Pikmin Adventure

Pikmin Adventure

A mechanical Bulborb boss in Nintendo Land.

Pikmin Adventure is a minigame featured in the upcoming Wii U launch title, Nintendo Land. As its name suggests, it is the Pikmin-themed minigame of the 12 Nintendo franchise-based minigames playable in Nintendo Land.

Unlike the normal Pikmin franchise, Pikmin Adventure is a fast-paced, action packed experience, as opposed to the RTS-styled puzzle solving nature of the normal franchise.

Pikmin adventure will also involve a versus mode along with the cooperative mode that we seen so far. There will be more info revealed on a later date.

A new level not on the bottom left theres a symbol which displays a new power up along with the hammer power up

Gameplay

File:Nintendo Land Pikmin Adventure Developer Commentary

nintendoland pikmin adventures gameplay

Pikmin Adventure is played with 1-5 players. One player controls their Mii dressed in Olimar's spacesuit, and use the Wii U gamepad, while up to four others use the wii remote to play as Miis dressed as assorted, larger Pikmin.. Olimar also has a group of smaller Pikmin he controls, and are differentiated from the player-controlled Pikmin by their smaller size. In addition, the player controlling Olimar has the option of using his whistle to call every Pikmin to him, including those controlled by other players.

Objective

In this minigame, the gameplay is similar to the caves featured throughout Pikmin 2; The players must all get to The Ship at the end of each course while avoiding mechanized enemies from the Pikmin franchise, such as Bulborbs.

Players are ocassionally rewarded nectar for defeating enemies, which gives them points and a temporary power and speed boost. On certain courses, one of the Nintendo Land hosts will drop in a boss creature for the players to fight. The players must attack enemies on their weak spots to inflict porper damage, similar to how fighting will become in Pikmin 3.