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By Justin Towell published 28 December 2013

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Cute little Pikmin who (still) just don't want to live any more

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You may be familiar with Andy Riley's superb book The Bunny Suicides. We liked it so much, we thought we'd create a homage to it, using everyone's favourite flower-headed creatures: The Pikmin.

These Pikmin burned too bright for this world. Rest in pieces.

This GamesRadar feature originally ran on July 14, 2009

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