This is Nintendo's new series on 2001. But this is Nintendo's first game based on the real time genre. The game is called Pikmin, but the game is leeched by major flaws. You'll play the role of Captain Olimar, a spaceman who crash-landed in an unknown planet. He now has to find 30 parts in 30 days or else Olimar will never leave the planet. The planet is the home of walking plants called Pikmin, with leaves, blossoms and flowers on their heads. Olimar can use these Pikmin in order to get the parts for his rocket. Unfortunately, the game's flaws are that there is a time limit to get all 30 rocket parts in a 30-day month. If you fail to get the remaining parts, chances are that you will lose no matter what. But there is one way: All you have to do is to start a new game to fix the problem. And it even doesn't feel like a real time game. In most real time games, you control the bird's eye camera with your mouse or the analog stick. But in Pikmin, you control Captain Olimar instead. That flaw doesn't really matter for me, because I like to control characters in most games. But still, it doesn't feel like a real time game to me. I'll claim the title to Pikmin as "Most Average Game". If you want "realer" real time games, try out the ones on the PC. They will really feel like real time games before you can blink.
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