The Pikmin 2 Cave Music Ranking

[@chez-berger]

Pikmin 2 cave music is the strongest evidence that caves are in another dimension entirely

[@Nic_2751]

Surely not the one with the trans dimensional being

[@Most_Jeffinitely]

Well that, and why the hell is there a cave with greenery and full sunlight underground??

[@TheKillonator]

​@@Most_Jeffinitely in that particular sublevel you have fallen out the bottom of a birdhouse In the previous sublevel

[@Jacob_Redacted]

Loui reportedly caught playing gassy grove on the aux, asked to leave PNF-404

[@Joosher56]

*forcefully exiled from

[@dragonfire5568]

I don’t think anyone needs a reason to do that to Loui.

[@lechaosadmin]

The hardest part of being a pikmin fan is explaining to your friends why "soil 1" or "snagret hole" is your favourite song

[@celarts5752]

A great alternative name for the Giant Breadbug theme is "that one dinky-ass Pikmin song"

[@nicolasn12]

"You better not be turning people into bread when I get there." My dinky-ass:

[@hyliaphora-cecropia]

“You’d better not be thinking about Pikmin 2 OST: Giant Breadbug (Louie)!” My dinky ass:

[@Wario-The-Legend]

Perfect description of the song.

[@ghostformanek5664]

tbh there's a lot of dinkyass pikmin songs you might need to be more specific

[@celarts5752]

@@ghostformanek5664 This may be the dinkiest though

[@Schwilliam]

Scruffy has a great video about how Pikmin 2's cave music is mostly made out of procedurally assorted segments of melodies. I highly recommend eveyone check it out. Puts it into perspective why the music is so chaotic.

[@Acaigoeschrip]

Ive never noticed the switch taking away an instrument and now i wish you never told me

[@autismandgaming4532]

The submerged castle music so perfectly encapsulates a tone of "You're not supposed to be here" that I couldn't imagine the arcaic halls without it EDIT: Since they weren't here, where would The Waterwraith chase, Boss theme, Vunureble WaterWraith & Titan Dweevil theme rank?

[@smashers6971]

Fun fact: the submerged castle is the only dungeon track to not have an Olimar and Louie variant, meaning Both captains are having the exact same feelings of dread coming down there

[@imonlyhereforpikmin]

They'd all probably be below Mystic Marsh, except for the Vulnerable Waterwraith which would be pretty low on the list

[@mr_VIRTUAL-v1i]

I feel like the vulnerable water wraith is pretty high I find it kinda funny

[@gamer3428]

I love the vulnerable water wraith theme, it basically spells out "that's not supposed to happen"

[@Xenorvya]

Personally the boss music and titan dweevil is above Mystic Marsh, vulnerable waterwraith would be very low (it sounds bad but it's meant to sound goofy/bad) and the chase theme is pretty good, i'd probably put it the same rank as Mystic.

[@Septimusbulborb]

ALRIGHT NINTENDO YOU CAN TAKE MY WEED AND MY JOKES BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE MY INSTRUMENT FROM SOME RANDOM SONG IN A RANDOM FUCKING CAVE

[@SaviourOfLight]

the british government stooges are at it again

[@WingedFish66]

I've always found the toy theme unsettling. Like it's goofy and upbeat but there's subtle darker undertones, like there's something more sinister it's trying to hide. Fits the theme of the floor where it's a playroom, but you know something is wrong with how the planet is blatantly abandoned and dilapidated

[@porydew]

Graphite Gulch is #1 in my heart

[@leightonjeppesen9016]

Glad to see I’m not the only one! This one hits different. ❤️

[@Jacks_game_room]

The rest Area music is my favorite. It gives off this very specific vibe that is why Pikmin 2 is my favorite in the series. Its aesthetic gives off themes of nature, nostalgia, and like small stuff. Can’t put into words lol

[@cinnamonnoir2487]

I'm glad they brought back caves in Pikmin 4, but without these weird modernist Erik Satie-esque melodies backing up the action they don't feel remotely the same. Incidentally, Frontier Cavern is welcome on my aux cord any day. I even have it on the iPod I use at the gym, along with DK Island Swing and the 8-bit Nintendo Land theme.

[@cabbage426]

Absolutely crazy to me how Mystic Marsh plays exactly once through all of pikmin 2's campaign and challenge mode. Absolute banger, and my absolute favourite song in the whole series. Nobody ever talks about it, so its always great to see it get the love it deserves. It sounds unlike anything else in pikmin, it's so calming yet it sounds imposing and ominous, conveys that feeling of being somewhere you're not supposed to perfectly, while still sounding really soothing, it's just a beautiful track.

[@glacierwolf2155]

Crazier still is how it was originally supposed to appear in Submerged Castle and Dream Den, but Waterwraith Chase and Rest Area are hard-coded to play instead.

[@unibrowsheepZ]

I absolutely love the weird and atmospheric pikmin 2 cave music. It has a very organic feel to it, like you could compose half these tracks with bits and bobs you find in your backyard. A long blade of grass for a whistle, a stick of bamboo for a flute, a tin can or scrap metal for percussion, a glass milk jug you can tap or blow in, some pebbles in a plastic bag for a tamborine... not to mention a bunch of other strange and uncommon sounds you could make using who-knows-what. Plus the interactive and evolving nature of the music really makes it feel like when you're a kid and you're just jamming with your friends making music from whatever you find in your grandpa's old yard.

[@unibrowsheepZ]

A rubber band to make that 'boing boing' sound (that jawharp solo in the snagret hole is absolute fire), a literal dripping daucet for the music in shower room! I could go on...

[@k90v85]

thats so true actually!

[@ItsDVG]

Bowblax being on the members shoutout caught me way off guard lmao

[@brem-]

Same

[@thinkmin2584]

I listened to Mystic Marsh while learning blender. Made me feel like a magician enacting master level conjuration spells

[@jessehcreative]

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I wish Pikmin 4 had Pikmin 2 cave music

[@redactedredacted1860]

The Cave music in this game is probably some of the most Bizarre music i’ve ever heard in a video game, or even any sort of media at all. It has this… “Vibe” that can’t be matched anywhere else.

[@Ljovynn]

I absolutely love the piano that plays when an enemy is near in emergence cave 1 & 2, soil 1, and maybe some others idk. When you didn't even mention that piano when talking about the emergence caves, my face stared into the screen like a Bulborb

[@Linkhood]

I can’t believe you wouldn’t put a warning before the giant breadbug jumpscare, youve terrified all those poor reporters

[@Chad_Wick]

emergence cave is the music that plays when the food in my house became lost media

[@nord_anon4406]

Fartcore is my favorite genre of cave music

[@LeoSantano]

Honestly, I wouldn't freaking surprise me if that actually happens in the future.

[@AlexWormy2206]

slurpcore or fartcore who winning the twerkoff

[@GIGACAT573]

Cant wait for every enemy theme in pikmin 4 ranked...

[@oddknight352]

I guess every music has a *Cave story* Yea, i couldn't think of a better pun.

[@polar9984]

This is the greatest KZbin video I have seen in my entire life.

[@skagilter5152]

I love "In The Dolphin Over The PNF-404". Banger from Neutral Pik Hotel

[@jellyjohn6969]

I wish these were the voices of my head

[@Nilllua]

I didn’t realize until now how much I needed this ranking hahaha, I fricking love Pikmin 2 music, I listen to the ost to work and to chill alike. And your comments with the music made me laugh. Amazing video, please make more of these music rankings 🌱

[@squizzlor]

Honestly I always loved metal sublevels and the tracks made me think of exploring the lost civilization we were exploring these strange sublevels of whatever humans left behind

[@Littleha]

My favorite part of flooded stump is that each layer of the track is in a different time signature, creating a pretty funky beat when combined. The base track is in 5/4, the “Enemy Near” theme is in 3/4, and the Battle/Working themes are both in 4/4

[@ekyanso4253]

I never thought I'd find a video talking about this. Thank you for giving Metal 1 the credit it deserves, it's one of my favorites in the game because of how uplifting but ominous it is.

[@WellMadeShelf]

I enjoy Soil 3. The instruments they chose arent built for listenability, but I really like how weird they are. Especially the 'Enemy Near' variation, its really freaky and I like it. I would never claim its top tier- or anyone should love it, but I think its cool. Also an overworld theme ranking video would be wicked cool.

[@LudiusQuassas]

Great to see a video about the cave tracks! Especially because I can finally hear someone talk about Graphite Gulch, a track that always gets me all philosophical and reflective.

[@ellueccid8625]

Genuinely a great overview. I recommend scruffy's video on how the game creates the structure of each song. It plays random melody segments over top the constant background harmony to create an inhuman sounding composition.

[@LouieHocotate2]

Louie

[@lordvegetables]

you should talk about pikmin creepypastas if you ever exhaust all other options. im sure there’s some wacky shit out there.

[@ZombieChicken1310]

Pikmin 2 polygons ranking next? P.D: I think the giant breadbug's theme was upgraded in Pikmin 4, yes, i said it, fight me.

[@Most_Jeffinitely]

Nothing will beat the forest of hope theme from Pikmin 1

[@shtwick]

I love the Bulblax Kingdom's cave music, It's by far my favorite, I can't pinpoint why

[@ProjectTony]

I guess the missing instruments in the switch version are now lost media 😱

[@morganserfas3687]

Great video, I'm glad to hear music ranking video that actually plays enough of the music so people unfamiliar with all the tracks can appreciate them. Some feedback though, would have been nice to mention the composers Wakai and Totaka

[@sargin1]

This video was so good! I find the cave music to be one of the more underrated aspects of pikmin 2 so I appreciate the deeper look.

[@JordanThePickett]

Id love to see a ranking of the overworld themes

[@pikminman13]

jellyfloat pool will always be my favorite. i think my favorite pikmin song overall is perplexing pool, but man do i love jellyfloat pool.

[@SkullCubeOS]

i remember back in like, 2005-6 before youtube was huge i would literally go leave my GameCube turned on while in the sublevel that played mystic marsh, based placement for sure

[@Playerano8isntcool]

No matter what anyone says, the Submerged Castle theme will always be my favorite. It fits the feeling of fear so well, and besides that, I kinda just like it, it just sounds nice. I like the instruments a lot

[@WeeG-bwc77]

For the kind of game that Pikmin appears to be on the box, flooded stump is a really cool theme that takes you by surprise.

[@yannatoko9898]

A lot of it is randomised so how it sounds according to one unofficial soundtrack isn't entirely indicative of the original programming.

[@Subreon]

oh wow, i actually needed this. i always have a hard time picking a music for the colossal caverns mod

[@pikminjake]

Graphite Gulch will forever be my favourite alongside Jellyfloat Pool

[@frikoffmom]

The fact that a lot of the notes are somewhat randomized is so interesting to me?? Everything about the cave music feels so random even without that being a part of it

[@makesomething4093]

Soil 3 is wonderful. It’s also absolutely freakish and avant-garde as hell, but that combat beat-drop is untouched. Pikmin classic. The following slew of entries are so much worse with no bite to save them.

[@WonderOfU70]

I'm here to see Submerged Castle as number 1 because that is the most unsettling soundtrack I've ever heard for a game in general

[@novicecreed]

This is the first time I'm able to listen to the cave music and gotta say theyre really damn neat! Usually when I play either its with low volume or just the general noises of the ambiance and pikmins themselves distract me way too much from it since they then to be a bit more loud.

[@squizzlor]

Combat theme of fire hits hard. Yeah as a kid I never realized the floors were randomized even on replay…. And didnt understand why the music was so chaotic pick 2 and one are legendary with thier music mixing and 2 having more just was a good time. And again why a pikmin rouglight dungeon crawler would be amazing…. Endless Subterranean Hocatotation scramble

[@androidoficeandfire9667]

The best music is Bulblax Kingdom and Shower Room always hum them when playing Submerged Castle is also great at setting the mood knowing something’s coming even if you don’t know what and you need to hurry I don’t know if this is an actual feature but when playing Pikmin 4 for the first time the music seemed to increase as time went on being inaudible at first but as you explore and realise the area is the same as The Submerged Castle the music becomes more noticeable, I had a fan blaring while played for the first time so couldn’t tell initially but I noticed and it clicked this was Submerged Castle just before the WaterWraith showed up

[@reallyriley316]

Bro made a video about my favorite game, and used the cover of my favorite album as part of the thumbnail. Instant click.

[@Kirblook]

4:38 the big DONG sound from the cave music when the pikmins get crushed is peak humor

[@maneruloquendero]

The fact that Flooded Stump only plays in one specific sublevel of one of the last caves in the game is something dowright criminal

[@Mirawaru]

Flooded stump is the theme that would have played in the aquarium caves if they were also in 2, change my mind. Especially for the freshwater version (the one in mud pit for example)

[@bloopahVIII]

Most of the cave music I like to listen to when I'm extremely bored.

[@michaelr3077]

Now you need to rank the Louie song variants.

[@MercLazarus]

Mystic Marsh is literally my phones ringtone so completely correct and based placement

[@elliotCloud-f6d]

Nice video fun listen especially. Your right those Brawl messages for the demo being up made me jump. Bonus points coming out of an old av tv speaker all loud and muffled.

[@SeptillionSeven]

I loved getting to play 1 & 2 for the first time on switch i never realized there were missing instruments & and that's quite dissapointong. I hope there's a path. & you should've put on the Louie versions too. They get pretty funky

[@avocadothecat]

Cave music is randomly generated btw, like the cave layout itself :) Scruffy has a great video explaining it!

[@Dynamick65]

Im a huge fan of the Soil 2 theme from the awakening woods cave as its just so goofy

[@LouieHocotate2]

Rating for Pikmin 4 Overworld Music where every enemy encounter gives a unique instruments and sounds to the theme maybe with combinations even?

[@destinyunbound2280]

Next up every pikmin 4 enemy music track ranked 😎 Other than that great video I didn't even know the names to these songs or honestly remember them 😅

[@thatnectar-]

0:25 GET OUT!! ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@brycerodriguez244]

I dont get why people don’t like pikmin 2. The challenge of the brutal caves combined with the usually calming music creates an amazing experience. And don’t get me started on the feeling you get when the rest floor music starts playing… the entire game is just so memorable

[@cceerryyss_bb]

i think for me, i dont like pikmin 2 because i find it frustrating. like i always come out of playing it feeling slightly salty lol, whereas i feel much more chill playing like 1 and 4. the music is awesome in 2 though

[@illwill42]

Happy to hear someone else complain about the Arboreal Frippery. Cheers!

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

Love your content, your delivery is just so perfect. I also love your voice/accent, really nice

[@ComradeBlue5705]

Btw the cave songs are actually put into sections and just like the layout of caves is also procedurally generated

[@Zolerian]

I love all of these songs so much.

[@benferrisinverts4198]

Pikmin 2 cave music is another reason to love the caves.

[@Top-Bird]

Okay but if I am handed the aux cord and only playing one song from Pikmin 2, it's the PvP battle music. Fire 🔥🔥🔥

[@lyndisrobin]

railroad room theme on top

[@Nic_2751]

To be fair, a lot of them are basically ambience but I think I know what’s gonna be on top and what’s gonna be bottom

[@kattlocke]

I love this channel. I hope you keep posting for as long as you can ❤️❤️❤️ :3

[@chackbro1]

I have every variant of all these songs on my driving playlist and I can always tell when I'm listening to Pikmin 2 cave music when they pop up. Still unsure if that's a good thing

[@smashers6971]

I think something that the later Pikmin games forgot was the attention to detail when comes to sound design like almost every theme in Pikmin 2 has an Olimar and Louie variant depending on who’s in control and I like how it shows a bit of their personalities, Olimar’s themes are way more complete and melodic due to him being used to the Pikmin planet than he was in the first game while Louie’s are more off usually missing instruments or skipping notes, fitting Louie’s simple minded scatterbrained nature. This doesn’t exist in Pikmin 3 and 4 alongside distinct whistle sounds for the captains you never notice these details until they’re gone.

[@grafzeppelin4069]

I never noticed Pikmin 2 had dynamic music.

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

@@grafzeppelin4069 you serious ?

[@smashers6971]

@@grafzeppelin4069 All the games do, but 2 goes all in with the dynamic soundtrack

[@nyon7209]

4's is ambitious in it's own way. I don't think it's nearly as strong as 2's, but I respect what they attempted with it. 3's probably lacks the alternate variants for the different captains because you swap between them so much more. Even if it's only slight changes, I think it would get pretty cluttered constantly swapping between them. Also because the technology being used is different, and might not handle swapping tracks on the fly as elegantly.

[@smashers6971]

@@nyon7209 Yea that’s kind of understandable in 3’s case, but at the very least they could’ve given the captains individual whistle noises.

[@NeonUprising]

I love the grass music for some reason! I also have a video suggestion; perhaps ranking the Pikmin 2 challenge mode missions by how hard they are to purple-flower complete? As a kid I remember thinking some of those were impossible to beat without losing Pikmin 😅

[@imonlyhereforpikmin]

Planning to cover that at some point. I remember the Purple Flower grind was exhaustingly hard the first time playing it

[@undercoverbreadbug2723]

Can't believe you've done Graphite Gulch like this.

[@gboogie3257]

Definitely My Favorite music is the Toy Houses and Flooded Stump Also thank you for telling me they had names because I would have never payed attention to it if it was shown right at my screen Seriously I can go to a playlist and never remember any cave name (probably still won’t)

[@mino2123]

once again a peak video thumbnail

[@Angel756_]

Hairy Bulborb reminds me of my father. (Good video btw)

[@tacticaljunk1608]

Emergence Cave 2 is gorgeous. A lot of these tracks come across as old Aphex Twin or Squarepusher tracks. I would kill for an officially mixed album of the Pikmin 2 ost from the composer. Because I think only so much of the beauty comes out in listening to the stems and only through the chaos of live gameplay does it sound right. To me at least. I think my favorite detail in a soundtrack I've ever discovered is that once when I lost like 50 Pikmin on one floor the instrumentation started getting messed up and off tempo. Literally the game removed some instruments and beats from the song to represent the catastrophic loss of Pikmin I experienced. I don't think I've ever heard a video game soundtrack embrace its interactive medium like Pikmin 2 has. It seriously needs to be studied because I want this experience in more games.

[@mysteriousmog51]

I've got to be honest I absolutely love all of these songs most of them are up there with "long elevator" being some of the best songs in gaming even more than just the cave themes are amazing in Pikmin 2 the Piklopedia and Perplexing pool are amazing to pretty much every song in this game is at least amazing I know Pikmin 2 is pretty controversial but it is by far the best Pikmin game in terms of soundtrack Pikmin 1 is amazing as well and Pikmin 3 is pretty good but Pikmin 2 is just better when it comes to soundtrack.This is another reason as to why I think Pikmin 4 is bad it didn't even try with it's soundtrack and some of the only good songs in that game are re used from Pikmin 2. I do absolutely love the Waterwraiths cave theme it's very ominous and creepy it ddoesn't try to hard to be unsettling to the point where it's horrible to listen to it's amazing and probably my favourite horror song yet it isn't even in a horror game. The giant breadbug song is chaotic and goofy perfect for the bizzar boss that it is!

[@GaminGlaceon3707]

Mystic Marsh sounds a lot like Greenpath…

[@AnAveragePurplePikmin]

Even the 3rd worst one on this list is a banger

[@gigglenose1990]

i feel like a lot of the reused main melodies feel sort of barren because they have to have space for the variation tracks without it sounding cluttered. A lot of the pikmin 2 cave music isn't stuff I would actively search for and listen to, but I think it's enjoyable in game.

[@michaelr3077]

Soil 2 is my favorite for all of its variations. I think metal 3 is substantially better in Louie's version. Specifically the working and treasure themes which has a sort of metalworks vibe to it that really fits the industrial metal levels you are in. Theres just something satisfying about the rythmic sounds that makes it feel like the pikmin themselves are the workers with an almost assembly line organization, the beats like a constant march towards progress. I don't know what it is that makes Louie sound better than Olimars version (and i typically dont like the Louie versions.) Perhaps its the added (or rather removal of) notes and sounds that gives it a more rythmic and wacky feeling too it, More alive and somewhat chaotic and random in how the notes are played, yet theres an unusual sense of order in all that chaos. When playing mods i would often have cave holes covered so i can leave 1 pikmin working so i could hear the music play as i completed the level. i know nothing of music but I probably dont even make any sense.

[@WafflesMoguMogu]

❤

[@tibby4503]

Soil 2 is my favorite by a lot, it has just enough instruments to feel like a real song rather than ambience.

[@dimthedimwit7221]

fart instruments 😭😭😭 that is a tuba

[@Wario-The-Legend]

I'm quite partial to those fart instruments, but I think this ranking is quite fair. Good video.

[@somepersonwhoishere]

being a bulblax kingdom and metal 2 connoisseur i can say i hate how low they are. (mostly for metal 2)

[@seaurchin8414]

metal 2 is so good!! love the echoing bell toll, favorite cave theme

[@Relentless966]

The moment I saw this ranking video in my recommended, I immediately knew Mystic Marsh would have to be No.1

[@blueflycat7]

peakmin 2

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

don't tell the surfshark guy that

[@tibby4503]

Not exactly peak, it's a lot less good then the other 3 Pikmin games

[@user-yr4jb6zo9c]

Based opinion putting mystic marsh first, all versions actually slap. Absolutely appalled by how nintendo treated it in the switch version (and in general too)

[@nelsonrivas2011]

damn, graphite gulch/metal 2 is one of my favorites

[@gooseothy]

Watched this while making my own Soil 3 crap-amp sounds in the bathroom

[@SammyTheOrange]

The treasure variant of metal 1 does go hard