"I had this thing where I tended to play smaller, lighter games for about 10 years, so I don't know, Portal or Plants vs. Zombies or Flower or Katamari Damacy. Pikmin, I just [picked] out of that list because I thought it was such an emotionally involving story."
"Poor Captain Olimar, he crash lands, and he's got 30 days to reassemble his ship, or he'll run out of oxygen and die, and he's sending letters home every day."
"I mean, I guess I'm a sucker when it comes to story, right? But then for Pikmin 2, it's totally different. So they're on Earth, they're running around picking up trash on Earth. That's the storyline, if you recall. Literally, you're running around somebody's bathroom floor in Pikmin 2. And in one of those, you're running from debt collectors, if I have that right. But that first Pikmin, yeah, that's one I just treasure."
Mark Cerny chose five games for preservation and singled out Pikmin for its transformative emotional impact. Playing the original Pikmin made him deeply invested in Captain Olimar's race against time to reassemble his ship before running out of oxygen. Cerny favored smaller, lighter games for about a decade, listing Portal, Plants vs. Zombies, Flower, and Katamari Damacy alongside Pikmin. Pikmin 2 took a different tone, placing characters on Earth scavenging human trash, including scenes on a bathroom floor and encounters with debt collectors. Cerny's preservation list also included Defender, The Legend of Dragoon, Firewatch, and another acclaimed action title.
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