New Play Control! Pikmin

New Play Control! Pikmin
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New Play Control! Pikmin
Japanese name	Wiiであそぶピクミン
Console	Wii
Developer	Nintendo EAD
Publisher	Nintendo
Genre	Real-time strategy
Players	{{{players}}}
Release date
Japan	December 25, 2008
North America	March 9, 2009
Europe	February 6, 2009
Australia	February 26, 2009
South Korea	N/A

New Play Control! Pikmin is a re-release of Pikmin in the New Play Control! range of video-games. It was released in 2008 in Japan and 2009 everywhere else, and features a number of changes to the original game.

Changes

• Graphics
  • The game now has widescreen support.
  • Only the "tails" of Pikmin spirits are blue, rather than being completely blue as they are in the Gamecube version.
  • The Enemy Reel is presented differently. It plays as usual, but around the edges of the screen, five-petaled flowers are falling, in addition to what looks like snowflakes towards the end of the Enemy Reel.
  • The carrying numbers are like in Pikmin 2, which means they show the color of the onion they are being carried to.
  • The credits play differently; instead of going from the bottom of the screen to the top, they "roll" across the surface of the planet. Meteors will also occasionally pass the screen in the background.
  • Some bubbles are fused together into one such as the ones that say "Best 5", "Challenge", "Ship Parts" and "Pikmin Population".
  • When Olimar is behind the level geometry or an object, his silhouette will be drawn to indicate his position.
  • When Pikmin are being issued to move (as if the C-stick was moved in the original game), some arrows will appear between the captain and the cursor.
• Gameplay
  • A new control scheme allows control of the cursor by pointing at the screen with the Wii controller. Because of that, the player can now call the Pikmin at a greater distance.
  • An updated save system allows the player to restart play from any previous day. This allows the player to fix problems, such as the Libra Glitch.
  • Yellow Pikmin holding bomb-rocks no longer drop them when whistled to. In addition, they will automatically try to run out of range of a planted bomb-rock's explosion or throw it at an enemy.
  • When Mushroom Pikmin attack Captain Olimar, they pause between each hit, while in the original, they would attack over and over.
  • Pikmin last longer when on fire or drowning.
  • The player can press B to cycle through the types of Pikmin they are holding and down on the D-pad to cycle through maturity, a feature which was first introduced in the GameCube version of Pikmin 2.
• Audio
  • Some sound effects are played by the Wii remote speaker.
  • Enemy sound effects, 'voices' in particular, are different, notably more 'squeaky'.
  • During the Bad Ending, Olimar's Ship makes different malfunctioning noises.
  • Olimar doesn't blow a special whistle sound when Pikmin are dismissed.

Box art

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  Japanese box art

External links

• Official North American New Play Control! Pikmin website
• Official European New Play Control! Pikmin website
• Official Japanese Wii de Asobu Pikmin website
• Video demo