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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 68: Pikmin
Description: We return once more to the strange and esoteric world of console RTS games with Pikmin! First released for the Gamecube in 2001, it combines strategy, resource management and puzzle solving into a truly unique game. You play as Captain Olimar, peacefully vacationing in space until an asteroid collides with his spaceship. He crashes to the ground, pieces of his ship scattering across the land, and no apparent way to get them back to repair his ship. Luckily for him the Pikmin are more than willing to be turned into slave labour to retrieve all those missing parts and murder the...