Pikmin 4 Has Been a Long Time Coming
Pikmin 4 has finally been formally announced. Coming part-way through the September 2022 Nintendo Direct, series creator Shigeru Miyamoto revealed preview footage and screenshots for the upcoming game. Sporting a new camera angle set at the player’s back to emphasize the giant scale of the Pikmin planet, Pikmin 4 now has a 2023 release window. Not much is known yet, but Pikmin fans everywhere were overjoyed to see a true continuation of the franchise.
This has been a long time coming, with Pikmin 3 having been released in 2013. Pikmin 4 was actually announced in 2015, but nothing came of it until now. Fans were puzzled by this premature announcement, especially because Miyamoto claimed the game was “close to completion.” It's not clear if this was referring to the 2017 spin-off Hey! Pikmin on 3DS, but it is a quote that has haunted fans for many years. At long last, the Pikmin franchise is moving forward, and players are eager to see what becomes of the Pikmin world in its newest chapter.
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The first Pikmin game came out near the North American launch of the GameCube in late 2001, and the second arrived in 2004. The puzzle-oriented treasure hunting and real-time army management sim surprised a lot of Nintendo fans who were initially drawn in by Pikmin's beautiful world and cute characters. What little writing there was proved to be surprisingly clever and authoritative, with Olimar possessing a unique voice among Nintendo's mascots. Pikmin 2 polished a lot of systems, and introduced a second character for multitasking and multiplayer. While the series stalled as both games received New Play Control! releases on the Wii, a third game was not in particularly
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