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Mario-creator Shigeru Miyamoto’s Pikmin always deserved a broader audience, but then that’s usually the case with quirky little genius games. I’m not sure the obstacle to wider adoption was accessibility, as Miyamoto intimated when I interviewed him last month, but he claims Pikmin 3‘s been rebuilt from the ground up to be easier for novices while retaining the depth you’d assume the series faithful are going to expect. Otherwise it’s still the same cute little real-time puzzler, where you lead a group of creatures (the eponymous Pikmin) through crazy-scapes, working your way around impediments and battling goofy, colorful creatures.
August 4
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