kind of makes sense since this thing is basically a big walking mouth. Apparently their weak point are their tiny chicken-legs or their rear, which.

There's really not much to say here, it's a pretty neat, simple monster with a simple behaviour - these fuckers feed on small animals returning to their nests at night, and unfortunately for our main character Olimar, this means that the Bulorbs will be chomping down on your poor little Pikmin. The Red Bulborb (originally named Spotted Bulborb in the first Pikmin game) is nothing more than a huge maw with tiny chicken-feet and slug stalk-eyes with googly eyes, and apparently the monsters in Pikmin have scientific Latin names - Oculus kageyamii russus in this critter's case. probably? It's a simple enough monster design, looking like the whimsical thing that a kid would design as a cutesy monster creature, and I mean that as a complement. So as I gather, these 'Bulborbs' are the more common enemies for our happy little alien plant-sprites They are iconic enough to show up in the cover gobbling up the adorable little Pikmin, so. Spotted Bulorb/Red Bulborb (Oculus kageyamii russus) I do think that it's going to be an interesting experiment, though, to just go into a monster review 'blind', just going to the game Wiki and just going through the list of monsters and reviewing them from there with zero knowledge on what the real lore of the game or how these monsters function as game enemies or whatnot, so enjoy my completely blind review of these creatures! I know kinda-sorta enough of the game to get an idea what the gameplay is like, but it's been a long while since I played it.

Basically it's a bit of a combination of a resource management, real-time strategy and puzzle game, where you have 30 in-game days (each day lasts around 20 minutes) to explore the strange planet with your Pikmin buddies in tow to gather all the ship parts and not lose them to the monsters that wander the world. and I didn't really end up playing too much of it before my Wii broke down. To this end he ends up befriending local plant-creatures called the Pikmin, which are all adorable and stuff.

I played a little bit of the original game, where you play as an astronaut who crashes on an alien planet, and have to scavenge parts of the ship before the toxic atmosphere overwhelms him. A reader last year suggested Pikmin as a game that I could do a 'Reviewing Monsters' bit for.

Pikmin 3 enemies