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Why, Nintendo, why....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: May 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

...why did you have to ruin such a good thing? My hours spent with the original Pikmin, chilling to the ambient music and exploring the gorgeous environments, were some of the best hours of my life. But this...all I can say is, it COULD have been amazing.

The only "pro" here is all the little treasures you get to collect. Each one is completely unique, and although they're all stuff that us normal people would consider trash (like bottle caps and empty cans), they have new names that make them sound glorious and awe-inspiring. It's hilarious to see.

But are these funny items scattered throughout a new set of picture-book-pretty worlds to explore? NO! Instead, you get to experience the beautiful outdoor environments for a period of about four seconds before being forced into a long series of underground tunnels. Seriously, the entire game takes place in the tunnels! Each tunnel is nearly identical to the last, and it gets extremely boring. And if things could possibly get worse than that, there are no more logic-puzzles to solve. No, the only thing you do in these underground labyrinths is fight monsters! I didn't mind the fighting in the first game, since it not the whole focus, but here, it gets extremely repetitive, extremely fast. After a few hours' worth of tunnel-crawling, I felt ready to cry from boredom and sheer disappointment.

Words cannot describe the sadness this game caused me. When the first Pikmin released, I felt like I had been given a VIP pass to my own private wonderland. With this second entry, my trip to paradise got tied up in tunnels.

ANOTHER PIKMIN???

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 30
Date: June 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

BE PREPARED TO SPEND MOST OF YOUR TIME FALLING BEHIND SCHEDULE BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO BUSY LOSING PIKMIN AND PULLING NEW ONES FROM THE GROUND LIKE WEEDS AND GETTING DIZZY FROM WALKING IN CIRCLES AND FIGHTING REALLY ANNOYING BUGS. THIS GAME IS LIKE TRYING TO BABYSIT 100 KIDS AT ONCE WITH DIFFERENT COLORED SHIRTS WHILE YOU ARE TRYING TO SORT THEM OUT AND GIVE THEM JOBS.

Not bad, but I had hoped for more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: September 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Good points:
Most of the same good stuff from P1
No 30 day time limit
2nd captain character (speeds up gameplay)
Fun new bosses

Bad points:
Very few new puzzles. If you played P1, then you know about everything
Replenishing White/Purple Pikmin is annoying/boring
Too many "Stupid Little Baddies" - it gets boring
Dungeons get tedious

Suffers from sequelitis

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: May 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

How often do you see a sequel to a movie that tries to outdo the original? That's what happened here. The original Pikmin was a masterpiece. A unique game with peaceful play interrupted with violent outbursts. Pikmin 2 is just violent outbursts. Oh yeah they ruined my favorite part of the original game, challenge mode.

Not as Good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loved the first Pikmin game so much that I was extremely excited when I found out they would be making a sequel. After reading great reviews, I was even more excited. When I finally got the game I played for two days then stopped. The game was fun but very repetitive. The only thing that brought down this game was the caves. Level after level of the same basic thing - and that's pretty much all there is to the game. The main thing I loved about the first one was the large, open areas. Being inside the caves is restricting and at times difficult to see - mostly because of the camera angle restriction. It is a fun game, but it could have been much better.

PIKIMIN2 rullllles

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 65
Date: November 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I LOVE PIKMIN 1 EXCEPT THE FACT THAT IT HAD a time limit it was so awesome when a friend told me about this i was so excited i went to nintendo.com and it was amazing the purple pikmin holding heavy things and albin able to go in poisinous gas this my friends is unbelivable if were all your parents i would know this is the ultimate pikmin game (well at least for now) but but all i gotta say is get that treasure because the piont is get treasure because olimar's company has a 10,000 poko debt so you and your new assistant of friend (two player co-op) can kick some (bleeep)

A pretty fun rental but strictly a rental

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: October 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Back when the Gamecube was launched, a game called Pikmin was released around the same time. Many called it innovative and fun and original. I called it fun for the first hour. After awhile, everything felt the same. Flash forward couple years and we have the sequel. While it does improve many things over the original, it also keeps some of its flaws.

Story: What little story there is anyway. Captain Olimar from part I returns to his planet only to have his company 10,000 in debt. Your job, along with a companion Louie, is to go back to the Pikmin planet and get treasures which will net big bucks and pay off the debt. There's the one problem: in part I, it was parts to fix your ship. Now it's goodies to sell. Same premise in the end.

Graphics: I could call the game quite colorful. And also it's awesome to see 100 Pikmin on the screen. The levels are okay though. Each Pikmin has a unique look and ability and it translates well.

Sound/Music: The music can range from light-hearted to almost epic upbeat movie style. As for the voices, it's like Animal Crossing where it sounds like gibberish. The Pikmin still sound the same, singing a cute song when they're marching or doing a depressing death squeak.

Gameplay: Basically the same as Part I only with a new partner so you can do one thing while teammate does another without going back a long way. The other is 2 new Pikmin but here's the main ones:

Red: resistant to fire, this is your main Pikmin. By the time I found the other colors, I had about 400 of these ones.

Yellow: very light to throw and can destroy electrical gates.

Blue: can walk in water(the others drown).

Purple: new one and it's basically the sumo Pikmin. Very strong and can lift 10 times it's weight but is slow.

White: new one and looks like an albino alien. If they get eaten by an enemy they poison it and they can destroy gates which have toxic vents below them.

The one thing I don't like about the 2 new ones is that you have to go into a dungeon and throw some of yours into these flowers which will convert yours into one of the 2 new colors. The 3 main colors you can get 100 in a day just by getting tablets or killing monsters and transporting their bodies to your onion(that's where the Pikmin live). The 2 new ones on the other hand only give you about 3-4 each flower so it takes awhile to amass an army of them.

The bosses and some enemies can be equally frustrating. Some monsters can eat an entire group of your guys at once and when you're in a 7 level dungeon, it doesn't help that you can't regenerate any more or get reinforcements. If you do want reinforcements, you literally have to forfeit your treasure you've found and quit the level entirely.

Other than that, it really is an innovative game marred by incredibly cheap enemies and some unfairness in its mechanics but I'd suggest you rent this but you'll have fun while doing so.

Better than Pikmin 1!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: August 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Pikmin 2 is very fun and MUCH better than Pikmin 1.
In Pikmin 2 you do not have a time limit which makes the game much easier. Not to easy though, you have to beat tough bosses and some very hard bad guys all of which are cool and creative.
Pikmin 2 has a good two-player mode in which you can battle your friends (Battle Mode) OR work together with them (Challenge Mode)! You need to have collected The Key to play Challenge Mode. Battle Mode and Challenge Mode are great!
In Pikmin 2 you get two new kinds of Pikmin: purple and white along with all the originals (red, blue and yellow). There are four levels each full of caves, bosses, bad guys and treasures. This is a very good game and I suggest that you get it!

WOW!new Pikmin

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 30
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played Pikmin 1 and I'm saving up(i hope you to)for Pikmin2 the only thing that bothers me is when we have the timer in Pikmin 1.I heard Pikmin2 has more places and 2 new color pikmin.I can't wait to get Pikmin 2 so to continue the journey with Olimar's assistant and start picking more Pikmin.

THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 46
Date: May 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You may have played Pikmin 1, but now the sequel is coming.One of the cool things about pikmin 2 is that you get to play as a co-op(two people playin at once). There is a multiplayer part where you play against other people and you get to kill each other. There are also new pikmin!There are still the old ones too.
Red-Survives fire, normal pikmin
Yellow-Picks up bombs, thrown extra high
Blue-Survives in the water
White-Poisinos to bulborbs(the mushroom dog things)
Purple-It is fat, Stronger than other pikmin
If you buy this game, then prepare for new challenges and harder enemys. If you play this game, then your mind will go crazy, because this game if filled with puzzles.When this game is out,GET IT!

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