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Nintendo Switch Pikmin 4 Game

Nintendo Switch: Pikmin 4 Game

Release date: July 21, 2023
No. of players: Single System (1-2)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Strategy
Publisher: Nintendo
ESRB rating: Everyone 10+
Supported play modes: TV mode, Tabletop mode, Handheld mode
Game file size: 10.5 GB
Supported languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Information:

Pikmin 4 is a real-time strategy video game developed by Nintendo EPD and published by Nintendo. It is the fourth main installment of the Pikmin series, following Pikmin 3, and the sixth installment overall. It was released on the Nintendo Switch on July 21, 2023.

Following the events of Pikmin 3, Captain Olimar returns to PNF-404, an Earth-like planet he has visited before, with his old ship the SS Dolphin. A freak accident causes his ship to crash land, whereupon he is forced to recruit Pikmin once again to help him find the ship’s missing parts. During his search, Olimar bonds with a dog-like creature that he names Moss. After finding his ship’s missing radio in the interior of a large house, Olimar transmits an SOS call, along with his voyage logs, but disappears after continuing his search for the missing parts.

The Rescue Corps, an intergalactic rescue organization, receives the emergency call and sends a team to PNF-404 led by Captain Sheperd, to find and rescue Olimar. However, the ship malfunctions when it reaches the planet, forcing the crew to eject from it before it crash lands on the surface. Concerned for their safety, the Rescue Corps assigns its newest recruit, the player character, to find the missing Rescue Corps members and to help them complete the mission.

Reaching the planet, the recruit encounters Shepherd’s rescue pup, a dog-like creature called Oatchi, which bonds with them. Rescuing Shepherd and the team’s communication officer Collin, the recruit finds that the Rescue Corps ship has run out of power. Through the help of Pikmin near the ship’s crash site, the recruit recovers several objects found to contain a resource known as Sparklium, which can help refuel the ship.

The recruit, accompanied by the Pikmin and Oatchi, begins exploring the area to find the other Rescue Corps members, along the way discover that a number of treasure hunters and explorers have come to the planet after picking up Olimar’s signal, where they became castaways themselves in the process. Shepherd instructs the recruit to locate and rescue castaways, along with their primary objectives.

During further exploration, the Rescue Corps come across a mysterious figure, accompanied by Moss, exhibiting an unknown condition that has left them hairy and spouting a leaf from their head; alongside the ability to breathe oxygen which is poisonous to those stuck on the planet. Finding a number of castaways have become infected with the same condition thanks to the unknown stranger, the Rescue Corps chief medic Yanny, after being rescued, works to produce a cure.

In the meantime, the Rescue Corps come across the Dolphin, finding it was repaired but crashed after taking off. The group soon realizes the mysterious figure is Olimar, who somehow became infected for unknown reasons. Through Tanny’s cure for the condition, the recruit treats the infected, curing their condition. After battling Olimar, the recruit successfully cures him, bringing him back to normal.

With their mission complete, the Rescue Corps attempt to leave PNF-404, only for Shepherd to discover that Oatchi had come down with an unknown illness that makes it impossible to leave the planet. When Yanny finds his cure doesn’t work on the pup, Olimar advises the group to return to the planet’s surface, revealing Moss has the same condition. On the surface, the Rescue Corps work to find ingredients for a new cure, while searching for more castaways, one of whom Shepherd and Collins find to be a vetinarian.

Exploration soon turns up a giant dog, similar in species to Oatchi and Moss, which Yanny thinks can provide a key ingredient. Searching for it, the recruit finds it hiding in a cave where Olimar’s partner, Louie, had been hiding after coming to the planet to search for food. Forced to defeat him and the dog, the recruit recovers both his and the dog’s collars, providing the final ingredient for curing Oatchi.

Discovering Moss cannot be cured, Olimar determines his dog was born on the planet and decides to leave it behind with the Pikmin. The Rescue Corps agree and depart with the others, while Olimar leaves with the Dolphin, as Moss goes exploring with the Pikmin, pursued eagerly by the large dog which has now become tame.