Pokemon GO, despite trading in my childhood nostalgia, never quite grabbed me - a trend shared by many of my feeble attempts to pick up mobile games - and I haven’t returned to it since. The allure of Pikmin Bloom is essentially identical to the wildly successful Pokemon GO, which I had dabbled with during its 2016 peak. I heard the oven beep and was brought back to my senses, charmed at how silly my behavior was and bemused that I had squeezed in an extra 1,500 steps before dinner. I didn’t realize how hooked I was until the evening I sat down to write this article while I was waiting on a timer on my oven, I took the opportunity to pace around my house, up and down the stairs, farming extra steps for Pikmin Bloom. To willingly lose myself in a game like Pikmin Bloom seems almost like a fever dream due to how uncharacteristic this behavior is for me. Pikmin Bloom is remarkable given my cynical and storied history believing that mobile games were garbage that corrupted other sectors of the gaming industry. In that respect, Pikmin Bloom is kind of magical. Not only that, but I’ve started sneaking in the game wherever I can, creating artificial excuses to go walking when I would normally be sedentary.
But in this year’s strangest roll of the dice, I started actively playing Pikmin Bloom over the past week or so. I’ve also always struggled to commit to mobile games, especially ongoing ones. My history with the Pikmin series is short enough to fit inside a fortune cookie, only having picked up a few hours of the original game at a friend’s house when I was in elementary school.
On paper, there’s no way I should be obsessed with Pikmin Bloom.
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