Mark Cerny is well respected as a console architect and also as a game developer and has said on a recent podcast episode that he had a transformative experience back in the day playing the original Pikmin game on the iconic GameCube. Cerney says that he’s a sucker for a good story in video games and Pikmin really drove that home with Captain Olimar’s plight to return home. Sadly he wasn’t quite as impressed with Pikmin 2’s story, but Olimar’s story really resonated with him at the time. Here’s what he had to say:
“I thought it was such an emotionally involving story,” he says. “Poor Captain Olimar, he crash lands and he’s got 30 days to reassemble his ship or he’ll run out of oxygen and die and he’s sending letters home every day. And for me that was just transformative.”
“I’m a sucker when it comes to story, right?” he explains. “But then for Pikmin 2, it’s totally different. So they’re on Earth, they’re running around picking up trash on Earth. That’s the storyline, if you recall. Literally, you’re running around somebody’s bathroom floor in Pikmin 2. And in one of those, you’re running from debt collectors, if I have that right.”
I do wish Nintendo had more of these, sorta simple premise stories with shorter campaigns these days. I think of Link’s Awakening, Majora’s Mask, or Pikmin. Sure, there’s plenty of side-stories within these games, but the premise is pretty simple, yet very compelling (everything is a dream; world ends in 3-days; return home before oxygen exhausts). Of course I like the big stories too, but yeah, some simple hooks would be cool
I got this feeling Pikmin is the next movie announcement. DK is the obvious choice but next on the list is Pikmin in my mind. Playing Pikmin 4 currently before Prime, my first pikmin. I think it would suit illumination studios well.
Les lecteurs de Famitsu ont du goût ! Entre le remake HD-2D de Dragon Quest 1 & 2 et le très attendu Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, les semaines à venir s’annoncent palpitantes pour les amateurs de JRPG. On a hâte de lire les premiers avis !
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