The campaign never requires much in the way of multi-tasking, but in one of the early levels in this epilogue, I have to literally toss a fellow captain off a bridge and set them to work collecting blue Pikmin for a water expedition while at the same time sending red Pikmin to attack a horde of ladybug monsters on top of the bridge. This means that I really have to make every second count to make sure that I can complete the level’s goals before the timer runs out. But in Olimar’s Comeback, that same cell phone journey would wipe away a large chunk of my limited time. In the campaign I can spend an entire day trying to lug a massive cell phone back to my base. These levels aren’t very long, mostly taking around 10 to 12 minutes, but in that short span there’s a lot that can go wrong. Faster times will award medals and badges, but if you happen to run out of time on a single level, you’ll have to start it all over again.
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Unlike the main game, which lets you go at your own pace over a series of days and weeks, Olimar’s Comeback features individual levels, each with their own time limit.
Olimar’s Comeback tells the tale of Captain Olimar returning to the planet to repair his misbegotten spaceship, the S.S. This overconfidence carried me through the campaign of Pikmin 3 Deluxe and directly into the meat grinder that is Olimar’s Comeback, a newly-added series of epilogue levels. Mid-way through the game’s 10-hour campaign, I found myself with so much fruit that I could literally sit on my ass for two weeks straight and not even get a tummy rumble. Pikmin 3 appears to return to the tense, watch-the-clock nature of the first game - requiring that you collect food to stay alive - but thanks to generous helpings of giant fruit in all the levels, it’s easy to build up an enormous padding of safety. It was a far chiller experience than the first game, and much more in-line with what the adorable plant people would want. Pikmin 2 took things in a different direction, removing the air supply time limit, thus letting you cruise around the world at your own leisure. This suddenly turns every colorful day on this planet into a gut-wrenching race for survival. But then you realize that the hero, Captain Olimar, is quickly running out of breathable air and must repair his spaceship before suffocating horribly.
The first game, released on the Gamecube in 2001, looks like a childrens’ title a cutesy adventure with plant beings carrying giant fruit. The Pikmin series has gone through a number of changes over the years.
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And while most of these games made the transition to Switch without many new features, Pikmin 3 Deluxe does offer some significant additions, including split-screen co-op in the campaign and a series of prologue levels that set the stage for the adventure ahead.īut the standout new feature in Deluxe is the newly-added epilogue, Olimar’s Comeback, which takes the slow-and-steady pace of Pikmin 3 and pumps it full of adorable crystal meth. Pikmin 3 Deluxe’s arrival on Nintendo Switch is yet another example of a Wii U game being saved from obscurity with a revival on a far more popular platform (see also: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Captain Toad’s Treasure Tracker, and Bayonetta 2).
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