I 100%'d Pikmin: A Horror Game in Plain Sight

[@failosaurus6764]

You go into pikmin thinking it's a fun game with your little guys only to realize their sole purpose is meat for the grinder as you build a mountain of corpses to escape the planet.

[@okay-oliver]

CHRIST when you word it like that...

[@gboogie3257]

Dude I love Rabbids Go Home!

[@zeckericanary6221]

Yeah, that’s an average explanation

[@PinnePon]

Jeremy Elbertson

[@bighand1530]

Dang

[@joreo95]

Im surprised no one told him blue pikmin can save the drowning pikmin

[@TheCreepyLantern]

THEY CAN WHAT???? the amount of pikmin i stood there watching drown as a kid...............

[@joreo95]

@@TheCreepyLantern I'm so sorry you had to find out this way...

[@Geronimo-rw2bg]

dont worry when you throw blues on them theyll just play catch with the drowning one

[@Ax3lBlu3]

Its one of my favourite easter eggs in the franchise

[@JaneDoe-mu9xu]

Wait, what?! Is that in every game in the series? I've only played 3 and 4 and I've always managed to save most or all with just the whistle but this is an adorable Easter egg to learn

[@darliedoodles2568]

4:01 "Why's that one white? Why are they white-washing my pikmin?!" Guys, I don't think Therm will be mentally prepared for Pikmin 2.

[@Singleredpikmi]

Nobody is ever prepared for Pikmin 2... That game makes you rethink your life choices

[@wigglewiggle4201]

@@Singleredpikmias someone who onky have played pikmin 2, i dont want to exist

[@lavfully]

Watching Therm rage over games with cute aesthetics is my favorite pastime

[@ToriQu.]

That's so real

[@patheticapathetic5826]

he's the living embodiment of "it's not the game, it's the player" 😭

[@UlaMedani]

same i downloaded twitch so i can watch this in real time

[@adogewithwifi1652]

It’s crazy how many games he does this with

[@cyprio__209]

this just started playing randomly via autoplay, and I realized it was therm purely because of the raging 😂

[@aidenbw5939]

"NO! You're vestigial 😡!" We can always count on Therm to insult imaginary creatures with the world's largest thesaurus

[@PinnePon]

Vestigial is defined as "forming a very small remnant of something that was once greater or more noticeable." Btw

[@thistle_ish]

@@PinnePon "(of an organ or part of the body) degenerate, rudimentary, or atrophied, having become functionless in the course of evolution." is the definition therm was using, there. the human appendix and wisdom teeth are vestigial.

[@cecilofthesea]

im so excited to see therm experience pikmin for the first time! and as he mentioned in the intro, yes, i played this game as a kid and yes, it gave me nightmares for years. i was certainly not prepared to watch my men die at my own hands at the age of like, 5.

[@YoungQuist00]

Funny bc I started playing at age 4 and I loved it… I don’t think I ever wrapped my head around the fact that they were actually dying…

[@Vendidurt]

"you guys were insufferable but you guys were my only means of survival." Such a perfect sentiment.

[@altroquinine]

i watched the papas bakeria vod where he was like “people were flaming me in the comments of the vods for bitching about the game when im just bad at it. and theyre right.” and i knew this would be a good video

[@msbysakusa]

ur so real for this

[@jji7447]

Are those VoDs archived anywhere? Twitch only seems to go back a couple of weeks.

[@altroquinine]

@@jji7447 therm has a vod channel on yt

[@em.aidansarmy]

@@jji7447 yep! he has a vod channel @ThermVODs

[@lexmarlxn]

@@jji7447the Vod channel is linked in the video description :)

[@raindeer9787]

Fun fact: Blue Pikmin are the most common Pikmin depicted in peril or dying in official media.

[@discountchocolate4577]

Another fun fact: in Pikmin 2, if a predatory enemy has the choice between eating blue pikmin or another color, they will always try to eat the nearest blues within range first even if pikmin of other colors are slightly closer.

[@delphy2478]

i love how therm is therm's own worst enemy. he keeps aiming at the top of the wall and then being surprised that the pikmin goes over the wall. he also doesn't decide to grow more yellows, he just struggles with 1 for a while

[@monopolyrubix1875]

Fun fact about your "Olimar is a god" theory at 37:00 : In Pikmin 3 Deluxe, you can find a drawing on a wall of a really tall Olimar holding some sort of ball of light.

[@ShotgunDawg]

You mean louie right

[@Kahnah23]

the true pikmin experience is the frustrated screaming and the dawning horror when your numbers keep falling and you don't know why. I love these games

[@niclash102]

Hearing Therm at 9:13 sound so sad and defeated when he yells "AND NOW I CAN'T PICK UP THE ROCK!" is just so funny but also breaks my heart. poor guy lmao

[@boyfrog_]

pikmin scared me as a kid but in a very existential way. i was like oh those guys are *dying* fr

[@katiemutschler6040]

I wanna watch so bad but if I watch while napping I'll just giggle instead of sleeping. This is the torture Therm inflicts upon the viewers

[@Purplechiby]

This game scared the crap out of me as a kid, the cute-to-scary turning point was when I walked into water and watched them all down, as their souls leave their body and hear the little whimper. I didn't touch the game for 15 years after that.

[@fIorapetals]

Pikmin! I think they are cute little guys personally, but I'm sure they are absolutely frustrating to control. Way too many creatures to manage at one time lol. One fun thing though is that you're absolutely right about the ending. I can't remember where I saw it, but someone left a cool comment somewhere talking about how the Pikmin have evolved over the different game entries. These ones in the first game might have been clumsy, but once you get to the third game they're not only more capable, but you find them everywhere. They travel in packs by default. Olimar didn't just teach the Pikmin to defend themselves, in a way he basically flipped the food chain completely around.

[@Geronimo-rw2bg]

they are hard to control but thats part of the fun

[@tCOREet]

"I thought the general connotation of this series was a chilled out puzzle game" famous last words.

[@GamercreatzYT]

Whenever I play pikmin I either feel like the head of a gang or like I’m in cheaper by the dozen

[@buglium]

Pikmin is such a random series. Litterally a game about taking over silly little creatures planet for your own gain and killing the wildlife

[@kyouta6324]

You're not wrong about that 😅

[@katherinesmallbean3594]

It has immense Slime Rancher vibes

[@simplelad]

Therm’s pikmin vods helped me through physics

[@thajocoth]

Pikmin's 2, 3, & 4 are all great games as well, so if you enjoyed this, you'd likely enjoy those as well. I played them as they came out, so I've gone in order, but this is the second hardest of the Pikmin games, with Pikmin 2 being the hardest if you want more of a challenge. Pikmin 2's re-releases have had to have some visual changes... If you choose to play it and have access to the original GameCube version, I highly recommend that one over its rereleases. Also, Pikmins 3 & 4 both have coop multiplayer modes. Pikmin 3 Deluxe can go fully 2 player, and 4 can be 1.5 player. (3's multiplayer was added just for the Deluxe re-release on the Switch.) Pikmin 4 is the easiest of the Pikmin series. I've only done zero pikmin death runs in 3 & 4. I wouldn't even attempt that in 1 or 2. Hey Pikmin is a side view platformer. I don't recommend it.

[@Randomcat2306]

We dont talk about the forbidden pikstake

[@cortinastone]

Hey Pikmin is a monstrosity and will forever be considered the worst 3ds game ever. (And chibi robo ziplash)

[@thajocoth]

@@cortinastone I certainly don't recommend people play Hey Pikmin! (especially if they enjoy Pikmin-style gameplay), but there are absolutely 3DS games I've disliked more than it. With different branding, I'd put it just above most 3DS shovelware... It's more the Pikmin branding on the game that hurts than the actual gameplay because it's so long between Pikmin games and what we got just wasn't a Pikmin game. It's old history at this point anyway though. No one's considering picking this game up in 2024. I'd rather hope for the future of the series than complain about its past mistakes though. Hopefully we won't have nearly as long of a wait until Pikmin 5, and Nintendo has already said something about not wanting us to wait as long for the next Pikmin. Also... Maybe the Pikmin-like genre will pick up in the indie scene like Metroidvanias have? That'd be great... There are only a handful of Pikmin-likes outside of the Pikmin series I'm aware of so far, but who knows?

[@gboogie3257]

Hey! Pikmin is good actually

[@thajocoth]

@@gboogie3257 Liking things is better than not liking things, so it's good that you enjoy it. The issue people have with it though mostly has more to do with its timing than its quality, really. Pikmin basically created a new genre. At the release of Pikmin 3, we only had the three Pikmin games and three Overlord games for this style of gameplay. Hey, Pikmin! was released 4 years after Pikmin 3 & 6 years before Pikmin 4, and it's not really a Pikmin game, but is using the Pikmin branding. That's why it was frustrating. If a Mario game is released that's of an entirely different genre, Mario fans won't complain so much because the time between Mario games isn't nearly as great. There have also been very few other games that play like Pikmin (though the numbers of these have been growing more recently, and I'm hoping the Pikmin-like genre gets big for indies the way Meroidvanias have, as Metroidvanias used to have the same problem before indies started making a *ton* of them). As a collection platformer, Hey, Pikmin! is alright, but it just has that frustration attached to it, even though the reasons behind it are no longer relevant.

[@ouroboros8529]

devastated over omori not being chosen by the wheel but god do I love pikmin. cannot wait to vocal stim for the next 50 minutes

[@KingSloth392]

pikmin deaths horrofied me so much as a kid i took a 3 week break because my favourite died

[@duolino5211]

you have no idea how much i’m looking forward to the day that tomodachi life is selected from that wheel-

[@cptnkaladin]

F in the chat for all 927 little guys lost in the struggle

[@grilled_rat_bastard]

F😔🙏🏻🙏🏻🕊

[@isaacthelad496]

Watching him do the targeting thing instead of throwing the Pikmin FOR EVERYTHING hurts me so much

[@treetreem]

Two semi related thoughts: 1) I've watched a lot of Hey Bear Sensory with my son so it's hilarious that you chose this for self soothing. 2) my son is terrified of your screaming LOL Keep it up, Therm!

[@ttilah___]

6:11 literally the funniest line in this video, he says “however, i feel you are ergonomic “ so deviously

[@BobAndTheBuilders]

This is like watching someone beat their head against a wall whilst complaining that they have to beat their head against the wall to progress whilst a clearly signposted path is right next to said wall

[@Mobslayer-tm9mo]

Pikmin 2 is peak Pikmin, no idea what it's like on Switch sadly. But it and Pikmin 2, genuinely, the best way to play em was on Wii, being able to point at where you wanted to throw them was phenomenal! I hope you continue to play the other games in the series cause trust me, they just get better from there!

[@discountchocolate4577]

Because the swarm mechanic requires holding one of the left trigger buttons Pikmin 2 is significantly harder on the Switch version and is full of the sort of jank and borderline-unfair traps that a) require complete mastery of swarming and b) which were surgically removed from Pikmin 4. Of course I still want to see Therm tackle Pikmin 2 because he reacts to this kind of bullshit like a younger gayer Vinny Vinesauce and that is very funny to me.

[@MidwestMagicCleaning]

This game is 2 parts dark and 3 parts DARK

[@Pixel__Hearts]

This is crazy- I love your videos and I see you here too??? 😂

[@MidwestMagicCleaning]

@@Pixel__Hearts I love Therm. I call myself a "Thermos"

[@Fireluigi1225]

I thought it was 1 part pik and 1 part min?

[@MidwestMagicCleaning]

@@Fireluigi1225 WRONG!

[@ivyklobs2662]

this was probably my favorite pikmin playthrough to date. I'm exited for it you decide to play any of the other pikmin games!!!

[@filipatavares2196]

I feel like at its core this game is similar to a daycare simulator because the pikmin have 0 sense of preservation and it's just a stressed person trying really hard to keep them all alive

[@bendy_bone]

Never played a pikmin game, this is exactly what I expect

[@OnixPerson]

The genuine rage spiral that starts at 7:30 makes me wish Therm would play the rest of the series

[@Kirainian_Gaming]

17:09 watching the pikmin kill the Snagret on their own better than you did while directing them to do so is definitely the highlight of this video

[@GamercreatzYT]

Dying pikmin montages make me fall over laughing 🔥🔥

[@nbkarkat]

i'm loving all the consistent long uploads!

[@ughust]

Obsessed with the Pikmin Bloom mobile app and decided i'd try and watch a playthrough of the actual Pikmin games. Absolutely not disappointed with this video, this guy is fucking hilarious. Subbed

[@FritzSFM2203]

Now play Pikmin 2-4, NOW!

[@joekruger1857]

Dude 3 and 4 are so good, but 2 is such BS. Some of those dungeons and the explosion traps are pure garbage.

[@RYH141]

@@joekruger1857yeah why do you think we want him to play it

[@OliverChildress]

No hey Pikmin tho, that one was put in the forbidden realm by Pikmin fans

[@OliverChildress]

​@@joekruger1857Pikmin 2 is BS sometimes and I definitely think it's the hardest Pikmin game, but it's really creative and rewarding

[@RYH141]

@@OliverChildress I saw gavous play it other then the crum bugs being hard as hell to kill it’s a fine game.

[@_Sailor_Moon_1]

the noises that lull me to sleep "✨Pikmin✨"

[@winter-junesstories2473]

One minute in, "When do you think he'll learn that you can throw pikmin at enemies for combat?" Twelve minute in, "He finally learned!!!"

[@isabellas3167]

This was one of my favorite games you've streamed! rip to all soldiers killed in battle

[@samjoestar6708]

i absolutely loved this video, theres really nothing better than seeing someone play your favorite childhood game for the first time. i was astonished to see the number of pikmin deaths were without ever encountering the smoky progg.. id love to see how youd deal with that optional boss. im hoping youll end up 100%ing pikmin 2 as well, which is another insane experience, and the complications but joy of the new pikmin added. you seem like youd learn to love purple pikmin

[@xxderpyderpxx3956]

Holy shit this game made my entire childhood. Pikmin was so traumatizing to us kids back then dude but man was this like the best game to grow up playing

[@jennilah]

can confirm, I was a very sensitive child and watching my cute little Pikmin get eaten alive was too much for my little heart to handle. I never really got past the first area. Loved it though.

[@frog-gj8vv]

You played one of my favorite game series on my birthday and I am so excited to find this out through a video because I missed the original stream due to birthday stuff :D Fun fact, you played the same day Pikmin four came out in 2023! Cool timing :D

[@shootingstar698-oj7nq]

Happy birthday!

[@NamelessPerson360]

I have actually never thought of the fact that pikmin doesnt tell you that you have to go to the second erea on day 2

[@discountchocolate4577]

Olimar politely suggests you visit the Forest of Hope in his Day 1 log but the game at no point outright states the second part in Landing Site is inaccessible with just reds.

[@leo_is_not_available]

Watching people play Pikmin for the first time might be my favourite KZbin genre

[@Scarbonara_]

When I heard you go "Pikmin :3" at the start, I knew this was going to be a fire video. Also, can't wait for you to play Danganronpa and Omori! :D

[@theguyman2426]

You can tell he’s never played a pikmin game

[@mokodomi]

It’s the first thing he says in the beginning, lmao

[@agingerredhead9380]

how astute… whatever could have possibly triggered your incredible intellect.

[@mugfat]

yeah, yeah you can

[@lukasmagana466]

Yeah no shit

[@anthoblast4678]

I think pikmin 2 would be unhealthy for therm

[@anthoblast4678]

Well past the halfway mark

[@constantspider]

i'm actually dying from how much TROUBLE he's having throwing BOMB ROCKS. why cant all pik games be this FINNICKY edit: this playthrough is very reminiscent of tevlev's playthrough of pikmin. The combination of goofy cartoon noises and high pitched voices with the screams of an angry player is amazing

[@sammieqt_]

im only 25 seconds in and im already loving the evolution of the video style (seeing you in the corner as you talk about the game)

[@rainbowdrinks]

Love how the Pikmin in the first game are infamously just, the worst

[@Failuigi41]

I have 100%'d pikmin 1 with no deaths, and can confirm these little idiots have less than one braincell each

[@tsand7868]

i love this type of video! i love the little snippet in the beginning talking about what the game is because most of the time im left so in the dark about games. great video therm!

[@melsyoutube]

“i’m a computew hackew… the gwavity jumpew 🥺” lmaoooooooo

[@bao_dumpling7682]

what people in community theater tell themselves before walking into an audition: 19:34

[@oatmealdogs]

watching this while in a depressive episode is definitely an experience but i LOVE pikmin so im joyous

[@nathanterho-streck5546]

Seeing you try and kill the bulborbs and stuff by throwing it at there face makes me feel pain, JUST HIT THEM FROM THE BACK!

[@438emily9]

As a parent I definitely see the need for a child on a leash now 😂, I refuse to go anywhere without a stroller

[@CasualKraken]

Loving the uptick in production quality. 👍 very profesh and using as always

[@asriel-abc]

Congrats on 500k Therm!

[@melsyoutube]

i’m so glad i found your channel, i’ve never played any games before so i’m living vicariously through you lmao

[@Failuigi41]

This has earned my subscription. You don't have to do them all, but please play pikmin 2 it's so much more brutal

[@egglad3935]

Trust me you'll only get traumatised in the sequel

[@shopnil4]

I love watching new people find out Pikmin isn't just a silly little farming game or whatever lol

[@megamoind420]

My favorite game series rahhh my pik is mining right now

[@nutelasaur9453]

if all the games on that wheel are eventually up for playing, i will be watching religiously

[@irishgamerkerrielouise]

Please play all of them. I loved this. ❤😂

[@eriathwen1320]

Not even 3 minutes in and I'm already 💀 from the "Can flies get concussion" story 😂

[@nay_oh_mi]

i cannot wait until you play pikmin 2, a game that finally made me someone who screams at video games

[@richardbergemann7537]

Love this game, great playthrough! Hopefully you try out some of the newer games in the series at some point!

[@stoned_isopod]

had to subscribe after this one, the absolute rage for these silly little guys was too much💀🙏🏽

[@hopeopheim]

omg this series is one of my favorites! i would LOVE to see you play the rest of the series

[@coolcodin]

I really hope you'll play through the rest of this series as well. Has been one of my favorites for a long time and I'd love to see you play through them all eventually :)

[@ArDaGXL]

0:32 OH YEAH...? You should 100% Rainworld:Downpour :Malevolence: Jokes aside, good video, and well done ^^

[@rain7413]

oh i would love to see you continue playing pikmin!! 4 is such a big game, you'd have an interesting time 100%ting it, i know i sure did

[@theelitistjerkmetalhead8047]

I played this game as a kid, and loved it. Recently ran through it on an emulator and got a mad wave of nostalgia. Great game. Honestly has a peculiar charm the sequels couldn't really replicate.

[@sergbastian5]

This is my 2nd time watching this and it's even better this time around. Your pain is hilarious

[@jacksons.237]

I used to play this all the time with my brother and dad. Had no idea there was a plot or goal. I was just plucking little friends

[@discountchocolate4577]

I need to see this guy play Pikmin 2. Dude went in blind and figured shit out much faster than most streamers while still being funny and entertaining most of the time. That's not a common combination.

[@Anthony-pm7xh]

that part about you being a kid watching ur pikmin die, lemme fucking tell you ive been playing this game since i was like 5 and i have vivid memories of scream crying when my entire squad got squished by the roly poly in pikmin 2

[@OrangeWraith]

Your suffering is most delectable! I wish you good luck if you contest the other games!

[@humanskull182]

1:56 I literally said out loud "aww it's cute" Why'd you have to destroy him like that?😢 Awesome video btw 😊

[@dragong33k]

you're vestigial is my new favourite insult

[@des971]

I love that no one told him blues save the others unless thats only in one game

[@AbsidiAmbrosia]

please play the rest of the games. It was so fun watching you experience pikmin

[@Stuffy2763]

I literally SQUEELED when I saw Tomodatchi life on the wheel😭😭😭

[@JessieJay7]

You scream almost as much as I do when an inconvience happens on stream LMAO Good content!

[@solitary-sun]

I love people who can pull off positive sass

[@AxolotsofitYT]

REAL LIFE THERM JUMPSCARE WARNING

[@neverendingecho]

I beg of you please play Pikmin 2, this is my fav video of yours probably of all time

[@PurpPikmin4]

I am so happy that Therm got Pikmin all time favorite game hope you had a good time playing it!

[@okami345]

I'm glad your channel blew up; you deserve it dude. Watching you lose your shit over those lil guys was highly entertaining

[@Aurora-kt1co]

Never played Pikmin 1, but I can confirm that playing Pikmin 3 as a child did indeed traumatize me. Watching the bulborbs descend upon my pikmin... I lost so many men that day...

[@thepopeofpineapples6275]

Good luck with this game! Super hard!

[@The_Hyena_Queen]

Calling someone vestigial is an incredibly funny insult

[@limpnoodle3272]

Editing continues to be goated