#Dandori battle

[caffeinated-frog]

Dandori battles are a fun time

[teardropwolf]

a bit late but happy release day! The end of the countdown is a dandori battle! Hope y'all have fun with pikmin 4!

[marblyso]

NO???????? GIRL DON’T GO BACK IN

[the-col-persn]

Competitive pikmin is real and it’s the coolest fuckin thing imaginable everyone go watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKwiznY0n7M

[amogusfetichist]

PIKMIN 4 HYPE!!!

GLOW PIKMIN ARE SO CUTE OMG LITTLE GHOST PIKMIN AND OLIMAR PIKMIN IS REAL AND LIKES KIDNAPPING PPL OMGGGGG

[fullmoonfireball]

little double translation special today! i guess "leaflings" is the theme here

[zeadrous]

go home

original sketch (i was just gonna post this but i wanted shadow...)

[brosif40]

Louie pikkedman ft. Cosmo

[bookshelfpassageway]

the piklopedia is making me want pikmin spinoff games where it's just like. focused on the natural lives of the pikmin enemies. i want those creature in a zoo/pet sim. I want to breed and raise Fancy Bulborbs and take them to Fancy Bulborb shows and decorate their enclosure with cute and enriching objects as i raise up a simulated colony of them and watch them play out googly eyed meerkat manor. I want to raise a breadbug like its a nintendog. i want pokemon snap but i get to see a snagret preening. i want a nature documentary about PNF 404 as narrated by david attenborough. Is that so much to ask

[ellenent]

Pikmin 4 pros and cons

Pros: you have a cute dog!! You can play as the dog too!!

Cons: there is another dog that won't hesitate to beat the shit of your dog, will kidnap your Pikmin and you must beat her up to get them back

[red-moon-at-night]

I can hear pikmin noises in my head and I'm not even playing the game right now

[starlightswordfight]

hi collin on night missions sometimes just going "the fog got em" after catastrophe strikes and not saying anything else is the FUNNIEST thing ever. what the fuck do you MEAN the fog got them

[d3stroyman]

Playing the Dandori battle stuff from the main menu rn

I think I'm killing him

[fullmoonfireball]

ive had this stuck in my brain all day and only just got it out

[ghoul--doodle]

Time trials in video games should die I think

[iidsch]

ok i finished Pikmin 4 here are my quick thoughts:

The Dandori battles, the Dandori challenges, and the night expeditions were by far the highlights of the game for me. My only complaint is that the only challenging expeditions and challenges were the ones in the post-game, I wish the others were a bit harder - there were two Dandori challenges I had to restart 10+ times just to get everything right, and I enjoyed them a lot, but I completed the others on my first try. The night expeditions were also nerve-wracking (in a good way), though they don’t require as much planning/strategy as the challenges. The battles were fun but very chaotic, at times it was hard to know what was going on.

I have mixed feelings about Oatchi. I like that you can give him various types of orders, and carrying pikmin makes transporting them much easier. However, his rush attack is too strong and it makes enemy encounters unbelievably easy. I would lose at least a couple of pikmins in every enemy encounter in previous games, but in pikmin 4 that rarely happened thanks to Oatchi's rush.

Also, maybe it’s because of Oatchi, or maybe it’s because I played Pikmin 2 very recently, but Pikmin 4 seems much easier than previous games. Wistful Wild and its three caves make the last area and caves in Pikmin 4 seem like an absolute joke. The Gatling Groink alone is harder than almost every boss and major enemy in Pikmin 4.

I despise that they reused so many bosses from previous games. Finding four Emperor Bulblaxes, three Burrowing Snagrets, one Man-o-Legs, and two Waterwraiths in what is the last cave of the game is honestly unacceptable imo. That’s 10 bosses out of 25, and of those remaining 13, only two were actually interesting (the Empress Bulblax in a tiny room and the Arctic Cannon Beetle); the rest were too easy or a waste of time. This is especially disappointing given that the last cave is more of a “boss rush” than it is a strategy level where you have to think what to do and in what order, like in Pikmin 2. The last boss was really fun, but I wish there had been a little bit more of a challenge on the way to the final level.

That said the Groovy Long Legs was the best boss in the entire franchise and that alone raises the game to a 10/10.

There’s an unfathomable amount of dialogue and it doesn’t help that the characters talking are boring and uninteresting. Except for Yonny, whom I would listen talk all day long.

There are also a lot of needless interruptions (like the screen with all the objectives you get after each day, as if you need to be reminded of them; the screen you get after completing every side quest). I'm glad there's a skip button but they should have made it more effective, and get rid of a bunch of screens that are repetitive and annoying.

Overall I like the changes in gameplay in Pikmin 4, though the menu that opens when you hold press Y should have been like the ability wheel in TOTK, and changing characters should have been a matter of pressing one button like in Pikmin 3. I feel like I underutilized Oatchi’s abilities just because the menu was so cumbersome. But if we're talking about "gameplay mechanics that need to be improved", I hope whoever made the autolock gets stoned to death.

Did I mention that I love Yonny? @nintendo you should make him the only character in the next Pikmin game and every other game ever.