#olimar

[phantomrose96]

Despite the fact that they kill him, Pikmin 4 is remarkably kinder to Olimar than Pikmin 1 ever was.

4 is a sort of AU of Pikmin 1, and Olimar is the focus of your rescue mission rather than your playable character. And YES you fuck up as a rescue team and leave Olimar to die, but undead!Olimar isn't even having a bad time at all. Even kinder than that, they do let you un!undead him, because your doctor Mal Practice is cool with playing God.

When you save Olimar, you can talk with him and he'll "tell your his tale", which lets you play a retelling of sorts of his Pikmin 1 time alone, but now set in this Pikmin 4 AU. And there's something so odd about it because the atmosphere is so so different.

And the biggest thing about it is the fact that Pikmin 1 feels so alone. You are small and you are shipwrecked and there is no one coming to save you. And yeah, you're still just as small in Pikmin 4, but it's in a Borrowers kind of whimsical way... a Ghibli-esque world and you are the mouse with a thimble hat and a sewing needle sword.

Pikmin 1 is not that. It is vast and it is both awe-striking and terrifying. It is sprawling and unnerving, and the camera follows you at the distance of a circling vulture. The world is beautiful, but it is not comforting. The music, the landscapes, the scale of everything, is so very alone. There is Olimar and there is no one else. He lives or dies by his own hand because the only hints at anyone else existing in this universe are Olimar's own solemn wonderings about his wife and children far back home.

I can't help but view Pikmin 4 as a sort of apology to Olimar for putting him through all that. "Sorry about that 'only man alive' thing. And for all the 10-year-olds who played and killed you over and over because the 30-day limit until life support runs out was kinda brutal." Pikmin 4 makes Olimar be the mouse with the thimble hat. They put him in a cute little backyard and give him a dog. They kill him but they make sure Undead-imar has a fun hobby and they let him sorta, weirdly, save other people's lives. They send the universe's most well-meaning but incompetent Rescue Corp after him, and they succeed only after Olimar dies a little. And then they let Olimar hang out at the rescue camp with 20 other people, resting up and well-looked after, letting him compile his ecological notes while someone else takes it from here. They get him his dog back.

Pikmin 4 Olimar is given a cup of tea, a good book, and a blanket. Pikmin 1 Olimar dies alone of trench-foot with a crack in his helmet that suffocates him slowly to death.

[pigpenandpaper]

Gel paint pen and acrylic marker doodles

[the1weird1pencil]

I've been playing Pikmin 2 for a while and this is what I gotten so far.

[kelpermoosee]

I wasn’t joking when I talked about drawing Captain Olimar in a public restroom

[go-play-pikmin]

Alt :

GO PLAY PIKMIN #63

Go play pikmin 2 to help (or not) the president !!!

[doubledis]

I love Louie sm he's such an asshole

[decy-press]

OLIMAR: today i discovered a new species. i've named it the Smimbletoothed Frondler, for the leafy appendages it uses to snatch up pikmin. it's scary, but I can't help but be fascinated by this planet's strange ecology

OLIMAR'S BOSS: the yakuza are comibg to break my kneecaps

[eggpathy]

recent smaller pikmin things (mostly twitter requests)

[ikarokruz]

Pikmin transporting unusual stuff (part 1)

[smashtoons]

[silicon14blog]

Only played the demo so far, but when I heard the reason non-rescue corps castaways were on PNF-404, this image came into my mind.

[paper-mario-wiki]

here's a slightly longer version of my Olimar/Dandadan rap

[kelpermoosee]

No Captain Olimar!!! Don’t trust how you feel about yourself past 9 pm!!!

[p-pamda]

I like pikmin 🔴🟡🔵 (1/3)

[pigpenandpaper]

When the little guy is just a regular guy, it's not as fun to pick him up…

Master Hand is letting them breathe the same air, it's fine.

[diesaur]