An adventure in your backyard
Pikmin Takes place on a strange planet known to us as earth. Pikmin 2 is light hearted sequel to the first which vastly improves on alot of things. The first and most notable is the removal of the timer. No longer do you have only so many days to complete your quest allowing you more time to explore and simply mess around in the differant areas. Each overworld contains a series of dungeons containing many Quircky items such as the thirst quencher a 7-up bottlecap or a Dream Architecht Which is a game and watch and at the end of each dungeon is a boss which provides quite a challenge for even the most advanced player. each dungeon provides differant obsticles which requires you to take a mixture of differant colored pikmin to accomplish a task. For example one level of the cavern may consist of many fire based enemies so taking red pikmin with you is your best option and the next level may be water based making blue ones a requirement. There are 6 differant types of pikmin. Blue which can swim and fight most effectivly against water based enemies. Red ones which fight best in general and can walk through fire. Yellow which fly farthest when thrown and withstand electric attacks. Purple ones are stronger than regular pikmin and can lift heavier objects much easier but at the cost of being heavier and slower.White ones which can withstand poisen attacks, when eaten damage enemies and can find objects underground. And the last is actually a breed of pikmin that infect bulborbs which can withstand electicity,fire,water,and poisen. Now let me xplain the basic gameplay elements of pikmin. You play as Capt Olimar and his partner louie set to pay off the debt that the company Olimar works for owes. So you meet with your pikmin friends in there spaceship called an onion. Now the main point of the game is to kill enemies and collect pellets and take them to the onion which will create more pikmin for you to take on your journies. The story I suppose is as good as a story can get for a game of this type. But this isnt the type of game you play for story.
