I respect the fact that the community is literally marketing pikmin 4 for nintendo because they love the franchise that much. Also great move for nintendo to put every pikmin game on the switch
I think one of the things that gives a wider appeal to Pikmin 4 is that there is no time limit. There are people that enjoy that, and let's be honest, you can impose that limit on yourself. But one of the best parts of Pikmin has been the beautiful scenery of the world itself.
I think they should merge the gameplay Pikmin 1 & 3 and Pikmin 2 & 4. Perhaps Pikmin 5 can give both some shorter challenge for timed play but also a campaign without time limit
@@QnjtGWonQNqVsbYyzjx4 pikmin 4 spoiler: the game offers exactly that. main campaign is without time limit but theres a side story that has a time limit
You really can't. The night missions are like 5 minutes long, you only get one resource from them, despite this they advance your time an entire day, and you have to do several. It completely ruins any fun of a low day run. I'm already on day 18 when I should be on day 11 or 12.
Pikmin 4 is gonna pop the series. The breakout begins NOW! It's popularity is picking up & it's no longer overlooked & buried on consoles that didn't get mass sales from the public. It's one of the best selections in their portfolio. Now it's time for Pikmin to match commercial success with critical success. 'Slow & steady wins the race' is the other lesson of this Video Game Story Time.
I just hope Pikmin 4 doesn't torpedo it in the public eye due to the overbearing tutorials, disgustingly long load times, and nothing-burger night missions. It's a great game when it's not getting in its own way.
Yeah, I don't know about all that. Pikmin 3 deluxe was the perfect opportunity for the series to take off, but it never did. The reason why is not hard to see. The gameplay simply appeals to a niche group of people
I think it's more significant than some people realize that Pikmin 4 has been heavily marketed as a "Dandori" game. It was one of the very first things we learned about Pikmin 4 for a reason. For the past 15 years, if you had googled "what genre is Pikmin" it would probably tell you that it's a real time strategy game. This was the best English term to describe it, since you manage an army and strategize under a time constraint. But Pikmin isn't very comparable to RTS games like Starcraft, Warhammer 40k, and Age of Empires. By marketing Pikmin as "Dandori", Miyamoto has made it abundantly clear to new audiences that Pikmin is an ambitious pioneer into what, even 20 years later, might as well be its own genre.
@auraguard0212 it is a term coined by creator Shigeru Miyamoto. In short it defines the genre that Pikmin is. It is described as the art of using your Pikmin efficiently; multitasking, leaving no Pikmin idle, utilizing the abilities of Oatchi and the captain, strategic combat, all of these play a role.
@@auraguard0212 as a broad concept, Dandori refers to planning to optimize efficiency. This is different from strategy in that, the number of turns a game of chess is won in, or the number of pieces lost, are not important. Sure, losing pieces is bad, and doing things in fewer turns means your opponent has less time to develop themselves, but your main goal isn't "be efficient". You're moves should always be made to optimize your chance of success. In Pikmin, you always measure success by asking "could I have lost fewer pikmin?" and "could I have gotten more done?" The hard questions are "is sacrificing 3 white pikmin worth killing a Snagret faster?"
I'd trade in a Mario AND a Zelda movie for Pikmin. They're so cute and iconic, they'd go viral if Nintendo could just get them out to a wider audience. And let's face it, they have the best story potential of the three.
This was nice , and I never knew it took that long and that much to make Pikmin. When you take your time to do things with sincerity , and a moral backbone. It doesn't matter if you fail , you still win.
I have severe anxiety and one of the only things that kept me calm throughout the years was Pikmin! I have a golfball sized place for this series in my heart, and i hope it keeps growing in popularity :D
After years of playing this franchise since the beginning I never thought this niche game would get so much love now, like people are making Olimar twerk in time square, it's a time to be alive. This franchise is so unique and fun, and in the words of Reggie, "If it's not fun, why bother"
Im glad this series is getting the attention it deserves. I just recently started playing Pikmin 1 and intend to experience everything and my gosh its sooooo charming ahhhhhhhh. This was an amazing video❤️❤️❤️
I think one of the reasons Pikmin never blew up as much was due to the gameplay, which is more like RTS management, which looks more complicated so less immediately appealing to younger players.
@@orangeslash1667pikmin is the ultimate console RTS. It also sits alone in its subgenre of RTS in the corner labeled pikmin since nothing else plays like it. Definitely less accessible than Mario which is a normal platformer, or pokemon which is an easier JRPG, if for no other reason than its unique so getting good at a different game won't help your pikmin skills. Further compounded by it having a different control scheme for every release, and the switch versions are compatible with most control schemes on the switch.
My first video game ever, Pikmin 2, a game which I thought was going to be cute and wholesome, it was only after my first Pikmin extinction I was proven wrong. And then I got scarred for life when I entered the subterranean complex and fought a giant spider with a machine gun. Just because it was the first game I have ever played, Pikmin 2 was my favorite in the series, (even if that is objectively not the case.) I was lucky to have been able to play these games. Pikmin 4 is such a great game it might take the thrown for me as the best. I sure hope it sells well.
@@HankMFWimbleton I have, although when I first played the game, I never discovered it until a few years later. when I first played Pikmin 2, I wasn't really good at it, so I never ended up beating it.
@@emmielaine7352 I don't think he meant it in a mean way, more of just mentioning how terrified I would have been if I had gone to the submerged castle.
Don't have much money for games now days but I at least manage to buy pikmin 4 to do my part and help on its sales and I'm really enjoying the game. Being also my first full pikmin game. Hopefully the series flourish more and sells well enough to see more games on the near future.
I've been hard at work at compiling a sort of Video Game History gateway playlist, collecting various documentaries, game reviews, editorials, game design analysis vids and such, as well as an assortment of commercials/news clips/etc in between the segments to set the tone and make for a better flow. While the 20th century part is already very well rounded, there's plenty to gather for the 21st century portion. I mention this because I'm strongly considering making this video the Pikmin series introduction in that list. It strikes a great balance between focus on the development of Pikmin 1 and the wider context it applies to without jumping around too much or speaking of it in too isolated a context. Really, this turned out super well, and it fits perfectly where I want to place it.
Pikmin is such a nostolgic game, i played it so early in my childhood, and now, it brings back those amazing memorys. (like i was actually scared of the spider bosses lol)
I only found Pikmin a few years back, in that time I've come to appreciate the series as a masterpiece of creativity and innovative design within technological limits.
I love pikmin so much it's a one of a kind game that I played in 2001 when I was 6 and i've been of fan of the series since day one and I can't believe its been 22 years since the first one. Every single pikim game that has released has been special and a master piece to my eyes and will always have a special part in my heart next to my favorite games of all times. Thank you Nintendo and shigeru miyamoto and the pikmin development team for giving us 22 years of amazing pikmin games and innovation.
I love Pikmin and haven't played it til this past June. I got all 4 games. I never knew what the game was even. All I knew was Olimar as a fighter on Smash Brothers. This should have been a hit. The thing is, after the N64 which I didn't like much. It was all PlayStation then and XBOX, then PC. I did like the GBA but avoided Nintendo til the Switch. Great games!
Pikmin 2 teaches you to restart if a valuable life dies (whites, purples, or a large chunk of your army in a cave), and to run away from your problems. (Submerged Castle, Subterranean Complex as you race against the water wraith and use whites to outspeed the careening dirgibugs' bombs respectively)
Yes, I think it was a way to simplify the very complicated development cycle since they didn't really know what they were making at first, and that story was the best way to condense the idea of what Pikmin was to consumers
No it wasn't? I mean, maybe sort of. But is was true. It was a huge thing that helped impact the devlopment of the games, and helped steer it in the direction that it ended up taking
Whats funny is back in the 00s i get why people were more attracted to the most realistic system. Graphical fidelity was new. But it seems like 20 years later, art direction and charm are starting to become more important than realism. So nintendo was so right they were wrong. Until they were right again
Pikmin introduced a brand new concept and gameplay, with so much charm that captivated fans from the beginning. Even to this day, I've never played anything similar to Pikmin. Sure, Mario and Zelda are more famous and sell better, but we already played so many platformers like Mario, and so many open world games like Zelda... Pikmin is it's own thing, as an attempt of its own thing, I'd say it did a brilliant job in Pikmin 1. Pikmin 2 added so many new concepts and expanded the game immensively. Pikmin 3 is good game, although it did not expand much from Pikmin 2, it did a really good adding new mechanics to the franchise. Pikmin 4 is a game I'm still playing, but really liking it! I'm really hoping that more people get to know this franchise: it's simply one of the best things Nintendo has ever made.
in a way, with the release of pikmin 4 and the continued inclusion of olimar since brawl, it kinda already is. pikmin is just a younger franchise and might need more time to work out the kinks with lore and whatnot, kinda like how LoZ was kind of just "a fantasy game" in the beginning before turning into what we know it as today.
I love Pikmin 4, even more than Tears of Kingdom. But the game it's too short, even with the newly-added Dandori battles. I was able to 100% the whole game in my first playthrough with minimal guide in just 35 hours. Hoping to see more Pikmin games in the future!
The game has lots of content. They just don't pad put for so long Each unique content is only used for like few minutes which isn't a bad thing. The game is the right length and is replayable
I was unsure of buying this game, I wasn’t super into pikmin 3. But my brothers both bought it so figured why not. I played it 5 hours non stop the first night I got it, and I now have over 10 hours in just 3 days. It’s an absolutely amazing game, beautiful graphics, not super hard, but if you want challenging stuff, you can have it
100% correct. Pikmin 4 is the best release from Nintendo in house for the Switch. Unless you prefer BOTW or Odyssey. It's got some strategy elements that might turn you off and I get that but it's thoroughly designed and unique. The work staff at Nintendo are some old salty dogs but they didn't mail it in on this one
It's a real shame that at the moment people are using the "SpOoKy DeAtH" as clickbait. Pikmin is a masterpiece and I hope the we continue to get games in the series, Pikmin 4 is shaping up to be incredible for the series long term sales and safety.
Funny how the other big Nintendo franchises besides Mario and Zelda had a game in these last few months to bring them into the big limelight, to the point it revived or at least renewed the popularity of the series. Kirby had the Forgotten Land, Metroid had Dread, and now Pikmin had its fourth title! ...I wonder if Star Fox is gonna have one in the future too. Would be neat to have a new game in the series that isn't the first one again.
@@zeroni77 it didn't revive the series, but it renewed its popularity (as I had said). To put in more technical terms, Forgotten Land was the only game in the whole Kirby series to pass the very first Kirby's Dreamland in sales, and Star Allies, Kirby Fighters and Super Kirby Clash all had released a while ago if I recall. Kirby being in 3D really piqued everyone's interest.
@@Mike14264 The good news is that arcade shooters are still a thing indie games. Good examples include Ex Zodiac, Astrodogs, FUR Squadron, and Bot Vice. There's also Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-sparked! It's like Starfox Adventures and Assault combined together.
@@orangeslash1667 oh yeah, I heard about the announcement of that last one! I knew some a those franchises too... that reminds me of another game I would've loved to play, Nano Assault EX, for the 3DS
Love the video. Subscribed. But Miyamoto has admitted that the story of dreaming up pikmin in his garden was a marketing ploy made up to increase the lore of the series.
handheld consoles saved Nintendo and The Switch is gonna save Pikmin. This is really a great series and I'm glad more people will get to enjoy it. It needed a fair shot on a good platform.
Long-time Pikmin fan, right here. Loved Pikmin since the beginning. I was six or seven when the GameCube came out with the classic first game, and it was the start of my love for one of Miyamoto's most beautiful and unique creations. I always felt that Pikmin never quite got the love it deserved. Here I am, having just bought my copy of Pikmin 4, madly excited to play it soon. It's been a long time coming! Here's hoping the latest installment will introduce many newcomers to this wonderful series.
Deluxe actually got me into the franchise (finished it and some side mission). I had fun and have always wanted to play 1 and 2. I wanted to, I didn’t feel I needed to. Pikmin 4 came out and I was hyped for it. I was going to play it even if I never played the first two. I knew the story of the first two and felt that was enough. Then comes the Nintendo Direct. I understand Pikmin while having a good story doesn’t need you to play previous games to get into one. But I needed to play 1 and 2 at this point. There was no excuse not to anymore (getting a new console and og games for it). So I played and finished them before the launch of 4. Pikmin 1 may be my favorite of the series if the trilogy at that moment. It’s so fun beating it in little amount of days as possible, it clearly shows growth. Something all games have but what helps this one is how short it is. How little collectibles and layouts there are to memorize compared to the rest. This does not mean it lacks depth, far from it. It makes it easier to speedrun. The strict deadline was stressful at first (1st attempt 29/30. 2nd attempt 30/19). but you improve on your 2nd run. Pikmin 2 was my least favorite but I did have lots of fun with it. Some stuff felt cheap but it will go better when I do my second run. My only real gripe is the hole of heroes. It reuses a lot of bosses and level designs. I get the intention for it to be a challenge of your skills but it was boring and tedious. While the caves has similar themes layouts were often different and each cave provided a new boss. This cave had a great final boss but the rest was lackluster. This was my last cave and had the last treasures I needed. Souring the game for me, but in hindsight I still love it. A tantalizing name for a so so cave. Next time I won’t make it my last cave so I could appreciate it without having high expectations of it. Pikmin 3 as I said was also pretty good, it’s been ages since I played it but it was a fun game nonetheless. From what I have played of 4 it might becomes my favorite if it already isn’t. Won’t spoil a word, will just say it’s so good. If your on the fence play the demo, if doesn’t convince you that’s fine to. This game might be my game of the year. Sorry for the rant but this is my Pikmin Journey from the 2019 - until now.
- Doesn't connect video back to the main topic of how pikmin saved nintendo - Random quotes everywhere to make your points sound more credible - Making outlandish claims like "pikmin shorts made the mario movie happen" - Actual blatant false info with the miyamoto garden story God I love video essays in 2023
pikmin 1 and 2 came off as weird to a lot, but it really built the fanbase of us pikminians, or pikmen if you will. pikmin 3 was amazing and godlike but came from the Wii U, a (in my opinion amazing but widely received) bad console. hey pikmin sucked pikmin adventure on nintendo land was so small nobody knew it existed (i thought it was fun) but when pikmin 3 deluxe came out on the switch, people were like "oh this game actually matters." but still decided not to play because they thought they wouldnt get it because they didnt play the first 2. Nintendo was losing this incredible series, so they did the best thing they could. Create THE pikmin game. Pikmin 4, in all of it's design and thought process, is a quality over quantity game. The content might seem short, as you're completing stages very quickly, but the work put into every mechanic and enemy and object will leave a heavy impact. Every little thing in pikmin 4 is so memorable because they're made to be expressive and different, down to the poisonous variant of a dwarf bulborb. Pikmin 4 is also supposed to be a love letter to the fans, and a key to the gate of pikmin to the newcomers. Bringing back, i'm pretty sure every single enemy from previous games and adding new ones and bundling it up makes nobody feel left out. Pikmin stays true and faithful to past games, and I'm so glad there are now a million "playing pikmin for the first time!" videos because people FINALLY tried something different!!!!
La Planete Sauvage? You mean Fantastic Planet, the one with giant aliens treating the small humans as pets, and how the humans start an uprising? (Not recommended for children, at all.) The animation is very weird on that one. The Tim Burton influence, I can see, but I think it would be interesting to see the Pikmin drawn even MORE in the Burtonian style. You know, with more lines than necessary around the eyes and outlines. Then again, maybe I'm mistaking Tim Burton's art style for Gris Grimly's. They do have similar art styles.
I feel an alien when it comes to Nintendo post 64, I dunno if its region diff since it seems NA n JP have a similar nostalgia for a lot of Nintendo games that aren't very famous around here, mostly ppl I know barely have interest in Nintendo since Play 2 hit the market
I just watched the intro and a bunch of what you said is arguably wrong. Nintendo did cared about graphics and technical power, (the GameCube was more powerful than the ps2) it was until the Wii they went with gimmicks instead. And WTF Pikmin short films being directly related to the super mario movie, that was made by the minions studio Illumination, nothing to do with Miyamoto.
I think calling something pretentious is ironically pretentious but for a different reason, which is that i think things are called pretentious when they pretend to be deep and avant guarde when in reality they're very basic and not actually worth peoples time, and anyone who actually spends their time with this thing is pretentious because they themselves are trying to look deep and avant guarde by engaging with this thing. Like wine tasting for example, to people who consider this pretentious, wine tasting is really just people drinking wine, pretending that they're doing something ultra deep which requires a high, elite level of skill and experience. Labeling wine tasting as pretentious though ironically comes across as pretentious because it invalidates people and their hobbies and tells them that they're not worthy of being considered a legitimate thing, there by gate keeping hobbies, art forms and peoples enjoyment of them from whether or not they can be considered valid, which is pretty pretentious. Just let people enjoy what they want and leave them alone
Wait, wait, wait. Nintendo TOTALLY COMPETED in graphic fidelity during the game cube era, I'd even go further. I think it's safe to say that the Gamecube, despite its limitations, had the strongest graphics of all three main consoles of that era. Nintendo DOESN'T COMPETE in graphics since then BUT, that's not because tehy are poor or something like that, which is inferred from the writing in this video. They just don't want to compete in graphics. Because their consoles are cheaper that way. They try to differentiate themselves in different ways, different gimmicks. It's not that they can't. They just don't want to.
Holy SMOKES is this some absolute fantasy material. No offense to Pikmin as a series, which is perfectly respectable in design and execution, but far from "saving" Nintendo, by every conceivable objective measurement its been an absolute and complete failure. It consistently, consistently undersells other Nintendo IP's. It consistently fails to sell platforms. Even the overall design direction of gamecube games has consistently failed Nintendo at market when applied across the line, as seen on both the Gamecube and Wii U. The only way in which the premise is supported is by attaching concepts completely unrelated to Pikmin to Pikmin to inflate the game's credit. To hand the success of the Wii or the Switch to Pikmin is so far fetched that you may as well hand the success of the NES to the Adventures of Lolo. And hey, I'm a big Lolo fan, just like I enjoy Pikmin, but its just not reality. Yes, Miyamoto and Nintendo love the Pikmin series, but it isn't particularly different from the large cavalcade of moderately successful to outright failures that Nintendo also loved, from Labo, to e-reader cards, to Nintendo Land, to Wii Music.
There was nothing inherently wrong with Nintendo Land, at least as a multiplayer game, maybe not worth as much money as it went for but the Wii U days weren’t the most ideal for Nintendo, it had plenty of charm, but it did feel a bit underbaked as a game collection, the games and challenges were really fun with some pals though, it’s a neat party game
I respect the fact that the community is literally marketing pikmin 4 for nintendo because they love the franchise that much. Also great move for nintendo to put every pikmin game on the switch
400 dollars spent on a screen
@@HankMFWimbleton?
times square
@@HankMFWimbleton
40 actually
@@CinnaBoxbut multiple times
I think one of the things that gives a wider appeal to Pikmin 4 is that there is no time limit. There are people that enjoy that, and let's be honest, you can impose that limit on yourself. But one of the best parts of Pikmin has been the beautiful scenery of the world itself.
I think they should merge the gameplay Pikmin 1 & 3 and Pikmin 2 & 4. Perhaps Pikmin 5 can give both some shorter challenge for timed play but also a campaign without time limit
@@QnjtGWonQNqVsbYyzjx4 pikmin 4 spoiler: the game offers exactly that. main campaign is without time limit but theres a side story that has a time limit
You really can't. The night missions are like 5 minutes long, you only get one resource from them, despite this they advance your time an entire day, and you have to do several. It completely ruins any fun of a low day run. I'm already on day 18 when I should be on day 11 or 12.
There's a time limit on the post game Olimar level and the Dandoris.
@@mjc0961Almost like you need to SLEEP after being up all night and you played a level for a part of a day.
Pikmin 4 is gonna pop the series. The breakout begins NOW!
It's popularity is picking up & it's no longer overlooked & buried on consoles that didn't get mass sales from the public.
It's one of the best selections in their portfolio. Now it's time for Pikmin to match commercial success with critical success.
'Slow & steady wins the race' is the other lesson of this Video Game Story Time.
"Steady progress is also good dandori"
DANDORI GOD HAS COME TO BLESS US
I just hope Pikmin 4 doesn't torpedo it in the public eye due to the overbearing tutorials, disgustingly long load times, and nothing-burger night missions.
It's a great game when it's not getting in its own way.
@@soggyandroid no
Yeah, I don't know about all that. Pikmin 3 deluxe was the perfect opportunity for the series to take off, but it never did. The reason why is not hard to see. The gameplay simply appeals to a niche group of people
I think it's more significant than some people realize that Pikmin 4 has been heavily marketed as a "Dandori" game. It was one of the very first things we learned about Pikmin 4 for a reason. For the past 15 years, if you had googled "what genre is Pikmin" it would probably tell you that it's a real time strategy game. This was the best English term to describe it, since you manage an army and strategize under a time constraint. But Pikmin isn't very comparable to RTS games like Starcraft, Warhammer 40k, and Age of Empires. By marketing Pikmin as "Dandori", Miyamoto has made it abundantly clear to new audiences that Pikmin is an ambitious pioneer into what, even 20 years later, might as well be its own genre.
What is Dandori?
@auraguard0212 it is a term coined by creator Shigeru Miyamoto. In short it defines the genre that Pikmin is. It is described as the art of using your Pikmin efficiently; multitasking, leaving no Pikmin idle, utilizing the abilities of Oatchi and the captain, strategic combat, all of these play a role.
@@da_pikmin_coder8367 it's not coined by Miyamoto, it's a real Japanese word.
@@auraguard0212 as a broad concept, Dandori refers to planning to optimize efficiency.
This is different from strategy in that, the number of turns a game of chess is won in, or the number of pieces lost, are not important. Sure, losing pieces is bad, and doing things in fewer turns means your opponent has less time to develop themselves, but your main goal isn't "be efficient". You're moves should always be made to optimize your chance of success.
In Pikmin, you always measure success by asking "could I have lost fewer pikmin?" and "could I have gotten more done?" The hard questions are "is sacrificing 3 white pikmin worth killing a Snagret faster?"
@@senseinosenryaku1998Dang it you beat me to it
Tearing up over this video. Miyamoto puts so much care into his games. Love this man
True, I'd just hate to be on his team during continuous crunch time.
I'd trade in a Mario AND a Zelda movie for Pikmin. They're so cute and iconic, they'd go viral if Nintendo could just get them out to a wider audience. And let's face it, they have the best story potential of the three.
This video feels like even more care was put into it than usual! Nice.
it is longer than usual
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Well it's horribly inaccurate
Nice neg
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This was nice , and I never knew it took that long and that much to make Pikmin.
When you take your time to do things with sincerity , and a moral backbone.
It doesn't matter if you fail , you still win.
I have severe anxiety and one of the only things that kept me calm throughout the years was Pikmin! I have a golfball sized place for this series in my heart, and i hope it keeps growing in popularity :D
Hope this doesn’t come off as rude but I’m surprised Pikmin didn’t make your anxiety worse lol
After years of playing this franchise since the beginning I never thought this niche game would get so much love now, like people are making Olimar twerk in time square, it's a time to be alive. This franchise is so unique and fun, and in the words of Reggie, "If it's not fun, why bother"
Im glad this series is getting the attention it deserves. I just recently started playing Pikmin 1 and intend to experience everything and my gosh its sooooo charming ahhhhhhhh. This was an amazing video❤️❤️❤️
As a pikmin fan, I see this as an absolute win
I think one of the reasons Pikmin never blew up as much was due to the gameplay, which is more like RTS management, which looks more complicated so less immediately appealing to younger players.
argee, pikmin is not easy to play comparing to mario or pokemon.
@@MysteryStickman001 RTS game are usually on PC, Nintendo found a way to make it work on consoles.
@@orangeslash1667pikmin is the ultimate console RTS.
It also sits alone in its subgenre of RTS in the corner labeled pikmin since nothing else plays like it.
Definitely less accessible than Mario which is a normal platformer, or pokemon which is an easier JRPG, if for no other reason than its unique so getting good at a different game won't help your pikmin skills. Further compounded by it having a different control scheme for every release, and the switch versions are compatible with most control schemes on the switch.
@@jasonreed7522 Yes but that depends on the game, because some Pikmin games are more accessible than others.
My first video game ever, Pikmin 2, a game which I thought was going to be cute and wholesome, it was only after my first Pikmin extinction I was proven wrong. And then I got scarred for life when I entered the subterranean complex and fought a giant spider with a machine gun. Just because it was the first game I have ever played, Pikmin 2 was my favorite in the series, (even if that is objectively not the case.) I was lucky to have been able to play these games. Pikmin 4 is such a great game it might take the thrown for me as the best. I sure hope it sells well.
Please tell me you’ve seen the Submerged Castle
@@HankMFWimbleton I have, although when I first played the game, I never discovered it until a few years later. when I first played Pikmin 2, I wasn't really good at it, so I never ended up beating it.
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@@emmielaine7352 I don't think he meant it in a mean way, more of just mentioning how terrified I would have been if I had gone to the submerged castle.
"Couldn't compete in graphical fidelity" yet the GameCube was much better graphically than the PS2
Exactly
The water on that console was beautiful.
I think this was the point when Nintendo stopped focusing on graphics seeing the GameCube underperform
@@alexbrown8900 Fun Fact: Resident Evil 4 was put on the Gamecube first because of the power of the Gamecube.
@@wumbomandlx are you that guy on miiverse who always commented about the water in games? :p
Don't have much money for games now days but I at least manage to buy pikmin 4 to do my part and help on its sales and I'm really enjoying the game. Being also my first full pikmin game. Hopefully the series flourish more and sells well enough to see more games on the near future.
how have you been enjoying pikmin 4? I've been having a lot of fun with it
@jensennguyen02 enjoying it a lot, almost done with 100% the 3rd map. Just now I dropped the game to take a break and all.
I've been hard at work at compiling a sort of Video Game History gateway playlist, collecting various documentaries, game reviews, editorials, game design analysis vids and such, as well as an assortment of commercials/news clips/etc in between the segments to set the tone and make for a better flow. While the 20th century part is already very well rounded, there's plenty to gather for the 21st century portion.
I mention this because I'm strongly considering making this video the Pikmin series introduction in that list. It strikes a great balance between focus on the development of Pikmin 1 and the wider context it applies to without jumping around too much or speaking of it in too isolated a context. Really, this turned out super well, and it fits perfectly where I want to place it.
The game should be arriving in the mail today. This is my first Pikmin game and I want to have the best experience: no walkthroughs and no internet.
How was it?
Pikmin is such a nostolgic game, i played it so early in my childhood, and now, it brings back those amazing memorys. (like i was actually scared of the spider bosses lol)
I love this video! I'd love to see more from you in this style as well, it suits your channel extremely well!
I just adore pikmin, I'm so glad that despite plenty of rocky moments for the series that it has prevailed and now we have Pikmin 4.
I only found Pikmin a few years back, in that time I've come to appreciate the series as a masterpiece of creativity and innovative design within technological limits.
I love pikmin so much it's a one of a kind game that I played in 2001 when I was 6 and i've been of fan of the series since day one and I can't believe its been 22 years since the first one. Every single pikim game that has released has been special and a master piece to my eyes and will always have a special part in my heart next to my favorite games of all times. Thank you Nintendo and shigeru miyamoto and the pikmin development team for giving us 22 years of amazing pikmin games and innovation.
I love Pikmin and haven't played it til this past June. I got all 4 games. I never knew what the game was even. All I knew was Olimar as a fighter on Smash Brothers. This should have been a hit. The thing is, after the N64 which I didn't like much. It was all PlayStation then and XBOX, then PC. I did like the GBA but avoided Nintendo til the Switch. Great games!
I am played Pikmin years ago and it’s my favorite franchise it’s just too good man
It’s one of my favorite franchises along with Mario, Sonic, Kirby and many others!!
@@thedraftingax5963 Same Kirby is awesome!
@@Wattson-ston Yeah he is!
“About facing death and moving on from tragedy”
I played the games so much and I’ve only done deathless runs
Pikmin 2 teaches you to restart if a valuable life dies (whites, purples, or a large chunk of your army in a cave), and to run away from your problems. (Submerged Castle, Subterranean Complex as you race against the water wraith and use whites to outspeed the careening dirgibugs' bombs respectively)
I say with 100% certainty that Pikim is Miyamoto's masterpiece
Wasn't the line about Miyamoto looking at ants and getting a eureka false, and was there to stir up attention?
Yes, I think it was a way to simplify the very complicated development cycle since they didn't really know what they were making at first, and that story was the best way to condense the idea of what Pikmin was to consumers
No it wasn't? I mean, maybe sort of. But is was true. It was a huge thing that helped impact the devlopment of the games, and helped steer it in the direction that it ended up taking
Miyamoto is a visionary
00:01 I think he was wrong about this, the next Mario was Sunshine I think.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
He means it like when the mario series dies pikmin shall take its place
I'm glad they decided on doing Pikmin instead of Mario 128. I LOVE PIKMIN, more than any other Nintendo franchise.
This was a very well written, well presented video. Enjoyed it. Thank you.
Whats funny is back in the 00s i get why people were more attracted to the most realistic system. Graphical fidelity was new. But it seems like 20 years later, art direction and charm are starting to become more important than realism. So nintendo was so right they were wrong. Until they were right again
Pikmin introduced a brand new concept and gameplay, with so much charm that captivated fans from the beginning. Even to this day, I've never played anything similar to Pikmin. Sure, Mario and Zelda are more famous and sell better, but we already played so many platformers like Mario, and so many open world games like Zelda... Pikmin is it's own thing, as an attempt of its own thing, I'd say it did a brilliant job in Pikmin 1. Pikmin 2 added so many new concepts and expanded the game immensively. Pikmin 3 is good game, although it did not expand much from Pikmin 2, it did a really good adding new mechanics to the franchise. Pikmin 4 is a game I'm still playing, but really liking it! I'm really hoping that more people get to know this franchise: it's simply one of the best things Nintendo has ever made.
I hope one day pikmin becomes a franchise along the lines of Kirby, zelda and mario. Pikmin deserves it.
in a way, with the release of pikmin 4 and the continued inclusion of olimar since brawl, it kinda already is. pikmin is just a younger franchise and might need more time to work out the kinks with lore and whatnot, kinda like how LoZ was kind of just "a fantasy game" in the beginning before turning into what we know it as today.
@godzzwrath Nintedo is definitely treating Pikmin 4 more seriously and mainstream. I'm excited to see where that goes.
@@StarlightNkyra absolutely. im so excited
@@StarlightNkyra Pikemin 3 is considered the 16th best selling game on Wii U. Thats pretty good.
I love Pikmin 4, even more than Tears of Kingdom.
But the game it's too short, even with the newly-added Dandori battles.
I was able to 100% the whole game in my first playthrough with minimal guide in just 35 hours. Hoping to see more Pikmin games in the future!
Did you do shipwreck tale, or the trial of the sage leaf?
”Just” 35 hours, this is the problem with modern games not every game is supposed to have unlimited amount of gameplay
this is apparently the most amount of playtime the series has has for a game, so if you think that’s short then don’t play the other games
The game has lots of content. They just don't pad put for so long
Each unique content is only used for like few minutes which isn't a bad thing. The game is the right length and is replayable
I was unsure of buying this game, I wasn’t super into pikmin 3. But my brothers both bought it so figured why not. I played it 5 hours non stop the first night I got it, and I now have over 10 hours in just 3 days. It’s an absolutely amazing game, beautiful graphics, not super hard, but if you want challenging stuff, you can have it
Pikmin 4 is seemingly a reboot, you can play without having played the rest!
Just got pikmin 4 yesterday, its really good
Pikmin low-key saved the universe from extension
Extension?
@@MyArmIsDry2702 Pikemin 3 is considered the 16th best selling game on Wii U. Which says alot.
What i like about pikmin 4 is that its impossible to fail meaning that anyone can finish it without even breaking into a sweat.
100% correct. Pikmin 4 is the best release from Nintendo in house for the Switch. Unless you prefer BOTW or Odyssey. It's got some strategy elements that might turn you off and I get that but it's thoroughly designed and unique. The work staff at Nintendo are some old salty dogs but they didn't mail it in on this one
It's a real shame that at the moment people are using the "SpOoKy DeAtH" as clickbait. Pikmin is a masterpiece and I hope the we continue to get games in the series, Pikmin 4 is shaping up to be incredible for the series long term sales and safety.
Pikmin carried more than just pellets... they carried Mario, and our hearts.
Been a while since I heard anything from Purrple cat. Love that opening music. Oh and the video too lol.
Because is Nintendo RTS. Unique franchise.
Funny how the other big Nintendo franchises besides Mario and Zelda had a game in these last few months to bring them into the big limelight, to the point it revived or at least renewed the popularity of the series. Kirby had the Forgotten Land, Metroid had Dread, and now Pikmin had its fourth title!
...I wonder if Star Fox is gonna have one in the future too. Would be neat to have a new game in the series that isn't the first one again.
how did forgotten land revive the series they were games released before it?
@@zeroni77 it didn't revive the series, but it renewed its popularity (as I had said).
To put in more technical terms, Forgotten Land was the only game in the whole Kirby series to pass the very first Kirby's Dreamland in sales, and Star Allies, Kirby Fighters and Super Kirby Clash all had released a while ago if I recall.
Kirby being in 3D really piqued everyone's interest.
@@Mike14264 The good news is that arcade shooters are still a thing indie games. Good examples include Ex Zodiac, Astrodogs, FUR Squadron, and Bot Vice.
There's also Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-sparked! It's like Starfox Adventures and Assault combined together.
@@orangeslash1667 oh yeah, I heard about the announcement of that last one! I knew some a those franchises too... that reminds me of another game I would've loved to play, Nano Assault EX, for the 3DS
The moral of the story is so meta
Pikmin isn’t a game, it’s a masterpiece.
Love the video. Subscribed. But Miyamoto has admitted that the story of dreaming up pikmin in his garden was a marketing ploy made up to increase the lore of the series.
Great video as always!!!
I've never played Pikmin but it seems cool
You should try the demo, it's 🔥
4 is a reboot, you don't have to play the rest
@@commonviewer2488none of the games have to be played in any order, just start whenever
@@commonviewer2488I see 4 as more of a retelling or an alternate timeline of the first game.
handheld consoles saved Nintendo and The Switch is gonna save Pikmin.
This is really a great series and I'm glad more people will get to enjoy it. It needed a fair shot on a good platform.
4:42 wait miyamoto used to smoke? I can’t picture him as a smoker
It’s good that he quit tho
Long-time Pikmin fan, right here. Loved Pikmin since the beginning. I was six or seven when the GameCube came out with the classic first game, and it was the start of my love for one of Miyamoto's most beautiful and unique creations. I always felt that Pikmin never quite got the love it deserved. Here I am, having just bought my copy of Pikmin 4, madly excited to play it soon. It's been a long time coming! Here's hoping the latest installment will introduce many newcomers to this wonderful series.
Deluxe actually got me into the franchise (finished it and some side mission). I had fun and have always wanted to play 1 and 2. I wanted to, I didn’t feel I needed to. Pikmin 4 came out and I was hyped for it. I was going to play it even if I never played the first two. I knew the story of the first two and felt that was enough. Then comes the Nintendo Direct. I understand Pikmin while having a good story doesn’t need you to play previous games to get into one. But I needed to play 1 and 2 at this point. There was no excuse not to anymore (getting a new console and og games for it). So I played and finished them before the launch of 4. Pikmin 1 may be my favorite of the series if the trilogy at that moment. It’s so fun beating it in little amount of days as possible, it clearly shows growth. Something all games have but what helps this one is how short it is. How little collectibles and layouts there are to memorize compared to the rest. This does not mean it lacks depth, far from it. It makes it easier to speedrun. The strict deadline was stressful at first (1st attempt 29/30. 2nd attempt 30/19). but you improve on your 2nd run. Pikmin 2 was my least favorite but I did have lots of fun with it. Some stuff felt cheap but it will go better when I do my second run. My only real gripe is the hole of heroes. It reuses a lot of bosses and level designs. I get the intention for it to be a challenge of your skills but it was boring and tedious. While the caves has similar themes layouts were often different and each cave provided a new boss. This cave had a great final boss but the rest was lackluster. This was my last cave and had the last treasures I needed.
Souring the game for me, but in hindsight I still love it. A tantalizing name for a so so cave. Next time I won’t make it my last cave so I could appreciate it without having high expectations of it.
Pikmin 3 as I said was also pretty good, it’s been ages since I played it but it was a fun game nonetheless. From what I have played of 4 it might becomes my favorite if it already isn’t. Won’t spoil a word, will just say it’s so good. If your on the fence play the demo, if doesn’t convince you that’s fine to. This game might be my game of the year. Sorry for the rant but this is my Pikmin Journey from the 2019 - until now.
- Doesn't connect video back to the main topic of how pikmin saved nintendo
- Random quotes everywhere to make your points sound more credible
- Making outlandish claims like "pikmin shorts made the mario movie happen"
- Actual blatant false info with the miyamoto garden story
God I love video essays in 2023
pikmin 1 and 2 came off as weird to a lot, but it really built the fanbase of us pikminians, or pikmen if you will.
pikmin 3 was amazing and godlike but came from the Wii U, a (in my opinion amazing but widely received) bad console.
hey pikmin sucked
pikmin adventure on nintendo land was so small nobody knew it existed (i thought it was fun)
but when pikmin 3 deluxe came out on the switch, people were like "oh this game actually matters." but still decided not to play because they thought they wouldnt get it because they didnt play the first 2.
Nintendo was losing this incredible series, so they did the best thing they could. Create THE pikmin game.
Pikmin 4, in all of it's design and thought process, is a quality over quantity game. The content might seem short, as you're completing stages very quickly, but the work put into every mechanic and enemy and object will leave a heavy impact. Every little thing in pikmin 4 is so memorable because they're made to be expressive and different, down to the poisonous variant of a dwarf bulborb. Pikmin 4 is also supposed to be a love letter to the fans, and a key to the gate of pikmin to the newcomers. Bringing back, i'm pretty sure every single enemy from previous games and adding new ones and bundling it up makes nobody feel left out. Pikmin stays true and faithful to past games, and I'm so glad there are now a million "playing pikmin for the first time!" videos because people FINALLY tried something different!!!!
Damn. Never Expected That
You don't have to tell me twice that Pikmin matters!
My six year old is so engaged in the story! He really wants to help captain Olimar and the rescue crew.
Now I feel bad for not giving Pikmin a chance
Thanks for the vid
La Planete Sauvage? You mean Fantastic Planet, the one with giant aliens treating the small humans as pets, and how the humans start an uprising? (Not recommended for children, at all.) The animation is very weird on that one.
The Tim Burton influence, I can see, but I think it would be interesting to see the Pikmin drawn even MORE in the Burtonian style. You know, with more lines than necessary around the eyes and outlines. Then again, maybe I'm mistaking Tim Burton's art style for Gris Grimly's. They do have similar art styles.
Great video!
I feel an alien when it comes to Nintendo post 64, I dunno if its region diff since it seems NA n JP have a similar nostalgia for a lot of Nintendo games that aren't very famous around here, mostly ppl I know barely have interest in Nintendo since Play 2 hit the market
Im so glad we got pikmin instead of mario 128
i dont have much to comment but this is a great video!! i own pikmin 1 on gamecube and im thinking i might play it. is the port on switch better?
Pikmin moment
great writing in this one
So if Pikmin is the next Mario then doesn’t mean Arms is the next Zelda or Splatoon the next Kirby?
Pretty sure the ant story is false, but nice video! As a new fan of Pikmin because of the Pikmin 4 hype, I hope it sells well!
My only gripe with 4, is that surface creatures don't respawn
2:50 "Fidelity"
I’m confused isn’t Mario Sunshine a gamecube game?
This was a great video. I don’t see how it proved the point in the title
Great video
Stand on your own, don't try to one up your rivals. But take inspiration while not competeing... Just be friends... 😊
I just watched the intro and a bunch of what you said is arguably wrong. Nintendo did cared about graphics and technical power, (the GameCube was more powerful than the ps2) it was until the Wii they went with gimmicks instead. And WTF Pikmin short films being directly related to the super mario movie, that was made by the minions studio Illumination, nothing to do with Miyamoto.
Olymar is pronounced O-Ri-Mar in Japanese. That’s Mar-I-O backwards.
The ant story is BS. Miyamoto himself said he made it up for marketing purposes.
I think calling something pretentious is ironically pretentious but for a different reason, which is that i think things are called pretentious when they pretend to be deep and avant guarde when in reality they're very basic and not actually worth peoples time, and anyone who actually spends their time with this thing is pretentious because they themselves are trying to look deep and avant guarde by engaging with this thing. Like wine tasting for example, to people who consider this pretentious, wine tasting is really just people drinking wine, pretending that they're doing something ultra deep which requires a high, elite level of skill and experience. Labeling wine tasting as pretentious though ironically comes across as pretentious because it invalidates people and their hobbies and tells them that they're not worthy of being considered a legitimate thing, there by gate keeping hobbies, art forms and peoples enjoyment of them from whether or not they can be considered valid, which is pretty pretentious. Just let people enjoy what they want and leave them alone
Pikmin Lives Matter.
miyamoto being inspired by ants is just a myth
I can't finish pikmin 2, my pikmin keep dying and it makes me sad 😢
BRO PIKMIN 4 WILL MAKE 4 PIKMILLION DOLLARS
pikmin 4 20 years later
wait
420
i'm sorry
GameCube was a graphical powerhouse
Didn't Miyamoto later say the "ants in the garden" story was made up for marketing?
Wait, wait, wait. Nintendo TOTALLY COMPETED in graphic fidelity during the game cube era, I'd even go further. I think it's safe to say that the Gamecube, despite its limitations, had the strongest graphics of all three main consoles of that era.
Nintendo DOESN'T COMPETE in graphics since then BUT, that's not because tehy are poor or something like that, which is inferred from the writing in this video. They just don't want to compete in graphics. Because their consoles are cheaper that way. They try to differentiate themselves in different ways, different gimmicks.
It's not that they can't. They just don't want to.
Miyamoto said the garden story wasn't true he just wanted people to buy the game.
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Thank you for your sounds, they really elevated this video (which is also Creative Commons, sharing the love!)
What's with the background music? It's annoying as hell
We are winning and eating good this year.
As far as TRUE Nintendo game series go I'd say pikmin is the last one except Splatoon which rocks but is fundamentally a different kinda game
Holy SMOKES is this some absolute fantasy material.
No offense to Pikmin as a series, which is perfectly respectable in design and execution, but far from "saving" Nintendo, by every conceivable objective measurement its been an absolute and complete failure. It consistently, consistently undersells other Nintendo IP's. It consistently fails to sell platforms. Even the overall design direction of gamecube games has consistently failed Nintendo at market when applied across the line, as seen on both the Gamecube and Wii U.
The only way in which the premise is supported is by attaching concepts completely unrelated to Pikmin to Pikmin to inflate the game's credit. To hand the success of the Wii or the Switch to Pikmin is so far fetched that you may as well hand the success of the NES to the Adventures of Lolo.
And hey, I'm a big Lolo fan, just like I enjoy Pikmin, but its just not reality.
Yes, Miyamoto and Nintendo love the Pikmin series, but it isn't particularly different from the large cavalcade of moderately successful to outright failures that Nintendo also loved, from Labo, to e-reader cards, to Nintendo Land, to Wii Music.
There was nothing inherently wrong with Nintendo Land, at least as a multiplayer game, maybe not worth as much money as it went for but the Wii U days weren’t the most ideal for Nintendo, it had plenty of charm, but it did feel a bit underbaked as a game collection, the games and challenges were really fun with some pals though, it’s a neat party game
in no way did this video explain how pikmin saved nintendo
Cause it didnt
I love Pikmin
But of course, nothing can kill Mario. You dont see your grandma bringing up friggin Olimar of all things.
VGST x PIKWIN
Ended up using three of the titles in an unobtrusive way, nice.