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 Mugiwara Yoshi takes the reigns again after several years for an LP we've wanted to do for even longer! The game Pikmin 3 brings the modestly-successful, genre-bending series to the not-very-successful, dead-in-the-water Wii U. The game makes use of the Wii U's tablet for multiple new gameplay functions, including allowing you to see everything across the whole map, having different teams of Pikmin operate independently, and have your characters interact like actual characters for once and not just take orders from their ship. We also get two new Pikmin in place of the Purples and Whites: Rock Pikmin, which can be thrown around to break glass and resist piercing or crushing attacks, and Winged Pikmin, which are able to fly in the face of the developers' intentions. The game finds a middle ground in the level of peril between the first two games. Where Pikmin had you recover your ship parts in a strict 30 day time limit, and 2 had you collect treasure with no limit at all, 3 requires you to gather fruits to survive which extend the time you have. Because there is only overground and no long underground caves again, this does mean the game won't take very long at all - 15 in-game days max. A sometimes challenging, if not particularly long, game with a bit of a learning curve, Pikmin 3 is at least worth the time we waited between its release and 2's. The story is such: You are Alph, Brittany and Charlie from the planet Koppai - scientists who are sent to the Pikmin planet to gather fruit seeds to bring back home and save the starving population. Having reliably crashed their ship like Pikmin protagonists are supposed to, they only have three days of food reserves left and must gather more fruits to juice. Discovering the Pikmin and how to utilize them on their own, they set out to gather as many fruits as they can to save their planet and themselves from starving. Along the way, they discover that some previous visitors may not have left yet... The LP: Yoshi will be gathering all of the fruits and upgrades, as well as occasionally including alternate takes to show off tricks or sequence breaks. The expected length of the LP is 14-16 days. He won't be so intent on keeping all of his Pikmin alive this time around, because goddamn, let a guy ease back into LPing. I (ThornBrain) have also played and beaten the game, so I too will have relevant info to provide, but I'll more likely handle the quipping job. ----------------------------              ----------------------------  (By BrennaOkazaki) 
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Wow, two Pikmin 3 LPs going on at the same time. I've never played any of the Pikmin titles, but the game seems very interesting so far. I'm really glad that you're LPing this, too, ThornBrain. Edit: The first TheStrawatsNO! LP I've watched not played (or main commented) by ThornBrain. Takes a time to get used to, but Yoshi is a good host. Torrannor fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Mar 12, 2019 |
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Mar 12, 2019 20:26
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Ground floor! Looking forward to this, I loved your Pikmin 2 LP and was wondering when you guys would get around to this one!
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Mar 13, 2019 00:19
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Let's see which pair of gets fewer Pikmin
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Mar 15, 2019 08:06
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We all need a friend we can throw through windows.
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Mar 15, 2019 20:00
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The fact that Alph, Brittany and Charlie are fleshed out, speaking characters is nice since aside from Olimar's monologues the only speaking characters were the President and the ship.
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Mar 16, 2019 01:57
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Olive Branch posted:Let's see which pair of gets fewer Pikmin
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Mar 16, 2019 21:29
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What respawns and what doesn't respawn between days?
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Mar 16, 2019 21:32
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I don't think anything respawns. Since we're missing a lot of pikmin, we cannot access several areas in the earlier maps, and have to come back to them later. There's one kind of special berry that respawns not just between days, but during a day also, but I think that's the only exception. Enemies, pellets, fruits, bridge parts, pikmin, etc. all don't respawn. There's even a big hint that damage to bosses persists to the next day.
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Mar 16, 2019 21:38
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Enemies definitely respawn over time. It's not immediately but wait a few days and come back and enemies will start to return. Pellet posies also respawn daily.
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Mar 16, 2019 22:43
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Crashing at the start? Sure, par for the course. Crashing again? You need to go home.
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Mar 19, 2019 20:00
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Alph probably repaired the Drake after that near crash while Brittany gathered the yellow pikmin.
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Mar 19, 2019 20:38
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Olive Branch posted:
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Mar 19, 2019 21:07
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After watching the Pikmin 2 highlights, I noticed that the pikmin don't sing when bored/walking in a group in this game.
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Mar 20, 2019 00:23
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You needed twenty of each available type in 2, we haven't found all the Pikmin types of this game yet and that's not gonna happen for at least another couple videos based on Maple's LP. And now thanks to the post video chat, I want a parody of Wooly Bully named "Screwy Louie".
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Mar 20, 2019 04:28
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Yoshi, you're burning through this game like crazy.
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Mar 22, 2019 21:00
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I actually explained the issue in the other Pikmin 3 LP thread:Chimera-gui posted:Koppaites are also only capable of metabolizing a substance called Piktamin U. It is explained by Brittany that Pikpik Carrots do not contain Piktamin U which is the reason why Hocotate Freight, the company Olimar and Louie work for, could not help with Koppai's food crisis. Fortunately, the massive fruits found on PNF-404 contain large amounts of this substance
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Mar 23, 2019 03:01
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Sorry! I completely forgot to update the thread last time, so have two parts with two different bosses that Yoshi just wrecks.
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Mar 26, 2019 20:03
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I for one can't wait to see my favorite character in this franchise, the Dumple.
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Mar 27, 2019 21:46
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Sormus posted:I for one can't wait to see my favorite character in this franchise, the Dumple. Nobody likes the dumple
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Mar 27, 2019 21:49
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Our favorite new Pikmin and our favorite old loser, discovered together!
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Mar 29, 2019 20:12
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I held off on sharing this until Thorn posted the episode where he and Yoshi discuss the merits of redesigning the Pikmin and found the Splitster on tumblr posted:
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Mar 30, 2019 02:23
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Let the Dumple roasting commence, because nobody likes the Dumple.
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Mar 30, 2019 04:42
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What's a Dumple?
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Mar 30, 2019 07:55
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Commander Keene posted:What's a Dumple? A miserable pile of good intentions and broken dreams.
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Mar 30, 2019 10:38
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Imagine a living dumpling, made of snot and filled with sadness.
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Mar 30, 2019 21:45
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Sormus posted:Imagine a living dumpling, made of snot and filled with sadness. Don’t doxx me.
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Mar 31, 2019 02:15
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Sing us a song, you're the saliva harp
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Apr 2, 2019 20:07
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We left Louie behind last time, so let's pick him and a few other things up before we move on.
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Apr 5, 2019 20:20
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In terms of an average playthough, Maple Leaf and Olive Branch are doing an LP (which you should watch since beyond them being good LPers every pikmin lost is a dollar Maple Leaf is donating to scleroderma research and if the DK64 stream taught me anything it's that charity Let's Plays are the very best kind) and by the looks of it, since Maple Leaf is familiar with the series but seems to be playing Pikmin 3 blind he seems on track to beat the game somewhere in between 25-30 days.
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Apr 6, 2019 14:28
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I wonder if Louie will be our new frie- well poo poo.
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Apr 9, 2019 20:00
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ThornBrain posted:I wonder if Louie will be our new frie- well poo poo. What a jerk. Are you going to feed him to the Onion next time you "rescue" him?
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I feel he'd eat the Onion if you tried that. Anyway, I find funny that despite being substantially different to Purples, Winged Pikmin somehow end up being OP as hell just by virtue of being able to fly. It's no loving wonder flight is one of the most desired super powers in the world.
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Apr 10, 2019 01:55
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Louie lasted five seconds before exploding. I'm impressed!
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Apr 10, 2019 08:01
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Shei-kun posted:Louie lasted five seconds before exploding. Rampant explosions and space suit that puts you into sleep mode when under stress. No wonder he can survive nights on Planet Pikmin.
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Apr 10, 2019 09:00
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I feel like a space suit that puts you to sleep when you're under stress is probably more harm than good?
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The Garden of Hope has ways to make you feel hopeless. As I mention at the end of the video, Pikmin 3 will be taking a short break to instead do the Six Day Challenge for the first Pikmin. Tomorrow is our channel's 9th anniversary, and the first LP Yoshi and I did just the two of us was Pikmin on an old LP channel shortly before we started TheStrawhatNO, so we're revisiting it to celebrate. We're holding a livestream on TSN's YouTube streaming page to look back on some of our oldest videos; if some parts of Pikmin are ready, then we'll be commentating them live; and I'll be replaying some of Bomberman Hero, which I did for TSN's first official LP (excludes the others before that were canned or were completely lost due to BlipTV going under). I'll post here when the stream starts, which should be 3PM Pacific, 6PM Eastern. Pikmin may get posted to its own thread, but it should only take a max of 3 weeks' worth of updates since it will be uploaded the same days, so Pikmin 3 will be back in early May.
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TheStrawhatNO's 9th Birthday Celebration and Retrospective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXsZJTi1GJ8 We didn't get to commentate Pikmin due to having so much to talk about and old videos to watch, but it was still 7 hours of a great time. We did get a lovely piece of Pikmin fanart from BrennaOkazaki though!
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Apr 13, 2019 19:13
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Update on Pikmin 1: due to Forest of Hope being a nightmare to try to complete in one day (Yoshi's done dozens of attempts over several days and no dice), he's sadly dropping the 6 day challenge and aiming more for 7 days. It'll still be speedy, just with some extra breathing room, and at least the rest of the game will go much smoother for him. Gonna aim for Day 1 to go up on Friday, or failing that next Tuesday.
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Putting this LP on hold for a bit while Yoshi and I do Pikmin 1, which has its own thread now. Yoshi finally settled on doing it under 10 days.
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