While I have technically completed Pikmin before, I've never actually gotten all 30 parts, nor have I ever beaten it on the Wii before, so I'm not counting this as a repeat. The Wii version isn't the best way to play these games, but they're still really fun regardless. I imagine it's a LOT harder to do a deathless run on the Wii version though (mostly because you can't direct the troop's direction and the way you wanna throw them in different directions (the L-analog stick and the C-stick are both bound to your pointer)). It took me 17 days to beat it, and one of those days was literally carrying the piggy bank another couple inches to the rocket because I just baaaarely couldn't do The Final Trial all in one day.
It's been longer than I thought since I last played Pikmin, because I honestly didn't remember it being so short! I beat it in just 4 or 5 hours, as each day is like 15 minutes. I think I'm getting a little better at the multitasking parts of the game. I would let half of the troop start building a bridge or knocking down a wall while I let the other half come with me to fight some stuff or whatnot (and usually die horribly to bulbears). Commenting a bit more on the Wii port, it's pretty good. There was only one time where I noticed any significant dip in framerate. It also seems like the Pikmin don't group up together nearly as much as they do when you used the C-stick on the Gamecube version, but maybe that's just me remembering 2 more than 1. The one good thing about the Wii port that you literally can't do in the Gamecube one is call Pikmin from veeeery far away, since you can only throw Pikmin so far, but you can whistle to them from anywhere you can reach the pointer with, so that's nice. Verdict: Recommended. I'd still recommend the Gamecube version over this purely for ease-of-control reasons, but it's still a fun, short game. It's a nice stepping stone to the better 2 and 3, which feel more like fully fleshed out games than this, in retrospect.
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