#Enemy territory gog series#
In a way, the one Nintendo series that Pikmin closely resembles is Metroid. Everything was pretty muted, including the reaction Captain Olimar had to the discovery of the Pikmin, coming across a new creature, or discovering a piece of your spaceship off in the distance. It wasn’t exactly a world that we could learn that much about since the focus was more on the gameplay loop and the predicament that Captain Olimar found himself in. The world was just presented as is, and players were meant to draw whatever inferences they could about it. This made most of Pikmin feel understated. In terms of genre, Pikmin was unexplored territory for a lot of gamers, especially those that just bought a GameCube.
The ticking clocks that permeated the game added a different type of urgency that Nintendo wasn’t really known for. You needed to plan your day properly in order to get parts for your ship before night fell. In order to succeed in Pikmin, it didn’t require good reflexes. I never played a game quite like Pikmin, and it went against everything I knew about the company. Keep in mind, I was no more than 10 and used to fast-paced platformers like Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. I played it, but I found myself bored of the more laid-back and somewhat aimless pace yet also overwhelmed by the pressure the game had with its numerous ticking clocks - one for how long you could spend in a level and one for how many days you could stay on the planet. That was probably one of the reasons why I never gelled with Pikmin growing up. Yet it’s that lack of traditional Nintendo elements that made the original Pikmin stand out from every other Nintendo franchise and even its later installments. Even the trailer shown in Luigi’s Mansion had a lot of flat plains without much life to them. Pikmin had a relatively mundane world at first glance. Advertising showed off the whimsy and wonder of Mario, Pokémon, and The Legend of Zelda, but Pikmin didn’t really have that. You could identify a Nintendo-developed game in the ‘90s just from how bright and colorful they were. Most Nintendo games were very personable with distinguishable leads and worlds. The trailer showed off some early in-game footage alongside levels that would appear in the game, but the trailer gave off a distinct impression that Pikmin wouldn’t be like your average Nintendo game. It stated that you were stranded on a mysterious planet and needed to use the local wildlife, the Pikmin, to find a way home. Tucked away in the options menu was a trailer for the game that showed off what to expect from this new Nintendo IP. Oh, and Commander? You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.Like most people in 2001, my first exposure to Pikmin wasn’t through magazine advertising in Nintendo Power or a demo kiosk at my local Toys “R” Us, but through Luigi’s Mansion. While it will eventually go up in price to £25, XCom Complete on GOG is currently 80% discounted down to a significantly more wallet-friendly £5.09, so if you've spent the past six years avoiding it, now would be a good time to pick it up. It looks like Phoenix Point is on the way to split the difference between the two styles next year, too. Unlike the original Gollop Brothers's X-Com from way back in 1994 (note the hyphen, and it's also discounted on GOG), Firaxis's modern reboot boiled down an intensely complex granular game of tactics down to something roughly resembling a board game with relatively easy to follow rules and an emphasis on doing everything you can to stack those vital attack rolls in your favour. Well, the aliens are here, so it's up to you to manage bases, deploy squads to the front lines and try not to feel too bad when your bad micromanagement gets Ensign McRedshirt's face vaporised by alien plasma fire.
#Enemy territory gog Pc#
If you're new to PC gaming as a whole or have somehow avoided reading about strategy games for the past six years, welcome! XCom: Enemy Unknown makes you the sole commander of the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit, an international last line of defence against a potential alien invasion. Rather than divide it up, GOG are only selling the Complete edition of the game, including two minor bits of DLC and the rather more significant Enemy Within expansion.
Today, Firaxis's alien-bothering turn-based squad tactics revival, XCom: Enemy Unknown has launched on GOG after over half a decade of the PC version being Steam-exclusive. Is six years within 'fashionably late' territory? Better late than never, at least.
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