Hello Everyone!
Welcome to our first ever review mega thread! Without any further ado!
- Destructoid - Chris Carter: 9.5/10
- Dexerto - Daniel Megarry: 5/5
- Game Informer - Kyle Hilliard: 9/10
- Gamespot - Steve Watts: 7/10
- God is a Greek - Adam Cook: 9.5/10
- IGN - Jada Griffin: 9/10
- LevelUp - Pedro Pérez Cesari: 8.5/10
- Nintendo Insider - Ryan Janes: 9/10
- Nintendo Life - PJ O’Reilly: 9/10
- Polygon - Emily Price: No score.
- Siliconera - Jenni Lada: 10/10
- Twinfinite - Rebecca Stone: 4.5/5
- WCCFTech - Nathan Birth: 9/10
Aggregated:
- Metacritic: 88/100
- Opencritic: 88/100 with 100% recommended
The list is in alphabetical order.
A small disclaimer, I usually don’t look up much reviews, so don’t know much about which sites are good or not, just compiled a list of names that sounded familiar. If you want me to add a specific site or YouTube channel, please mention the name and link in the comments, I’ll add their review here, and in all the future review mega threads. Thanks!
Edit 1: Added Nintendo Life and Game informer to the list. Edit 2: Added Polygon.
From IGN’s review:
One of the most immediately noticeable differences between Pikmin 4 and its predecessors is that here there’s no limit to the number of days you have to finish the story like in the original, nor is there any threat of running out of supplies like in Pikmin 3, making it more of a casual rescue mission than a race against the clock.
YES
I loved this line from the IGN review (9/10):
but when I played Pikmin 4, my heart grew two sizes that day.
Can’t wait to play this one!
I felt drawn to collect all the treasure in Pikmin 4 not just because I wanted to fill out one of my many checklists, but because I wanted to see the game’s reinterpretations of human objects, a catalog full of jokes but also deep appreciation. And in this way, Pikmin 4 accomplishes maybe the best thing a piece of media can do — it makes the real world seem more wondrous than it did before.
Added Polygon to the list though, but they don’t score the reviews, right? Cause I couldn’t find it. Still added the link though.
No, they don’t score. I just like their content in general, usually the first site I go for reviews.
Would you recommend playing the first three Pikmin games first (now that they are available on the Switch) before diving into Pikmin 4?
Is there an overarching story between all the Pikmin games that I would miss by jumping straight into Pikmin 4?
The only real story continuation is characters. And there is about 0 character growth in the games so it doesn’t really matter. The story for all of them is, “land and or crash on weird earth, look pikmin, let’s use pikmin to carry stuff to the ship. Yay, we can leave now.” Play the demo and see if you need any more context.
There’s a light overarching story, but you don’t really need to play all 3 previous Pikmin games. I also think that only Pikmin 3 is available on Switch, not 1 & 2.
You can look up a brief synopsis of the storylines in the previous games, but the story is pretty simple in all of them.
For story, I don’t think you need to play any of the previous game, but if you like the series and want to experience it from the beginning, you can play all of them. In either case, I don’t think your enjoyment of Pikmin 4 will be effected by playing or not playing the older games.
Personally, I don’t think I would enjoy the older games after playing Pikmin 4 and I want to play all of them, so will start from the first one.
They are all really charming games. If you’re into cute things and some excellent humor, definitely play all of them. The first one is pretty grim actually and you need to move fast to finish the game without dying. The second one has some really tough caves, the third is just cute and has these great side missions that are worth the time. What I’ve been reading about the fourth episode it looks like it’s going to be the best of the bunch. They’ve been making the games better iteratively, and the idea is quite novel it’s worth to play them all if you like one of them.
I wish Miyamoto gets his success finally with the fourth episode, they are so adorable.
E haven’t played any Pikmin so far, but always wanted. I was waiting for P4 for a while, and now I try to decide if I will buy it or start from the first 3…
