Why Didn't I Take The Day Off Work? ( ; _ ; )

Why didn't I take the day off work? ( ; _ ; ) My body clock is still shot to ribbons thanks to the New Year festivities, staying up till 1AM playing on the Wii U didn't help matters, but it was fun.

The game of the night turned out to be Pikmin 3, my sister and I relived old rivalries and played the Bingo Battle mode. The aim of the game is to match a line on your bingo card by collecting items and defeating enemies, you can also win by default if you steal your opponents flag (and by flag I mean macaroon). (^_-)

You can choose the number of Pikmin you start with, but if you want to make the game a more exciting I suggest keeping this amount to the minimum. This way you each have to build up your squad to collect the larger items and defend yourself from enemy attack. 

If things aren't going in your favour, just have your Pikmin collect a cherry and you'll earn a spin of the weapon roulette wheel. You may get to shower your foe with meteors, electrocute them (and their Pikmin), annoy them by reshuffling their bingo card, or teleport them from the battlefield altogether so they can't control their Pikmin army.

Later we discovered the mission mode has co-op multiplayer included! This is where you have certain objectives e.g collect treasure, defeat enemies; and you just need to finish in the fastest time possible. The only problem is that it's horrendously addictive thanks to the online leader boards, as soon as my wife and I got home we kept on playing till stupid 'o' clock.

Pikmin 3 multiplayer is a little difficult for newcomers as the controls take some getting used to. The more experienced player will have most likely used the Gamepad, meaning they won't be able to help with the alternative controllers (such as the Wii Remote + Nunchuck). After 2 or 3 rounds of Bingo Battle however. you should be able to get a decent game going.

Well, that's it for tonight. I'm going to get some much needed sleep. G'nite y'all.