The hints are clear and to the point so should only be used if you’re really in a pinch, because they’re certainly not cryptic. When active, a press of the D-Pad offers helpful advice for areas you’ve yet to explore or puzzles you’ve yet to overcome. There’s now a hint system that can be toggled on or off. Newcomers can opt for the standard difficulty, whereas series veterans can opt for the harder mode, even unlocking a third difficulty should you master that.Īdding to that feeling of accessibility are some options and tweaks to again manage how you want to play Pikmin 3 Deluxe. But Nintendo has thought of this too with added difficulty settings for you to choose should you need more of a challenge. Being able to strategise verbally with someone in the same room and control characters independently is much more efficient both for exploration and tackling enemies and bosses. To counter that point, there’s an argument that this coop play makes Pikmin 3 Deluxe too easy, and that’s a fair comment. This eases the pressure of ensuring you find enough Pikmin and fruit to sustain your exploration from one day to the next. You’ll find yourself nabbing more fruit and making progress quicker than you would solo. Helping each other out by chucking the required Pikmin over a gap to where your partner is beavering away at a separate goal is very rewarding. Whereas before you’d be ordering your crew around to complete certain tasks, you can now divide and conquer organically and that feels great. What this does do right off the bat is introduce a teamwork mechanic to proceedings. The co-op is seamless in the story too, as even if there is only one playable character for story reasons, then you each control a separate version of them, meaning no one is left on the sidelines. My wife and I were free to go about our business as we pleased, splitting the Pikmin between us to do our bidding. The screen is split vertically, with each of you controlling your own camera. And from what I’ve played so far it works very well in practice. This means you and a friend can team up and take on the main story and many of the other modes together for the first time. The biggest change for Pikmin 3 Deluxe is the introduction of cooperative play locally. But it’s when you dig a little deeper into Nintendo’s wondrous garden world you realise there’s much more on offer here to enjoy, and different ways to enjoy it too. Meaning this time around you’re getting the Mission Modes rolled into one for your money. Pikmin 3 Deluxe is doing, on the surface at least, what most re-releases do on future consoles, by bundling together the main game with the DLC that came later. And now with Pikmin 3 Deluxe arriving on Nintendo Switch, there’s an opportunity for more people to dive into the latest quirky adventure, in more ways than one. It’s such a quaint story, and befitting of the man and indeed the company as a whole. It is fitting that the origins of Pikmin come from creator Shigeru Miyamoto watching some ants in his garden and wondering about the fun gaming possibilities. There’s just something about Nintendo isn’t there? Despite the world around them seemingly falling apart, they stay steadfast in their joyful passions.
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