Pikmin, the one Nintendo series that always feels under-appreciated, is coming back. In a surprise announcement at the end of today’s Nintendo Direct, a new Pikmin game, tentatively titled Pikmin for Nintendo 3DS, was announced for the 3DS.
While there’s no official title for it yet, we did get a look at some gameplay. It looks like standard Pikmin stuff, throwing different colored Pikmin with different abilities with a tap on the 3DS’s touchscreen in order to solve all your problems, only this time it’ll be side-scrolling instead of top-down 3D. Nintendo is describing it as an “action game that makes players think fast,” so it seems like it’ll have a faster pace than its home console counterparts.
No word yet on a specific date, but Pikmin for Nintendo 3DS will launch sometime in 2017.