#but the only reason you'd have for decimating the creature population is because you're trying to 100% the game or grow the pikmin pop.

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Random Pikmin 4 Thoughts

Ya know, in collecting most of the character trivia in Pikmin 4, I've really come to appreciate how miserable a lot of the castaways really are. I mean, you have to wonder what kinds of people would even be attracted to an uncharted planet, and the answer is a lot of miserable people.

Granted, I wouldn't say that they're in the majority: the majority are there for research and/or monetary gain, but a good chunk of them are there because they saw the planet as a beacon of hope in an otherwise hopeless situation. Some are trying to save failing businesses, some are trying to save dying planets, some of them are just depressed and are looking for inspiration.

And all of them failed.

Had it not been for the Rescue Corps, every single one of them would have died and/or been turned into a leafling.

But I think the castaway Patch puts it best, it doesn't matter that he had to be rescued by someone else to "win" against the planet's dangers because either way he still survived. In a way, I think it's a message about allowing yourself to be helped by others, or rather that you can be the help that others need.

I'd say one of the major themes of the game is that no one can really survive on their own. Shepherd ponders on this in her diary, most of the castaways came in groups or pairs.