I love Pikmin, that being said I haven't played the third one. Not because I don't want to, but because I grow so attached to the Pikmin I have raised since birth, and despite having no individual qualities, it is intolerable to see them die. To see them crushed, burned, drowned and eaten. In that way my own survival grows too cruel to stand. To play Pikmin with heart is to have a glimmer of being a parent.