THE GOOD:1. Amazing Graphics
2. New and Improved Monsters
3. Can explore the worlds of being in underground caverns.
4. There's boss's at the bottom of almost every cavern.
5. No longer are you looking for SpaceShip parts, but objects that can be sold for pokos.
6. Olimar no longer will be alone on his trip, his fellow co-worker Louie will be with him.
7. Two new colors and species of Pikmin, Purple and White.
8. Storyline is great!
THE BAD:
1. There aren't any green or orange species of Pikmin.
2. It went a little over-board on how hard the monsters have become.
3. Pikmin 2 is way challenging, it takes long hours of determination to beat.
4. The newest Species should have there own mother-ship.
SUMMARY:
Captian Olimar has returned to the gaming franchise to start his next adventure with the Pikmin by his side. Pikmin 2 was released in North America on August 30th 2004. It would become not only the newest in the Pikmin series but also the best game of it's time. Ok maybe not the best game, but to me it truly was. The graphics, storyline, monsters, and the pikmin were amazing, they made me love the new game even more.
Pikmin 2 starts out with Captian Olimars return to his home planet, Hocatate, to find that his Spaceship deliver business has gone bank-rupt. His boss, sold the last thing that had even a bit of value to it, Olimar's newly repaired spaceship, the Dolphin. Captian Olimar now had to part from his beloved Dolphin and maybe from his job. He had brought back with him a souvenir for his child but on mistake it was monitored by the company's last space ship and to there surprise was worth more then a year's salary for any of them. The boss demanded that Olimar travel back to this planet to find more of these very valuable objects and hopefully pay off the company's dept. But he wouldn't be traveling alone this time, Louie his co-worker would be coming with him.
After you've finished the cut-scene that starts off the Pikmin 2 game, you can begin playing. For me the graphics were similar to the first Pikmin game except they were a bit improved. I loved marching around the four worlds with my pikmin, fighting off monsters, and collecting money objects. The graphics really made the game that much more enjoyable! The underground cavern's game play graphics also made Pikmin 2 even better.
Each of the new worlds on Pikmin 2 have at least one underground cavern. These caverns not only allowed time to stop, the ticking sunset no longer mattered, but they also held inside them many valuable objects and creepy monsters. The further you traveled down in a cavern the more the monsters looked scarier and harder. At the very bottom of each cavern is a extremely hard monster or boss I call it, so to actually complete that cavern the boss is needed to be destroyed. After destroying a boss, a reward is given, it could ether be another valuable object, a mini game, or just something to improve your game status. So make sure when your playing around on the worlds with your Pikmin, that you travel below to these un-chartered areas. Not only will you be excited but your adrenaline will flow!
Another feature of Pikmin 2 that really stood out and made the game even greater to me was the monsters. The regular roaming monsters and boss's in each world or cavern were great, so many of them looked so different and very detailed. They made Pikmin 2 look so much better then the first game, even though the monsters were quite challenging, they were also just fun to fight against. After playing for hours I soon figured out that most of the monsters had some type of difference to them, and that if you discovered it there was always a certain way they could be defeated without even losing any pikmin in the process.
One of newest features that basically helped make the game seem even more improved and new was that there were two new types of pikmin. One being a purple species with an all new type of power that allowed them to lift objects of great weight. The other being a white species with also a new type of power that allowed them to be unaffected by poison and to dig for objects that were unseen, in the ground. Even though they seem to have only a few new types of powers, these pikmins are probably the best types of pikmin you could have. But the only thing that isn't so great about them is they don't have their own mother-ship because they're so small in numbers, almost being extinct. Also, the only way you can actually get these new types of pikmin is to throw some of your original pikmin into a white or purple flower, that are only found in the underground caverns. So make sure to never skip these flowers, because if you do, you may just be missing out on these wonderful creatures!
The main point of the game is to pay-back your company's dept, so that they truly won't go under, leaving the employees without a job. The very valuable objects that Olimar and Louie have been sent out to find are scattered all around the many worlds on this new part of the pikmin planet. They could ether be hidden in the ground, perched high up on trees, scattered throughout the underground caverns, or just in many random places in each world. So travel out with your pikmin and Louie by your side in hopes of finding enough objects to pay back the company's dept. Will you indeed make it, or will the company really fall apart leaving Olimar and Louie without a job?
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