>>719021760
I think the mutt is cute.
The main issue with him is how quickly his upgrades scale up until mid-to-late game. Being able to jump and dash like that in a Pikmin game adds some new possibilities (feeling like in 10 years time we could have some cool ROM hacks with him used a little better), but they really fumbled with balancing the bastard and making the whole base game too dependent on him.