#Pikmin

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zenith slate
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I like boring games lol

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I love pikmin

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Beyond was pretty good

torn yarrow
torn yarrow
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Caise most do

torn yarrow
zenith slate
torn yarrow
tall imp
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tried a couple attempts at the last boss with 50 reds and that's just too many to manage it's too easy to lose 20 to a jump

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i don't feel like managing bomb pikmin is worth it because they like to unalive my squad

outer crag
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and a handful of yellows

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seriously you don't need more than 25 reds

grave abyss
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If I had my time again I’d do the final boss with 20 pikmin and a few reserve squads incase I messed up

arctic ibex
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I just put a bunch outside the door and gathered them by running into them, not calling with the whistle. I could only ever get like 7-8 max ever attached to the boss at any one time, so 10 was like the max I ever wanted to have. wasn't hard, but it took forever. Did not enjoy that boss at all. Pretty big difficulty jump from all the other bosses that didn't require much.

grave abyss
arctic ibex
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it was definitely less of a sponge at any rate.

grave abyss
lyric shale
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Yeah, once I figured out the pattern for the spider it was pretty quick. The final boss took a lot more attempts, and even once I had a working strategy it still took most of the day to whittle down.

zenith slate
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Yeah the last boss is best in groups of 20-30 and correct you can only fling about 5ish pikmin at him, then let them do their thing and recall as soon as the get flung off

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Rinse and repeat

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Takes a long time

arctic ibex
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It’s not a great design, imo. Make it puzzle but somewhat fast once you “figure it out,” or make it more skill based with a bit of sponge. Combine the two is just tedious. Not a bad game by any means, and I’m hopeful I’ll enjoy the sequels more.

outer crag
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Really? Sometimes I got 25 pikmin on there all at once

arctic ibex
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I found I could get some more if I threw them in right after he jumped, but it always risked more casualties since I couldn’t be as fast in the recall too. Wasn’t worth it to me.

zenith slate
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Yeah I played it careful because its really easy to lose like 30 pikmin at once in that fight lol

plush glen
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so nobody tried bombs with the final boss?

outer crag
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I did

arctic ibex
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Bombs were always a bad idea for me. I've already talked about how inconsistent the controls for them are, and it didn't always end in disaster, but when it did, it was pretty cataclysmic.

grave abyss
plush glen
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just wondering how the "intended" solution to the boss was supposed to work since they very clearly hinted at using all the bombs around

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I also just threw pikmin at its face

tall imp
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i want to test out if you can actually knock off a decent chunk of hp by getting every last bomb and just letting him eat all of the bomb pikmin but it takes so long to get all the bombs

tender igloo
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I started with the bombs but then just ended up throwing just about every pikmin I had at it haphazardly and that worked fine

arctic ibex
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Actual footage of my fight.

tender igloo
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as long as you have enough to carry it back, you're golden haha

outer crag
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I only lost two of my yellow pikmin despite using the bomb strat

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So I must have gotten the timing down pretty well

zenith slate
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I TRIED the bombs

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They were meh

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Just not QUITE enough time to use them well

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Cause like its a pain in the butt to queue up a yellow with a bomb

arctic ibex
zenith slate
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and not wind up having one get squished, then the bomb blowing up 10 of your own pikmin

arctic ibex
zenith slate
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Yeah that drove me nuts

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But I tried to have like a bomb squad and a red squad

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and by the time I flung a yellow, he dropped the bomb, I ran over and grabbed some reds, then started to fling, it just....wasn't worth it

outer crag
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||I was able to switch back and forth between yellow and red, but I only commanded one yellow at a time. So when they got mixed up with my reds it wasn't really a problem||

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||they'd throw their bomb, I'd call the reds, and then the yellow ended up in the attack group but it wasn't an issue||

arctic ibex
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Mass red genocide is the only real strategy.

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It's the charge of the carrot brigade.

outer crag
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I only lost two carrots.

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Also I finished in 21 days

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So I can only presume I learned how to play the game properly

lyric shale
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Yeah, the control just wasn’t precise enough for me to get the bombs to work. I’d have to put my attack squad a ways back so the boss didn’t get them while they were standing around. But then after taking a yellow in and stunning it with the bomb, by the time I retrieved the attackers and got them latched on, the stun was almost over

arctic ibex
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Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the one hundred.
“Forward, the Carrot Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the one hundred.