While exploring a garden in Pikmin 4, I found a tube of something called “refreshing goo.” As I instructed my small army of Pikmin, the flower-headed creatures who helped me carry things around ...

At this point, the plant-like nature of Pikmin was not part of the concept. Instead, Nintendo was exploring the idea of multiple on-screen characters that the player would control va AI chips in ...

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