

Still, Sony released its latest VR headset, the PlayStation VR2, earlier this year, and it’s an impressive piece of tech that is buoyed by an arresting slate of software. The VR revolution - boosted by Facebook, Google, and practically every other spurious power broker in the tech sector - never totally broke into the mainstream.


Pikmin might not be Tears of the Kingdom (what is?), but it’s a tiny triumph. Elsewhere, you’ll need to muster them in tight battalions to fend off the flesh-eating amphibians who want you dead. Think of it as a light, colorful real-time strategy game sometimes you’ll need to wield a certain type of elemental Pikmin (like the turquoise ones who can freeze water) to clear a blocked path. You are an inch-tall alien explorer on an abandoned, post-collapse planet Earth, who is able to communicate and organize a race of tiny, delightfully cute creatures who can be ordered to retrieve the world’s “treasure” (read: detritus left behind by the conspicuously absent humans). The fundamentals here are the same from what you remember on the GameCube. The microbial world of Pikmin has always taken a back seat to Nintendo’s illustrious pantheon of Mario, Zelda, and Metroid, which is to say, nobody should be surprised that it’s taken the company a decade to make the fourth entry in this series.
