Man alive, I'm about 28 days and not even got the blue pikmin!
Quite a few levels are really meandering and I can get lost, plus I'm not really rushing, but still..
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Pikmin 3 |OT| Starvation, Slavery, and Savage Creatures in a Cute, Colorful Package
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Man alive, I'm about 28 days and not even got the blue pikmin!
Quite a few levels are really meandering and I can get lost, plus I'm not really rushing, but still..
I have a few questions to those who have finished it/have all the Pikmin types:
I really want the Blue Pikmin. Any hint as to where I can find them? Do I get them before I find the Captain? I've killed the first boss and I've killed the Spider thingy in Tundra (ice world and I've been collecting quite a bit of fruit.
Thank you so much doe this! It sounds delicious!
Blue Pikmin are the last ones you get, you've still have quite a bit to go before you get to them.
Put about 20-odd hours into the game so far (since Australian release; spent most of my weekend playing heh), have to say it's living up to my expectations. I wasn't really hyped for the game (was planning on getting it but didn't follow it much at all) and I'd say that the tutorial system was very welcome, considering I haven't played a Pikmin game in something like eight years. Working on getting all platinum medals now. I think my story mode time was like 12 hours and 31 in-game days at 100% (had to restart quite a few because of that save corruption problem that the Wii U sometimes has, and I only discovered the charge attack at like day 10 or something).
Most of my praise for the game has already been stated by other people (looks great, plays great, very deep strategy, rewards skill and speed while still being fun for people not interested in such things, and so on) but I really do miss the swarm function (there's a dodge roll and a charge attack that replace two of the functions for it, but there's nothing to stop pikmin from getting stuck on walls every now and then and sometimes you just want to swarm a small group of pikmin instead of every single one, plus the dodge roll makes your pikmin bug out sometimes). I also don't like how dismiss and charge are on the same button/action, since with Wii remote aiming it's easy to accidentally miss your lock-on and dismiss your pikmin instead of charging.
Challenge Mode is fantastic. There are only 10 levels (plus a handful of boss battles), but platinum can be pretty challenging to get, let alone doing it quickly enough to get a high score. I'm definitely interested in going for good scores and story mode times. Probably going to get more levels through DLC, of course.
Anyone else thinking of going for times and high scores?
Most of my praise for the game has already been stated by other people (looks great, plays great, very deep strategy, rewards skill and speed while still being fun for people not interested in such things, and so on) but I really do miss the swarm function (there's a dodge roll and a charge attack that replace two of the functions for it, but there's nothing to stop pikmin from getting stuck on walls every now and then and sometimes you just want to swarm a small group of pikmin instead of every single one, plus the dodge roll makes your pikmin bug out sometimes). I also don't like how dismiss and charge are on the same button/action, since with Wii remote aiming it's easy to accidentally miss your lock-on and dismiss your pikmin instead of charging.
Challenge Mode is fantastic. There are only 10 levels (plus a handful of boss battles), but platinum can be pretty challenging to get, let alone doing it quickly enough to get a high score. I'm definitely interested in going for good scores and story mode times. Probably going to get more levels through DLC, of course.
Anyone else thinking of going for times and high scores?
and Brittany looks like Julia Gillard
Blues are the last you get, You'll be able to find them after one of the bosses, and a short story scene.
Cheers guys. (Blue are favourite type. Can't wait to get them).
Edit: Just wanted to make a note of my impressions so far. Whilst I liked Pikmin 1 & 2, I never found them that compelling/addictive (in fact I never finished them), but I'm finding Pikmin 3 to be very addictive. It just feels so fresh after playing the 360 (so much for the last 6 years) with the occasional Wii exclusive. Beautiful visuals too.
Edit: Just wanted to make a note of my impressions so far. Whilst I liked Pikmin 1 & 2, I never found them that compelling/addictive (in fact I never finished them), but I'm finding Pikmin 3 to be very addictive. It just feels so fresh after playing the 360 (so much for the last 6 years) with the occasional Wii exclusive. Beautiful visuals too.
I'm pretty content just having the Platinum Medals. I'm ahead of the curve on most of the rankings, and I'm happy there. If, after USA gets the game, people start getting higher scores, and moving the curve towards me I may try and beat my times.
Actually, this isn't true, I'm now unlocking all the Bingo Battle stages.
By myself. : (
I think I am about to fight the final boss. Should I get everything (fruit, notes, secrets) before I go against him or there is a post game?
Edit: By the way. Any news on the deluxe digital promotion thing and TW101 discount for those who downloaded the game hours before the actual release date? Are we still screwed?
Edit: By the way. Any news on the deluxe digital promotion thing and TW101 discount for those who downloaded the game hours before the actual release date? Are we still screwed?
You can always go back to previous days if you've missed anything. It might be worth your while getting the boss's health all the way down, and then ending the day so you don't have to repeat the whole fight should you decided to go back a day to get anything you've missed.
My feelings exactly.
And it has the superior Rock Pikmin. All hail the rock pikmin, destroyer of glass.
No post game but you can replay from the day just before the one when you beat the game. That's I've done.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Don't worry mate, I've taken my time as well [spoiler I might be a bit slow in the head[/spoiler]
We're still screwed and we should do a thread about it to create awareness, maybe things would get fixed with a bit of bad publicity.
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
lock on + shake nunchuk to make all pikmin charge at an enemy/object
Oh shit, it's like the new swarm!
You hold Z (Wii Remote Controls) when pointing at an enemy to lock-on, then you shake the nunchuck, and all the Pikmin on your captain will charge at once and attack.
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
Okaaay
did I miss something? Is that something you have to find/unlock?Always-honest
Banned
Ay differences between disc based and download game?
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
Download is for the cool kids.
How do you do the charge attack with the Gamepad?
Also, re the downloading early and not getting Premium points and W101 deal, I agree with a separate thread, as it'll only affect a small part of the playing community and the game is too Godlike to keep side tracking the topic with it. (imo of course and btw I am one of the early downloaders thanks to Game).
Also, re the downloading early and not getting Premium points and W101 deal, I agree with a separate thread, as it'll only affect a small part of the playing community and the game is too Godlike to keep side tracking the topic with it. (imo of course and btw I am one of the early downloaders thanks to Game
).Darth_Caedus
No longer canonical
I have a few things I'm confused on that make or break this game for me. Are fruits the only thing you gather now? Is it casual compared to the previous two? Is there no time limit for a day? These are some things I need answered.
I'm already turned off my the lack of a piklopedia which was my favorite part. (reading olimar's notes on items and the in depth science on the monsters was amazing)
I'm already turned off my the lack of a piklopedia which was my favorite part. (reading olimar's notes on items and the in depth science on the monsters was amazing)
For some reason everyone is ignoring you. Now keep in mind that what I'm about to say is from observations, I don't have the game myself.
The days seem as long as Pikmin 1. but I don't know if those had longer days.
Press ZL to lock a target, then press B or tilt the Gamepad.
While locking a target you can move around and still target it with ZL.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
How do you do the charge attack with the Gamepad?
Also, re the downloading early and not getting Premium points and W101 deal, I agree with a separate thread, as it'll only affect a small part of the playing community and the game is too Godlike to keep side tracking the topic with it. (imo of course and btw I am one of the early downloaders thanks to Game
Hold zL which locks onto the thing. Then you can either press B or shake the gamepad.
Thank you
Pikmin 1 had perfect length, P2 had short days that made exploration up above more frantic than fun.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
I didn't know you could do that until one of the later boss fights. Made life a lot easier.
disc version has Luigi hats instead of flower petals, download version replaces water with milk
seriously, what difference would there be?
Always-honest
Banned
Differences in performance, price, etc
1) fruits only - yes, kind of. there's also memos to collect. you won't be collecting Duracell batteries.
2) what does that even mean?
3) huh? in order for it to be a "day" there has to be an end. did you read anything in this thread/watch any videos at all?
4) piklopedia: there is no separate piklopedia but Brittany gives you similar comments on the fruit you collect.
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
I think I saw the chaege attack in one of the youtube highscore vids but yeah, I had no idea how to pull it off.
Did I simply skip a tutorial massage or is it an item or something that you have to find to unlock that ability?
Nocturnowl
Member
Okay so I got to tackle the Battle Bingo and Challenge modes today...
Battle Bingo
well it's a bit better than Pikmin 2's multiplayer but it's still fundamentally flawed seeing as Pikmin aren't really made to fight other Pikmin, Which of course is why the game presents item collecting as the main challenge. For the most part it's just like the marble hunting from Pikmin 2's versus mode but you have more options in how you win. You aim to complete a row of treasures and defeated enemies by dragging the right objects back to the onion. Though the positioning of items doesn't always feel very balanced, I won one map barely venturing out of my half with three of the four items in pretty close proximity to my onion. And then we have the cherries, yep they're back from Pikmin 2 and they still hold too much power, the one that drops the rocks is brutal and I got it like once to my opponents 6 or 7 times.
There are a ton of maps, 12 if I recall, each one is rather unique and include the likes of a sandbox and a building block fort which is nice as you don't see these sort of places in the main game, they're reminiscent of the areas you might come across in Pikmin 2's caves/challenge mode.
You can also choose to play with two captains or one along with setting the number of starting Pikmin, 2 captains with 15 pikmin to start seemed to be the best way to play for us. But it's really just a small distraction, versus modes in Pikmin just don't quite work though i'll respect them for trying.
Challenge Mode
Divided into Treasure Hunts, Enemy Mauling and effectively a Boss replay mode, all of which run on a time limit.
The treasure hunts actually ended up being our favourite mode to play, it's here that the Purple and White fellows turn up and show that they're kind of lacking by comparison to the rest but hey it's the thought that counts. This mode tasks you with nabbing every scrap on the map in the time limit including carcasses and benefited quite well from co-op. The Pikmin tend to be scattered over the map and I don't recall if you could make any more in this mode which is a nice twist.
The mode focused on enemies is decent as well and has good old onions so you can build up your numbers, each of the five maps has one of the miniboss like enemies in it somewhere, the first was probably the most interesting use of this idea by having the baldy long legs chap stomping all over the area.
Lastly the Boss mode, well it's the main bosses from single player fought with the pikmin they give you and you basically just try to beat them as fast as possible with as little casualties as possible.
Challenge mode is good stuff but I can't help but wish there was more of it, dare I say Pikmin 2 had a better take on things with a greater variety of setups and enemies though I expect Pikmin 3 is better for those people really gunning for high scores. I was hoping to see more enemy types from previous games turn up in here but the only monsters close to new lurking in these parts were Bulborb variations.
Battle Bingo
well it's a bit better than Pikmin 2's multiplayer but it's still fundamentally flawed seeing as Pikmin aren't really made to fight other Pikmin, Which of course is why the game presents item collecting as the main challenge. For the most part it's just like the marble hunting from Pikmin 2's versus mode but you have more options in how you win. You aim to complete a row of treasures and defeated enemies by dragging the right objects back to the onion. Though the positioning of items doesn't always feel very balanced, I won one map barely venturing out of my half with three of the four items in pretty close proximity to my onion. And then we have the cherries, yep they're back from Pikmin 2 and they still hold too much power, the one that drops the rocks is brutal and I got it like once to my opponents 6 or 7 times.
There are a ton of maps, 12 if I recall, each one is rather unique and include the likes of a sandbox and a building block fort which is nice as you don't see these sort of places in the main game, they're reminiscent of the areas you might come across in Pikmin 2's caves/challenge mode.
You can also choose to play with two captains or one along with setting the number of starting Pikmin, 2 captains with 15 pikmin to start seemed to be the best way to play for us. But it's really just a small distraction, versus modes in Pikmin just don't quite work though i'll respect them for trying.
Challenge Mode
Divided into Treasure Hunts, Enemy Mauling and effectively a Boss replay mode, all of which run on a time limit.
The treasure hunts actually ended up being our favourite mode to play, it's here that the Purple and White fellows turn up and show that they're kind of lacking by comparison to the rest but hey it's the thought that counts. This mode tasks you with nabbing every scrap on the map in the time limit including carcasses and benefited quite well from co-op. The Pikmin tend to be scattered over the map and I don't recall if you could make any more in this mode which is a nice twist.
The mode focused on enemies is decent as well and has good old onions so you can build up your numbers, each of the five maps has one of the miniboss like enemies in it somewhere, the first was probably the most interesting use of this idea by having the baldy long legs chap stomping all over the area.
Lastly the Boss mode, well it's the main bosses from single player fought with the pikmin they give you and you basically just try to beat them as fast as possible with as little casualties as possible.
Challenge mode is good stuff but I can't help but wish there was more of it, dare I say Pikmin 2 had a better take on things with a greater variety of setups and enemies though I expect Pikmin 3 is better for those people really gunning for high scores. I was hoping to see more enemy types from previous games turn up in here but the only monsters close to new lurking in these parts were Bulborb variations.
You should have a talk with Chris Remo and Jake Rodking from Idle Thumbs ...they're gonna tell you a little something about Pikmin multiplayer
(and with a little I mean A WHOLE LOT!)
Dunkelgrau
Member
Played for five hours today. The game gave me blast.
But I cannot understand why everyone prefers to play with Wimmote and Nunchuck. I navigate with the gamepad all the time. Cannot image to play without this feature.
Sure you can switch between both controls, but this is really annoying.
But I cannot understand why everyone prefers to play with Wimmote and Nunchuck. I navigate with the gamepad all the time. Cannot image to play without this feature.
Sure you can switch between both controls, but this is really annoying.
Now for some reason that made me kinda want a game where you have to point either at the Tv or the gamepad screen with a Wiimote to perform various things.
Just went through the 4th boss without losing a single Pikmin!
Feels good, man!
The result:
Is there a way to clear the screen of the HUD?
ShellyDeKiller
Member
Just started playing this game. Man this game looks good.
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So many nice little, quirky details in this game.
Like, what is that Rubber Duck doing, floating randomly around like this?
Like, what is that Rubber Duck doing, floating randomly around like this?