This is really nice because each weapon works
best against a certain enemy type.
Not exact matches
Multiple heroes strong or weak
against certain types of
enemy, each with their own distinctive personality and weapon set, each working
well or not so
well with other agents; even in the current build, you can unlock gun and character skins to show off your abilities.
Your warships and submarine, all of which you gain as you progress, come with stats that make them
better at taking on
certain types of
enemy, but it doesn't really seem to make much different what type you send them
against as they just plough through them with ease, usually.
Certain enemy types that you'll face off
against require you to occasionally adjust your tactics, as
well, which is easily done as the Combo Lab can be brought up whenever you desire and combos re-done at any time.
- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch
certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see
enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight
well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up
against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».
The game actually puts an emphasis on using the environment to kill
enemies since things that are destroyed tend to burst outward like you hit a grenade hiding within it which works surprisingly
well against enemies standing next to
certain bits of the environment.
Ubisoft also added to counter getting instantly killed when going
against more than one
enemy is the revenge feature where if you continuously block more and more attacks or take so much damage you can activate revenge which hits
enemies to the ground and gives you a much
better advantage over taking out more than one
enemy but this only lasts for around 20 seconds, Feats are also play a part in combat mainly during the 4v4 matches where you can buff team mates, heal yourself or give yourself a damage boost and even make a catapult hurl a bomb and obliterate your
enemies these can be changed so you can have more specific roles just as the gear can also specify
certain things that your hero can do.
You can only equip a
certain amount of special skills at a time, so the type of
enemy you face off
against will determine which skills will
best suit you for battle.