A deep dive into Pikmin 3 Deluxe's weird controls

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Espyo

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Published on June 14, 2022 5:59:34 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50gCpvfwKk

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Pikmin 3 Deluxe (2020)

Duration: 24:33

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Pikmin 3 Deluxe lets you control the cursor in a myriad of ways, even with the controller's gyro capabilities. But things aren't as simple as they seem on the surface. Even the most basic cursor control rules have some awkward exceptions. Even the most intuitive control layouts come with some bizarre drawbacks. Even the confusing gimmicks...are a lot more confusing than you think. In this video, I explore this game's controls, and all of the things that make it a LOT more broken than you might think.

This was a bit of a format experiment, so the audio quality is fairly bad. This entire video was originally a text-only "blog" article on Pikipedia, so you can check that out if you want the documentary in a different format, or want to be kept up to date with new jank I find and erratas, or just can't vibe with the narration format of this video.
https://www.pikminwiki.com/User:Espyo/Gyro

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:32 Establishing the basics
2:41 Though, even the basics are janky
5:11 Gyro isn't all that it's cracked up to be
7:12 Gyro-stick: how does it work?
10:56 Gyro-stick: clearly unfinished
15:25 Arbitrary limitations?
18:19 Minor jank
21:15 Convoluted development
23:04 Finishing thoughts

Loose notes:
When I'm demonstrating how lock-on is useless (19:43) you can see me struggle to lock-on to the Pellet Posy because of the blasted gyro reset feature. I swear I'm not hamming it up for the video. I didn't even want to mention that in the video, but I figured I'd leave a cliff-note.

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