Nintendo has confirmed that the Near You animated quick movie that it had launched earlier this week is the primary one to have been created utterly in-house at Nintendo Photos. Together with this, the corporate has additionally confirmed that Nintendo Photos will proceed to create extra video tasks down the road for different Nintendo properties.
“These are the primary quick movies created by Nintendo Photos Co., Ltd,” mentioned the corporate on social media. “Nintendo Photos will proceed to discover new artistic potentialities by way of video content material.”
The quick movie primarily acts as a teaser for a brand new Pikmin-based challenge that Nintendo has seemingly been engaged on. The unique teaser, which you’ll take a look at on YouTube, solely actually had hints of it being associated to Pikmin within the kind of some musical cues, and objects transferring round mysteriously. A second model of the teaser was launched by way of the Nintendo At this time app, which confirmed that Pikmin had been chargeable for the objects transferring round.
For context, the teaser revolves round a child, left alone for just a few moments in its room, seeing its pacifier pulled out of its mouth and transferring round of its personal accord. This prompts the child to playfully chase the pacifier because it makes it manner across the room. The quick movie culminates with the child slowly studying to stroll on two ft as a way to chase down the pacifier, at which level its mom walks within the room and is overjoyed to see her youngster strolling.
Sadly, the Pikmin-ised model of the quick movie can solely presently be considered by way of the Nintendo At this time smartphone app, which doesn’t actually have any solution to share its contents but. Nevertheless, it is extremely seemingly that the corporate will ultimately launch this second model of the teaser for everybody to see by way of the usual channels of the Web like YouTube.
Whereas the teaser works as a direct affirmation that Nintendo is engaged on one thing associated to Pikmin, the corporate hasn’t but confirmed whether or not it’s a model new sport within the sequence, a spin-off title, and even only a extra elaborate solution to announce a Change 2 Improve pack for Pikmin 4, which is presently accessible on the Nintendo Change.
Talking of which, Pikmin 4 was the final main launch within the franchise, having come out on the Change again in 2023. The title noticed a good bit of essential acclaim, together with in our personal overview, because of its introduction of latest options, like an area canine named Otachi that helps the gamers out all through the sport’s varied missions. Curiously, in the course of the time of the sport’s launch, producer Takeshi Tezuka had additionally mentioned that followers of the franchise wouldn’t have to attend for too lengthy for the following sport within the franchise.
The Pikmin franchise is perhaps a distinct segment one, however since its first launch in 2001 on the GameCube, the sequence has been a fan-favourite owing to how properly it mixes up real-time technique gameplay with intelligent puzzles and enjoyable tales.
