THE PIKMIN ARE COMING

In preparation for Pikmin 3, which comes out on Sunday and for which I have already paid, I spent some time today playing Pikmin 2. I've had it for ages, but I've never played it, because I have too many toys. And let me tell you:

I do not care for all of this spelunking business.

Loyal readers, let me make a list for you of my least favorite things:

1. Giant insects who are trying to eat me
2. Creepy caves
3. Elevators

A video game that involves nothing but crawling around in creepy caves while giant insects try to eat me!? The fact that I love the series is a testament to how great Pikmin is, really, because normally giant insects who are trying to eat me is a kind of a deal-breaker.

On the other hand, if somebody made a Tremors video game, I would play that shit so hard.

A gratuitous Graboid screenshot. From Wikipedia.

Incidentally, has anyone else noticed how similar the skags in Borderlands look to graboids? But, you know, with feet and stuff.

A gratuitous Skag screenshot. Uhh... do skags have eyes? Maybe they hunt by sound. Like a similar desert-dwelling fictional creature with a multi-hinged jaw and long prehensile tongue that has definitely not been mentioned in this post.

Of course, then in Borderlands 2 we got the thresher, which is like a fun experiment in cross-breeding a graboid with murder:

KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT OH GOD IT HAS EYES IT CAN SEE ME

Regardless of whether any of the people doing baddie design for these games are Tremors fans or not, I totally named my first Borderlands character Kevin Bacon. Trufax.