Pikmin

[sick estuary]

Discussion for Pikmin!

[upbeat edge]

is the switch version any good or should i just do gamecube?

[dapper pivot]

I’m hyped for this one

[jade ivy]

After playing 3 minute of Star Fox, this is the game I’m starting with and only one I’m playing

[real flax]

I'd also like to know everyone's thoughts on which version to play. I heard the switch version may be better and have some glitches fixed.

I'm trying to decide between emulating the gamecube version or playing the switch version on my switch.

I feel like save states might be nice in case I mess up since I don't believe you get do overs in the first game.

[plush glen]

the switch version does not look great

they did not redo the textures

some of the UI elements are just the originals but stretched to 16:9, which you can do yourself lol

it's definitely not the quality of metroid prime remastered

[upbeat edge]

to be fair i dont expect most remasters to be as good as metroid prime remastered lol

[plush glen]

well there are two games this month that have remasters: beyond good & evil's 20th anniversary is more on the level of metroid prime (if not a little better because it runs at 4k on pc and ps5)

[upbeat edge]

damn i didnt realise it was that good lol i still hve the old hd version but might shell out for the new one

[tropic arrow]

I never played this before. Going with switch

[final gale]

My pikmin isn’t working correctly

[jade ivy]

I did 3 days and got 3 parts. Really digging it so far

[dapper pivot]

Oh man, I remember being stressed out by the time limit in this game

[final gale]

Same but honestly isn’t too bad

[dapper pivot]

yeah, seems like I’ll be able to stay ahead of it, especially once I build up my numbers

[stuck kayak]

Oh yeah I just remembered that

[tropic sail]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/78068183?collection=19201
4k texture pack for dolphin

[tepid prism]

Got through the first ten days. Collected 13 parts. Made some bad decisions that cost me some time. This is a fun game. Worst thing about it is just that it isn't pikmin 4. The pikmin just get caught on corners way too easily in this one. They handle that better in the sequels, plus you are better able to position them.

[brittle grail]

i had started pikmin a while back and got through the fist 7 days, excited to boot it back up and finish it. its one of my friend's most cherished games and it's definitely a game worth seeing through in my opinion. (surely this time i wont drown 40 red pikmin trying to cross a bridge)

[jade ivy]

I just did that last night haha

[zenith slate]

This only stressed me out when this launched and I was like 8. As an adult this game is NOT hard

[dapper pivot]

yeah exactly

[deft pumice]

Man, ill have to keep playing, but I'm not 100% sure i can stick on Pikmin. The blur when moving was kinda rough

Will need more time on it than a single 15m break

[zenith slate]

I think the last time I played this, it was on my Gamecube on a LCD TV and I don't recall being able to like not play it

[deft pumice]

@sick estuary So, question, since there are 3 endings, do we only get credit if we get the 100% ending since apparently that one rolls the credits? Or will any of the endings work?

[sick estuary]

Any ending is fine.

[deft pumice]

Oh ok. Whew.

Thanks rapid.

Means i can just vibe and play it.

The prophecy has come true. A GameCube game on the GameCube rp5.

[brave hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/bored-monstersinc-gif-16736081619791987682

[tropic arrow]

Ok order the switch game off ebay with 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.

[brave hawk]

five parts in and this is pretty boring

[tropic sail]

I know I can, but should I?

[plush glen]

no

[tropic sail]

Does the game gets heavier or is all levels the same graphic load?

[stiff nest]

Hey I just finished Star Fox so now I’m gonna come hang out with all you cool kids playing Pikmin.

[final gale]

This game needs more Dandori

[upbeat edge]

thinking about playing it on my 353m just because i can lmao but i should probably at least use my rp3+.

[outer zenith]

I decided to pik this one

[zenith slate]

I c what u did thar

[jade ivy]

I can’t find the blue pikmin nor what they do. Any tips?

I got day 4 done and found 4 parts. A part a day seems risky

Also found a box that said 10 on it and couldn’t figure out what to do with that

[dapper pivot]

you speed up as you go, when you have more pikmin, so I wouldn’t worry yet

[tepid prism]

The blue onion is in ||the forest navel level. I think it shows up as a blue circle on the map. But that might only be after you find it.|| I just finished on day 23 and could have done it a day or two earlier without making a couple mistakes. It goes faster once you have all three colors.

[jade ivy]

Thanks!

This is the box. Ignore all the drowning idiots

[tepid prism]

||Once you get blues you can take them through the water to the other side and they'll push the box out of the way.||

[brazen plinth]

Should I go Wii version over GameCube?

[umbral finch]

I'm curious which version to pick. 3 choices makes for a lot of choice paralysis

Think I might do Wii. Only difference seems to be controls. I'll see if the waggle controls are intuitive

[acoustic rain]

Diving in this one now, the HD texture pack for the GC version makes this one quite nice!

[deft pumice]

I can't syncthing the file

[final gale]

I’m on day 19 and the final trial map

This is a short game if you know what you are doing

I played it back when the rerelease first came out

Surprised with home much I remembered

Having never played it growing up

[jade ivy]

This is my first time so it’s refreshing to hear people say it’s pretty easy because there’s a little panic with the time limit

Fun to pick up and do a day whenever I have time

[deft pumice]

Rapid said the ending doesn't matter too. So can just play and if you get the bad ending oh well

[jade ivy]

I feel pretty good so far. I started a level, threw a ton of pikmin at random things to work on while I took a lap and I got 3 cutscenes of them bringing back parts on their own

[umbral finch]

Time limits in video games are hated on too much. Just don't suck at video games and you win

[acoustic rain]

As long as they're reasonable, time limits for the sake of time limits just introduce unnecessary stress. I usually hate time limit sequences in games, but you can kinda mosey in this one.

[deft pumice]

Ill go deep in tomorrow, gotta see if folder sync works

[dapper pivot]

I started a day over several times just because I really wanted to get 3 specific parts in the day haha. Worth

[acoustic rain]

I'm on Day 8 with 11 parts, having a pretty good time. Maybe it's because I'm really pushing the time limit (have had two parts register with a 1 or 0 on the screen with the final countdown) but it doesn't feel boring or plodding.

[dapper pivot]

hot tip: ||parts progress is saved from day to day, so you don’t have to stress if it only makes it part way||

not really sure that that’s a spoiler, but just in case haha

[acoustic rain]

Oh shit! I thought it would've reset back to the original place once I left.

More of a PSA than a spoiler

[dapper pivot]

haha fair, yeah that was a nice realization

[acoustic rain]

I like sweating a bit, so probably keep pushing the limits until the day I lose half my Pikmin

[jade ivy]

I just beat my first boss. Didn’t expect that

[acoustic rain]

Just finished Day 14, 19 parts, and three of the biomes completely clear. Probably gonna call it a night.

[craggy elbow]

Just started this and really glad to finally play this. Finished day 2, seems cosy so far but i have been introduced into the day timer cycle so will see how it plays.

Playing on steam deck (GC) without the 4k HD textures and game still looks great!

[ivory elk]

Can I really game over by running out of time

I feel like that's what's gonna happen

[final gale]

It’s very hard to time out

If you do you still get an ending

#1356421195846778881 message

According to rapid any ending is fine, even if only 30/30 ship parts gives credits

The endings are 30/30 parts at any time, ||at least 25 by end of day 30|| and ||less than 25 by end of day 30||

[deft pumice]

Spoilers!

[final gale]

Tagged appropriately

[deft pumice]

Spoilers being spoiled

We have all seen the spoiler spoilers with our eyes.

[jade ivy]

I’m at 13 parts and 13 days. What’s the best pikmin color to stock up on? I’m at about 120ish of each

[zenith slate]

^Its been awhile since I played but. Sounds like you're pretty well stocked. I feel like the game is very much

"Take a smattering of pikmin to see whats what, divide them into groups as needed. If you don't have enough of one color put back whatever color the environment doesn't call for"

I feel like most tasks are one pikmin tasks and worse case scenario you use one color for like 50% of the work, then flip to another color for the rest of the carrying

I.e. need to go through water to GET the part, but then need to go through fire to get the part to the ship

Its really not a difficult game. Casually without a guide I remember getting like....almost all of the parts within a pretty reasonable timeframe (lets say like 25 of the parts in like 20ish days tops) then just doubled back into the areas where I wasn't 100% complete and used a guide if I seriously couldn't find them. But yeah the time limit was not a huge constraint

[jade ivy]

I can’t play too many days in a row, but I’m having a good time with it in short spurts

[acoustic rain]

Having roughly 100 of each works really well. You can go back to the impact site (you'll need to with blue Pikmin anyway for a part) and find a ton of new pellets so you can spend a day stocking up on Pikmin types since it's a small map.

[zenith slate]

I like Pikmin I just didn't vote for it because I played it a good bit as a kid, then went back and beat it in my 20's

I can see it being better in short bursts in 2025 with our current mindsets. I do recall enjoying it playing like 3-4 days at a time

[inner saddle]

Aiming to replay this all in one day, and currently need a break. I'm playing the switch version and the yellow pikmin feel a bit different. Like they're a little smarter, and it feels easier to gather them up too. I don't know if it's just placebo effect and me getting better as I replay this every year though.

[zenith slate]

They throw higher but thats all I really remember

[jade ivy]

I don’t have much time to sit down and play too many days at once ha. I’m also playing romancing saga 2 as well and noticed I am doing some staggering walks just from Pikmin

[outer zenith]

These little bastards sure like to kill themselves.

[final gale]

Sentient carrots

What would you do

[grave abyss]

Is that a widescreen hack?

[deft pumice]

Yuh

16:9 with a wide-screen hack that was built in to prevent it looking weird and stretched.

[grave abyss]

Sorry I’m gonna be a newbie

When you say built in, do you mean as part of dolphin or as part of the game?

Switch emulation - I tried this on my Odin 2 and is seemed to have a tiny bit of slowdown (skipped audio) even with turnip drivers. Has anyone got this working?

(I’m on Sundachi if this means anything and I own the physical copy of 1+2)

[deft pumice]

Built into dolphin, game still has to support it and it can have some funky effects on some games, like Beyond G&E, it expands the view beyond intended so during like, certain screen transitions, you can see game extended past the intended area

It'll be under graphics and enhancements

[grave abyss]

Thank you

[deft pumice]

[zenith slate]

Tao posted up there were some issues and glitches with the widescreen hack on this one

It seems....really friggen weird

but there are action replay codes that somehow fix it lol

I had to do that for Pokemon Colosseum

And then it worked pretty good.

So I'm planning on doing the 4k texture pack on this one, seeing what happens with that, turning on widescreen hacks, and entering AR codes. But this will be my last game of the month. I will hopefully be starting beyond G&E tonight.

After last nights BG&E debacle :
buying/downloading/finding out it doesn't work on my ROG Ally/Refunding/finding + charging steam deck/buying/downloading/updating steam deck

I didnt get a chance to start last night lol.

[plush glen]

action replay or gecko codes are usually better for widescreen than the built-in widescreen hack that dolphin has. action replay codes can usually be downloaded within the emulator. gecko codes I generally have to copy/paste them in myself.

[deft pumice]

I have now made it to day 3 and have the day cycle. 2 whole ship parts now.

[zenith slate]

IIRC starting up is really slow

Takes like 5-7 in game days before the game stops fully holding your hand

[deft pumice]

Im mostly playing on breaks and lunches

Then if I finish pikmin, pokemon. If i finish pokemon, Katamari for my goty point.

Beyond is at home since I cant move my saves around

[zenith slate]

I feel like I may be good on GOTQ and GOTY lol

I'll try again next Q but not playing vanilla ruby or sapphire

[deft pumice]

Fair

[brave hawk]

so I could Survival Kids my way through this eh?

[wispy lava]

Zu I need you to confirm I'm not crazy and that this game so far has been "Watch pikmin slowly so something"

[tender igloo]

beat BG&E this morning so I'm gonna dig into this later when I'm done workin out. with the forgiving guidelines here I can't decide if I just want to let the cards fall where they may for 30 days or finally build a perfect ship like I never did as a kid

[deft pumice]

After Rapid said any ending works, im just going to play and see where I'm at on day 30 without looking stuff up

[tender igloo]

Yeah that sounds fun haha

[brave hawk]

CONFIRM

[wispy lava]

I've been watching this thread to see someone explain it, but I can't. I guess it's in the same genre as RTS games

[deft pumice]

Its Nintendo rts

[tender igloo]

I mean, yes

[wispy lava]

I doubted a bit because it always looked more action oriented than the typical RTS, but the active player role really just makes it slower

[zenith slate]

Baby's first RTS

[deft pumice]

Day 5 and still only have 2 parts lmao

I can see the appeal of the game, but i also see its not for me. I'll do this casual play, get my point and be done.

[outer zenith]

I’m quickly learning that multitasking is key

[craggy elbow]

lol I don’t think im doing well with the game. I had to restart as I lost my yellow pikmin on day 4 and therefore couldn’t progress. Restarted and on day 5 now but only 2 parts - not finding it easy and I’m not using a guide. Game is cozy tho

[zenith slate]

Even if you lose all of one color pikmin

I think they give you like 1-5 more the next day

Once they're "unlocked" their color coins show up so you can still farm more

You can't lock yourself out of progressing by wiping out every one of a specific color

[inner saddle]

They give you one for each onion you have, which is enough to then grow them back up using the flower pellets. The only enemy in pikmin is time, but it's a very generous one.

One hint for the real newbies; leave most of your pikmim planted while you're off doing something else. They'll become flower pikmim all on their own without the need for nectar, and flower pikmim are essential for dealing with all the enemies the penultimate stage throws at you. But don't leave them for too long, or they'll become leaf pikmim again.

[tender igloo]

Alright starting a casual run through, no guide no saves, no surprise if I don’t make it lol

[tender igloo]

Ahhh so whimsical and nostalgic

[ivory elk]

I accidentally drowned all my red Pikmin as the sun was setting

Depressing

Those poor creatures. So trusting T_T

Do i find out any Pikmin lore by the end of the game or is it just a fun mystery

Am I on ||post nuclear earth|| or what

[inner saddle]

Olimar makes observations on them as the days go on, but which entries you get is almost random. The thing is, we never get any concrete pikmin lore throughout the entire series, just the various captain's observations on them. Part of the charm.

[zenith slate]

Honestly I think the whole Pikmin "thing" is that you just experience it without explanation lol

[deft pumice]

Dang. Via corrected before I could throw out a meme response .

About how ofc we don't get concrete pikmin, they're plants.

[deft pumice]

That looks very not pikmin 1 of you.

[inner saddle]

Shhhh, the newbies don't know that 🤫

[zenith slate]

I really should play pikmin 4 some time

I've played all the other pikmin games (not the wii versions) but I have played 1,2,3 and "Hey! Pikmin"

The mobile game does not count

Also fun tidbit - My wife calls them Pimkins

[stuck kayak]

I just got Pikmin on my switch . Let’s go !

[inner saddle]

People say it's the best, but it's the weakest in the series for me... it's not a bad game, it's a good one even, but when I fire up a Pikmin game, I want to play pikmin, not 'Oatchi does everything with the occasional pikmin throw'.

[zenith slate]

Yea i forgot there was a doggo

[final gale]

By far the best

[tender igloo]

I’m five parts in 4 days rn, don’t like how few yellow I have rn lol

[deft pumice]

Wow, look at mr has a bunch of parts over here.

[final gale]

https://tenor.com/view/suits-im-not-bragging-if-its-true-bragging-pride-gabriel-macht-gif-7379432

[tender igloo]

lol my casual play turned pretty sweaty pretty quick, still not using like save states but totally using restarts to learn what things are possible in a day and trying to stay up to at least a part a day. I think the trick is you need to be doing multiple things at once, so really if you’re watching, you’re wasting time!

[inner saddle]

Okay, did manage to beat it in a day, and I'm pretty sure they did change the yellow pikmin AI.

For those experienced with pikmin, ||I could not do the optimal strategy to beat the final boss, since I could not get the pikmin to drop the bombs. Tried it for an hour and it was just not happening. Seems other people had the issue too... the yellow are smarter about not dropping bombs when you whistle and get themselves killed that way, but this screws you over majorly at the end.||

[ivory elk]

Ah an early "weird game"

[inner saddle]

Anyone else playing the switch version, I'd love if you could confirm this or not, but even if it is possible, it is so much harder than the gamecube version, it's not even funny.

[zenith slate]

Yes and no though. Its pretty clear its earth or earth like planet without dwelling on it. Just silly. Its nintendo.

[final gale]

I didn’t get that impression

[inner saddle]

I mean about the changes to yellow pikmin, not the game overall.

[final gale]

Oh

[tender igloo]

Oooof the three bird things wiped out most of my reds but I got the part so I’ll just try to rebuild the population

[acoustic rain]

I just threw my yellows over the nearby lower ledge, had them grab the part, then distracted two of the birds while they made their escape. PITA to kill them and they'll take a bunch of Pikmin with 'em.

[stuck kayak]

3 days 3 parts .

[dapper pivot]

on track!

[stiff nest]

I was not pleased with how many of my Pikmin the bird worms took from me.

Also does anyone have advice on how to beat the armored crab that spits rocks?

[final gale]

You have to ||clog it’s hole||

@deft pumice how many parts did you end up with at the end. I see you got “that” ending

[deft pumice]

Not a lot tbh cause I didn't really have fun with pikmin. Was more frustrating and tedious than I expected so hit a point where I just started skipping to the end

The only reason I didn't bail was because rapid said any ending worked

[zenith slate]

Again - Been awhile, I'll report back. I remember the birds being a pain, however, generally speaking the strat is always "Throw a buncha pikmin direct at something, as soon as they get shook off call them back" General rule is to keep them away from the enemy and behind you, only tossing what you need to attack them and then immediately using the call feature when the enemy goes on attach

[tender igloo]

Aw you can’t just skip to the end 30 times haha poor Olimar

I’m 12 parts in 10 days, cleared out the landing site and first level. I definitely get the game more than I did 20 years ago, multitasking better, more patient, not afraid to use a restart from last save just to wander around for most a day and plan

[zenith slate]

Exactly. This game is tricky if you're 8 like I was when it launched. As an adult, its really pretty chill

[umbral finch]

4 days, 6 parts. Not too bad. Literally got the last part at 0 on the countdown. I knew I could do it. Those birds destroyed my Pikmin though. Oh well, there's more where that came from anyway

Also, Wii controls on a handheld work pretty well. Feels like the game could use more buttons though. Separating the different colors of Pikmin is pretty annoying

[tender igloo]

Yeah I think that gets improved in later versions but I never played em

[acoustic rain]

Being able to cycle to which color Pikmin you want in the sequels - instead of separating and re-selecting them - is sorely missed in the first one.

[tender igloo]

12 days gone, 15 parts found, should be able to do this

[tender igloo]

lol had to reload because a part went flying off the map

[tender igloo]

I wish I could pull up a stats page mid day as well, does the sequels have that?

F to my yellows

[tender igloo]

Lost a bunch of blue my first day at the fourth level but got a couple parts, actually decided to go back to the impact site just to get my numbers up

[acoustic rain]

29 parts in 19 days, now on to the last one!

[acoustic rain]

Heck yeah! ||That penultimate Bulblax is a right pain in the ass though, took nearly a whole day to beat||

Done! Had a pretty good time revisiting this one, the HD textures especially made it look great. Some QOL stuff the later titles add is sorely missing, but otherwise I enjoyed my time.

[zenith slate]

How did the HD texture pack run for you? Was there any annoying setup?

I'll probably be on to this one in 1-2 weeks tops. I just started up BG&E Last night and it seems like its a relatively short game

[tender igloo]

Just the final trial to go now and I’ll be 3/3 for my first month

[acoustic rain]

Nah, pulled the file from website linked anove, and the instructions on what to do (move file to Dolphin, enable texture replacement in Dolphin, profit) are also on the website. Worked without a hitch, though I was on an Odin 2 Portal.

Easier than replacing PS2 textures, which is more involved.

I already pulled and moved the one for Pikmin 2 as well, and they've got a lot of Zelda ones as well.

[acoustic rain]

Last boss takes the better part of a day, so be prepared

[zenith slate]

Good to know! Thanks!

[tender igloo]

lol yeah I definitely just ended up throwing bodies at it at the end, but I got it, barely got the piece in time but I had more days anyway

[dapper pivot]

man the last boss is crazy. those big jumps are just decimating me

cries of nearly 100 pikmin

[acoustic rain]

PSA: that boss can't change direction in mid-air, so whatever direction it's facing when it lifts off run the opposite way. May still catch some Pikmin depending on what shenanigans you're doing, but you'll mitigate the damage.

I'm just pissed it threw a jump in halfway through the health bar. That big sum bitch shouldn't be able to jump!

[final gale]

Bro at that point I just let them sacrifice themselves for the greater good

[acoustic rain]

I did ||with the yellow Pikmin who held bombs, cause that stunned him if he ate them||

[tender igloo]

Yeah I started off trying to be very strategic by || loading up about 25 yellow Pikmin, 75 red, collecting bombs behind the back gate area and dismissing all but a few bombs and ~20 red into the arena, dismissed on the edge. Tried to keep him eating one bomb at a time and then loading up his stunned face with reds. It went okay for a bit, got him like less than half but then it fell apart and I just started hucking every pikmin I had left at him to finish the job ||

[acoustic rain]

https://tenor.com/view/yup-dale-doback-step-brothers-yes-i-agree-gif-1579811350903017250

I found ||standing slightly off to the side and chucking Pikmin at the jowels works pretty well, then running when it jumps||

Probably went through 300 Pikmin all said and done

[umbral finch]

8 days, 10 parts. Sucked getting that second piece on the first spot because there was nothing to do for most of the day

Same for my last part on the second place. Most of my time was spent building bridges. Missed getting 3 pieces in one day by one bridge

Then the next day was just running around wasting time. Got over 100 of each color at least I guess

[dense mirage]

I am playing it on my MacBook and the hd texture pack made dolphins crash whenever I click “graphics” item on the menu.

I asked in the hd texture discord but didn’t get any response

Anyone faced similar issues?

Does the hd texture comes with widescreen hack because it looks squashed when I am playing it in 4:3 but I can’t change it to 16:9 because whenever I click “graphics” it crashes.

[ivory elk]

Ugh I keep drowning my Pikmin because I don't notice the water

I think I'm just going to focus on growing yellow Pikmin for a day before moving on

[umbral finch]

Man, the last area is actually pretty tricky. Had a day with no items collected and felt like pretty little progress. Killed the iron beetle but don't have a path to take the part back. Walls seem like too big of obstacles. Not enough bomb to blow them up. Also, aiming for the bugs taking my guys and planting then randomly is a huge pain

19 parts in 13 days leading up to the final area, so I'm doing really well it seems

[tender igloo]

Yeah you’ve got plenty of leeway there. Damage to walls doesn’t reset so even if you aren’t finding enough bombs to do it all at once, do what you can

[upbeat edge]

anyone playing this on t618? so far so good, just wanna make sure it doesnt get bad lategame

[final gale]

Never tried one, but I know pikmin 2 crashed the gpu on the t618 after playing awhile

[dapper pivot]

Ah, I did not catch onto that. Ended up brute forcing it a bit and lost a lot, but I got it figured out!

Had a lot of fun with this one, might have to try out the next one

[craggy elbow]

9 days in and 9 parts done. Starting to understand the game more and more. Fully expect to get my arse handed to me in the next part of the game now that I have started to get comfy

[stiff nest]

Man reading everyone else’s posts makes me feel bad. I have 10 parts in 13 days and I have like no Pikmin left. At least all I have to do is get an ending of some kind, even if it’s bad.

[final gale]

https://tenor.com/view/skill-issue-pikachu-pikachu-skill-issue-gif-3559280283046901335

[stiff nest]

I’ve only played Pikmin 3 before and that’s because I got it with Mario kart 8 on Wii U for free.

[umbral finch]

Are you going into days with a plan? I check my nap frequently and plan a course of action. Don't be afraid to recon either. What are you losing Pikmin to? Avoid fighting as much as you can. You generally get boys faster than you lose them, but one bad fight can justify a reset

Also, is there a secret to throwing Pikmin high? There was one part that felt like I was glitching to get it down, and now there's another that I simply can't throw high enough for

[tender igloo]

Yellows throw higher

[jade ivy]

This distant spring level is rough. At 21 parts with 11 days

[sick estuary]

Shocked how fast I completed this. I only played it once before, but finished all 30 parts on day 19. I could have done it in 18 but I misremembered the final boss being super difficult and took a day i could reload if a save went poorly. Love this game. Even though, objectively 3 and 4 are better games, I think I like this one the best.

[acoustic rain]

I also remember it taking longer, but it really didn't. There's some QOL stuff (like switching types without dismissing) that's a pain, but otherwise it was quite fun to revisit!

I've never played 3 and 4, but I loaded the HD textures for 2 and now kinda wanna do the whole set

[sick estuary]

Some people really like 2, and to be fair, I do, but it's also my least favorite in the whole franchise.

Not counting Hey! Pikmin of course lol

[final gale]

2 has charm that 1 lacks

But 4 is definitely the best

Even if I wasnt a huge fan of the "leafling" storyline

[umbral finch]

11 days remaining or 11 days to get 21 parts? That sounds super fast if in 11 days

[jade ivy]

Oh that would be wild ha. 11 to go

[umbral finch]

I wonder what the minimum number of days to beat the game is

[tender igloo]

Pretty sure it’s like 9

[umbral finch]

That's pretty crazy. Just the starting place's 2 parts is 2 days

[tender igloo]

Yeah there’s probably weird speed run glitch stuff going on there I’d imagine

[umbral finch]

Watched a speedrun of the first 3 areas. Record is 6 days. Not many glitches actually besides an early one to get to the yellows early. Just crazy optimization

[umbral finch]

Good game. Nice and chill game about being a shitty commander and getting your troops killed. I mean, I guess they kind of deserve it if they keep just walking into water on their own despite not knowing how to swim

Weird. Credits showed monsters I didn't even see. Marmuta and some jelly monster

[acoustic rain]

Ah, those are the ones you see going back to Impact Site depending on the day

I think even days gets you jelly, and odd days gets you Maramuta

[stiff nest]

I do look at the map and generally plan out what I’m going to do…I’m just not very good at it lol. Still enjoy the game. It’s definitely a vibe.

[tender igloo]

A big part of getting good numbers is restarting the day if you’re not productive enough or suffer a tragedy

[jade ivy]

I’m at 26 parts and can’t figure out the last 3 on this level. What do the flowers do?

[acoustic rain]

They change the type of Pikmin

If you toss a blue Pikmin into a yellow flower, it becomes a yellow Pikmin, and so on

[jade ivy]

That makes sense! I thought it’d shoot them up to where I couldn’t reach ha

[acoustic rain]

That would be handy, but no

[jade ivy]

It didn’t help I was throwing blue into a blue and was so confused

Going to try more when this baby takes a nap. Really liking this game and excited to try more of the series now

[acoustic rain]

It was fun to revisit! I remember playing it back when I had a GameCube, but I don't recall ever beating it so I think it was a game store rental.

[umbral finch]

This was my first time actually playing Pikmin. Wish I hadn't slept on the series for so long. It's really enjoyable

I do wish controls were more intuitive. Hoping they tightened them up in later numbers. Throwing especially felt really imprecise. Seeing the arc would have helped tons.

[jade ivy]

About to finish up

I can’t seem to throw these yellow guys far enough with their bombs

[sick estuary]

Controls and the Pikmin's AI increases as the series goes on for sure.

[acoustic rain]

Yeah, they don't get stuck nearly as often in subsequent games

[craggy elbow]

10 days done and 12 parts found. Unlocked fourth area. Had to restart day 10 a few times as I was trying to figure out how to get a specific part and lost many pikmin in the process

[ivory elk]

I'm also bad at this game

Solidarity

Trying to not care

And just relax with my Pikmin

[neon coyote]

I didn’t really enjoy this game, although I really didn’t give it a chance, got 16 parts and the bad ending

[stuck kayak]

6 days 6 parts .

[brave hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/sleepy-viralhog-relax-rest-dog-gif-16800785006622249349

[stuck kayak]

9 days 9 parts but I am already puzzled out lol

[zenith slate]

I cant wait to fire this up and judge all of you for hating on these carrots

This game takes like 6 hours to beat tops lol

[stuck kayak]

I love to explore the planet , slowly figuring out how the wildlife and environment work .

I can understand why this franchise is so loved .

[frosty whale]

9 days 12 parts - just under half way there (for normal finish not 30/30)

[craggy elbow]

13 days 13 parts. The fourth location is a lot more challenging with the different type of monsters. I fear I am going to hit a wall soon

[stuck kayak]

I managed to get one part but at the price of losing more than half of my pikmin population .

[tall imp]

still early days in the game for me. i have never played a pikmin game before but enjoying it so far. i think i have 4 or 5 parts

[craggy elbow]

Yep I am having to be very strategic and careful with my yellow pikmin as i dont have many and need them to blow up the barricades! and the fourth location has those flying insects that picks them up and throws them to kill them

[torn yarrow]

What gonna start this tonight but could not get retro achievements to work for it

Cause I coild not figure out how go uncheck this could just not find the setting gerr

I'll look again tomorrow

[swift umbra]

Man, I suck at this game... I turn my yellow men into suicide bombers. Keep dilly dallying. Running out of bombs. I'm er, like 7 days in and have 3 parts. Never played a Pikmin game. I hope I don't have to replay the game

[plush glen]

if you're on pc, it's one of the first things you see when click on Config

[torn yarrow]

Thanks man ill look at it when I'm home later

[swift umbra]

Its strange because I'm getting RA and have that enabled

[torn yarrow]

I herd it also might be a bug tht I have to sign out amd sign back in so tht might also work🤣🤣

Who knows I'll look it up later

[stuck kayak]

I am at 12 days and 13 parts . Am I probably not gonna get all 30 parts but I still wanna try . So my question is : is it a good idea to waste a day to grow my pikmin population or I should save my extra day for later ?

[umbral finch]

If you're losing enough Pikmin to need to repopulate, you should probably restart the day. Some enemies can be super annoying and easily wipe out a lot, so I know they're frustrating. Practice fighting with ones that kill you a lot and then restart the day when you're ready and do them first in case you mess up. You're still on track for time even if you need to repopulate now. You can get 2-3 pieces in a day if you plan it out and avoid unnecessary fights

[inner saddle]

A little friendly tip for newbies, DON'T waste time taking out every enemy on the fourth level when you first arrive. Pick a direction, get all parts in that area, and only then start to spread out and take out other enemies.

This is because enemies respawn, including those annoying bulborbs north from your ship. If you don't get all parts in an area, you'll be wasting more time and pikmin taking them out again.

[umbral finch]

In new areas, I always rush the bombable walls and bridges. Set up the routes for items and then you can get a piece in like a quarter of a day

[inner saddle]

That area is the hardest one, so don't feel bad for needing several days, but focus on one area at a time.

[umbral finch]

Can also gather all the pieces up right next to the bulborbs and wait until the very end and kill them all and rush tons of pieces. I didn't do that, but it would probably work extremely well. Items stay where you move them over days

What I actually did was just not even kill them at all. Just had Olimar distract them while the Pikmin snuck by

[inner saddle]

Keep this in mind if Pikmin 2 ever wins, btw.

[stuck kayak]

All right thanks a lot ! I think I’ll repopulate now then !

[torn yarrow]

is anyone useing retro acivemnts for this game

cause iv got 3 diff numbers for the same file

[torn yarrow]

I got it had to play on OG dolphine

cant be on retro arch lol

[torn yarrow]

Ya so fair this is not my type of game we will see but at moment I'm pretty glad I got ss malee when I got my GameCube back in day and not this

[stuck kayak]

I managed to get one more part but my small population got even smaller . I’ll really need to repopulate soon lol

[tender igloo]

Heading back to the impact site is good for that

[stuck kayak]

Nice , I was not sure if area 1 or 2 was better

[torn yarrow]

https://tenor.com/view/good-night-cat-lizz-lizzy-gif-11840230538475982227

Live look at me trying to play this game🤣

[wind apex]

I played day 1 this morning. Never played Pikmin before at all. It’s really cute and charming, and feels decently chill. but reading through the thread is stressing me out a little! i think i’ll just try and take things at my own pace and see where that gets me. if i get the bad ending, i get the bad ending.

[tender igloo]

To get a good ending, you just have to be patient with the fact that if the day doesn’t go well, you don’t save and you restart it

[stuck kayak]

My go to is 1 part a day

[brave hawk]

I'm giving this the true blind experience

and if I keep getting frustrated by these suicidal fucking carrots wandering into water, then we'll Survival Kids this bitch

[craggy elbow]

I don’t see how you gonna get the hardcore satisfaction from this game 😂

[torn yarrow]

I'm not

I'm just gonna play through ot

And get whatever acivments I get

Ans what ever ending

Then never play it again 🤣

[craggy elbow]

I’m doing the same. I have made it to 16 parts 16 days. But it’s getting harder and harder

[zenith slate]

This game is way to calm for jc

[torn yarrow]

Facts I'll still play with no save states🤣

Not whatever achievements I get I get

I have no goal🤣

[zenith slate]

JC I don't know you personally but

https://youtube.com/shorts/a1VFf-RY8tM?si=9QUIYnyHmZdx0oCr

I feel like you'd be friends with this guy 🤣

(i would like to be friends with this guy but I don't think i'm cool enough lmao)

[torn yarrow]

🤣🤣🤣 he be great to party won!!

Not sure I'd wanna hang all the time might get a bit much🤣

But a few parties 100%

[torn yarrow]

And ya are plenty cool don't doubt yaself!!

[tender igloo]

Save states wouldn’t help that crazy much anyway, other than not having to replay the whole day

[stiff nest]

I’m tempted to just fast forward to sunset on each day to get through it and get the bad ending and move on. Currently on day 17 and have 11 parts so yeah I suck.

I keep getting distracted by God of War

[torn yarrow]

Honestly valid

[stuck kayak]

From the beginning I suppose that I will get blue pikmins that can swim . 16/16 and it’s still not happening .

[umbral finch]

You mean you don't have blues yet?

[craggy elbow]

I have done that a few times after getting a part and theres a about the quarter of the day left

[umbral finch]

Even with a quarter of time left, you should be able to get a part or move a part really close to your base. They don't reset after the day

[grave abyss]

I just worked out how to beat the clams

****ing clams

[stuck kayak]

Oh so blues do exist ?????

[stuck kayak]

Maybe the lack of blues is the reason the game is so hard for me . When I cross water I have to sacrifice dozens of reds and yellows lol

[umbral finch]

Uh, yeah. Don't do that. Blues are somewhere on the third map. Never bring reds and yellows in water

[zenith slate]

Yeah I always felt like this game was like. Ok lets start ya with reds. Ok Heres yellow

....

....

halfway through the game

OH YEAH HERES BLUE

[grave abyss]

Hands up who got switch joycons with improved ergo from another RH dude last month and dropped their switch yesterday so they no longer attach

(I have a g8+ so the only damage it to my soul)

[stuck kayak]

I am past halfway to the game and no blues in sight !!!

[stuck kayak]

Damn I feel like I have been everywhere on that map

I had to talk about it here to find it . LOL life would have been so much easier if I found those earlier

[grave abyss]

I got the blues on day 5 - my first day in map 3

[umbral finch]

Well, now you know why the game has been so challenging for you

[grave abyss]

If anyone has this problem, they show up on the radar map

[grave abyss]

Ok this ||bird necked burrowing|| boss on map two is kicking my arse. Might come back to my attempts to clear this one later

[umbral finch]

There's a secret to that fight. Spoilers in case you want to figure it out for yourself. ||Mash A as fast as you can.||

[grave abyss]

I’m not gonna reveal the spoiler, all I know is that my initial plan ||throw bombs|| did not work

[umbral finch]

OK. Once you beat it, feel free to check out my spoiler and see if you figured it out for yourself

[grave abyss]

I kinda did something similar, I realised you only had to ||beat the one nearest the water|| and I just pored critters into that goal

[stuck kayak]

Yeah that’s how I found that it’s a pikmin base and not just another part lol. I felt really really dumb . At least I had to get creative to gather parts without blues lol

[brazen plinth]

Started playing today, 6 parts so far in 6 days which I don't feel is too bad considering day 2 I was racing to get back and fell in the water and drowned all my pikmin and basically had to spend day 3 replenishing my pikmin. Think I'm getting the hang of it.

[stiff nest]

12 parts on day 22. This game just isn’t clicking with me. And I loved Pikmin 3. I’m just going to power through to day 30 and move on to beyond good and evil.

I appreciate the design and technical skill that went into making this game but playing it feels like work and the whole time I’m playing it I’m thinking of the other games I’d rather be playing.

[stuck kayak]

That sure is not a good sign lol

[outer crag]

I have learned that I don't know how to access the menu in Dolphin (when running on the Steam Deck from gaming mode via EmuDeck)

Binding back panels to Esc or Alt+F3 ain't doin' it

[stuck kayak]

20/20 . I might do it !

[final gale]

Looking at the completion screenshots

Didn’t realize this game was as difficult as it is

[outer crag]

Hmm. I am not sure what to do about stone walls

[inner saddle]

||Yellow Pikmin + bombs||

[outer crag]

...oh god dammit achievements were working a moment ago and now I'm booting the game up and getting "achievements are not supported for this title"

I just had a thought about what to do with the bomb walls and will see if I'm right (not clicking the spoiler just yet)

Maybe what I just found near one has something to do with it

[stiff nest]

Well I “finished” it with 12 parts and got an ending, so I’m marking this as complete and moving on. Godspeed to you all who are much better at this game than me.

[outer crag]

Now it's working again

Also is the emulator named after Olimar's ship?

[final gale]

I mean

That’s the logo

But was named for the GameCube’s codename

https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/05/05/say-hello-to-project-dolphin

[outer crag]

OK, got it

...I still don't know how to wield ||bomb rocks|| effectively

Against critters or objects

||Seems easy to self-injure|| 😦

[zenith slate]

It is but basically this game boils down to - fling pikmin, call them back

[inner saddle]

It is one of the few things they changed with the Switch version, and ||bombs were dropped in the later games||, so yes, it clunky. However that clunkiness can be used to your full advantage ||with the final boss||, which you can't with the switch version, so it's a trade off.

[outer crag]

Got it. Anything I should understand as far as fighting goes, or is it just, mash a big army into them and do the attrition?

||the big spotted things seem to have an AoE knockdown that keeps them from just getting overwhelmed by carrot armies||

[inner saddle]

The answer to that,|| is to call your pikmin off before they can be shaken off/stomped on. And because of this, throwing as many pikmin as you can isn't always the best, for it means some will still get caught in the crossfire even after you call them off. Personally, I rarely feel the need to have more than 15-20 pikmin on a large enemy. Or throw 5-10, call them off, and have another 10 with me ready to cycle them into the enemy the second their attack is finished. This switch always keeps my pikmin safe and mostly flowered, but always on the offensive.||

Also, to add to the yellow pikmin conversation, ||I frankly didn't use them for fighting at all in the GC version, as they were too clunky and prone to self deletion instead of stunning the enemy for it to be worth the risk. On the switch, their increased smarts does make it viable, but I was too accustomed to my old battle tactics to find much need of it.||

[torn yarrow]

Trying to motivate self to play this game has been a challenge...truly

[stuck kayak]

Don’t play it then . Don’t fall in the 3/3 trap. (But I don’t know why you don’t like pikmin it’s great )

[outer crag]

this is really useful to know actually, tyty

I didn't know how many Pikmin I should be throwing at large monsters in general

also assuming I should be, like. trying to get at least two parts a day when possible. (on day 2 forest of hope yet. I've made a couple attempts but keep getting interrupted)

[torn yarrow]

I'll get it done. It for me it's not anything other than it's to slow for me I think. It's has been boring me. But thts not a game design flaw or any flaw it's a me thing. Iv not played enough to have any ture issues. If I find any I'm sure I'll speak 🤣. But same goes for true greatness

[inner saddle]

Honestly, don't worry so much about time. Two is ideal, but one a day is the bare minimum. However, there are days where you'll be able to get three without much issue, and that will give you leeway to have days dedicated to just growing pikmin. The first time I played, I stressed out, wasted 6-8 days on the fourth level at least, and still managed to get all parts even though I also wasted two days on the final boss. I think I beat it on day 29 (||and got so mad when I saw what the last part was)||.

It's like the earlier atelier games, that time limit is way more generous than it appears to be. Reset the day if you feel like you've wasted it, and don't let it get to you too much.

[outer crag]

Aye aye

[final gale]

Honestly bro ||just sleep until the last day||. Any ending works

[torn yarrow]

Thts true but I gotta challenge myself alittle🤣. And give the game a complete fair chance

[final gale]

It’s had 24 years to be challenged

Let it go

[torn yarrow]

24 years tht iv never touched🤣

I knew it was a game tht existed

And tht was about it

And I vagly remember commercials for it

And knew it came as a launch title and in some bundles with the game cube

Thts about the extant of my knowledge of this game going into it

[torn yarrow]

Never anything i play or do I'll always do my best it's just how I'm programmed unfortunately 🤣

[final gale]

I wanna see what you eat for dinner then

[inner saddle]

Hey, I had the exact same feelings for Beyond Good and Evil, even though it's been in my backlog since it released for the PS3, but I find that it's sinking its claws into me. You never know, it might end up clicking with you if you give it a genuine shot.

[final gale]

And risk sunken cost fallacy?

[craggy elbow]

22 parts 25 days. It’s not looking good the 4th location proving to be difficult

[brazen plinth]

9 days down, 10 parts.

[wind apex]

okay how do you switch between colors?

is there seriously no way to control which color you’re using in the GCN version? this is enough to make me drop the game

yeah this sucks. Skill issue, I’m sure. but it’s clunky and stressful and unfun. what a shame.

[stuck kayak]

Really ? On switch you press x and they gather by Colors

[wind apex]

on gamecube the only way to sort them is to dismiss them, then hold A and supposedly they line up in color order, except in my experience that hardly works.

[grave abyss]

Day 11, 19 parts collected, thought I was about to get the last part in the forest, but no ||it’s a motherfucking giant metal spider which proceeded to kill all my red carrots||

Presume ||I need bombs||

[grave abyss]

No you need to dismiss your crowd and then only call back the colour you need

Ah ok, you already wrote this, my bad

[tender igloo]

Yeah no you just have to dismiss them, at which time they group themselves and you have to try to get your whistle circle on just the group you want. It isn’t great, I understand this is improved in the sequels

[wind apex]

im trying the switch version on yuzu, and it's playing fine, but the audio is busted

[final gale]

Just play on the switch you dumped the game from

No sense emulating it

[wind apex]

on a certain level, couldn’t this be said for nearly every game we play here for gotx? 😅

[grave abyss]

yeah, if you look all the switch emulators have busted sound with this game, I wanted to play it on a handheld (and I own the cart, so have no issue doing do) but ended up putting it back in the switch oled

[craggy elbow]

Got the bad ending. Finished with 27 parts. Overall enjoyable game - some frustrating parts

[stuck kayak]

I think this would be the good ending but not the best

Bad is under 25 from what I read here

(This discord is my only source of information)

[umbral finch]

Does holding A and then pressing B not change color? That's how Wii version works. Though dismissing and calling only the color you want does work better. I didn't have a good grasp of that until late game though

[zenith slate]

I've played pikmin a few times and I get there is some slop and annoyance but...to be honest so far in the quick 2 days I played through tonight after setting up hd texture packs I guess this game just clicks with me

But yeah for selecting pikmin you just dismiss and basically tap the recall button to grab a pile of them. You can also just run through dismissed pikmin to add them back to your "squad"

[outer crag]

Regarding combat. Should I be mashing a pile of carrots into things with C, or should I be throwing them onto the target like projectile weaponry?

...tried throwing at large monsters and got my ass handed to me

[umbral finch]

Depends on the enemy weakness. Smaller enemies you can just pile mash. Bigger ones it's better to have them attack while grabbed on. You should periodically recall them when you think the big guys are about to attack

[outer crag]

OK I figured it out

Big guy didn't even get a chance to counter this time

Oh hey, Pikmin idle but standing under their onion do in fact automatically get into it at the end of the day

Glad they have at least that much sentience

[outer crag]

Very productive third day. Got three parts courtesy of breaking down a bunch of barriers on day 2, and made a bunch more carrots

Have five parts including the radar now

Left one single carrot behind. Poor carrot 😦

Also rest in piece eight brave carrots rekt in battle

85 red carrots, 83 yellow carrots... maybe I should focus more on red carrots for fighting prowess? Yellow carrots seem more situational

Oh hey that's half the parts in the Forest of Hope down. I'm not super-confident in my ability to clean it out right now tho

Should probably go searching for the blue onion

Honestly it's probably a good thing I'm playing this game. It's stretching capabilities I'm shit at. This is sort of Executive Function: The Game so far, with a side of exploration (exploration being more my usual speed)

For now tho... back to work

[grave abyss]

Anyone in the home “area” will be saved at the end of the day automatically, they don’t need to even be directly under the onion

[outer crag]

OK, good to know. I can just leave Pikmin after carrying a ship part home and they'll be fine?

[grave abyss]

Yup - it’s what I do

[outer crag]

That makes things a lot simpler tbh

[grave abyss]

I would even say it’s unlikely you can clean it out with the abilities you have at the moment

[outer crag]

I'm trying to use a strategy of leading larger groups than I need and delegating them to taking things home as I go

And then they get a break while I'm out dicking around breaking barriers and putting down monsters

Is there one color I should make more of? Red seem to be best for "general use" given the fighting power, but I don't know how critical that is

OK this radar gonna be super handy

...maybe I should not haul around a large army of reds and yellows in the swamp. They are not smart enough to not throw themselves in the water

[outer crag]

Productive day, but I could have done better

Two parts and a blue onion

Left behind 12 Pikmin. Yeah no I feel too bad about that

Time to make some better decisions and not try to overextend myself later in the day

[outer crag]

Cleaned out the crash site. Except I missed a 20-count yellow pill because I was really busy. But I still sprouted 179 carrots total and got the other part there so fuck it

Half the problem was that I hit a point where I had so many carrots in the ground I couldn't get more out to work, and I ended up picking carrots as the sundown timer was ticking down. Got them all tho

Lost all of one single carrot to a clam. may the Valkyries speed you to Valhalla brave little carrot

All right y'all don't need my blow by blow this morning

[umbral finch]

Yellows are useless anyway. Keep less than 10 to hold bombs, and other than 2 items that need yellows to be thrown higher than the others, they have no benefit as far as I can tell

If you have a lot of yellows, maybe let them practice their swimming skills

[inner saddle]

No. Don't make too many yellows, but don't kill them either. You'll wish you had them at a specific point. 30 is a good number.

[stuck kayak]

I leave behind dozens of them all the time , no big deal

[outer crag]

I have like 90 or so yellows, so I'll just assume they're good for now unless I stumble on a big yellow pill and have the time

I've got like... 170-ish reds? and I forget how many blues, but a reasonable helping

[stuck kayak]

Yeah you should be good . I would definitely priorise blues over yellows

I like to have at least 100 reds and 100 blues so I can make massive attacks both on the ground and on water

[outer crag]

Well yellows ended up getting lowest billing at the launch site. Red and blue got a lot of fuel

[umbral finch]

Over 100 reds and blues and you're set for the end game. Just replenish any that die

[stuck kayak]

I am at 24/24 now

[outer crag]

If I've got enough pikmin to clear out the game at 06/09 I'll assume I'm doing well so far

I tend to be really careful with them

[stuck kayak]

Lost quite a lot of blues last day though so I have only like 50 now

[outer crag]

They are precious buds

[stuck kayak]

Not really they are renewable resources

I will have 100 again in no time

[zenith slate]

I recall doing like 40/40/20 (20 yeller) often back when I first beat this

[umbral finch]

Flowered Pikmin are precious. They're better... I think. Don't really know what the flower does but I assume makes them less bad

[zenith slate]

Faster for sure

Like significantly

[umbral finch]

Oh yeah. Flowers actually keep up with mini man himself

[acoustic rain]

It increases their walking speed and it increases how quickly they carry items

[final gale]

Everywhere I go they follow

[umbral finch]

Without some kind of foliage growing out the top of it, it looks... naughty

[final gale]

Just a droopy carrot

[stuck kayak]

So what’s the hardest enemy ? For me it’s the frog

[inner saddle]

For me it's the frogs too, but a lot of people also hate the little fly things that steal your pikmin and the purple enemy that blows them away, deflowering the little carrots and potentially drowning them. Frog is most fatal though.

[tender igloo]

Frogs ain’t too bad you just gotta c stick em away from the landing spot and then use the c stick to swarm em so they can’t jump again

The big bulb dudes I lose more too

[final gale]

Always watching

[grave abyss]

Yeah, I didn’t find frog too bad, just throw 5 on top of them, wait for them to jump, throw 5 more when they land and then call back the ones that crashed into the ground

[torn yarrow]

Turns on pikman, wants to give it a chance, plays for 5 min, man I'm bord, turns off, repeat 🤣

[outer crag]

hey fuck this ||snake bird|| boss what do

snake bird what the fuck

I have to be doing something wrong

[outer crag]

OK I'm seeing the "trick" to it but still this is tedious and impossible

[outer crag]

I hate these fuckers so god damn much

[outer crag]

Christ. Spent that entire day just cleaning out goddamn snake birds

hopefully they stay dead

[grave abyss]

Five parts left, 9 days left

All of what’s left require beating goddam bosses

I know the trick for ||anteater|| boss, just gotta ||do it twice||. I don’t like ||spider boss||, and I’ve not yet tried to beat a ||floating purple thing||

[outer crag]

there, now I never need to go back to the Forest of Fucking Bullshit again

[grave abyss]

I preferred the forest of bullshit to either of the next two zones

[outer crag]

oh, god

"The Distant Spring." I'm gonna need more blues aren't I

I count 16 parts ungathered between The Forest Navel and The Distant Spring. That, with the 13 parts I have, makes 29. I'm going to guess there's, like, a final area or something

Oi. I just wrapped day 9. 13 parts. I know this is technically ahead of schedule but it's worse than the two parts a day I'm aiming for, because the snakebirds were a whole-day project unto themselves, even before hauling the part back

...Hmm. I need to decidewhich doors I'm going to blow up each day here I guess

at least I think I recall where to get explosives

Looks like I can get... ||ten rocks a day from the cans?||

god the controls for handling rocks are such a pain

oh hey, Omega Stabilizer get. Bad ending available?

[umbral finch]

You could have ignored all the ones that aren't the one holding the part. They don't seem to bother you

[outer crag]

They seemed pretty hungry for carrot

all right, cleared some extra pathways... well... did a lot of damage to at least one extra barrier here

cleared out a bunch of fire-breathers... I think I'll be blowing out another barrier and leading an aquatic battle campaign tomorrow

[umbral finch]

Weird. I could just beeline it for the one and I never saw the others until I was carrying the part back and they pulled their heads up. Maybe lost a few then. Can't remember too well

[outer crag]

Maybe that would've worked and I was being overly careful. I'm just ambivalent about having my carrots haul things through a minefield

[umbral finch]

I think the fire breathers respawn. I try to avoid fighting them too because they seem to always kill a lot of the stupid little guys

[outer crag]

I expect they'll respawn soon enough, but I'm hoping they stay dead at least, like, a single day

that'd be nice

[umbral finch]

The piece I think you're going for is a real pain. Basically the most combat you need to do for a single piece

[outer crag]

I already got the piece held by the mushroom thing in the forest navel. and a few other parts I don't remember

I'm going for the one all the way in the water today, guarded by a bunch of froggies

And then there's... oh god the piece at the top of the forest navel

[umbral finch]

There's a boss on each map, but they're pretty simple. I lose more to smaller enemies that happen to catch me with my pants down

[outer crag]

You're right, the firebreathers respawn overnight

motherfucker

at least I have another barrier open. one of the nasty stone ones

[stuck kayak]

I got half of the parts of that level without even knowing for sure that pikmin was a thing lol

[stuck kayak]

They don’t respawn . I don’t think any enemies respawn

[stuck kayak]

I killed them all in one day and they were gone for ever

[outer crag]

oh god dammit I nearly had no pikmin left behind but then a handful decided to go pick a fight with something

oh well, at least I know where to find two parts tomorrow

39 lost in battle. hell's bells those frogs are absolutely lethal

[outer crag]

...the mushroom was a fake boss fight fuck this shit

nope I need yellows for this nonsense

[tender igloo]

I killed all three birds when I played because I didn’t know which had the part and got unlucky lol

[ivory elk]

Oh my god I got my radar to my ship at 1 second to sunset

And I had to use myself as a decoy to get past the ladybug guarding it

That was pretty tense

[outer crag]

Realtalk this game is the most brutal gardening sim I've ever played

Like if you were doing a blind run and not restarting the day when you eat shit, you would not be getting out with all 30 parts

[ivory elk]

That makes me feel better

I am doing a blind run, I did restart the game once on day 4 tho

[outer crag]

Honestly

I probably should have gone ahead and committed to that bit and just taken it as it comes

But I'm being a bit of a perfectionist

[outer crag]

Forest Navel fully cleaned out

I took an elite strike force of ||20 yellow flower pikmin against the boss and lost 9||

13 days down, 19 parts gathered

Time to visit The Distant Spring for the first time

[outer crag]

honestly that's more wild than any story I have of this game yet

sf;klajsdfljk

how do I get my pikmin out from under a frog

[umbral finch]

What do you mean fake boss?

[outer crag]

Oh, the big mushroom ||in the forest navel that's holding a part. the one that runs away from you, but it's big enough that you could mistake it for a "boss." nope. that is not the Forest Navel boss||

[umbral finch]

Oh, the boss there is the long legs then I guess, right?

[outer crag]

Yes.

...also what are these weird flowers I can throw my pikmin into?

also uhhhh

fuck the distant spring upside down and sideways, holy shit

this is a nightmare

this is where bad pikmin go when they die

[stuck kayak]

Make sure they never go under a frog . Worst place to be!

[outer crag]

that's the hard part

...

what is this big ugly thing stalking around my onions

is this a ghost of all the ladybugs I've killed

[outer crag]

this creepypasta ass thing

[umbral finch]

Throw a Pikmin of a different color into it

[grave abyss]

this is what i did too - there were a few casualties, but nothing too bad

[inner saddle]

This is ||a consequence of going to the distant spring too early. It spawn's this thing's egg somewhere in the water, and if you don't kill it fast enough, this spawns. If you haven't saved the day, pick another location to collect parts in until day 16. Or reset and immediately search for the egg when the day starts.||

[grave abyss]

oh that's why it stopped stalking me, I assumed i'd just killed it enough

[outer crag]

I'm on day 14 (as in that's my next day; I've completed 13 days) and all three other maps have been completely stripped

I have nowhere else to get parts, so I guess I have to face the creepypasta

[inner saddle]

Then as soon as the day starts,|| grab a crapton of blues, go into the water. Find the section with a lot of little pieces of land not quite connected, the egg will be in the middle. You can kill it before it hatches. You won't get any reward for it besides it not annoying you though. The thing will always go straight for your onions.||

This thing is ||meant to be a secret to catch more experienced players off guard, so congrats for making it there so quickly on your first go.|| You're on track for the best ending, no problem.

[outer crag]

||what if I just stay away from it||

[outer crag]

Oh I've been restarting a lot. This is not just me breezing or being especially good at the game; it's me being kind of a perfectionist

[inner saddle]

Nope. ||It will always be there in your onions, ready to murder your pikmin if they get any part. It literally will not go away.||

[inner saddle]

Well, you're more than ahead of schedule, so if you really don't want to deal with this thing, go spend a few days at the impact site growing more carrots. You're gonna need a lot of blues for the distant spring,|| and reds for the final area||. If you still have your 90 yellows, you're good to go. Let your pikmin flower on the ground before you pick them, really bulk up those flowered numbers.

[outer crag]

I've got like 200+ reds and 150 blues in the onions. And almost 100 yellows

[inner saddle]

Although...|| if you fight the beast after it hatches, you'll get a pearl that will sprout 100 pikmin as a reward.|| I personally never find it worth the trouble, this thing sucks.

But otherwise yeah,|| either deal with the thing or leave to waste time. This thing won't let you do anything else, trying to sneak parts past it is almost impossible.||

Oh and, ||this thing regenerates health if you're not fast enough||. Enjoy!

[umbral finch]

Oh so that's that egg thing I killed. I went late into the water when I unlocked that area too

[inner saddle]

This thing is the reason why I'm never in a rush to get everything done no matter how many times I replay this game, cause this is what you get for being too good or perfectionist at it. No thanks, I'd rather chill and take my time. The 30 days is more than generous enough.

[stuck kayak]

Lol I beat the last boss with 1 second remaining

I sacrificed like 200 pikmins for this one . I know I could have come up with an actual strategy but fuck it

[umbral finch]

Sacrificing 200 Pikmin is the strategy

[tender igloo]

It’s the last boss, go for broke!

[grave abyss]

I just realised why I like this game and don’t mind repeating levels

I think it’s because it’s got somewhat of a Lemmings vibe

[stuck kayak]

So far I am the only one who lost more than a thousand pikmins according to the completion posts lol

[grave abyss]

Day 18, two parts left, the one guarded by ||the fucking terrifying metal spider|| and the presumed final boss

[ivory elk]

What are these stupid metal anteaters

I kind of hate this game

[ivory elk]

I feel that I will also hit this milestone lol. I keep wandering into the water

[outer crag]

There, finally committed to a completion of my 14th day. Got three parts, all of which are, like, the easy ones to get to in The Distant Spring. Pikmin Vietnam starts on day 15

I'm just looking at, like, the little tunnel with the water and the couple frogs beyond the west stone barrier. that is not a theater of combat I like the looks of

and it's probably just going to get worse from there I'm sure

[plush glen]

Just started last night and on day 6. Are you supposed to be able to clear an area before moving to the next? My guess is no and I’m supposed to return when I have more abilities.

[inner saddle]

Yes, you're meant to backtrack. Not even the very first area you land in can be completed in your first go.

[zenith slate]

Every generation has their Vietnam

[outer crag]

I used to look at people who got like 600 carrots killed over the course of the game like what the fuck. Now I look at what lay ahead and I understand.

[zenith slate]

Its been a minute but I remember like ATLEAST 200-300 pikmin deaths in my most recent (10 years ago probably) playthroughs

I only pushed through the first 2 days and lost a few pikmin to the big bulbears

[stuck kayak]

I had 1300

[outer crag]

OK I ain't gonna have 1300

[final gale]

Inb4 final day on final boss

[outer crag]

all right I need to buckle down and finish this. I've only got like eight parts left, and I'm on the second-to-last map (the first three maps are cleaned out)

I'm on day 15 (as in, finished 14). I've got the three "easy" parts in the Spring. I'm just not liking the looks of the theaters of combat in the north half of the map

Anyone have any tips that aren't, like. Prepare to throw carrots into the meat grinder?

[umbral finch]

Don't fight, just run. Use your pathetic melee attack to distract and move the bugs while your guys sneak through with the piece

[outer crag]

Huh, there's a thought. I'll bear that in mind for areas I won't have to pass through multiple times

[umbral finch]

All the land side pieces basically need to run through the area with the three big bugs. They suck to fight. Usually two of them stay sleeping and only the closest bug to the gate wakes up and attacks

[outer crag]

(I'm looking at the little water channel on the other side of the west stone barrier, the one with frogs in it, and the foliage gate that needs to be busted down. I feel like that one I should probably clear out)

Yeah the big bugs especially I will bear this in mind for

I really dislike fighting things in water. The blue pikmin just feel like very poor fighters compared to the red ones, so they're operating at a disadvantage

I am really paranoid about aggro-ing multiple frogs at once, though I guess "run away" could work

[umbral finch]

Kill the frogs. They suck. There's only 2 or 3 you need to kill

Use only 10 or so to fight them. Send the 10, then immediately call back before the frogs squash them

[outer crag]

In the immediate future? Probably three. There's one guarding the big 50-pikmin part by the west stone gate, and then two more guarding the foliage gate in the little creek

10. I've been using 15 but I'll try 10

(and yeah they suck to fight. sometimes I can beat them with zero casualties, but it's easy to screw up)

I've been playing this on my Steam Deck, but for theme reasons maybe I should see about moving it to my RP3+ going forward

(realtalk Steam Deck is kind of the best retro handheld I've used so far, in that it does Gen 6 well and can also run the big pile of remasters and remakes that have come out)

[umbral finch]

Steam Deck is basically perfect except for battery life. Come up with shrinkalyzing technology so I can carry it in my pocket and I'll never need anythingelse

[outer crag]

Thankfully for emulation its battery life is not half bad. Doesn't stretch its capabilities a lot

[zenith slate]

Alright. Played 1.5 days of this on my lunchbreak as I'm done Woody Pop. Day 3 and 4 spent in the second area breaking walls and clearing out.

Lost more pikmin then I thought, apologies to everyone - I was sitting here all smug wondering why folks were having a hard time lol. The Big Bulbears are giving me a bit of trouble.

Its "fine" and its super easy to rebuild your pikmin numbers though, just, again, lost more of them then I thought. Got enough parts now though that I should be able to get blues in 1-2 days then go back and clear out the first area and get that second part

[outer crag]

the black bugs in the spring have kids now. this is going to make things a bit more difficult

...but not too much more difficult because I did learn how to deal with them without losing pikmin

that technique is ||put your pikmin away and just punch them to death||

[grave abyss]

Some of the beasties will track you and not the pikmen so if you walk ahead you can lead them away. You will keep needing to dodge the attack though

Also I regularly add 15 extra pikmen to a carry group just so some can get eaten and it’s ok

[outer crag]

I made it a couple days with very minimal casualties. Like five across two days? That was getting the gluon drive, zirconium rotor, and pilot's seat

But it was definitely an Effort

next item on the list is probably the boss fight

and then...

grimaces.

Not looking forward to the quagmire in the northeast.

also with 25 parts and 14 days remaining I've lost about 200 pikmin so far. I've been too careless

[grave abyss]

You’re approaching this game like I did cannon fodder

[final gale]

The battlefield was quiet now. Charred leaves fluttered in the breeze, and the soil still smoldered from the chaos that had unfolded moments ago.

Red stood near the edge of the ridge, his tiny leaf trembling. The others were gone.

Two hundred had charged beside him—reds, yellows, and blues. A full unit, hand-picked, ready to take down the Bulb-Orb that had made its nest near the water’s edge. The sun had barely risen, but they’d moved fast. Today was supposed to be a victory.

At first, it was.

Yellows launched over gaps and walls, detonating bombs they’d carried with care. Blues waded into the shallow stream, driving the beast from the water. Reds—tough, fireproof, determined—led the front line.

The Bulb-Orb reeled, stunned by the precision of the attack.

And then… it rolled.

A panic reflex. A last resort.

But it crushed everything in its path.

The screams had echoed, sharp and sudden. Yellows scattered too late. Blues slipped in the mud trying to retreat. Red tried to rally them, yelling from the front, dragging a wounded blue from under a root—only for the beast to slam down again.

When the dust settled, Red stood alone.

Two hundred had marched in.

Only he remained.

He turned to the captain’s floating camera drone, still silently recording from above. His soot-smeared face was calm. But his eyes?

Cold.

“Red will remember that.”

The drone hovered silently, capturing the scene. But Red didn’t wait for orders. He turned back toward the forest.

Tonight, he’d dig tiny graves.

Tomorrow, he’d train.

[plush glen]

I'm at 9 ship parts and everything left seems like it requires the pikmin to go into water

[torn yarrow]

This Pic is aswome even if the game not for me this Pic is great art work

[plush glen]

It’s AI generated

[torn yarrow]

I'm ok with tht🤣

[zenith slate]

6 days - 9 parts. I love pikmin, my only complaint is it always feels over too fast

[outer crag]

Started day 18 with three parts left in the spring, all in the north half. Got two of the three parts. Zero casualties.

kinda proud of myself tbh

12 days left and only 2 parts remaining. 214 casualties over the course of the game (rip)

Took me a few tries to take out the cannon bettle boss with zero casualties but that's a fight where you either lose zero pikmin or you lose half your squad it feels like

One last part in the spring. None of the anklebiters left in the gauntlet. Gave'em all the Olimar Special

Here goes nuthin'

[plush glen]

Anyone know how many rock bombs are in each can? I thought once they disappeared visually they were out but it seems there are more.

This has cost me some time.

[outer crag]

Yeah. It's not entirely clear how many, and i wasn't able to get an easy count myself

they seem to respawn daily tho

[cedar pilot]

I think it's a bit variable. I remember one can gave me 4 but another one 6-7

[outer crag]

My last couple days in the spring were 0 casualties. I was expecting Vietnam

the spring has turned out to be, like, the least lethal area for me

(something something knowing what I'm doing now I guess)

[zenith slate]

I just did day 7, just one part. Flipping between the "navel" and the "Forest of hope" - Spent most of the day clearing out fire pigs. I did manage to get one part. I was super close to another part but the dang frogs got in the way

[outer crag]

the frogs are the devil

there is kind of a "trick" to beating them, it's just easy to screw up and lose a bunch of carrots

and then you feel bad

anyway, I'm at 29/30 parts, with 11 days left and 214 total casualties. I'm going to wait to finish it until, like. I have a friend whose favorite game is Pikmin, and she wants to watch me take on the final trial

[zenith slate]

Yeah I noticed you just have to try to steer clear, fling them on top without missing, and then call them back when it lands

Either that or swarm to the point it can't jump but that doesn't seem 100% Reliable

[outer crag]

I try to call them back as the frog is falling so that they aren't flung too far for your whistle radius to reach them

[zenith slate]

Thats pretty dang good gay. I remember beating it awhile back and don't recall having THAT much time left

[outer crag]

In fairness, I haven't been "playing it straight." I restart a lot.

[zenith slate]

I felt really good with 3 parts in one day, but then finishing up the first area (which is obviously just the one part) and then just one part again in the "navel" I don't feel as awesome lol

Yeah I think I restarted one day but its because I forgot I needed blues to clear the first area

[outer crag]

It comes in fits and starts. Some days, you're not sweeping up three parts, but rather getting maybe one part and also breaking down a bunch of problems between you and other parts.

So that you can get those parts the next day

Yeah you're doing better than I am if you're just playing it straight and taking each day as it comes. I very much did not do that

I'm not using save states or anything, but I restarted most days more than once

[zenith slate]

Yeah thats sorta where I'm at. I got atleast ONE part on day 7 but again, most of it was clearing stuff out - The days are so short I haven't really needed to save scumm.

As it goes on though I will probably restart a day if I can't get ONE singular part that day

Still debating if I want to fight the Smoky Progg or not

[outer crag]

Yeah you're better at this game than I am, by far

What's your boundary for acceptable pikmin losses, incidentally?

I can be skittish about sacrificing pikmin, but still managed to lose 214 so far just because, like. Sometimes it's hard to imagine doing something, or a whole sequence of somethings, without losing a couple dozen

(I am not going to be one of those people that ends the game with like 600 little carrot-sized graves tho)

[zenith slate]

TBH I haven't really had anything other then "collateral damage" Like I would say the average is like 20-40 pikmin per day

But I haven't fought anything crazy

Really so far just bulbears, fire pigs, a few clams, a few frogs.

Like I may lose a decent chunk in one or two fights, but because I can quickly just pump the numbers right back up it feels inconsequential

[final gale]

https://youtu.be/nEkwdlcwhCc?si=URjPQxQJ2w9gsfWY

[outer crag]

As my dear friend, who, like. Pikmin is her favorite game ever. put it

A key mechanic of Pikmin is that the pikmin are cute

and it is anticipated that the player will be trying to conserve pikmin lives not simply for cost-benefit reasons, but because they're cute

[final gale]

Isn’t that the basis of human offspring too?

Ingrained evolutionary instincts

[brazen plinth]

As someone with a human offspring, yes. They're so dadgum cute you will do anything to keep them safe and happy.

[plush glen]

I would not yeet my kids toward a giant frog

[grave abyss]

Look in your map on the 3rd location to find the blues

[zenith slate]

Yeah I feel a tiny bit bad when the pikmin get kilt, but also, gotta keep gettin parts and moving on lol

[plush glen]

so I completely ignored the blue onion because I thought it was another ship part buried in water that I just couldn't get right now

[zenith slate]

Honestly day 9 is not that far. Nothing to stress about there

[plush glen]

I'm on day 13 now because I assumed that the water pikmin must be in the next area that I unlock. sooo a little behind right now but we'll get there.

[zenith slate]

Eh. Wouldn't stress

[outer crag]

How many parts?

[plush glen]

10. but now I can get all the water ones so I am not stressed.

weird, discord thought I was typing a list

[outer crag]

I wish you the best of luck. hopefully you'll be able to do 2-3 parts a day from now on until parts of The Distant Spring

[final gale]

What if you knew they could kill it

[stuck kayak]

All this discussion is making me think I am not a good human

[stuck kayak]

Same for me . I still managed to get 16 parts without blues . You?

Ok 10 , I saw your answer in your posts

[zenith slate]

I mean I've played this before but I very explicitly looked for blues so I didn't miss them due to your mishaps lol.

I just did day 8, one part again. On day 9 with 11 current parts. I SHOULD be able to get 2 parts in the next day in the forest Navel. One is in the water but has the flame vents, so thats annoying. The other needs a geyser and like yellows, idk just yet. Need to explore with some blues and might save scumm just to not lose time in this specific instance

[keen orbit]

Y'all, I can't with these little idiots lmao

I'm still early in the game, five parts recovered, but I was fighting one of thr big bulbins. I have a yellow with a bomb, so I threw it at the bulbin

This little shit turns around and throws the bomb AT ME

Lost like thirty pikmin

He was actually aiming at the flower next to me but still wtf lol

Oh I'm sorry, FORTY

The only game I've played before now is 3

[final gale]

Go play 4

[sonic brook]

I've only played Pikmin 1, 2, and the mod 251.

[keen orbit]

Can't afford it

I just lost 80 pikmin getting the ||geiger counter||, and I didn't even collect it, I have to go back for it

How do you guys deal with having to get large numbers of pikmin across narrow bridges?

[stuck kayak]

Inevitably I leave a bunch behind lol

[keen orbit]

Yeah, lost a bunch there. 😭

Thankfully I'm ahead of schedule so I spent a day refreshing my numbers

[plush glen]

16 parts after 16 days. Back on track!

[zenith slate]

I managed to get the last two parts i needed at the forest navel area in one day, so that's p cool. Im at like day 11 with 16 parts

[keen orbit]

I just had my first big loss 😦 but I'm challenging myself not to restart days

(Except for one day where I just accidentally clicked the wrong location)

Lost 50something blues to those fire pigs in a single attack

Couldn't get them put out in time. Idk why they were taking it right past him when there was a clearer, safer, and faster way the other direction.

[plush glen]

I have noticed that. I wonder if some of the bad pathing is intentional.

[keen orbit]

I did notice after I couldn't hurt the forest of hope boss that I could just distract him while my pikmin literally shoved him out of their way with the part lol

I hate the navel I hate the navel I hate the navel

[plush glen]

how do I get this part in forest of hope?

[keen orbit]

You have to circle around southeast

[umbral finch]

Kill bird

[keen orbit]

Then kill the bird

I didn't get any parts today but I got two most of the way to the ship. Maybe three parts today?

...I just rage quit.

[plush glen]

I'm confused on how to get pass this box. throw the pikmin on top... how does olimar get past. wait, I think I figured it out while typing this. don't tell me lol.

[keen orbit]

Was trying to open the stone wall blocking a part near the fire geysers and one of my yellows ran right into the fire holding a bomb despite me holding back and waiting for it. Lost all of the pikmin I had with me, 20 yellows.

I think it's time for a break.

"Oh, there's fire ahead. Better wait for it to stop so I don't catch fire and the bombs don't explode."
"LEROOOOOO-"

[umbral finch]

Reds are immune to fire so you know. It would have been great if the game ever actually told you that

[umbral finch]

Gross. What is that, a manual? Nerd

[outer crag]

People have been asking about moving large armies

When my Pikmin-loving friend watched me play, she found it peculiar that I do not use them

I tend to take a very limited amount of Pikmin with me. Like if I'm taking even 40, it's for a big grindy task like building a bridge or moving a large part

Oftentimes I only take like 20, and rarely do I take more than a single color at a time

Moving large armies at once has a lot of problems that other people have noticed, and small crews is how I manage those problems

Like large armies makes it easier to lose Pikmin because the area of Pikmin you have to worry about is so much larger

Like for boss fights like ||the spider or cannon beetle|| I take like 20. Much easier to manage them without stragglers getting merked that way

For bridges... those suck. If I can, I do something like take a big pile of blues through water or something instead

[keen orbit]

Oh I knew that part, but the part I was grabbing was in the water so I was using blues, I'd cleared out most of the fire pigs and I thought that one was well out of the way

[keen orbit]

I never figured out how to kill the cannon beetle so I just distracted it while my army moved the part

[outer crag]

||you'll have to learn eventually||

[keen orbit]

||Whhyyyyyyyyy 😭||

[plush glen]

I did the distraction thing too lol. But yeah I’m staring at another one of those in distant spring.

[keen orbit]

I just looked up how to fight it. I never would have considered trying that.

[plush glen]

Damn. Ok let’s see if my brain can figure this out.

[stuck kayak]

I think you just put on yourself a restriction that others like me don’t : you try not to lose too many pikmins . Of course you will lose more if you bring huge armies but you will do everything quicker so you have plenty of time at the end of the day to repopulate .

[stuck kayak]

It actually told me at some point

[outer crag]

I've already lost 214

So clearly I'm not doing a good enough job of protecting them as it is

[stuck kayak]

214 casualties and how many parts ?

[outer crag]

29

I'm probably going to finish it next week with my friend watching

[stuck kayak]

lol you are doing an amazing job . Look at the completion screens : 214 could be the lowest

[outer crag]

Depends how many I lose in the last level

But this isn't skill, it's effort. Most attempts at a given day I'm dissatisfied and start over

I can't just take shit as it comes for whatever reason

[stuck kayak]

The only thing that matters is the result

[plush glen]

Skill and effort aren’t that different

[keen orbit]

I normally can until that bullshit last night

Leroy jenkins-ass yellow

[plush glen]

I’ve reset a bunch of times when things go bad. Also just use Olimar to scout/make a plan and then reset to execute.

But I’ll take my lumps.

[outer crag]

I also use Olimar to clear out small monsters where it's feasible. This saves me a few lives

[tender igloo]

I think most people treat the lil carrots as a bit dispensable lol 29 is way low for most people! About 1000 died in service of my repair mission 🫡

[umbral finch]

Really? When did it do that? I don't recall ever seeing any such message. Unless it's one of the end of day logs that change based on any mistakes you make

[plush glen]

what's 1000 dead carrots when olimar needs to get back to his kids!?

[tender igloo]

You know, I didn’t want to upset the local ecosystem, I did after all raise all of those

[outer crag]

29 is the amount of parts I have

[tender igloo]

Oh silly me ha

214 ain’t bad either

[outer crag]

214 is my death count, including 209 lost in battle and 5 left behind (I tend to be fairly religious about not leaving anyone behind)

Like I periodically check my radar for stragglers when marching

Which is important not just for death-minimizing reasons but also because I travel with small units, so leaving even a couple behind could be an issue

[final gale]

No pikmin left behind

[stuck kayak]

Well yes it was at the end of a day

[keen orbit]

The only reason I knew about the fireproof thing was watching MasaeAnela do her Pikmin playthrough

[plush glen]

Figured out the trick for the spider but failed the first attempt.

[tender igloo]

No Pikmin left. behind

[plush glen]

Spider down. Only lost 2 pikmin in the whole day. 25 parts, 8 days left.

[stuck kayak]

Wow that’s impressive

[plush glen]

Final trial time!

[plush glen]

1k pikmin lost club

[keen orbit]

I was hoping to finish it after work today but I might be working an open to close.

[zenith slate]

I gotta check my numbers. Only redid like two days so far but i think im at 5 parts remaining on like day 18 or something

[grave abyss]

Damn, I need to get on this

[cedar pilot]

https://youtu.be/WaNomnksjxA?si=baAEd3WEHWhGAOjt

Since this is not my personal page, I guess it's okay to share

Liam Triforce has really great retrospective videos. This one is also amazing. You should take a look.

[brave hawk]

Starting to progress in this but I still don't like it

[zenith slate]

I just finished up in 19 days - lost like 400 pikmins - weirdly as one of the resident grumps, I love Pikmin, always have

[grave abyss]

And done in 19days
I’m sure there’s a trick to the final boss due to the ||the sheer amount of bombs around|| I threw 100 pikaman at it and returned with 10. Got the part to the spaceship with the end of day countdown at 3 just for added tension. Extra special tension was from the low battery warning

[plush glen]

my strategy for final boss: ||also ignored the bombs, took 100 red pikman and kept circling around to the side, toss the pikmin at its face when its tongue stuck out, and then recalled the pikmin before the shake/slam came.|| lost maybe 20 pikmin in the ordeal

[grave abyss]

Yeah pretty much what I did, but I’d lost a f tonne in an initial kamikaze attack

[zenith slate]

||The bombs didn't help too much, so I just used reds left a pile just outside the door. I took about 40 at a time. Smaller squads worked better, you can only fling about 10 at a time at it before it shakes em off - and you're constantly recalling them.||

I did save scumm right outside the room but the fight just takes forever no matter what I did

[sonic brook]

Just barely ran out of time getting the ||piggy bank|| to my ship in one day.

So now I have to waste a whole day for one part that's right next to the landing site lol

Lost 74 Pikmin to the ||Emperor Bulblax||, the next highest I lost was 19 to the ||Snagret||.

Though that was partly me just getting lazy

[zenith slate]

Yeah I'm not gonna lie. I fibbed a little. I had the same thing happen where no matter how I tried to beat the boss I was always a few seconds short on time so I had to burn one extra day lol. But for all intents and purposes I beat the game in 19 days lol

[keen orbit]

What happens if you get all the parts early?

Does the game end immediately?

[keen orbit]

Good day to restock haha

[grave abyss]

Yup

[grave abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/vegeta-message-discord-caption-dbz-gif-3151662524466681729

Here’s me a legitimate 19 dayer

[zenith slate]

Yeaaaa I coulda save scummed more but

[copper hare]

I’m really struggling to stay interested in this one. Wasted a couple days trying to understand the controls and mechanics, then reset a day towards the end cause I accidentally drowned 80% of my pikmin by running to close to the water and trying to pull it out the rest ran in and died🤣

[keen orbit]

It's the kind of thing you learn from as you go. I hope you give it another shot

[stuck kayak]

Yeah it’s really what pikmin is about I think . Die and learn .

[outer crag]

I understand now why everyone has such high death counts

I restart when I lose more Pikmin than I'm comfortable with (which tends to be fairly few, since frequently you either pull something off Correctly and lose few to no Pikmin, or you make an oopsie and lose a couple dozen of them)

Other people restart only when the loss of Pikmin is threatening their ability to stay on schedule

but I suppose that Pikmin being cute is a game mechanic that is super effective against me idk

[plush glen]

pikmin reproduce quickly. gotta thin the herd or there'll be overcrowding in a couple generations.

[zenith slate]

Which do you think is the first area that will be gentrified?

My money's on Forest Navel

[tender igloo]

Over the course of the game, you kill all the pikmin’s natural predators, over population is sure to follow

[zenith slate]

Well I guess this is spoilers?

||the little scene at the end shows you also taught the pikmin how to fight off their predators too. So they're no longer "helpless"||

So yeah Its going to be a pik pik planet

[outer crag]

Spoilers for how deep into the game, Milkman?

[plush glen]

olimar has just completely wrecked the ecosystem of this planet

[zenith slate]

The very very end but its just a tiny scene. Not even spoilers just I think a little scene to uplift the ending. I mean lets be real, Olimar is trying to escape the planet, because otherwise he will die due to lack of oxygen or whatever. So again, I don't think its spoilers to announce - if you get the good ending and all 30 parts he leaves the planets

[plush glen]

pikmin is anti-environmentalist

[zenith slate]

But there is a tiny little "scene" that makes you feel less bad about leaving the planet. Thats all lol

But the joke is that due to that and what everyone else mentioned, we're just overpopulating the planet with pikmin

[outer crag]

I mean. Given how dumb they are, unless they've grown some higher-order thinking skills thanks to Olimar's influence, their new place at the top of the food chain isn't going to last long

[zenith slate]

I don't necessarily think they're "Dumb" they just follow orders well

[torn yarrow]

They barly do that well🤣

[zenith slate]

Its been awhile so I can't super comment on it, but I think Pikmin 2 cleans up some of the slop this game has

Like having 100 pikmin and trying to walk across a bridge and the 5-10 on the extreme left and right get stuck/fall off into the water/etc

[sonic brook]

Yes it really does. The Pikmin don't spread out nearly as far in larger groups, and are actually smart enough to walk around things like the fire spouts, or tighten up when walking up to/on a bridge. They also trip way way less often, actually can't remember if they can trip? If they can, it's super rare.

[sonic brook]

I did a quick bad end of Pikmin 1 for the GotX point, but then played the fan remake of Pikmin 1 in 2's engine, and it's just so nice. Pikmin Squared.

Adds so much QoL, has a built in 16:9 mode which is just nice, and a bonus remix campaign for when you beat the normal Pikmin 1 one.

It feels like how I remember Pikmin 1 playing, rather than how it actually plays lol. I do think it's gonna replace the normal game for me from now on.

[stuck kayak]

I never asked them to get themselves drowned and they keep doing it

[stuck kayak]

Funny that a fan does a better job than Nintendo for remaking the game

[sonic brook]

tbf, it's not like Nintendo attempted to remake the game. It's a bare-bones remaster from what I understand.

[keen orbit]

Oh fuck this spider.

I lost 80 Pikmin when it arrived

[outer crag]

Just when it landed?

[keen orbit]

Yep

It landed on a yellow holding a bomb whichignited all the others

[outer crag]

That's kind of amazing, ngl

I took 20 Pikmin into that fight and managed to lose like 9

But I take very small units in general

[brave hawk]

Four more parts

[real flax]

I got my 29th part last night. Gonna go for final part tonight!

[stuck kayak]

So you are not survival kids this?

[real flax]

Yea... did it. Lost a bunch of pikmin though 😕

[keen orbit]

I finally beat it...used almost all of my reds on the final boss (because I just couldn't get the aim reliably down with the bombs).

But I kept my death under 1k! Haha

[arctic ibex]

Made it to day 9 on this one. It’s okay so far? Seems pretty trial and error though. I wish the map showed the bomb rock things. I feel like you have to replay days so you can get the lay of the land and figure out how to beat that area for the day, and then restart and execute the plan.

[sonic brook]

It's very much a game built to be replayed. Doing better routing or planning each time. Going for challenges like how fast you can beat the game, or how few pikmin die.

Obviously it's been a very long time since my first playthrough of it, but I remember thinking the game was just "good" at the time. But I think it shines on repeat playthroughs, when you kinda know what you're doing and what you need.

[brave hawk]

I had to use USSR tactics, but I beat the last boss

[sonic brook]

I only used Russian tactics on the last boss cuz I was lazy at that point lol.

It's hard for me to care much about keeping a low death count when I know there isn't more game after to maintain resources.

[outer crag]

All right, gonna finish this one early next week probably

I only have the last level. My friend just wants to be there to see my first crack at it. I have no idea what's coming

(this friend loves Pikmin so much that she has crocheted Pikmin plushies)

[sonic brook]

I can never just play Pikmin 1. Whenever I finish it I have to start up Pikmin 2 not long after lol.

[lyric shale]

Oh lol that would have been a lot easier. I didn’t know about the blues, and didn’t realize I could walk through the water, so I ||threw reds on top of the box, then went all the way to the far end of the inside of the box and blew the whistle so when they tried to come to me they fell off where they needed to be.|| And then I had to bring my army across in groups of 20 or so because otherwise a bunch would fall off the sides and drown.

[lyric shale]

Anyway, this has been a really pleasant surprise, and I’m not sure why I slept on it for so long. Might have been a tinge of teenage elitism (“baby’s first RTS? Why bother when I’ve been playing Total Annihilation, Battlezone, Myth, Homeworld, etc. on PC for years?”).

But taken as its own thing, more focused on exploration and time management than raw tactics, and treating the limited controls as a QWOP-like part of the challenge, it’s really fun.

I’m on day 12 with 15 parts so far. Haven’t been trying for perfection, but resetting when things go particularly badly.

I’m kind of sad now that the later games get rid of the time limit. I really like having something to incentivize planning and precision rather than just muddling through.

[grave abyss]

I really enjoyed this, and while I LOVED bg&e when I played it on ps3, I really hope pikmin gets acknowledges in the GOTY conversation

[tropic arrow]

I suck at this. Day 9 and 9 parts.

[stuck kayak]

You are ok. One part a day keep the doctor away

[tropic arrow]

How do you want the horn

[tropic arrow]

Day 17. 17 parts

[grave abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/archer-phrasing-gif-25791366

[tropic arrow]

What happens if I don't get all ship parts

[stuck kayak]

You beat the game survival kids style

[grave abyss]

3 options

Best ending: get all the parts
Reasonable ending: get most of the parts
Bad ending (but still a valid GOTm completion): don’t get most of the parts

[tropic arrow]

I will try to get them. I at 17 on day 20. Had spend two days farming. Was down to 45 pikmin

[plush glen]

I was 3 or 4 days behind at one point. Made it to 30 parts in 29 days.

[tall imp]

three parts left, on day 24. next two parts should be pretty easy because i’m backtracking to the second zone

first time playing a pikmin and i will probably play through the series this year after putting it off for 20 years

[lyric shale]

Just completed this on Day 23. Liked it a lot overall, though I'd say that the endgame was the weakest part. Glad to have finally played this after all those years though!

[torn yarrow]

Unfortunately because my month was really hectic this one is gonna fall through the creaks and remain unbeaten for me

[zenith slate]

Now I want one. Thanks Gay

[arctic ibex]

Almost done. Not a fan of the forest navel. Too few bomb rock sources in annoying places and far from their actual usage areas for the amount of bomb walls.

[stuck kayak]

I think the strategy is to take the first day to bomb every wall ,

[lyric shale]

I didn’t even get around to bombing the first couple walls right by the base. It made them take slightly longer to carry stuff back, but not a major impediment.

[tropic arrow]

This game was fun. Kind of a learning curve at first. I understand the game now. Maybe we can play 2 in a year or so.

[arctic ibex]

I've got 29 parts now. one more to go.

[torn yarrow]

I could not get into this one at all and since I had such a busy month on my personal life I did not make it past day 5 or so.

[tender igloo]

You could just finish each day and do the bad ending for a point, you wouldn’t be the only one to do it, either

[torn yarrow]

It feels like against the spirit of the server to just not really play idk

[tender igloo]

I mean, I feel you, I couldn’t do it personally either, but it’s not against the explicit rules

It can be kind of unforgiving game though, so I appreciate that if you gave it a solid chance and still failed, they’re counting it

[tropic arrow]

Took until day 10 to full understand the game. By that time I was so behind on part and pikmin. I will give another go latter to get the good ending

Like how to use the horn, pressing X to group pikmin or that I didn't have return all the pikmin at the end of the day.

[torn yarrow]

Feels ya I guess in more peronsally against it lol I'd never say someone should not but me peronsally I wont🤣

[torn yarrow]

Mayb one day I'll get to ut and do it my way trying as hard as I can but also idk I'm not a huge fan of it's macanics ingenrel kinda boring to me

[arctic ibex]

I think I like the overlord games better. More linear with a sense of progression without the time limit. But that might just be me.

This was pretty enjoyable overall though. Just a bit different.

I just have the final area to go.

[swift umbra]

I have restarted this game 3 times, first time I was doing awful, so I restarted, played a little, then I hacked my switch and was like, oh I'll start again on the switch, let's see if I can finish it in time.

[arctic ibex]

I stressed myself trying to make sure I was getting a lot of parts on the early days because I figured the later days would be more difficult. And it was, so not a bad idea, but I have like 29 parts in 21 days or something now. So, you may not be doing as bad as you think? 1 part a day is very doable, and 3 on a few days is not all that hard either, once you have the basics under control.

[lyric shale]

Yeah, I went in without knowing anything about what to expect, and managed to finish on day 23. I did reset individual days when they felt like they went particularly poorly, but didn’t get close to fully optimizing everything I could possibly do.

[arctic ibex]

I had a few days restart after accidentally bombing my whole pikmin army. The whistle calling and bombing mechanics don't seem very consistent. At least, I couldn't figure out when calling bombers with a whistle would result in detonating versus them just rallying to me. It was weird.

[tropic arrow]

This game would be better with mouse and keyboard

[outer crag]

Beat the final trial only losing like, five or fewer carrots

Though this was because of restarting when I wiped until I got the rhythm down

Looks like the death toll in the final battle was... 2

based on having lost 214 before I went in and ending with 216 deceased carrots

[tender igloo]

That’s pretty damn good

[outer crag]

This wasn't skill. This was me being unwilling to continue without restarting after losing a party of 25 reds to one attack

But yeah my main attack crew was 25 reds and none of them died actually

[grave abyss]

Impressive

[torn yarrow]

@zenith slate so I did let ya down again lol this game just could not happen 🤣

[zenith slate]

I mean you still have 2 days but

I understand. Know ya said it was a tough month for you just in life. It happens

[torn yarrow]

Ya and I got to like day 5🤣🤣

I just could and I am gonna be putting time into finishing beyond tonight and tomorrow might ha e a concert right after work so

I don't see the time🤣

[zenith slate]

Nice. Hey 2/3 isn't bad

Know this isn't the chat for it but depending on how it shakes out next month might be a 1/3 for me and I'll have to pick which game I'll power through

I actually enjoyed this month and happily went 3/3

[torn yarrow]

Ya it's mid work🤣🤣 I'll always feel like I lost when I don't get them all done 🤣 but thts cause something is deeply wrong with me🤣🤣

[torn yarrow]

I mean I think I'll like next month more even if I don't love the games they seem alot more stimulus go berrr so I'll get through them easyer🤣🤣

[torn yarrow]

Well I'm glad me on the other had star fox was ok. Beyounf good is so mid it hurts and makes it hard for me to get through cause it's so mid it's forgettable 🤣

And pikman just mayb I'm a hatter but I truly don't understand the love for it! It's unresponsive at times and imo boring 🤣