General Pikmin Thread

I'm having trouble understanding why Nintendo needed to remove the products. Do you sue people for free advertising? Manufacturers used to pay entertainment companies to put cigarette trucks in movies. Is Nintendo even in the same market as anything it was using? Exactly what did say, Duracell, have to lose? By Nintendo putting in batteries player would likely use in their wavebirds?

Potential misuse of brand. If you are a brand-owner and someone is bandying about your brand, the general thought process goes that you want to make sure they're bandying it in a way that's in line with their expectations.

Just beat Pikmin 2 for the third time, 52 deaths and 29 days.

So thanks to Pikmin 2 I just tried deviled ham today.

And yes, it was Underwood brand just like the tin in the Submerged Castle.

It was pretty good. Pretty much like a spreadable paste version of Spam, but not quite as salty and overbearingly nitritous.

I used to think beady long legs in pikmin 1 was hard, until last sunday, when I beat it with 9 yellows, no deaths and in two minutes.

Isn't Spam somewhat spreadable? ...I don't actually know. I've never actually seen Spam "in the wild," so to speak.

I had some Tree Top apple juice today. Even in a can. If we're comparing our usage of Pikmin treasures.

Spam is pretty solid. It's about the same consistency as normal ham.

Underwood Deviled Ham was more like how canned tuna fish is. Just hammy instead of fishy. And not quite as smooth to spread.

Other than the Deviled Ham, I can't really think of any Pikmin 2 treasures I'd like to try that I haven't already. Maybe Tree Top or maybe the water chestnut tin. I'm not really a fan of apple juice and eating straight water chestnut from a tin seems weird though.

edited 24th Sep '12 10:40:13 PM by Anomalocaris20

They often use water chestnuts in salads of various kinds, don't they? You could try 'em in a salad.

Bleck, salad.

They use them in certain noodle dishes I think.

Tuna noodle casserole, I believe.

I meant asian noodle dishes like stir-fries and the like. Could have sworn there were water chestnuts in some of those. Those are good.

Ah. I think those do use it too.

Now I have to ask the thread in general: How many of you have actually been inspired by the product placement in Pikmin 2 to try things?

Oh, turns out my school's wok preparation area has water chestnut slices. No word if they're Sun Luck brand or not (That's the one, right?).

I haven't.

So we've gone from corporations spending hilariously huge sums of money to have containers full of their products wrecked by aliens on screen(Superman 2) to corporations worried about representation of their brand by aliens who treat their products as invaluable treasures on screen for free.

Capitalism is a strange beast.

I laughed when I saw the Duracell batteries, and was tickled to see a lid from a Skippy peanut butter jar. Considering that's the one brand we ever have in my house, heh.

On another note, let us remember those goddamn breadbugs, putzing about like they own the place. Especially the one that looked like a walking yummy loaf.

...I hope they return; their screams of pain were just as delicious as they looked.

...And on ANOTHER note, Louie's methods for preparation the various fauna. Gets me feeling peckish every time.

He makes it sound so good...

I know! He needs to start a restaurant or something.

Assuming of course any of the food makes it out of the kitchen

I wouldn't mind a wollywog burger.

Point taken.

I'm generally squeamish about the idea of eating bugs (I have concluded it's not because they're bugs but because I'm squicked by the idea of eating all their internal organs and systems along with their flesh. Even in chicken I'm squicked when there's a vein or something in the meat and avoid it), but the way Louie describes them makes them sound more like more mundane meats like chicken or beef.

They sound delicious, by the way, especially since many of the recipies imply only using the muscle and "meat" of the creature, rather than the whole thing.

edited 27th Sep '12 8:44:30 AM by Anomalocaris20

And let's not forget his studies on the Clover, which as we all know, upon ingesting, symptoms may include nausea, headache, fever, fatigue, chest pains, paralysis, loss of bone density, moodiness, feral rage, sauciness, dilly-dallying, strokes of brilliance, and untimely doom.

Although I wouldn't mind the side effects of the Glowstem.

edited 27th Sep '12 3:32:25 PM by GreatT

I'm more fond of the Shoot. Inedible. And yet strangely delicious.

I see your Shoot, and raise you one Mamuta.

Inedible. Tastes like chicken.