andthebeatgoeson
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ge-man said:
Great part for me. If you lose on one level of a dungeon, it'll be slightly different next time. Nice touch to keep the difficulty up.
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Great part for me. If you lose on one level of a dungeon, it'll be slightly different next time. Nice touch to keep the difficulty up.
Which cave is harder? Dream Den or Hole of Heroes
What do you need to do to finish this game? I have one last hole to do and the weight in Wistful Wild to get. Where's the best place to find purple pikmin?
Thinking Hole of Heroes was the last cave, I just spent spent 3 hours in Dream Den and found Loui at the end.
What do you need to do to finish this game? I have one last hole to do and the weight in Wistful Wild to get. Where's the best place to find purple pikmin?
ToyMachine228
Member
Just reached 10,000 pokos the other day. But of course, I am heading back with the President, to explore the new level. I already did once but I plan on more in the future, when I get the time. Such a great game.
JJConrad said:
They're both evenly matched I think--the challenges come from a different emphasis.
As for purple pikmin, head back to valley of repose and go down the subterreanean complex dungeon.
Go down to level eight with one pikmin. There are three purple pikmin flowers and two of those candypop flowers that give you nine pikmin for one. Leave when you do that, and return and repeat the same day.
Prospero said:
I love the difficulty level, it's almost perfect.
After all the bad press Nintendo got for 'not caring about top quality graphics' and saying things like 'gamers want easy games' its nice to see Pikmin 2 prove that Nintendo is not married to either of those philosophies.
Deku Tree said:
My only complaint about the difficulty in the Wistful Wild caves is that it seems to derive more from throwing a whole pile of enemies into the levels, rather than any ingenuity inherent in the level designs themselves. I guess that's the tradeoff for having randomly generated levels, though.
I think my favorite area of the game so far has been the aboveground section of Perplexing Pool. The design there was absolute genius--practically every single treasure required lateral thinking if you wanted to obtain it.
I just finished the game today. Killed 473 pikmin over 41 days in 31+ hours... berry-smoking, hippie pikmin began protesting, carrying signs comparing Loui to Hitler and chanting "NO WAR FOR POKOS!!"
Hole of Heroes wasn't nearly as difficult as Dream Den... and the boss was a cakewalk in comparison. After reading the thread, I entered the den with
pikmin, but only needed about 20 of them. Having extras just made it harder. For all of the giant spider-things (non final boss), its easier to fight with
I've got everything, except the yellow candypops in my piklopedia. Does anyone know where to find those? I don't remember ever seeing one.
Hole of Heroes wasn't nearly as difficult as Dream Den... and the boss was a cakewalk in comparison. After reading the thread, I entered the den with
50 blue
a small group of doped-up pikmin... its easier to dodge their feet and run away from the machine gun fire.
I've got everything, except the yellow candypops in my piklopedia. Does anyone know where to find those? I don't remember ever seeing one.
Chibbi Brady
Member
That's the one thing I'm missing as well, and I've been over every inch of the game. Maybe it's just not in there.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Just beat the fucking mechanized machine gunning spider, my God. Well, it put me over the 10K poko mark as well.
893 pikmin born
165 pikmin lost
18 days spent
Time: 10:29
I could play a LOT better. I ended up losing a lot of pikmin to stupid mistakes near the end... like throwing them at an aerial enemy and having them fly off the edge of a level. :|
I'll finish up and get everything, and then go through again. What a great game. It'll be tough to choose between this and four swords for console GOTY.
893 pikmin born
165 pikmin lost
18 days spent
Time: 10:29
I could play a LOT better. I ended up losing a lot of pikmin to stupid mistakes near the end... like throwing them at an aerial enemy and having them fly off the edge of a level. :|
I'll finish up and get everything, and then go through again. What a great game. It'll be tough to choose between this and four swords for console GOTY.
ToyMachine228
Member
This may contain spoilers...And sense I don't know how to change the background color to black, I'll do this the old fashioned way...
*SPOILERS*
*SPOILERS*
Do you actually find Louie again? What happens to the President's position as your partner, when you do, if indeed you do...
ToyMachine228
Member
Thanks Ani.
Finally beat it last night. Got every treasure, whoo.
Den of Dreams was just annoying. Particularly the one water level where you start out on a tree stump, and the bomb-balloon guy is walking around. So many times I was wittling away at the other enemies with blue pikmin, because he was in the corner, then i turn around and all my pikmin's souls are raising in the air.
Excellent game though. We'll see if PM2 or MP2 can be better.
Den of Dreams was just annoying. Particularly the one water level where you start out on a tree stump, and the bomb-balloon guy is walking around. So many times I was wittling away at the other enemies with blue pikmin, because he was in the corner, then i turn around and all my pikmin's souls are raising in the air.
Excellent game though. We'll see if PM2 or MP2 can be better.
Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
I've gotten more more than half the debt back, but so far there doesn't seem to be much point in having the two spacemen. Only a few simple puzzles have actually required to use the two guys. I also wish the idle guy could have a bit more A.I. Say, assign simple commands like, "Harvest any flower pikmin"... "Carry back all dead creatures/pellets"... "Return all free Pikmin to the onions" As it is they just stand there wiht thier thumbs in thier ass.
Also, I miss the "Soap" theme that played during the area slection screen of Pikmin 1. Why'd they take it out? Did Billy Crystal threaten to sue?
Also, I miss the "Soap" theme that played during the area slection screen of Pikmin 1. Why'd they take it out? Did Billy Crystal threaten to sue?
Gahiggidy said:
Well, the two spacemen are for multi-tasking. Like for example, when the Pikmin carry a treasure back to the ship, instead of walking all the way back there myself, I leave one there already or use the sleep bag so the Pikmin carry him back, and while that's going on I forge ahead and clear other obstacles.
But yeah, advanced AI would have been nice. Maybe in Pikmin 3?
I hated that level. That cannon jackass would not leave me alone, nor would he follow any bait away from the group. How do they expect you to lead an army of non-blue pikmin across that stage? I cheated andHero said:
reset the game (B+X+Start) until the level randomize in my favor, with the geyser next to the start point and that jerk far away... it only takes a few seconds to get back into the game and the game restarts you at the beginning of each cave sublevel.
Gahiggidy:
The two spacemen really only just help speed the game up. First, they reduce backtracking. Second, when you split the group or leave the pikmin behind to scout the stage or to find strays and not worry about the rest of the group getting themselves killed. Later in the game, you'll come across a couple of obstacles that will require the use of both spacemen, but for the most part there's very little that couldn't be done with just one leader.
One of our AI ideas is adressed late in the game, too.
After using a couple of exploits here and there to get past some of the more troublesome levels of the Dream Den, I reached
Ouch. "Absolute brutality" isn't a phrase I usually associate with Nintendo, but I guess that's changed.
This game really does have some of the best bosses I've seen in ages. They're humorously designed, but at the same time, they're disturbingly grotesque in a literally perverse way.
The kind of thing you'd expect from Clive Barker.
the final boss, which completely slaughtered me in a number of imaginative ways, each with its own musical accompaniment.
This game really does have some of the best bosses I've seen in ages. They're humorously designed, but at the same time, they're disturbingly grotesque in a literally perverse way.
That giant breadbug in the Hole of Heroes, that shits those little white bugs that kill Pikmin in one hit--ugh. Revolting.