Trivia / Pikmin 3

• Ascended Fanon:
  • It was often thought that the Onions were capable of space travel despite the fact that neither Pikmin 1 or 2 showing them outside of orbit. Pikmin 3, however, does show they can leave orbit and survive in the vacuum of space just fine, though whether or not they can travel to other planets is still up for debate.
  • Pikmin 3 Deluxe confirms an old fan theory that there are multiple onions scattered around the planet. In the side mode, Olimar's Comeback, he notes that he landed too far away from the one that the Koppaites used and has to make do with others he finds scattered about.
• Dummied Out: Wollywogs were originally intended to be included, and data for them still exists in game files, but they were cut before release. Only their yellow variants that are seen in non-cave areas can be found in the final game.
• Saved from Development Hell: It took eight years before anything solid was revealed about Pikmin 3, despite Miyamoto hinting about it since Pikmin 2 was released. At most, all Miyamoto would say is "we're making Pikmin" and even tease about it at some E3s by specifically asking people not to ask about it. Eventually, it was released in 2013, a little over a whole nine years after Pikmin 2 was released in 2004.
• Refitted for Sequel: Bomb Rocks in the first Pikmin game were initially planned to be used by all types of Pikmin, before eventually limited to being used by Yellow Pikmin. After being delegated to a hazard in Pikmin 2, they return as a usable resource here, with all Pikmin types being able to use them.
• Sequel Gap: Took little over nine years for Pikmin 3 to be released after Pikmin 2 came out in 2004.
• What Could Have Been:
  • There were originally four captains in Pikmin 3. The fourth◊ was cut due to complications with using four captains.
  • Brittany's captain color was originally supposed to be yellow, as seen in some early E3 Pikmin 3 videos, but was later changed to pink/light red. Similarly, Charlie's captain color was going to be red but was later changed to green.
  • Early media pertaining to the captains in Pikmin 3 stated that Charlie was an Abhorrent Admirer to Brittany. This was completely absent in the game itself when it was released, with the two having a more professional relationship, albeit Brittany does tend to treat him as a Butt-Monkey pretty frequently. Rumor has it this is still present in the Japanese version of the games, but there has been no solid confirmation on that yet.
  • A user managed to hack in various unused objects in Pikmin 3 into the game. These include poison generators (that actually do kill all but white Pikmin), a large "candypop bud" that kills Pikmin, and, most bizarrely, a "Pikmin" that actually IS a Pikpik carrot. The game's files also included a number of enemies that went unused, including a purple, burrowing leech-like creature, a blowhog with a green nozzle, and a bizarre wollywog with a rock growing from its belly.
  • Rock Pikmin were supposed to have more varied designs, with each one having a subtle difference like one being wider, another being thinner, one having more jagged edges, and so on and so forth, like the original idea for the Pikmin. This could even be noted in their E3 debut, albeit ever so slightly, with each Pikmin having a different pattern of facets. Like the original idea for the Pikmin having more varied designs, this was scrapped for unknown reasons, with all Rock Pikmin looking identical to one another in the final version of the game.
  • Winged Pikmin were originally orange, and their filename still refers to them as such.
  • Early versions of crystal walls were thicker and made out of faceted crystal, instead of the flat glass panes of the finished game.
  • A model of a Bulbmin can be found in the game's data. Since the model is identical to the one found in Pikmin 2, this would suggest that their inclusion was scrapped early on in development.

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