Game Information
Game Title: Pikmin 4
Platforms:
- Nintendo Switch (Jul 21, 2023)
Trailers:
- Pikmin 4 — Your First Expedition with Pikmin — Nintendo Switch
- Pikmin 4 – Pik How You Play – Nintendo Switch
- Pikmin 4 – Discover What’s Possible with Pikmin – Nintendo Switch
Developer: Nintendo
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 88 average - 100% recommended - 40 reviews
Critic Reviews
Atomix - Alberto Desfassiaux - Spanish - 96 / 100
CGMagazine - Steven Green - 8.5 / 10
Checkpoint Gaming - Elliot Attard - 7.5 / 10
ComicBook.com - Logan Moore - 4 / 5
Console Creatures - Bobby Pashalidis - Recommended
Daily Mirror - Scott McCrae - 5 / 5
Daily Star - Tom Hutchison - 5 / 5
Destructoid - Chris Carter - 9.5 / 10
Digital Trends - Giovanni Colantonio - 4 / 5
Digitally Downloaded - Matt Sainsbury - 4 / 5
Enternity.gr - Nikitas Kavouklis - Greek - 8.5 / 10
Eurogamer - Tom Phillips - 5 / 5
GAMES.CH - Benjamin Braun - German - 89%
Game Informer - Kyle Hilliard - 9 / 10
GamePro - Dennis Michel - German - 83 / 100
GameSpot - Steve Watts - 7 / 10
GamesHub - Edmond Tran - 4 / 5
GamesRadar+ - Sam Loveridge - 4.5 / 5
Geeks & Com - Anthony Gravel - French - 9 / 10
Glitched Africa - Marco Cocomello - 9 / 10
God is a Geek - Adam Cook - 9.5 / 10
IGN - Jada Griffin - 9 / 10
IGN Spain - David Oña - Spanish - 9 / 10
LevelUp - Pedro Pérez Cesari - Spanish - 8.5 / 10
Metro GameCentral - GameCentral - 8 / 10
Nintendo Life - PJ O'Reilly - 9 / 10
PCMag - Jordan Minor - 4.5 / 5
Polygon - Emily Price - Unscored
Post Arcade (National Post) - Chad Sapieha - 8 / 10
Press Start - James Mitchell - 8.5 / 10
SECTOR.sk - Michal Korec - Slovak - 9 / 10
Siliconera - Jenni Lada - 10 / 10
Spaziogames - Gianluca Arena - Italian - 9 / 10
Stevivor - Matt Gosper - 9 / 10
TrustedReviews - Gemma Ryles - 4.5 / 5
VGC - Andy Robinson - 4 / 5
Wccftech - Nathan Birch - 9 / 10
We Got This Covered - Shaan Joshi - 4.5 / 5
WellPlayed - Mark Isaacson - 9 / 10
Just curious, how did people here feel about Pikmin 2? Because this has the return of Pikmin 2 dungeons, and to be perfectly blunt, those dungeons ruined that entire game. Pikmin 3 was far better for the omission of those dungeons. Yet Pikmin 2 still had over 90 on metacritic, so outside of myself and my friend circle, maybe it didn't bother as many people as I thought.
I respect your opinion and appreciate that you have shared it here with us today.
That being said oof, what's not to love about Pikmin 2 dungeons. Turn off the clock and unplug the setting from reality a bit, sit down in front of a long line of floors full of enemies and treasures, big juicy boss fight at the end.
That is Pikmin to me.
Pikmin to me is planning how to get as many things as I can in the course of one in-game day, including growing more Pikmin. Instead the dungeons got rid of the time limits and the ability to shore up your forces after losses. Having to march further and further into repetitive floors of enemies full of insta-kills was not my idea of a good time.
I am not denying that the ability to plant more Pikmin with enemy bodies in caves would be pretty sick.