Game Information
Game Title: Pikmin 4
Platforms:
- Nintendo Switch (Jul 21, 2023)
Trailers:
- Pikmin 4 — Your First Expedition with Pikmin — Nintendo Switch
- Pikmin 4 – Pik How You Play – Nintendo Switch
- Pikmin 4 – Discover What’s Possible with Pikmin – Nintendo Switch
Developer: Nintendo
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 88 average - 100% recommended - 40 reviews
Critic Reviews
Atomix - Alberto Desfassiaux - Spanish - 96 / 100
CGMagazine - Steven Green - 8.5 / 10
Checkpoint Gaming - Elliot Attard - 7.5 / 10
ComicBook.com - Logan Moore - 4 / 5
Console Creatures - Bobby Pashalidis - Recommended
Daily Mirror - Scott McCrae - 5 / 5
Daily Star - Tom Hutchison - 5 / 5
Destructoid - Chris Carter - 9.5 / 10
Digital Trends - Giovanni Colantonio - 4 / 5
Digitally Downloaded - Matt Sainsbury - 4 / 5
Enternity.gr - Nikitas Kavouklis - Greek - 8.5 / 10
Eurogamer - Tom Phillips - 5 / 5
GAMES.CH - Benjamin Braun - German - 89%
Game Informer - Kyle Hilliard - 9 / 10
GamePro - Dennis Michel - German - 83 / 100
GameSpot - Steve Watts - 7 / 10
GamesHub - Edmond Tran - 4 / 5
GamesRadar+ - Sam Loveridge - 4.5 / 5
Geeks & Com - Anthony Gravel - French - 9 / 10
Glitched Africa - Marco Cocomello - 9 / 10
God is a Geek - Adam Cook - 9.5 / 10
IGN - Jada Griffin - 9 / 10
IGN Spain - David Oña - Spanish - 9 / 10
LevelUp - Pedro Pérez Cesari - Spanish - 8.5 / 10
Metro GameCentral - GameCentral - 8 / 10
Nintendo Life - PJ O'Reilly - 9 / 10
PCMag - Jordan Minor - 4.5 / 5
Polygon - Emily Price - Unscored
Post Arcade (National Post) - Chad Sapieha - 8 / 10
Press Start - James Mitchell - 8.5 / 10
SECTOR.sk - Michal Korec - Slovak - 9 / 10
Siliconera - Jenni Lada - 10 / 10
Spaziogames - Gianluca Arena - Italian - 9 / 10
Stevivor - Matt Gosper - 9 / 10
TrustedReviews - Gemma Ryles - 4.5 / 5
VGC - Andy Robinson - 4 / 5
Wccftech - Nathan Birch - 9 / 10
We Got This Covered - Shaan Joshi - 4.5 / 5
WellPlayed - Mark Isaacson - 9 / 10
Just curious, how did people here feel about Pikmin 2? Because this has the return of Pikmin 2 dungeons, and to be perfectly blunt, those dungeons ruined that entire game. Pikmin 3 was far better for the omission of those dungeons. Yet Pikmin 2 still had over 90 on metacritic, so outside of myself and my friend circle, maybe it didn't bother as many people as I thought.
Pikmin 2 is my favorite game in the series so I am a little bias, but I can still admit that the dungeons were poorly executed. Just from playing the demo though, the dungeons of Pikmin 4 feel much better balanced and less cramped. They also seem to not be randomly generated, which will probably make them feel less repetitive. Even exploring the inside of a house would count as a "dungeon" now but it is a very novel experience in Pikmin so I am all for it.