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 The game Originally released in 2001 on the GameCube, Pikmin is a creative spin on real-time strategy and puzzle games. You play a tiny alien the size of a quarter who crashlands on an unknown planet, discovers the titular plant-like creatures, and grows and guides them to do your bidding. Supposedly inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto's time spent in his garden, the gameplay concept combined with the ant's-eye-view of a gorgeous slice of nature earned this game many adoring fans to this day, though both the GameCube and Wii versions of the original are considerably rougher than the more refined sequels. The story is such: You are Captain Olimar, intrepid deliveryman for the planet Hocotate's premiere interplanetary money losers, Hocotate Freight. While out in space, Olimar flies right into a meteor and crashlands on an uncharted planet. His ship wrecked and missing 25 key parts and 5 unnecessary extras, and his space suit's life support set to run out in 30 days, all seems doomed... until he walks two yards to the left and discovers a tiny, plant-like creature that responds to his commands. Dubbing them Pikmin after their resemblance to his planet's Pik Pik Carrots, Olimar proceeds to grow a massive army of Pikmin to recover his ship's parts and hopefully make his way home. But it won't be easy when his army is made up of every other creature's lunch... The LP: Mugiwara Yoshi once again takes the lead. He'll be playing the Wii New Play Control version on the Wii U eShop, and he's shooting for completing the game in under 10 days. He originally intended to make this a 6 Day Challenge speedrun, but that proved insurmountable. I (ThornBrain) have also played and beaten the game a few times, though I'm more familiar with the original GameCube version. Our friend Travis also had enough free time to join us for Days 7-9. We're putting Pikmin 3 on pause to do this because TheStrawhatNO!'s 9th anniversary passed on April 13, 2019, and Pikmin was the first LP Yoshi and I did just the two of us back on an old LP channel. We thought we'd revisit this classic and do it better this time, and to have videos available somewhere after BlipTV died and took the original LP with it. However you can see us rewatch one of the surviving parts, along with several other old and obscure videos, on our TSN 9th Birthday Celebration stream. We of course also LP'd Pikmin 2 back in 2012, but it hasn't aged particularly well for a number of reasons. I instead recommend watching the Best Of compilation, which sifts out most of the cringe-inducement: (Part 1, Part 2). ----------------------------        
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Apr 19, 2019 20:00
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Whoa, double Pikmin, I didn't see this coming.
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Apr 19, 2019 22:15
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Triple Pikmin.
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Apr 20, 2019 00:24
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I'm seeing double, Four Pikmin.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:51
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I didn't grow up with the Gamecube but I did have the experience of no memory card with the first Jak and Daxter game near the start of the PS2 era.
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Apr 22, 2019 00:25
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Let's chew through half of the second area with some good ol' sequence breaking.
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Apr 23, 2019 20:40
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Wow, that was pretty impressive sequence breaking. I especially loved tossing the lone yellow pikmin on the cliff before punching the big bulborb.
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Apr 24, 2019 05:41
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Enjoy Yoshi burning through the second half of Forest of Hope without blue Pikmin and makes Olimar a superhero while I go see Endgame.
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Apr 26, 2019 20:03
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A childhood terror turns out to be kind of a breeze.
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Apr 30, 2019 20:10
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Two short days in one. It's getting awfully wet around here.
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May 3, 2019 20:59
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I actually did a Pikmin marathon myself last month going through the 3 games and the Pikmin like game Little King story. In retrospect I can see where people liked Pikmin 1 a lot more then the sequel (which is my favorite of the trilogy). Everything is more simple and the 30 day timer makes you need to plan things out in advance and micromanage a lot. It's a shame the game is pretty short through, you can beat Pikmin 1 in a few hours if you know what you're doing.
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May 3, 2019 22:36
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You didn't mention it in the video so I will, the quirk with the Mamuta is not only that it re-buries pikmin, but that any pikmin it buries become flowers immediately, regardless of their prior maturity level. It's still not particularly useful, nectar is more convenient and more readily available (it's really not worth going back to the Impact Site just to get the Mamuta to flower things), but I remember it being common for people to recommend using the Mamuta to get flower pikmin when this game was newer. Also, it's hard to avoid killing it while you're trying to get it to attack, and IIRC it doesn't respawn on later days once killed.
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May 4, 2019 05:42
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The first game is great because it nails the atmosphere and presentation. It also has an open world kind of feel to it. There aren't any cut scenes beyond the intro and ending, you stumble onto things as you go. The second game expanded on the mechanics and is far longer with more to do and collect, but at the cost of the atmosphere. The third game is great, they managed to combine aspects of 1 and 2 while leaning more towards the first game.
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May 4, 2019 17:16
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From the waters of the spring comes a voice from the past...
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May 7, 2019 20:02
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ThornBrain posted:(entire ending conversation)
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May 7, 2019 21:35
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The best Smoky Progg kill I have ever seen was in RoahmMythril's no-deaths run (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-BLAm3zvgI&t=741s). He set up a trap by piling bomb rocks under the yellow onion, and lured the thing into them, then set them all off at once to kill it instantly. It's well worth seeing if you haven't, it's hilariously anticlimactic. I don't think I've ever actually fought this thing myself, I think as a kid I tended to either destroy the egg outright or follow the guides' advice not to go to the Distant Spring until it was too late for it to spawn.
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May 8, 2019 00:42
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Nice of Highwang to lend you guys his co-commentator for a video.
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May 8, 2019 00:52
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The SS Dolphin is nearly rebuilt, and it's a lot easier when most things are already dead.
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May 10, 2019 20:11
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I think the reason Arnold impersonations portray him as a screaming lunatic is because he's known for action movies where he's screaming like "GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!  "
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May 11, 2019 05:11
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So, I've noticed that the death glitch that you mentioned the Wollywogs having doesn't seem to be limited to them. You lost Pikmin every Bulbear fight, at least at the beginning of the video, and the Bulbears never even got a chance to wake up. I think any enemy that dies by falling onto the ground can push Pikmin through the floor, killing them.
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May 11, 2019 13:23
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Thus concludes our return to Pikmin. Pikmin 3 will be back on Friday for three more parts before it also concludes. Then, look forward to Yoshi's LP of Star Fox Adventures!
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May 14, 2019 20:00
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ThornBrain posted:
oh oh no
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May 15, 2019 03:23
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ThornBrain posted:Then, look forward to Yoshi's LP of Star Fox Adventures! Are we sure that won't be an LP of his liquor cabinet? I remember watching someone else LP that game and for every part I remembered, there were at least 2 parts I either forgot or repressed.
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May 15, 2019 11:43
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Alkydere posted:Are we sure that won't be an LP of his liquor cabinet? Why not both?
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