The Bad Enemies of Pikmin

[@volvoman5262]

Pikmin 3 was critisised for not having enough classic enemies Pikmin 4 is critisised for not having enough original enemies Pikmin 5 is critisised for not existing

[@notwell3605]

pikmin 3 and 4 are also way too easy

[@volvoman5262]

@@notwell3605 can't wait for this to be trend

[@notwell3605]

@@volvoman5262 really wish for a hard mode for 4

[@volvoman5262]

@@notwell3605 you say the same aboud every modern nintendo game lol

[@notwell3605]

@@volvoman5262 fair

[@nightmareriddenlibrarian2924]

Random thing but for the iridescent flint beetle "glitch" (where they attack it/ chase it) One of its piklopedia entries states that this is most likely intended as the entry reads “This creature's hypnotic reflective body is quite hard, giving it a good defense against Pikmin attacks. Why, then, do the Pikmin chase it in such a frenzy?"

[@ohhadivist]

Yeah I thought I'd remembered reading that, makes no sense if they really did "fix" that

[@luckyleafgaming3062]

Was going to comment this too. It's not a glitch, it's part of the enemies design.

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah, some enemies are designed just to be annoying to pull your pikmin away, like the whistling Beetles or the jelly floats or those REALLY annoying Gold carrying enemies in Pikmin 4 that take an eternity to kill and mess up your radar somehow. I can only imagine they "fixed" it because in Pikmin 1, 99% of the game is time management and strategy so having an enemy that pops out of nowhere and deliberately wastes time and is mostly unavoidable kind of feels like...trollish. In later games where the time limit is less strict, the distraction is no different from those mites that appear when you break eggs, really frustrating but manageable. Granted the beetle only appears in Forest Navel and Impact site and in forest navel it disappears instantly dropping the one item it's carrying while in impact site, you have PLENTY of time to get the one treasure you missed even with the distraction. Plus I like how it makes the Doodle bug more dangerous cause the pikmin chase it and then it makes a poison cloud, but it also drops bitter sprays a lot.

[@lordvegetables]

my dad sprays a hose in my face every time i get hit by the watery blowhog to make the game wetter

[@Wario-The-Legend]

My dad did that but with the fiery blowhog. I miss my skin.

[@bepis_real]

@@Wario-The-LegendMy condolences, I hope you reincarnate as yourself but red

[@TheWrathAbove]

I think Pikmin 4's Puffstool deserves special mention for removing the entire reason the enemy was interesting. Without puffmin I really don't know why they put it in the game at all.

[@vikavolt11]

also dont forget that it is now also entirely non-lethal

[@Artherbit]

one of the original enemies even does basically the exact same thing but can actually kill pikmin

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

The shrillexatleg's dancing Hypnosis mechanic was probably a development stretch goal, and once whomever made it had finished it, they likely wanted to reuse it for another enemy. I'm guessing this why the puffstool's boss area was so haphazardly place.

[@fittedurge4763]

Not to mention it's poison counterpart in a cave for king that is VERY ANNOYING since it can revive fungus enemies and spread the stick stuff

[@eeveeongirl]

​@fittedurge4763 that's part of the challenge of the toxic puffstool, you are intended to only use white pikmin with him and have them kill and collect the bodies before he revives them....or ya know do that with just oatchie lol

[@dagobahstudios3662]

The singular blue Pikmin watching all his friends get demolished by a yellow wallywog (olimar needs his massage machine)

[@thetmartens2069]

You forgot Pikmin 4's worst enemy: Evil Fiddlebert.

[@frowner_and_co]

We don't speak of him

[@justsomewheel9379]

Wouldn't an Evil version of Fiddlebert be a pretty good guy?

[@tylercoon1791]

@@justsomewheel9379true. That would be a double negative

[@bulborb2738]

Someone that understands

[@gboogie3257]

That’s a weird way to spell Collin

[@meatindustries3435]

The worst enemy of Pikmin 4 is the autolock. You have to fight it the entire game, and there's not even a way to kill it.

[@oatmeal3013]

i will admit, whenever i go back to play an older pikmin game i start to sorely miss having any sort of lock-on, because my gamecube controller is super clunky.

[@MarioMastar]

@@oatmeal3013 Yeah, I think Pikmin 3 had the best balance as the auto lock was more a suggestion and you had to press ZR to confirm it, but that said, I do kind of feel people overhate the auto lock cause like complaining about Oatchi, they act like it completely makes the game unplayable and I'll admit it's more helpful than not and the few times where auto lock seems to screw people over are either really really rare cases of mis throwing, or just general skill issue. Plus I don't like the mentality of "game was better when things were harder" if the 'challenge" is just a dexterity case. The only real issue is they could've made more enemies require timing of the throws or handled gimmicks better, but honestly, it helps more than hurts.

[@Kloyster2010]

@@MarioMastar the problem is, is that I can't choose what to lock on, and it gets f9king annoying that it makes me want to stop playing. Even new players hate it, P3 was fine because you could choose what to lock on and if you want to lock on in the first place

[@michaelr3077]

Pearly clamp clam is the worst enemy brought back in pikmin 4. The fact they let you kill the clam takes away the entire gimmick of risk vs reward of how much time you spend attacking without getting greedy and losing all your pikmin. Being able to rush it also means you can essentially one shot the clam and never have to worry that it will kill anyone. The whole point was that even after death it was still a hazard so you couldn't just throw everything at it and hope for the best.

[@MarioMastar]

Huh? no offense but sounds like you're fishing hard.... the pearly clamp clamp is exactly the same as it was before, the only difference is it doesn't do a final clamp after you release the item but if you seriously miss that...that's just a skill issue on your part. Plus it's one of the few enemies you can't really swarmp because the "item" is elevated. Yeah you can kind of fling them on with an Oatchi charge but you have to aim right or the pikmin will fly past it and land awkwardly. and with enough blues you can pretty much defeat them in one cycle anyway.... I don't think the point of this video is to invent reasons to hate the new enemies, but rate enemies based on realistic expectations and experiences. and the Pearly clamp clamps did NOT give me a reason to groan "UGH...they made this enemy too easy cause it actually dies now...." like seriously...?

[@PikminAnd]

As much as I like the Waterwraith, I am inclined to agree with you. I feel that if they didn't nerf the Waterwraith's speed and made a cave that was more adjacent to Submerged Castle rather than a straight-up remake it could've worked better. Seeing the Submerged Castle modernised was fun but there really wasn't much challenge to it tbh. I could see newcomers struggling in that cave, but that's not really a good point since they'd struggle with a lot of caves anyway.

[@Mirawaru]

I replay pikmin 2 yearly but personally I find the engulfed castle a lot harder than the original because you can't rely on bulbmin to deal with the hazards. Especially the sublevel 4, where I basically always lose some pikmin to that startle spore loool Falling bombs are a lot more forgiving than that frog in a corner.

[@PikminAnd]

@@Mirawaru You could always use Glow Pikmin in place of Bulbmin. Especially since they're arguably better since they can stun enemies and automatically grow flowers.

[@Mirawaru]

@@PikminAnd By the time you unlock the cave you usually don't have them unlocked yet. I usually end up doing it before having acess to them (and the poison immunity upgrade, granted that matters little)

[@volvoman5262]

@@Mirawaru ok as someone who defenses modern games difficulty, engulfed castle was really easy since oatchi is broken

[@gboogie3257]

Submerged and Engulfed are both easy

[@AlmyTheAlien]

Careening Dirigibug - Oddly tanky - Infuriatingly immune to its own bombs, which is easily one of the biggest cockblocks in the whole series - Seemingly refuses to fall or even die during certain animations - Really fast to shake Pikmin off - Shrieks like an enraged chimpanzee when pressed It's not even that dangerous, heck sometimes it can be slightly helpful, but I swear they set out to make the most annoying and unsatisfying enemy possible with that thing.

[@RobotGuy405]

they're also annoying cause they like to put 2-3 next to each other, spaced out in such a way as to where it's impossible to take out one without aggroing another

[@pikminman13]

It’s not actually totally immune to its bombs, it’s only immune when it’s not in its helpless state, which is tricky to hit it in.

[@WingedFish66]

@@pikminman13 Even if you did get a bomb to go off while they're on the ground, they're surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly) resilient to the blast. If I remember right it only does about a quarter to a third of their health

[@GermanPeter]

And if you kill it while it's carrying a bomb, it also drops the bomb. Imagine if Creepers in Minecraft still exploded even if you killed them, damn.

[@oatmeal3013]

i hate these things more than anyone could ever comprehend. i could NOT figure out how to fight them efficiently, i think i only figured out how to cleanly kill them by the time we finally did submerged castle [we were playing multiplayer mod], but even then they're usually in clusters so there's just no safe way to do it.

[@pthats]

The pikmin don't attack the iridescent flint beetle due to bad AI, that's the point of the enemy, that it draws your pikmin away and potentially into hazards. The ship's note says "This creature's hypnotic reflective body is quite hard, giving it a good defense against Pikmin attacks. Why, then, do the Pikmin chase it in such a frenzy?" You even nod to that a few moments later when you say that pikmin I is about time management; the flint beetle hampers your ability to effectively use time, I think in a creative way. Idk I just think it's neat.

[@PInkpyagamas]

thanks for comenting for me

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah I think it's kind of a mix up and a weird one cause outside of challenge mode, the beetle only appears in Forest Navel, where it drops a ship part once then disappears forever, and Impact site where the level is small and you only have one ship part to get so it doesn't waste much time. It kind of makes more sense as a mechanic to deliberately lead your pikmin to danger or like the Doodle Bug, hurt you, but another thing is misleading the players into thinking it can be swarmed only for them to realize it can't and then remind you that some enemies need to have pikmin thrown on them. I think that's the real reason the pikmin automatically go for it, as no offense but watching ZackScottGames stand there thinking "How do I attack this guy?" and not figuring it out after seeing it four times in the game was kind of making me go "Yeah...they really do need more enemies that punish you for not understanding all the mechanics of the game. But I more blame Pikmin 4 for that one, as IIRC Pikmin 1 forces you to learn how they work and pikmin 2 kind of does but has a bit more leniency.

[@barelyhere7200]

I really like the mockiwi. It’s no bulborb but I think it’s cute and charming in its own way. I would really like if it showed up in a mainline game sometime

[@PdotUdotSdot]

2 imonlyhereforpikmin videos within the same week, unheard of

[@ZombieChicken1310]

He has to make up for a month of inactivity, or well, of work

[@monsterdong420]

Not touching plants in Pikmin 2 is a skill issue

[@LudiusQuassas]

I love the Pileated Snagret tbh. I like the challenge of the battle (though I will admit that it sometimes drags on for too long), but its design especially is freakishly beautiful.

[@MarioMastar]

I personally love it too and really love how that would be the design of the Snagrets going forward. as in Pikmin 3, the regular snagrets pop out of the ground when defeated and actually have a foot, rather than just being a snake with a bird head like in Pikmin 2. THOUGH I do think the boss could be a little more unique if the fast escape madei t fully pop out and it would chase you then attempt to slam it's beak into the ground giving you a chance to attack that way. Just a way to change it up from the regular Snagret.

[@autismandgaming4532]

A while ago the Pikmin subreddit had an enemy elimination tournament, and I voted out the Swarming Sheargrub by saying everyone forgot about it

[@1colonelsanders]

I like the auto-attacking the flint beetle. It makes me feel immersed the way the pikmin instinctively know there are treasures within

[@smashers6971]

Yea I agree that the Man at Legs and Pileated Snagret didn’t need to be so tanky, that being said I definitely feel the latter should’ve returned in 4 alongside the Gatling Groink and Careening Drigibug (Which I’m surprised wasn’t part of this video) mostly because I feel we need some more snagret enemies outside of baby snagrets, I would want to see the Burrowing snarrow finally make an official appearance but not as just a grey snagret.

[@Jacks_game_room]

Definitely agree that the man at legs is way less threatening than it sounds. Even as a little kid used to the super easy Pikmin 3, man at legs was no trouble at all. I didn’t lose a single Pikmin.

[@Gamebuilder2000]

@@gboogie3257 was 11 years Ago

[@maromania7]

@@gboogie3257 They didn't see because it wasn't there, you just have poor reading comprehension. He is saying that despite being used to Pikmin 3, an easier game, when he DID face the man at legs he didn't lose a pikmin. At no point did he say he was playing pikmin 3 when he faced it. Pikmin 3 was mentioned for the same reason being a "little kid" was mentioned; showing a lack of skill going into the fight. Played pikmin 3, then pikmin 2, and had no trouble despite him being used to pikmin 3. Like saying "Even as a little kid used to a super warm rain forest, Germany wasn't that cold at all" does not imply that I dragged the country of Germany into a rainforest. "Even as a little kid used to the super easy Pikmin 3, man at legs was no trouble at all" does not imply he faced man at legs in Pikmin 3.

[@gboogie3257]

@@maromania7 okay okay jeez I get it, no need to go hard on me I know I’m bad at reading

[@ZombieChicken1310]

*Okay, so, a few things:* First of all yes, the Swarming Sheargrub is kind of a garbage enemy but they should have been used in things like collect treasure challenges because then their ability to weight down treasures would truly shine. And secondly; i'll say it, pikmin 4 enemy roster is okay because it's not supposed to be "a pikmin game" it is actually *"the pikmin game"* Why else would you think they retconned the stories of the past 3 games? The game is basically the new beginning of pikmin, the pikmin renaissance, so of course they brought back like 70% of the enemy roster, with things like chrysanthemums, bulblaxes, dweevils, jellyfloats and such... Although i do wish they did more radical enemies, nobody needed muckerskate.

[@ZombieChicken1310]

@@gboogie3257 At the start of the game Olimar is like "and i met strange creatures which i named Pikmin" like if this was the first time he crash-landed on the planet and also the first time he met the pikmin. That also explains why the data files olimar writes are like a first time thing and not like he's already familiarized with the planet. He doesn't know the elemental resistances and other abilities of the pikmin, he doesn't know the creatures at all and is confused about basically everything else- the treasures, the caves; everything for a guy that supposedly visited the planet thrice.

[@gboogie3257]

@@ZombieChicken1310 Well A: He does, because of his log descriptions on them B: Just because they re-did it doesn’t mean he forgot C: Caves are literally new to this game and aren’t the same from Pikmin 2 (engulf castle doesn’t count) D: As I said people assume Pikmin 4 is before 3, So that would mean he visited the Planet twice and then this would be the 3rd

[@smashers6971]

@@ZombieChicken1310 There’s also the fact that Louie is way more antagonistic in this game due to this being his first time on the planet and Olimar not reining him in like in Pikmin 2.

[@fabby2998]

@@gboogie3257 Olimar's Shipwreck Tale is Pikmin 4's retelling of Pikmin 1's events: this is when he discovers Pikmin and also Moss. It ends with Moss sneaking onto the Dolphin, and because of her leaf tail, she can't leave PNF-404 and that made Olimar crash back down on PNF-404, and him getting turned into a leafling by his own Pikmin, then the events of Pikmin 4's main story happen, as the rescue corps receives his SOS signal from when you retrieve the Interstellar Radio Some logs and dialogue even reference that the events of Pikmin 2 and 3 *have not happened* because Olimar mentions he *dreamed* about Hocotate Freight going into debt, but is relieved it was just a dream, and the castaways from Koppai mention their planet is *on the verge* of a food crisis, meaning they haven't sent their drones to scout for food on other planets yet, which is what leads to the events of Pikmin 3. I'm sorry to break it to you, but Pikmin 4 does indeed fully retcon the entire series.

[@gboogie3257]

@@fabby2998 maybe it’s because I don’t care as much as fans do, I just play Pikmin to play Pikmin Not for some timeline bs, I don’t see it as that tbh

[@Cheesepuffet]

I'm so glad we share the same opinion on the pikmin 4 enemy roster Every time I saw an emperor bulblax I was so disappointed, it felt like they used it absolutely everywhere and all those instances of its appearance could of been a cool new enemy. I don't mind bringing back older enemies, but so many of them felt so overused. I was really excited to see all of the new enemies in pikmin 4 only for there to be so little :( I still love the game, I just really hope they bring in more enemy variety in the next game, and maybe add difficulty options as well.

[@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647]

This thing was only used in like three stages but it left me having flashbacks everytime I see a png of it

[@Cheesepuffet]

@@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 it honestly felt like way more than that, though its not too shocking that it was only used a couple times

[@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647]

@@Cheesepuffet i still hear their cries

[@Cheesepuffet]

@@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 me too 😭

[@iblitz95]

The worst part about _Pikmin 4_ and its enemy roster is how underbaked the ice element is. Aside from a one-time boss enemy, every ice enemy is a variation on some other. We have three different ice-type Blowhogs, an ice-type Bulborb _and_ Dwarf Bulborb, an ice-type Dweevil, an ice-type Wollyhop... it's really disappointing.

[@Gestersmek]

I'm actually gonna give a special shoutout to the Pikmin 4 Waterwraith, because for whatever reason, the moment he showed up, Pikmin 4 broke in the weirdest ways. On the first floor, my Pikmin got a flash of dementia while trying to pick up the corpse of the Fiery Bulblax that got rolled over, along with the treasure it produced. The Wraith himself somehow got caught on a wall and got completely turned around. I went to grab another treasure with Oatchi, dropping it as the Wraith came by, but after he safely rolled over it, Oatchi refused to pick it up, and after another evasive maneuver, the Wraith got caught on the wall again, still partially on top of the treasure, and once Oatchi finally obeyed my command to pick up the damn padlock, he walked straight into the Wraith because he was trying to push it down the corridor the Wraith was also going down. On the next floor down, two groups of Pikmin managed to get themselves stuck onto each other, which flung the big clam one group was carrying onto and through the metal frame near the S.S. Beagle, making it completely impossible to get. And as one final insult to injury, when I was trying to grab the last treasure on that floor, the Wraith spawned in practically on top of me (though facing away from my Pikmin), did an immediate U-turn as I was trying to get everyone to safety, and he used his jank-ass hitboxes to crush my Pikmin while clearly inches above them because he was rolling over a yam.

[@gboogie3257]

“Favorite spin off by a long shot” YES! MORE PIKMIN ADVENTURE LOVE! F*ck Monochromic Pinchipede

[@epiclegosnailchannel4334]

This is truly pikmin. This comment is pikmin approved

[@dmansuperich2800]

Summed up my problem with Pikmin 4’s roster. I loved seeing these guys come back but by the end of the game it felt like jingling keys. It really contributes to pikmin 4’s lack of identity and just makes the game feel like Pikmin 2 Returns or some shit. At the very least it’s cool to have all these enemies in one game for rom hacks I guess, if you want a silver lining.

[@Rediscool9]

That is being so insanely unfair to 4. There’s more to a game than just the enemy roster.

[@dmansuperich2800]

It’s not just the enemies, I love the game but up until around the post game it feels too much like a retread of old ideas. It’s like they mashed Pikmin 2 and 3 together which is a shame. Pikmin 4 is at its best when it’s doing new idea but I feel like it genuinely has an identity problem along with a difficulty imbalance.

[@SharkDoesPlush]

10:07 you know what's ironic about the Armurk? It has one of the best boss themes in the Pikmin series, weird for such a mid boss 😭 Like the theme goes harder than the actual fight

[@MarioMastar]

They've been cooking with pikmin music. I was NOT expecting the true final boss of Pikmin 4 to have such an epic theme as well.

[@anjoliebarrios8906]

1:40 I personally didn't experience any of those glitches myself. Pikmin 1 & 2 on the Wii were great

[@MrJack8700]

I agree that Pikmin 4’s alternate enemy variants could use more to differentiate their designs. I do like that the extra big bulborb looking the same is cool though because it catches you off guard with its rampage attack.

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah that's the only "giant" enemy that actually is different. though the Giant Bulblax kind of feels like an excuse to have the boss variant from PIkmin 1 AND the weak variant in PIkmin 2. Still I kind of forgive it for that reason.

[@pikminman13]

I like the "big enemy" idea, but I agree that they could use more to them. It should also have been solely the gimmick of Giant's Hearth. The Female Sheargrub is fine because it goes from not being able to hurt you to being able to hurt you, even though rocks aren't affected that's the case for a lot of elemental enemies. I will admit that I got a good laugh out of the big Wollywog, but at the same time there wasn't much to it. The Jumbo Bulborb was funny in that it basically has Down Syndrome according to the Piklopedia. Other than that, the size really should have made a difference. Have the Wollywog cause a small tremor which trips you when landing so you have to hop on Oatchi to dodge it or use Winged Pikmin to take it down. Have the Blowhogs have element on their butts or something to make it less of a weak spot for all Pikmin types. There's plenty to do and they just didn't do it. Given how much went into Pikmin 4 it's forgivable but at the same time we could have gotten more.

[@elijahpadilla5083]

Hell, my introduction to the Jumbo Wollyhop was freezing it solid in mid‐air and watching it shatter on impact with the ground from nearly full health.

[@pikminman13]

@@elijahpadilla5083 yea i found that my first time seeing it too, it was funny

[@anonamoly]

i kind of really like swarming sheargrubs, not many enemies can be pursued outside of their typical arena and an enemy that serves to distract your pikmin while youre doing stuff is really fun to work around. its also a great test in self control, forcing you to avoid trying to kill the entire swarm as that would simply take too long. their ability to weigh down stuff your pikmin are carrying is also incredibly creative. i really wish there were more enemies like this

[@misteral9045]

I think the bread bugs in Pikmin 2 are by far the most creative "other creature". They could've returned in Pikmin 3 and it would've made even more sense for them to compete with the player for fruit. When everything has a motivation, the world builds itself. I imagine that there could be daily sources of nectar throughout the map, like plants dropping it or things preying on honeywisps, and the swarming sheergrubs are addicted to sugar and zoom around the map like a grounded version of hummingbirds.

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah the Bread bugs are the Swarming Sheargrubs done right. I'm sorry but the Swarming Sheargrubs are the concept done WRONG.... the fact that they run away from you when you disrupt them and are constantly patrolling and stealing stuff makes them really frustrating to deal with and only waste time. I do agree I like the fact that they patrol the area and weigh down items so you have to look out for them, just like bread bugs do, but I don't like how countering them ironically makes them even more frustrating and there's really nothing you can do about it. Though I think what could fix them is have them act like breadbugs defensively, where if you take them back to the onion or throw a pikmin on to attack them, they flip over and you can kill them and the others scatter and burrow away. They'll be easier to kill off but still give the same level of challenge they were designed for. Cause it's the fact that they run away and your pikmin can't keep up wtih them that make them worse to fend off, and I don't like the whole "Self control test" thing because the game is literally punishing you for countering them... like what are you supposed to do? Let them drag your stuff around cause you can't fight back? That makes the enemy design even WORSE. XD

[@photonic083]

Something you didn't mention is that there _are_ some differences in the big variants of enemies. The Jumbo bulborb bites several times with a different animation, and then falls on the floor. The titan and blizzarding attack three times in a row, and the hitboxes for the attacks are bigger. The master hop also does several hops in a row before waiting again. Not sure about the sovereign bulblax

[@volvoman5262]

sovereign bulblax has the classic emperor jump attack Edit: how do I have more likes then photonic083?

[@j.k.4479]

I also think the titan blowhogs have a stronger knock back with their breaths.

[@volvoman5262]

@@j.k.4479 they even knock back red's

[@photonic083]

@@volvoman5262 it's supposed to be photonic0, although youtube made it photonic083 for some reason

[@Diver_Drive_Down]

Honestly the thing that hurts most about Pikmin 4's roster is the fact that what little we have that is unique is absolutely amazing. My two favorite bosses in the entire game are both completely new to the series, those being Disco Long Legs and the Snowflake Fluttertail. Especially the Snowflake Fluttertail. Most people give Disco Long Legs the love it definitely deserves, but honestly Snowflake Fluttertail has to take the spot as the coolest boss fight in the entire game. (Other than maybe the Ancient Sirehound)

[@gren4586]

praising snowfake while not knowing how to spell its name

[@MarioMastar]

Pikmin 4 really feels like a Jack of all trades, Master of none sadly... Excellent game that brings everything together, but most of us just wish they upped the difficulty. at least we got those Dandori challenges that can keep veterants on thier toes, but the night missions where they REALLY could've stepped it up were painfully underwhelming....I do like how they FORCE you to fight a smokey progg though. THAT was ace.

[@Goomba456]

3:33 It's worth noting that in the Gamecube version you can take out half of its health before it even attacks because of its long spawn in animation

[@spencerm.5568]

I'm glad the only reason Pikmin Adventure was brought up was as a comparison on how to do enemies right, GOATED game

[@MarioMastar]

That and honestly Pikmin Adventure is one of the reasons wii U shouldn't have died. That game is locked forever behind that and it's a massive shame. Kind of wonder if they COULD port Nintendoland to the Switch but as the Switch doesn't have dual screen support like the Wii U and it's impossible to play in hand held mode AND TV mode at the same time.... so half the minigames are kind of impossible.

[@boredgabe4874]

I think 4 still does have some cool enemies, both design wise and gameplay wise, despite there being a bit too much reliance of the older casts and recolored/resized enemies Crusted Rumpup and Porquillion are pretty fun and I think the Porquillion had a fun platform usage, and the Foolix was honestly my ideal way of using an old enemy idea while subverting how it plays and works

[@tylerherr4288]

you gotta love the "but old games used recolors" argument yea old games used recolors and still had a well fleshed out roster of enemies

[@MarioMastar]

I think the line is drawn when "same enemy bug scaled up and with ONE more attack" is considered an entirely new enemy. At least Dwarf Bulborbs and Regular Bulborbs acted fundamentally different, but the Bulborb and the Giant Bulborb are literally just "Bulborb with scale x 1.5 and bites 3 times" KIND of feels a bit lazy. though I can forgive it cause it does a unique attack. I was genuinely stunned to see the YELLOW WOLLYHOP a BOSS FIGHT. XD

[@freshmints]

2:21 in pikmin 1 when i tried fighting a bulbear for some reason half of my squad died?? like not from the bulbear but they just disappeared?

[@RyanJW001]

Gamecube definitely still has the crushing glitch, though I've mostly only seen it on bulborbs and bulbears.

[@jacobawesomeness5378]

When I played the engulfed castle for the first time, i was more scared by the toxic variant of the flower (I forgot the name) than the waterwraith and timer.

[@nicolasn12]

Also known as free Pikmin/Pokos.

[@elliotCloud-f6d]

It would've been funny to have a regular enemy version of the groovy long legs boss. Nice video btw.

[@unknowngorgon5465]

will never forgive them for brining back the Puffstool but not Puffmin

[@phanterratic]

the worst part about the water wraith in pikmin 4 is that he appears multiple times, even in a cave where you would be able to deal with him already without any of the chasing. a lot of 4 enemies really DO feel like fan service but also completely misses the point of what made so many of them special

[@kentoikeda5052]

For some reason when my roommate's daughter was four we spent an entire evening following the swarming sheargrubs around Tropical Wilds. When we discovered they could eat nectar we started "helping them" by trying to guiding them to nectar. I really learned to love them!

[@JiggySwagner]

This is my favorite weekly video since yesterday's

[@Linkhood]

The swarming sheargrub killed my wife

[@BasementDweller_]

So many of the enemies look like perfect snacks.

[@thealientree3821]

Ok Louie.

[@MarioMastar]

@@thealientree3821 Not gonna lie....Louie's cooking notes makes being an insectivore worth considering.....

[@MightyT-je9df]

id like to say for pikmin 4 i had 70 blue pikmin in the waterwraith cave you mentioned i lost 66 pikmin not because of the waterwraith he didnt kill a single one they all died to self bombing enemies because of that i couldnt even finish the cave because i didnt have enough purples to bring down the bag they have

[@FloroSapiens]

the new bulborb variants of pikmin 4 just look like a bunch of map and hazard assets pasted on top of palette swaps. things like the fiery bulblax as an elemental equivalent being included in that game make these stand out all the more

[@Schwilliam]

13:44 im disappointed that i didn't get my life threatened if i didnt subscribe in this video

[@jellyjohn6969]

Finally, good pikmin content

[@untoages]

Bro I’ve been watching your videos from the beginning and somehow I think I’ve never commented. I love your sense of humor 😂 you always come up with unexpected endings to sentences.

[@arachnidath]

6:30 It digests the pikmin after a while.

[@imonlyhereforpikmin]

It doesn't but the similar Jellyfloats do

[@Cxmplexe]

maybe its just me but its kinda annoying when you enter a new floor and immediately get targetted by a canon larva

[@letusplays1]

I mean to be fair to pikmin 4 the watery blow hog definitely was not given a vastly different design.

[@Smallsmallrose]

I love the Downy Snagret as an enemy concept and it definitely looks cute. They do feel pretty pathetic though. I would have loved to see them as like, spawnable enemies during a Snagret boss fight or something.

[@polar9984]

The Piktuber GOAT is back! Hoping the pikmin 2 cave music ranking is soon 🤞🥶

[@brem-]

I do like a couple of the pikmin 4 alternate variants, it shows how species adapt to different environments, like the skeeterskate and muckerskate. But then others are like... why. For example the icy blowhog, as stated in the video the puffy blowhog's whole thing is that it traded fire for gas, allowing it to fly, so then why is there a version of the puffy blowhog but ice, at that point it should walk again. If I could redesign it I would firstly remove the back spikes so it's less like the puffy variant, and then I would little exhausts on the bottom of it's body or something, and the reason for that is that this icy blowhog uses the cold air it creates to make it's own air currents allowing it to fly. I also kinda like the different sizes, especially with the bulblaxes, I like that there is a difference between emperor and sovereign, because that is how some animals behave irl. You have the sovereign who is the boss, only he is allowed to mate with the emperesses, but then you have emperors who are competition and probably fight the current sovereign for power, if the sovereign wins he stays in power and shows what happens when you mess with him, if the emperor wins the sovereign gets dethroned and the empereor becomes the new sovereign (this is all just headcanon btw). But then you have stuff like the giant fiery blowhog which is just a normal fiery blowhog but beeg.

[@ThePileatedSnagret.]

2:55 It's a hard world we live in😥

[@dromeoraptorpennato2931]

I'm also pretty sure the water wraith in PIkmin 4 straight up ignores you and instead wanders around like a roomba

[@welldrawnstarwalker]

what's the song name at 10:12?

[@FakeWinny]

I had to subscribe. And its not because I love pikmin or bc your videos are hilarious or this could be one of the best content on KZbin. But because i dont want the swarming sheergrub in P5

[@USERWASBANNED]

Is that the background music to "Office something, something Cop Maggot?"

[@gladd8869]

One of the biggest things I feel like was lost between 2 to 3 was enemy interactions. For example using a cannon larve or a dirigibug to get rid of other issues. 3 became way too linear and easy which made me hate the roster because it doesn’t feel like a challenge and also made returning enemies ass. It’s a shame Pikmin 4 took more things from 3 rather than 2 when it came to enemy designs.

[@D3fau1t-S3tt1ng]

Got an enemy I think you should have included. The Puffstool in Pikmin 4. They got rid of the thing that made it original, and a lot of the arguments for the water wraith showing up poorly in pikmin 4 can be applied to the puffstool.

[@YummyBulborb]

POV: Pikmin 1 GameCube version’s puffstool; begone foolish Pikmin for I banish thee to the world underworld!

[@joe-nj2gs]

please make a full video on nintendo land pikmin adventure someday it needs to be talked about

[@oatmeal3013]

when i was playing gc pikmin 1 the iridescent flint beetle just showed up during the day countdown and all of my pikmin went after it and it gave me a heart attack. i hate how easily distracted pikmin are in 1.

[@alanbrizan]

12:45 i disagree the submerge castle wasn't a challenged to play through

[@Bertfolomew]

well yea on the second or third but what about your first play through. it was probably hard for you.

[@alanbrizan]

@@Bertfolomew i played it once and 100 percent it

[@Bertfolomew]

@@alanbrizan well have you thought that you might of seen someone else do it on KZbin. that's how you were probably able to beat it first try, because my first try was bad.

[@Maehtilamm]

I actually disagree partially with the water wraith, when I first entered the sublevel I didn't expect him to return at all and the music slowly fading into the submerges castle theme actually gave me the creeps. That and the realisation of the name + pikmin I am carrying made me be super anxious and hyped for our boi. I agree he was a lot easier to avoid and play around. But most of Pikmin 4 has been made easier, so I think this makes sense. Personally I don't mind it at all, seeing as the real challenge are somewhat the dandori medals in that game (coming from someone who played pikmin 1-3 again before playing 4 for the first time last week)

[@momohiragi9382]

As someone who played pikmin 4 as their first pikmin game, I never had the issues with all the recycled stuff and everything was really exiting.I di get that as a pikmin veteran, you would've loved to see more diversity and new stuff.

[@Hugelag]

Isn't the point of a enemy _to_ be bad? So you want to fight them?

[@pallukun]

i was actually thinking about this topic earlier today, specifically how a lot of the ice variants are just recolours also i just realised there are two ice blowhog enemies that are completely different

[@aaronta6573]

I always wished that those forgotten and scrapped enemies were used in the Pikmin games because it would've made it better, especially those guys that need the berries to be lured out.

[@4backpack1]

Auto lock is the worst enemy in pikmin

[@mr.blueguy7648]

Its strange that i keep hearing about the clipping problem in videos because it hasnt happened to me. Probably cuz i tend to throw pikmin and kite the enemy near by while they do damage. Its often not safe to swarm into a battle so i dont do it much

[@sakethkankanala7923]

Hey iamonlyhere, I wanted to ask how u did play Pikmin 2 kaizo?

[@skylerfisher4347]

Personally I liked that 4 largely had several returning enemies over new ones, However what I dislike was what a lazy cop out all the Giant enemies were. Every single one has almost nothing unique about them (except sovereign bulblax, shout out sovereign) and reeks of lazy design every time I look at them. It’s like the devs thought “Ok so we have this enemy. But what if it was BIGGER? Cool, new enemy! Ok, I’m leaving early night guys” And there’s SO MANY of them too! If you replaced all the generic boring giant enemies with new ones with unique designs I’m sure everyone who was upset pikmin 4 didn’t have many new enemies would’ve been happy

[@J64-h8o]

Wasn't expecting another video after how long the Pikmin 2 Kaizo video took

[@ABitofEpicness]

Swarming Sheargrubs only defining trait to me is that it appears on that one varient of Jigsaw Fortress and they make for good pikmin food near the start of the round, but even then thats so situational that its not even worth then existing

[@Redpikmin-f4t]

3:47 that is a nice amount of sprays you got there 😏

[@reformedorthodoxmunmanquara]

I can somewhat believe that a random animal could produce fire, but ice? Not so much.

[@Welshwolf-zq6zy]

All my homies hate swarming sheargrub

[@lostsauce0]

It's really frustrating how Nintendo seems terrified of challenging the player at all in 3 and 4

[@Robbie_Haruna]

Was that a Pikmin 2 mod that was used for footage when you were talking about Hey Pikmin?

[@FIamestalker]

I like the Pileated Snagret's design and its purpose as a hardmode Snagret, if only it was enjoyable to fight and not so absurdly tanky and quick. It's a shame it didn't return in Pikmin in a Snagret themed cave, as it could've benefited greatly from similar changes the regular Snagret got. But perhaps its for the best considering how trivial the regular Snagret fight is with Oachi

[@Richyrion]

One annoying thing about the Swarming Sheargrub that you didn't talk about in the video is that it scares captains despite them being completely harmless. Like I'll just be playing the game and then I hear Charlie going "Cripes, this is bad!" and then I check up on him just to see those boogers and nothing else.

[@Minefnafer22]

I see new Pikmin video, I watch. Good video.

[@SenderBender63]

I think one of pikmin 2’s worst enemies is the cannon beetle larvae, they are way too common and the boulders follow you for some reason, like they will actively track you down instead of slight homing. Their boulders instakill pikmin so your best bet is to use bitter spray or hope to get a stun using purples to avoid them shaking pikmin into the abyss. It’s like the best strategy is to cheese them or have a really long drawn out fight to avoid mass losses and with how some floors have so many it gets annoying pretty quick. I think if they could be stunned like the armoured cannon beetle when a pikmin is thrown in it’s blowhole it would make more sense and give more strategy to defeat them, maybe I just suck at pikmin 2 tho

[@photonic083]

Since I was thinking about playing pikmin 2, but I don't have a gamecube, (I know they're on the switch), does the wii version of pikmin 2 have the same glitch and sound effect problems as pikmin 1's wii version? For someone used to 4 and 3 deluxe, is it better to play pikmin 2 on the wii or on the switch?

[@justsomerandomgamer6736]

It doesn’t have the same sound effect glitch as pikmin 1 wii

[@Wario-The-Legend]

What about the hole blocker from the Hey! Pikmin code?

[@imonlyhereforpikmin]

Brilliant enemy that saved the franchise

[@goldenguy7470]

That green grub thing in Pikmin 3 has never affected my play-throughs even my first time playing

[@OriginalGameteer]

The Swarmers definitely affected my playthroughs of 3 Albeit not because they weighed things down, but rather because they constantly move across the map they'd keep attracting idle pikmin and then the mins would run into other enemies or the water and get themselves killed offscreen

[@ZSquaredPlusC]

When playing the games, I often wonder how i would approach some kind of challenge mode where all the enemies and bosses have 10x health. Given how you can cheese a lot of enimies in pikmin, especially in 3 and super especially in 4, i often find myself wishing they were more of a challenge. I particularly envision myself throwing a couple red pikmin at the firey blowhogs and let them chip away at them while i go do other things.

[@bruxtle]

We're so fucking back

[@justinthyme5263]

0:34 weekly posting schedule again????? :D

[@imonlyhereforpikmin]

yes

[@city17tourismboard]

didn't think i'd be hearing btd5 music in a imonlyhereforpikmin video

[@GermanPeter]

Yeah, Pikmin 4's biggest flaw is not having its own identity. It's basically just Pikmin 2: 2. And I love Pikmin 2 and I think 4 is a much more playable version of it, but it's still just basically the same game.

[@nyon7209]

I think Man-at-Legs has a reasonable amount of health. It's active for a while before shaking your pikmin off, so you have time to get decent damage in, and I usually beat it in 3 or 4 cycles. Pileated Snagret though, runs away the moment a pikmin touches it, and deathless runs can take a dozen cycles of rolling dice for it's head to get stuck in the ground. I can see Man-at-Legs being a boring fight once you're used to it, but it's no where near as tedious as the snagret. My personal least favorite enemy in Pikmin is the Shaggy Longlegs, but that's the only disagreement I have.

[@nugget9541]

I didnt realize crushing in Pikmin 1 was a glitch, thought it was just another weird pikmin 1 mechanic