A biased review: Pikmin 3

[Mnementh]

To talk a bit more about the idea of local multiplayer for coop-mode. We often have games with competitive local multiplayer (mario kart for instance) and also Pikmin 3 has local competition with Bingo Battle. But local coop is unusual. Pikmin 3 was a big chance to have local coop that would have made sense. More sense than online coop, as you could speak with the other players about the strategy. It would extremely help to faster achieve more goals in the game and to be much better. But especially the boss-fights would be a lot cooler. One player could call the Pikmins to get them out of the area of danger while the other attacks. And this last boss-fight was horrible to coordinate all the Pikmin - it would have been much easier with a second player controlling another of your characters.