The team that created Pikmin 3 has done something wonderful. The game – a tale of diminutive aliens stranded on a distant planet – is filled with character. It has a lightness to its pace and never feels intimidating. And yet at its heart is a nuanced real-time strategy game.
This is a genre that generally offers elaborate battlefield simulators – stern creations, swathed in jargon, that are highly demanding of players. In sharp contrast, Pikmin 3 is a cheerful tale of befriending the titular local life forms, which can be controlled in groups to build, forage, fight and much else. And, as with an RTS, the player's task is to juggle priorities on the fly – appointing different Pikmin to various tasks across the playing area.
This third game in the series offers a wider range of distinctively talented Pikmin and tasks than its predecessors, and a trio of lead characters who allow for cunning puzzle solving. The controls can be a little erratic at times, but that does little to impair this glorious addition to the Wii U's game library.
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