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Man the multiplayer is surprisingly detailed and hella fun. I played the first few campaign missions, but then got distracted playing multi with my roommate. I'll have to play more campaign today. The co-op and competitive modes are both a blast. Competitive is pretty wild and zany but it actually works pretty well, the bingo card is a fun gameplay mechanic to keep things random, and you can either just race each other to get things or you can try to steal each others' things, which usually resulted in us leaving each other alone until we only had 1 left to make bingo, and then we'd engage in a huge pikmin war for the final fruit until only a few were left standing. Good times. The only downside is that its a little bit confusing sometimes whose pikmin are whose, they get a weird blue/pink flower color which isn't all that different from the red/yellow/blue colors pikmin are already. They should have used like purple and orange, or green and brown or something like that to contrast more. Co-op lets you play any of the bosses from the campaign together, which is awesome, although it seems you don't just unlock them by beating them in co-op, but have to beat them in single already. You can also work together to compete challenge maps where you scramble to gather all the fruits in an area, ranked bronze, silver and gold based on your performance, with tons of levels to unlock if you get a medal. It was pretty fun and pretty challenging. I was never the best at multitasking in pikmin 2 using the 2 captains, so having 2 players each controlling 1 captain is a really great way to multitask. You can actually be doing seperate things at the same time, rather than just swapping between them. Although during boss fights it can be hectic and its easy to accidentally keep whistling and stealing your buddy's pikmin out from under him.
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Detective No. 27 posted:How are the multiplayer modes? If you go back 1 page I wrote up a big post about it. 
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njsykora posted:If a Pikmin is near to a thing they can do something to, they'll do things to it. Like if your Pikmin are carrying a thing back to base and they pass an idle pikmin, the idle one will run over to help. As for firing all your pikmin at one thing, if you lock onto an item (hold down LZ) and press B you'll send your entire squad at a thing. You can do this with just about everything. This really needs to be emphasized and screamed from the hilltops, as the game doesn't tell you about it afaik. Maybe a note that I haven't gotten mentions it, but unlike the dodge you don't need any upgrades to use it, you have it from the very beginning, but almost nobody notices until they're like halfway through. Needs to go in the OP, although people may not check it. Yeah, its funny, I found the second mission to be really, really challenging, and then the third was super easy.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:47
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Accursed Walrus posted:Actually, there are notes about locking on and charging. It's just that they aren't given to you as data files (they come with the KopPad), so unless you go to the controls section yourself and look at it, you wouldn't know. (It's Z to lock on and shake nunchuk to charge with Wiimote+Nunchuk) Yeah its super handy for fences or the mounds of golden nuggets. AHH the koppad comes WITH notes?! Yeah either they didn't mention that or everybody's too busy skipping the boring obvious stuff and then doesn't realize. The game should really demonstrate that ability to you once, its so amazingly useful.
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Aug 7, 2013 21:43
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Looks like there's several videos, GameExplain posted all of them on youtube if you're looking. I'm gonna wait till I get em.
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