
    In general a large step backwards compared to Pikmin 3 Deluxe for all co-op fans :(    … Expand
  10. RunFish12B8
    Jul 25, 2023
    0
    The game cannot surprise me with amazing new graphics on the old platform, even though it is fun, but after a few hours I got bored, there are no new mechanics compared to the previous parts of the series, in a word, "outdated"!
  11. RealCSGaming
    Jul 25, 2023
    0
    This game is awful. It’s plain and it’s boring, nothing about this is interesting. All you do is guide your stupid creatures around and collect items. Occasionally fight an easy enemy and that’s it. The gameplay loop is so monotonous. I would never recommend this to anyone if I wanted to be nice.
  12. ZeldaFanboy
    Jul 25, 2023
    0
    Pikmin 4 is one of the most overrated games currently. I would not peg it as one of the best not even one bit unfortunately.

    I would say it is too easy, too simple, and too childish.
  13. alejete
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    Very easy. Like a baby game. Overrated. Im selling my videogame on marketplace.
  14. Kiryttho
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    Achei o jogo monótono e muito e puzzle bem bobinhos assim como a história. Não tem a mesmo impacto que muitos jogos da nintendo.
  15. Muztard
    Jul 24, 2023
    0
    I played the demo and it made me fall asleep, this series is not for me and that makes me sad :(
  16. RDonnell
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Nintendo releasing more crap at 30fps. This should of been a switch 2 60fps game. Too lazy to add a 60fps mode. Got headaches at 30fps? Too bad no game for you! They dont advertise 30fps strains and damages eyesight. If you want 60fps you got to google yuzu emulator.
  17. ffp
    Aug 19, 2023
    1
    In an attempt to make Pikmin 4 a good entry title for people who might experience this franchise for the first time, Nintendo forgot that there are fans following the series since the first title.
    This game feels like on training wheels 80% of the time, and you cannot disable baby mode in this one.
    Almost like miyamoto saw kids trying to play pikmin 2 and thought: "we might have to make    In an attempt to make Pikmin 4 a good entry title for people who might experience this franchise for the first time, Nintendo forgot that there are fans following the series since the first title.
    This game feels like on training wheels 80% of the time, and you cannot disable baby mode in this one.
    Almost like miyamoto saw kids trying to play pikmin 2 and thought: "we might have to make this babyproof".

    Pikmin limit in the overworld, pikmin type limit, pikmin task limit (the game stops you from putting more pikmins that needed for a task with an auto stop feature that annoys the dandori experience a lot)

    Tutorials are neverending, the corps never shut the f up. Oatchi is getting hurt, pluck your pikmins, gather pikmin. Annoying af

    The auto lock is a good addition for newcomers but you cannot for the sake of whatever miyamoto smoked, you cannot toggle off any of this babymode features.

    I agree that a game should be made and tailored for newcomers and old fans, but give the people who make your game successful a chance to experience this without babymode activated.    … Expand
  18. whyyyyyyy
    Sep 5, 2023
    0
    Literally God tier game. I absolutely love it. thank goodness this game did as well as it did so more people know about pikmin.
  19. Manquele
    Sep 11, 2023
    0
    Hola, vengo a darle un 0, porque mi amigo dice que es mejor que FF16, un saludo que siga esta pagina tan buena como siempre

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Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 119 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 113 out of 119
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 119
  3. Negative: 0 out of 119
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 22, 2024
    100
    It's a thrilling ride. You go for one short game and wake up after five hours, only to return to playing immediately because you've figured out how to beat your opponent. The graphics may be simple, but they make up for it with the colour and thoughtfulness of the environments, and one genuinely enjoys exploring every nook and cranny. This is really worth it. [Issue#329]
  2. Starbit
    Nov 10, 2023
    90
    Pikmin 4 marks the return of one of Nintendo's most beloved series, and this return could not have happened in a better way. Thanks to its exquisite audiovisual world, slick gameplay mechanics, an enveloping strategic component, and the adorable relationship between the player and the little alien creatures, Pikmin 4 is nothing short of a jewel on the crown of the Nintendo Switch.
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  3. Gamereactor Finland
    Nov 9, 2023
    70
    Too childish, and too little new compared to previous games.
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