#pik3

[fifty-ten]

this is the first thing I thought of after yorke talked about don bergman’s ex-partner. the truth of charlie’s dog only mentioned in the NA localization is revealed

[pc98windowsdestruction]

I love Brittany pikmin 3!!!!!!!!!!!

[pikifruits]

all of these except the pineapple are fruits that can actually be collected in pikmin 3 #gamerfacts

🍑🍐🍏🍎🥭🍍🍌🍋🍊🍉🍈🍇 ←the pikmin are gathering these

[wybienova]

britony :3

[diesaur]

okay i do like them

[luridparty]

hey pikmin does NOT deserve the hate wtfff this game is PRECIOUS to ME ❗

the music is SO GOOD OMG. first on this list because like OH MY GODD i keep just putting my 2ds down for a while to listen to it its just so. sooo lovely and peaceful and strikingly nostalgic for a game ive never played before lol

the pikmin have so much personality in this game?? the lil cutscenes, the way they interact with olimar + each other, their animations for like. jumping on the dandelions and fire and such, the pikmin park..

the levels are fun and challenging yet they are also simple and accessible enough that i dub hey pikmin as a PERFECT relaxing game for a long day of, for example, six hours at work on top of six hours at school. based on personal experience 😬👍

all the models are Wuite cute. olimar looks VERY silly especially during the special cutscenes inside the dolphin ii

speaking of. i reaaaally like the ss dolphin ii i think it is sillay. perhaps one of my favorites. BUT. no ship beats the hocotate ship of course

im no game design prodigy but like. considering you only use the circle pad and stylus plus the two on-screen buttons? the devs did well with including fun (aaand sometimes annoying tbh) mechanics consistently so gameplay doesnt get dull.

also replaying levels is pretty much what you're INTENDED to do which i find fun. go through to unlock all treasures, get more pikmin, more sparklium etc

well shit i just realized you get a little reward/special border for completing a level without losing any pikmin. which i have managed to do. like twice. fuck my obsession with 100%ing viddy games 😬💥

anyways ive just gotten to sector six sooo back to it !!! point is do not believe the haters. if ever you have an opportunity to try out hey pikmin then TAKE IT. its certainly not perfect BUT ! its sweet and entertaining and that seems perfect for a spinoff imho

[eldritch-elrics]

man i love olimar so much he is the funniest guy in the world. what temper olimar? you are the mildest person ever. you just know he gave louie a stern talking to and is now feeling guilty about slightly raising his voice

[fullmoonfireball]

i should try drawing Ocobans (well. just Sammy.) again but with other species as contrast, bc i think that'd help me with emphasizing the torso length.

definitely want to draw them with a Sigurayan and Hocotatian (probably Kit and Louie) to have all the Weird Long Proportion guys together, but i think having someone with more normal proportions who's around the same height would add something . dont know who to use tho

[moonrpg]

I think when I get to garden of hope pik3 (morning) I will actually do one of those uncontrollably shed a tear things. lame!

[sqwdkllr]

Makes him worse just for that comment alone

He has so many things wrong with him

[fifty-ten]

my view on their relationship.

[higgyisobsessed]

Pikmin doodles, including spoilers for 4

^^different space dog breeds, including a made-up "Bear" breed and whatever Bulbie is. Also legally obligated to draw Oatchi with his tongue sticking out every single time.

also that one Pik3 thing where Brittany's comments on the grapes include how Charlie was rumoured to paint his dog the same colour. Came up with a name that starts with F (Alph, Brittany, Charlie, Drake, Elizabeth, F_). Spunky lil guy. Maybe a childhood dog bc now his life is solely devoted to Elizabeth the Duck (and maybe also saving Koppai).

some dingo bc he's so funny. i give him different eye colours every time because uhhhh. ummm. People from Ohri can change eye colour, yeah. I definitely totally absolutely don't just lack consistency and wanted to try different colours

collin

Hermikmin headcanon (Piklopedia says that Rock Pikmin and Ice Pikmin are both basically a Pikmin parasite living with an external shell and the Rock Pikmin's are dubbed Hermikmin). Brain said "WHAT IF BULBMIN??" and thought about the bean-shaped concept Pikmin and how long limbs would help with such dense shells.

also an idea for Moldy Pikmin bc the Toxstool is a super cool enemy

Some Pikmin enemies bc they be super fun to draw!

Waterwraith (I have this file titled as "Bubble Buddy"). I like the colours and texture they used for its vulnerable form in 4

Water Dumple and Long Water Dumple from Hey!

Lithopod Family! Armored Cannon Beetle (& Larva), Horned Cannon Beetle, Arctic Cannon Beetle (& Larva), and Decorated Cannon Beetle Larva. Also made up designs for Horned Larva and Decorated Beetle.

Sporovid Family! Toxstool and Puffstool idea notes. as well as the Puffstalk from Hey!

[pikifruits]

honestly this blog's NO.1 most useful usage will be to have a beautiful tag where i can look at pictures of the koppaite explorers anytime anywhere

[beatcroc]

@captnumbers my calling it 'lore' might be stretching it a bit, but the first 3 games have a very direct continuity; [pikmin 1] olimar crashes on pnf-404[it's just post-earth], olimar, in the good ending, reconstructs his ship and goes home [pikmin 2] then he finds out his boss has gone turbo bankrupt so he goes back to earth again to treasure hunt to get them out of the hole. i have not actually played pikmin 3 past the demo but you play as a different squad hunting a different sort of 'valuables', and when you get to earth it's very directly stated in the beginning, in a mission log file that olimar left behind, that he died in one of his treasure-hunting ventures. [as far as i've heard this turns out to not actually be true later on? i don't know through what means or anything though]

pikmin 4 starts out like "olimar crash landed on pnf-404, befriended a dog, and then called a rescue team". and then the game is you playing as that rescue team. which uh... well...

in the pikmin 1 BAD ending, you sort of just run out of air and die there. not LITERALLY dead bc he gets turned into a pikmin kinda thing so he's still Alive in whatever sense, but he very much gets permanently trapped alone on an alien world. so yknow.

i don't say this to exaggerate and be edgy, that feeling is very much intentional and central to the first game's tone/experience. pikmin is by no means presented as a horror game, and things only continue to get more hopeful as you progress, but the notion of You Are Alone Here, And You May Not Make It Out never lets up until you DO make it out.

so to take that and be like "its ok!!!! olimar has guys coming for him he'll be ok!!! you gotta save olimar!! you're the star rookie you can do this you cool hero!!" feels uh. maybe in poor form with how the series established itself.

while the gameplay is objectively good and i'm totally fine with a lore rewrite in theory, pikmin 4 essentially turning the whole series into 'olimar's happy little rescue squad' is actually leaving way more of a bad taste in my mouth than is probably fair...

[the-knife-consumer]

I need to play pik3 so bad sososo bad

[diesaur]

second pass-over of anthro pik3 boss designs