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I bought this game because I wanted to play Pikmin again. I had played the original on Gamecube a lot, but had traded it in a long time ago. Sometimes you wanna play the games from your past. So if there is anyone like me in the world, who is mulling about whether to buy this or the Gamecube original, I would say, "Get the Gamecube original." Sure, there is widescreen, but as far as improvements, that's about it. The controls in the Gamecube version are superior. All things considered, however, this is still a highly playable game, and still a masterpiece. If you have never played the GC original, you probably won't even notice that the controls are slightly janky. So if the Gamecube controls were a 100, this port's would be a 95. In the GC game, you could control your aiming cursor and the Pikmin independently, with the left analog stick and the C-stick respectively; in this port, you cannot. "Down" on the Wiimote's d-pad orders the ...

You're probably thinking "ZOMG, WTF are you talking about? A computer science degree should be useful in today's society. Computers are used for everything." Nope. The degree in itself is worthless, unless you went to MIT or Carnegie Mellon or whatever. No one's gonna hire some shmuck like me from Podunk University. Computer languages are so ephemeral. Once you learn one, another one pops up. You are constantly having to learn new languages. It's bologna. What was wrong with the old one? Not a goddamn thing. It's just a way to make more money for the big computer companies like Micro$oft, Adobe and Oracle. If they never made new languages, they wouldn't make as much money selling the new languages and the new versions and updates and all that fucking horseshit. Goddamn, people are greedy. I hate this world. I like the planet, but not this capitalistic world we call "civilized society". "Civilized society?" Are you kidding m...