Niantic of Pokemon GO has started distribution of the smartphone app “Pikmin Bloom” jointly developed with Nintendo.
“Pikmin Bloom” is an app that “makes walking fun”. It’s not a port of the traditional “Pikmin”, it’s not a real-world reconstruction of the original game like Pokemon GO, and it doesn’t use the word “game.”
Then, what is it? An app that supports walking in daily walks and commuting to school so that you can enjoy it more with the world view of “walking with the mysterious creature Pikmin” and the gameplay such as discovery, collection, and map filling. .. The word I often hear is “gamification” of walking.
Walking while planting flowers with Pikmin.Deco picmin in a coffee cup
The specific content isWalk to grow seedlings and increase Pikmin(In short, Pokemon GO eggs),Collect rare types of Pikmin, plant flowers while walking and make a flower field on the map(Here is “Bloom”), record and look back on your daily steps and discoveriesLifelogSuch.
While it is easy for people who do not play so-called smartphone games to start, there are a number of gimmicks that make you want to move forward / walk, such as increasing Pikmin as you walk and discovering new things.Definitely a gameis.
The more Pikmin you can take with you, the more you will pick up, and the more “useful” personnel like an expedition, so at firstJust grow Pikmin earnestly and pull it out to increase itThat is the purpose and I am looking forward to it.
Set seedlings in a backpack-type planter that is not fluffy and grow.Initially 7 kinds of basic Pikmin
Low load that is easy to parallel with Pokemon GO
When you hear “collect / find”, it seems to be the second decoction of Pokemon GO, but the feature of Pikmin Bloom is that it does not use much attention resources of players / users and can be advanced at any time.
In Pokemon GO, the player watches the map, and if there is a Pokemon you want, you can tap it on the spot to aim and throw the ball, so you can’t take your hands off now!There is a timing to concentrate on the smartphone, but in Pikmin Bloom basically while walkingPikmin finds and picks up seedlings and fruitsFor,Even if you don’t take out your smartphone while you’re on the move, you can use it for something else, You can proceed by checking and receiving at your favorite timing later.
“Bloom” to plant flowers and walk
Another feature is the element that makes the flowers bloom, which is also the title.Even if you just walk, footprints will remain on your own map and you can look back on it as a life log, but if you consume the “petals” harvested from Pikmin’s head and “plant” it, you will see it on the map.Colorful flowers that can be seen by other players will bloom。
By turning on “flower planting” and walking, you can make flowers bloom along the road you usually go through.Create a decorative flower field using petals of different colorsAlso that. The more Pikmin Bloom players there are, the more flowers the city will be filled with, and the more people walk, the more it will be visualized as a flower path.
The huge flower is equivalent to the Pokestop of Pokemon GO, the portal of Ingress.A mysterious ecosystem that blooms when flowers are planted around it
Flower planting is not only fun for the eyes, but also accelerates the growth of seedlings in the planter (egs are easy to hatch), improves the discovery rate of Pikmin seedlings and fruits, and grows large plants that grow at specific points on the map. There is also a game-like attraction such as acceleration.
(The huge flower on the map corresponds to the point where there is a Pokestop in Pokemon GO. At first, it is in the state of buds and leaves, and if you plant a flower nearby, the growth will be promoted by a mysterious effect and a huge flower will bloom. At the point where a huge flower blooms, the probability of finding a rare item increases. Since it is in bloom, it will be an invitation to walk closer, to grow a little more)
In addition, this flower planting can also select the optional “Flower planting with everyone” mode.Not only flowers while planting flowers togetherYour avatar (Mii) also appears on the map in real time, You can enjoy walking and flower planting together. Niantic plans to hold a monthly event “Community Day” using this “flower planting together”.
(Caution about flower planting. For example, if you walk home from the station with flower planting on, if there are few other players, there will be an easy-to-understand straight road from the nearest to your home for a while (several days).
I don’t know who planted the flowers from the app, but it can be a bit annoying if conditions are met, such as someone who is known to be playing Pikmin Bloom in real life but does not want to teach home. Hmm.
There is a caution on the app, but it seems that you need to be careful not to use it in places where you do not want to leave a mark, consciously turning on and off flower planting. However, flower planting consumes a finite amount of resources, so you will not forget to cut it and draw a line in your range of action forever. If so,You can also remove walking and flower planting history from the settings。)
Deco picmin, postcards, lifelogs, AR
The basic is “Walk, occasionally open the app to collect seedlings and fruits picked up by Pikmin, set seedlings in a planter, pull out and increase when grownYou can simply enjoy increasing the number and types of Pikmin just by repeating.
In addition to the above “flower planting”, another element to enjoy is that Pikmin picks up and wears items related to his hometown.Deco picmin“Gather,” in various places where Pikmin picks up “Postcard“Collecting and sending with friends, footprints and photos of the day, a mini diary with a comment”LifelogAnd look back later.
Of course, you can also take AR photos like Pokemon GO. You can shoot the entire Pikmin formation. Since the original Pikmin was a visual of a small mysterious creature behind the realistic terrain, the scale feeling that many Pikmin actually appear with fruits and items is indescribable fun.
In the video, there was an individual that I had never seen, such as Pikmin, which became a macaron, but it seems that collecting “Deco Pikmin” will be hot for users who capture it like a game.
Pikmin Bloom will be officially distributed in Singapore and Australia from October 27th. We plan to expand to other regions in a few days.
(Reprinted from Engadget Japanese version)
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