File:NPC! Pikmin boxart.jpg
The boxart for the first game's New Play Control! version.
The New Play Control! (Wii de Asobu in Japan and previously called Let's Play On Wii) range of video games is a collection of GameCube titles ported to the Nintendo Wii, with their controls altered for play on the newer console. During a Nintendo press conference in October 2008, the games were announced, along with the details that the range will include the two Pikmin games.[1] The re-release of Pikmin in Japan was 25th December 2008, and release dates for North America and Europe are the 11th March and 6th February 2009[2] respectively. Pikmin 2 was released in the UK on 24th April 2009.
Changes
Changes that have been made to Pikmin 1. Some of these will presumably be carried over to its sequel.
- The game now has widescreen support.
- 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.
- Some sound effects are played by the Wii remote speaker.
- Enemy sound effects, 'voices' in particular, are different, notably more 'squeaky'.
- Only the "tails" of Pikmin spirits are blue, rather than being completely blue as they are in the GameCube version.
- 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.
- There is a new Enemy Reel style.
References
External Links
- Official New Play Control! Pikmin website (North American)
- Official Pikmin (Wii de Asobu) website (Japanese)
- Video demo of the first game