General Pikmin Thread

But why is Oxygen not poisonous to Oatchi, but it is to the rest of the cast?

That's because Oatchi is strong.

A more serious answer is (spoilers for endgame stuff) Oatchi is likely descended from a creature that can breathe oxygen just fine, though Oatchi growing a leaf tail does seem to suggest even he needed some time to "adjust."

Killed the second queen bulborb today, the one that actually spawns enemies? Mostly I just chucked bomb rocks at it until it died, because its babies kept eating my pikmin and I couldn't get them out of the way in time.

New interview with Game Informer and directo Yuji Kando and planning director Yutaka Hiramuki :

The one I wanted to bring up:

So I finished Pikmin 4, what does telling Bernard you're ready to leave do?

It replays the ending. Different dialogue will play depending on how much you've accomplished, and if you finished Olimar's Shipwreck Tale, the S.S. Dolphin will be added to the ending.

4 sold 2.61 million in its first two and a half months.

Already the best-selling game in the series. Nice.

I feel mixed on that, on the one hand I'm glad the series is doing well, but on the other hand I feel like 4 is the most antithetical Pikmin game and wouldn't want it to become the series standard.

Can you explain what you mean?

For the game that popularized the term "dandori", it feels like it has the least emphasis on dandori outside of the challenges specifically labeled as such. The rest of the game feels almost deliberately designed to stifle and discourage that sort of multitasking and planning Pikmin 3 executed so wonderfully.

Separating the player character and Oatchi so they can multitask is much more cumbersome and restricting than it was in Pikmin 2 and 3, and more often than not travelling as a single group just feels like the more effective and convenient way to do things. Caves, like in Pikmin 2, slow the game down tremendously and turn it into more of a dungeon crawler. Night expeditions and other "minigames" all being mandatory parts of the main story discourages quick replayability compared to 1 and 3.

I had fun with 4 as its own separate beast, but 3 definitely felt more Pikmin-y to me by a long shot and I'd prefer Pikmin 5 take more cues from it than from 4.

The Pikmin wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Appreciated, although it does seem a bit early for it.

Guess who’s been playing Pikmin 4 and is having way too much fun.

I'm trying to complete all side missions, but Kingsly and Francois don't seem to end and I cleared out every above ground enemy's corpses.

I don't think you can ever complete those two sidequests. I think they're meant to be infinitely repeatable so you can always have a source of Raw Materials.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Jan 11th 2024 at 5:31:04 AM

Okay then.

Also, (don't know if anybody knows this), but giving Louie all the creatures he requested will result in him giving you an item called the extra hand. It lets your captain carry 1 unit of weight.

Glow Pikmin might actually be the most alien creatures in the entire series.

4 is at 3.33 million sold.

I got Pikmin 1+2 on Switch. Hopefully Pikmin 2 is better on Switch. The original game was barely passable and that was mostly due to lacking a "restart floor" option for caves.

A bit late, but I'd say the Wraiths are pretty close if not more alien.

The Plasm Wraith, I think, is much more alien than anything else in the franchise. Bordering on being an Outside-Context Problem.

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Mar 6th 2024 at 3:44:21 PM

True, the two Wraiths feels less like cartoon-y critters and more like something out of a fantasy, with one being literally made of normal water and the other being able to shapeshift into just about anything.

The glow Pikmin are made of light, float, and can't even be truly killed. On top of being able to merge into a spirit bomb.

It's hard to say one's weirder than the other.