Pikmin Nsp • Best Pick

Captain Olimar crash-lands on a mysterious planet after a comet strike shatters his ship, the S.S. Dolphin. He has 30 days to recover 30 missing ship parts before his life-support system fails. That’s it. No villain, no dialogue trees—just Olimar’s quiet, increasingly poetic journal entries.

In an era where Nintendo sequels often play it safe, Pikmin remains gloriously strange. It’s a real-time strategy game disguised as a cutesy nature romp, wrapped in the melancholy of a lost astronaut. The 2023 Switch release (available as an NSP download) brings this GameCube classic to a new generation without the mercy of modern quality-of-life features. And that’s both its greatest strength and its most frustrating flaw. pikmin nsp