Without enemy respawning the areas start to feel dead and empty

The only thing missing from this list is Pikmin 3's large, more intensive bosses. I love the boss creatures from 1, 2 and 4, but outside of the final bosses, they feel closer to... mini-boss, or even elite enemies sometimes.

I've said the same thing multiple times about the lack of respawning enemies making it so areas can't evolve. I also want to add to the list that a lot of the gear is obtained much too late, making it useless unless you're just going through platinuming Dandori's, so the game could have benefited greatly from a NG+

I wish winged Pikmin got any of the things to pull like in Pikmin 3

One thing to note about the 3 Koppaites are all connected to the Pikmin 3 captains with Yorke being Alph's oldest brother, Nelle being related to "a famous botanist" AKA Brittany and Don Bergman used to have a partner he called "Ducky" who is likely Charlie because of his rubber duck, it's also implied Pikmin 4 (might) take place before 3 so it makes sense that the Pikmin 3 captains aren't in it. Also spicy spray doesn't make pikmin's attack stronger it actually reduces red and purple's attack down to the same as blue and yellow (though it might increase white, winged and ice pikmin's attack to the same as yellow and blue also)

No enemy respawns were a bit disappointing, would have been nice if enemies at least started respawning after you 100%'d an area, like how it works for caves.

i really enjoyed using the lineup trumpet in the side mode, i was disappointed to find out it was an end game item ultimately

In my opinion Baldy should not exist without Shaggy and Beady should have been there instead of Baldy!

I totally agree with you on the ffact that there isn't any need to return to previous areas. For example, in the Sun-Speckled Terrace, you only need Reds, Yellows, and Ices, which can all be found in the same area. I loved in Pikmin 3 how you would see something like an electric or bamboo gate and when you return later with the types you need, you find a whole new section of the area.

One of my nitpicks has also been how much Oatchi kinda takes away from needing the actual Pikmin. There are some hidden treasure that would be nice to need White Pikmin for, but no, Oatchi can sniff anything out. Heavy treasures that require a lot of Pikmin? Just upgrade Oatchi and he can handle anything. Stunning enemies in battle? Who needs Purples, just use Oatchi. Underwater fighting and treasures? Oatchi can handle it! Treasure is located on a high ledge? Just have Oatchi rush the ledge and knock it down. Elemental troubles? Just upgrade your pup and take care of anything! I understand that Oatchi makes it easier to handle tasks if you haven't gotten certain Pikmin types yet, but that could have been an option to encourage backtracking. As it stands, I can 100% an area before going to the next one without much difficulty. And sure, you can just not use Oatchi for several of these, but the fact remains that he's more OP than any Pikmin you have, in a game that's meant to be about the tiny critters with their own unique traits. As much as I adore Oatchi and his carrying my Pikmin around, he does repeatedly take away from what makes the Pikmin special.

Besides Alph and Yorke being brothers, Brittany and Nelle have some kind of family relation (possibly cousins), and Charlie and Don Bergman are old treasure hunting partners

I agree with everything said here. The fire pine cones were a bit tedious after a while. The mud pit was an opportunity for the segmented crawbster to return. I generally want an ultra spicy mode dlc.

My nitpick: Add back the sublevel transition jingle from pikmin 2. It plays in my head everytime I go to the next floor of a cave and triggers me that it is missing in p4.

The lack of Bosses or "Real Bosses", the bosses like the ones in pikmin 3, in the 4 only are bosses that look like minibosses or enemies that are only a bit stronger than regular enemies

There's this one area in Hero's Hideaway that seems to have been a scrapped dungeon or something, there's a spatula you can knock over but there's nothing inside besides a rope that seems to be leading downwards into something, even Olimar mentions saying something about it, but it's just... there? I feel like it was scrapped because it's something you can just ignore, yet there's rope like it's supposed to be an underground area or such.

co-op is the main one for me, even if it's just in challenge mode. i also want a better challenge mode. how hard would it be to just give p2 control of oatchi?

Having distant enemies freeze on screen is more resulting from the decision to change the camera angle and have bigger maps.If you see frozen enemies, it doesn't mean the game would've been too slow if they hadnt been frozen, it just means that you happened to have a very long sightline to those enemies.

I thought that if puffmin were in P4, it would be cool if the whites' poison gave them immunity to the puffstool's spores.

Nitpicks I have in addition to yours: - No Difficulty Settings (the game is too easy in my opinion) - No Backtracking in older areas with new Pikmin Types - Tasks for Pikmin Types other than the 3 suggested types in an area - More lethal hazards (could be fixed with a difficulty setting) like instant-kill Electro, lethal Ice One last thing I have to say even though you said it already cause it's really really annoying me is, that enemies NEVER respawn... WHY Nintendo?!?

6:15 there are these red berry plants, usually next to a base in fact that make the spicy spray. Theres also almost always the ten berries needed on two plants next to each other. These regrow incredibly fast and you can assign 5 pikmin per plant to farm them the entire day. They pick them, move them, walk back to the plant and wait for it to regrow if needed. Rinse and repeat. Farming spray is much easier then frozen enemies

For me it's 1) let me turn off auto-aim; 2) give us lineup trumpet earlier in the game. I'd cop everything else if we had that

I had quite a few nitpicks myself. Wall of Text ahead, Ye have been warned. Spicy Spray for sure, I think it should have stayed as it had been a temporary buff that wears off, doesn't flower pikmin so nectar still has a use, and only works locally on pikmin within a fairly close proximity and within your squad. Obviously Ice Pikmin have kind of become the spiritual successor to bitter spray so its absence doesn't bother me, it was and still is a very OP effect. Nothing respawns on the surface. Very strange, and feels weird that even after 30 days a map you cleared still has no new creatures move in and the bodies of the ones you haven't turned into more pikmin just lie there. Maps are too empty. Sort of hand in hand with the above, the space between enemies is kinda crazy, and in many cases critters that would be very closely placed in previous games are so far apart they can't really join forces to become deadlier as a team than they are apart. Glint beetles for example would frequently spawn in possibly enemy packed areas as a greed magnet to get you to try and put your pikmin in danger trying to get its rewards. Surface is too open. The wide open nature of the maps sometimes leads to other enemy types, notably canon beetles being very easily ignored, as well as just many other obstacles that let you just walk by them without worrying about the odd pikmin straying too close, double so because of riding on Oatchi so your effective squad size is miniscule regardless of pikmin count. Can't turn off the Lock-on. Very annoying and sometimes leads to pikmin deaths because you're locked onto a bulborb corpse but you want to throw pikmin at the still alive bulborb, you can use the manual lock-on to swap between targets but its just as fiddly and unreliable. Pikmin struggling to catch moving loot. Yeah this is returning from Pikmin 3 most notably but I think it did happen in 2 a bit as well if you used all flowered white pikmin, but really only under that specific circumstance, still it is frustrating. Rally trumpet, march, thing. The thing where you point and the pikmin line up in that direction, you get it as an upgrade pretty late into the game, infact you can't get it before the first credits roll because its a quest reward that requires a treasure in one of the last two areas to finish. This is a neat feature from Pikmin 1 and 2, in those games pointing the C stick on the gamecube would cause pikmin to line up in that direction relative to olimar, this would also trigger their behaviour to pickup loot attack enemies and generally interact with things in the environment they would ignore if you just walked over them. Oatchi. That's it, thats the nitpick. The game has a hard pause on throwing pikmin that prevents you from throwing the minimum required pikmin for a task. This means you have to sit and wait for all the pikmin to grab a treasure before you can throw more to help instead of just yeeting them with wild abandon. This is pretty consistent outside of some like crystal piles and or gold piles for some reason allowing you to throw more pikmin at it than there's items in the stack, but none the less frustrating and obviously causes problems with the above issue of pikmin having difficulty sharing a lift. Many upgrades and things in general appear too late. You get an upgrade that lets your captain aid in carrying Objects from Louie, who sends you on a series of revisits to caves that you probably cleared already in maps you most likely have cleared so it feels like a bit of padding going to one floor of one cave in one area and then ending the day right after cause there's litterally nothing else you're doing there. Purple and White pikmin get an onion both only available pretty much after everything else has been cleared, its neat that they exist but they really have no function, you'll likely just go to a cave you know has candypop buds for purples to grind out the 100 you need for the gold bar treasure rather than struggle through about 10 really ball busting dandori challenges. Winged Pikmin are dumb as rocks. But not like actual rocks not rock pikmin. They are kinda slow at hauling and generally don't get many instances where they can cross terrain regular pikmin can't already, they even see small ledges you have to jump over with Oatchi and go around them. Limiting pikmin types. Now I get why they didn't just let you take as many of any pikmin as you want, we have 8 types now, which cuts into that 100 pikmin limit pretty hard, you'd be bringing like 12 of each or something which would be too few of a single type. Honestly bumping it from 3 to 5 types would have been sufficient, especially with that final cave, had to pull out the glow seeds because I didn't bring any yellows because the cave didn't suggest them, and I even went out of my way to grab two pikmin types that weren't recommended because I figured i'd get candypops for purples and whites as i went down. Too much autopilot, similar to the lock on there's just a bit too much "quality of life" changes and additions that make it so you don't really think about your pikmin choices too much, you just go with what the game gives you which feels kinda at odds with the gameplay at times when caves or even surface areas recommend some pikmin but then there's use for at least 2 other types present in that area.

Honestly my biggest complaint about the game is the lack of bulbmin. I know glow pikmin are essentially the same thing, but I really dont like how they're implimented. The whole thing about pikmin is it's a game about time management and the cool thing about caves is it gives you unlimited time, but you only get the pikmin you go in with and cant get anymore so it becomes all about resource management. Bulbmin work perfectly fine with that because you only get them at certain times and you only get a limited amount of them. But with glow pikmin, you can take any amount out at any time as long as you have the seeds, completely negating the whole resource management aspect. Besides that and a few small things like auto lock on being annoying at times, I have no complaints about this game, I'd honestly say it's the best pikmin game and definitely one of my favorite games of all time

spicy actually reduces attack to 1.0x so it only increases attack speed and somewhat weakens stronger pikmin, although the speed increase is still higher dps than the normal damage without it.

For the ship's tale I just imagine olimar already had those parts which is why you start with only 15 days and not the traditional 30

I had over 40 spicy sprays at the end of the game and there was nothing stopping me from using them constantly other than me not wanting to make the game easier than it already is

I think the reason why dirigi bugs are gone is because bomb rocks can now be picked up. The bomb rocks that the skutter chucks and dweevils use can be stolen and put in your pack if you are clever or sneaky, even if they have already been picked up sometimes. Nintendo knew that people could figure out ways to steal the dirigi bugs’ bombs and get infinite bomb rocks, so they decided to exclude them.

Oddly enough the only boss who doesn't have a refight is the groovy long legs 🤨

No surface respawns was pretty heartbreaking to me. I'm greatful that i didnt realize this until id all but beaten the game, it would have ruined a huge part of my enjoyment if i realized 2 areas in that if i kill everyone i can just roam freely. The fear of them respawning kept me slightly on edge the whole time, and thats part of the pikmin experience to me, that youre in a wild area and are never *truly* safe when outside of your camp. Also! I have a really big hope we get an olimar story like thing but with louie as DLC, it would be perfect to add in more caves and the missing bosses from pikmin 2.

2:37 If they wanted to make it more interesting, they could make it stomp at the speed it did in Pikmin 1. I feel like it's also kind of a missed opportunity to bring back his old music given there's a baldy long legs in the shipwreck tale.

Honestly, I agree. Especially that ultra spicy spray is an issue, and I just use it to bloom flowers. Surface respawns ALSO make pikmin harder to produce. They really need to do something about spicy spray if we get dlc.

I’m surprised that the fact that there’s absolutely no backtracking wasn’t it’s own entry on the list. I was kinda disappointed that you can get 100% in every area before going to the next one, it kinda made the game feel too linear and somehow shorter if that makes sense. You only really ever backtrack if you missed something or didn’t figure out how to get the blue onion in sunspeckled terrace without 50 pikmin, which are both issues that most veterans and probably a lot of newcomers never encountered

i'm so glad somebody mentioned the re-fights. the last area was super cool to me but the caves, the cave bosses were the Bug-Eyed Crawmad and two Hermit Crawmads and a Soverign Bulbax, which is a re-use (yet cool) boss already. These are the ones that really get me, the Empress Bulbax was re-used but it did gain some traits (and sub-level 16 gives me nightmares) BUT THE REFIGHTS, and hell, besides the Toxstool and Smoky Prog (kinda?) the new cave didn't introduce any new enemies or bosses (both are good but hear me out) The Mud Pit could of have some super Bogswallow boss, like, an anicent giant creature preserved in the mud as the Bogswallow is a primitive creature, and like, idk its just, the Pikmin games seem scared to introduce new stuff in side content BUT THEY COULD OF SHOE-HORNED IN BEADY IN THIS GAME AND LAST GAME and i'm just so sad he didn't make it in little ranty but I wished the endgame bosses were, you know, endgame and not re-usage (in fact besides Man-At-Legs, the only other new end of cave boss is Mammoth Snootwhacker so like no new designs) I LOVE THIS GAME TO BITS but its just a shame just port the Pilgated nobody will get too mad at you

My personal nitpick is that the Piklopedia is missing a corner (the puffmin would've filled it 😔)

I think the game should let us take out as many types of pikmin as we want

There are many pointers in the game that say Pikmin 3 happened after this. One of which is the music box but the other is the mention of Koppai nearly being in a crisis, meaning it hasn’t started yet, so they used different Koppaites instead who are related or have connections to the others.

I was really hoping to have bingo again. I also feel like the blue onion shows up way too soon which made ice pikmin feel not helpful outside of fights even at the beginning of the game. The lack of rock and winged pikmin exclusive things was also a shame. Still had a lot of fun with the game despite these things (auto targeting and the thing that prevents you from throwing more pikmin got annoying at times, though).

It would have been so cool if each of the Koppiates had a special mission for you, just like Olimar and Louie did. Maybe Yorke wants you to collect certain technology treasures, then he would add a 1st person camera function to your tablet independent of the survey drone. I really wish we had a better camera function in pikmin 4, even if it has to be earned. The security drone is great, it is actually pretty functional rather than just for photography, but i really wish had the ability to take no UI screenshots at angles other than bird's eye or angled down, there were plenty of moments where the regular third person camera or even a first person angle would have been amazing. Maybe Nelle mentions speaking to Schauz (the treasure collector guy) and hearing of food-like treasures, or hearing of berries from dalmo, and asks you to show her some number of fruits and berries. After finding 5-10 unique ones (sinc their mission is fiding food) and/or some number of ultra spicy berries, maybe she gives you a juice or spray based upgrade or item. Or, she found that some berries have some restorative/energizing properties for animals like Oatchi and wants to plant some at the base to learn more about. Maybe nursing their growth is difficult and they will only have the materials to do it once/twice, and she went looking for ultra spicy berries to plant at the rescue post, but the colour of the ones she found were off, and you unlocked the ability to havest 3-5 ultra bitter berries per day at the rescue post, or she actually just plants an ultra spicy berry plant at the post so they dont need to add a new mechanic. Maybe Don tells you he saw a glint of gold while their ship crashed that he wants to be retrieved to raise money for the needy (there was something like that in his ID), and he unlocks the ability for you to find a single hidden, gold-lidded cave with the weird gold mimic creatures, respawning gold and iridescent flint beetles, and other gold themed enemies, but no gold treasures (just a leather wallet full of ambiguous paper bill human money, which he ironically doesnt recognize as valuable) and he is a bit disappointed but gives you a material reward and says to keep the treasures. You are able to keep going back there, making it a good cave for grinding nectar, sprays, and materials late game. Alternatively, maybe he upgrades your treasure gauge to be able to see hidden treasures.

They also nade every area only needing three types of pikmin, like you go there and ut gives you your recommendated pikmin types and thats all you need in that area, i think they really should have balanced it significantly better, and i agree with the rock pikmin point, i feel like unlocking new pikmin should unlock new areas in previous levels, itd make the bew type of pikmin you get more worth it

Others have already said pretty much everything on my mind, but I’d also like to add that Oatchi reducing your squad’s physical footprint makes a lot of challenges kind of trivial. This is especially noticeable in the Engulfed Castle, because you can literally just walk around the Waterwraith with all of your pikmin on Oatchi. That cave would have been much more interesting if it didn’t let you bring Oatchi.

Auto lock on and auto counting, OP items, oatchi rush being broken in combat, and the excessive dialogue are the major issues of this game

Difficulty slider is what I really miss here. Some of the things that you mentioned are like really difficult annoying things, like Volatile Dwevils. I think they should add a difficulty slider for when you start a new save file. Adding respawn frequency on the overworld, increasing hp on enemies, adding more enemies in situations, increasing risks of death with freezing/burning/drowing/shocking. Decreasing stuff like drop chance for spicy spray, or stun durations. Having Dwevils have a chance to spawn with (ice)bomb rocks. More places where rocks randomly fall, and heck, even the good old troll bomb drops would be funny. Even the bomb fly with ice bombs you mentioned would be cool (heh, get it because *explodes*). I really hope they make a DLC, where they add the option to have difficulty, and turn off auto lock on

The one thing I loved about pikmin 3 is having to go back and forth to actually 100% the game. With pikmin 4 is was able to 100% it without going back and forth at all and it just felt like I didn’t work hard enough to finish it.

Another thing they could've done is allow you to stay on the planet surface for as long as you please once you unlock Glow Pikmin. Doing so would allow you to: - Continue daytime tasks, treasure hunting, and exploration to continue into nighttime without having to wait for the next day. - Allow you to raise your numbers for both Glow AND non-Glow Pikmin. - Fight larger waves of tougher and more varied enemies, while gathering treasure AND protecting the Lumiknolls at thte same time.

If I had to give a nitpick, I hate how some of the "bosses" are just really big enemies with no change to the design outside of the model being bigger. Yeah some of the fights they utilize it in unique ways, like with Masterhop and the puddles left behind on their attacks, but most of the time it just feels like a stronger regular enemy than a real boss? Idk thats just me I suppose

You can use bomb rocks on day one of Olimar’s story to destroy the pots. So no back tracking required. Which I think is a missed opportunity as well.

I wish the decorated cannon beatles larvae came back, it wouldve been so cool to see all the cannon beatles come back! Maybe a mature decorated cannon beatle would be a boss like the other two have, missed opportunity

I’m so upset that they removed Puffmin, literally shaking in my boots

I can agree with everything said in this video, the game would've been way more fun if everything said here would've been here!! But, I guess Nintendo can't always please us to the fullest..

#bringbackbeady

Can’t wait for mods to start experimenting with some cool enemy combos.

While I love that we got to see boss versions of some enemies like the Mastertoad, I hated that they just made them the OG monsters but bigger, would've loved new designs. Only exception to this was the Sovereign Bublax, since this references Pikmin 1.

Lineup Trumpet was done dirty. It should have been purchasable at the same time as the Charging Horn. Oatchi's infinite rush is overpowered, sure, but locking it behind 100% castaway completion is awful. Make it a normally accessible upgrade so it's possible to get it early it if you forgo many other nice upgrades! Plucking Whistle is pretty busted... in the Sage Leaf Trials. Locking it behind purchasing all gear is silly, because it fails to protect the mode most vulnerable to it. Maybe it could have been the reward for the music sidequest? The Extra Hand is a funny joke upgrade. It's not so bad that it's obtained completely too late to use it for anything.

Bro wig be spitting facts also wig u know about the snagret 👀👀👀

Nintendo was scared that Pikmin 2 wasn’t “family friendly” so they removed all explosion enemies (except for man at legs) so we will likely not see them ever again

How could you not have a nitpick with the progression system for the upgrades? They wall off way too many upgrades at the end of the game where most people won't have a use for them anymore. A new game + would have been a big improvement. Sure you could say some people will want ot use them to platinum dandori challenges, but that has to be like less than 10% of players who will do score attack stuff and not just be satisfied with beating it. The infinite rush, and the marching horn necessitates you getting all of the music treasures up to primordial thicket (So essentially 100% of treasures since most people clean out every dungeon due to the radar being handy) and Saving all the shipwrecked people; by the time you get the infinite rush all of the surface areas for you will probably be desolate already. Then there is the Louie arm, which I think should let you carry 10 since the captain can left and throw purples, but again, it's at the very end of the game where it won't see use by most people, even if it's a joke upgrade.

Yeah I hope pikmin 5 has weather that has actual mechanical effects since we got areas that were super cold for non-ice pikmin in caves

The most hassle the auto lock on gave me was in the trial of the sage leaf where you have 5 purples and you have to murder all the shearfleas and baby bulborbs. God is was a nightmare to platinum casue of it.

This game also needs a 2 player boss rush feature and 2 player mission mode! Going for high scores with my siblings made up such a large part of the ongoing value of the game after completion, and we even tried to get world records on some. The 20 floor dandori cave and the other smaller ones did get kinda close to what we wanted for missions, but it was still just single player and lacked incentive to go for faster completion after reaching platinum. And the piklopedia interactive feature doesn't recreate some the boss fights well, or allow you to face bosses with a second player.

The ad placement right before “Rude Interruptions” 😂

for me i really want to see all previous bosses return in the dlc or most of them definitely pileated snagret, beady and the segmented crawbster i dont know about raging longlegs and the ranging bloyster though because in my opinion they are close to things already in the game but i definitely think the rest should

The lock on being forced and the Pikmin being unable to grab moving objects isn't even a nitpick. It's just annoying when you're trying your best to be efficient. I dunno why they don't just teleport onto the object if they are close enough. I mean they also teleport to you when throwing them.

They could have been an ice variant for dirigibug, a normal goolix, more poison ennemies, a new groink, and the anused buble blowhog from pikmin 3

Some extra nitpicks: -No bingo mode for Dandori Battles. -Pink Pikmin's pathfinding is atrocious compared to Pikmin 3. They get stopped by gates even when they're able to clearly fly around them. They don't ignore the environment in favor of b-lining it to the base, they just take the regular walking path no matter what and only take shortcuts when there's a designated spot to do so? Which isn't even that often. In the same game as whites, you don't have a lot of reason to use pinks, especially since you get whites so early on compared to pinks. -Despite how many times ships crashing are brought up, the Plasm Wraith makes no return, despite it having loose ends. Pikmin 5 maybe...? -The house area is underutilized thematically. A Pikmin game that explores human homes sounds interesting! But... is there a reason for it? Any story telling going on with it? ...No? Really? Why is there luggage near the front door of the house? Do we not get to explore a second house or any other rooms? Is it really not important? -Smokey Progg isn't as interesting. It's still threatening but, part of what made it interesting in Pikmin 1 was the unexplainable obscurity and secrecy. When you direct the player's attention to its presence and make its appearance scripted though, it loses some of that magic. Would've been cool if it was just in an area, and it went for your onion the same as in Pikmin 1, if encountered on a certain day. -As much as I like having a character to customize, I do feel Pikmin is better suited for pre-determined characters. They make up for it a bit with the side characters, but I hope the next game doesn't have avatars. -The UI is bland compared to previous games. Pikmin 3's UI wasn't only JUST as informative and clear, but it also felt more decorative. It used more colors and had more moving parts to it, more interesting elements (like bubbles) naturally integrated into the design. Pikmin 4's UI follows a bad recent trend of UI looking incredibly formal and bare minimum in terms of flashiness, which feels backwards for a game that's meant to be fun. -Lack of music. Caves are too quiet and some areas, while nice atmospherically with the faint tracks that are present, can be a liiiittle too quiet. For a series known for its music, this is a little disappointing. Olimar's Shipwreck Tale's music was a breath of fresh air, but I wish the whole game was like that. -The line whistle sucks. I was SO glad when I saw it came back! ...but uh, it changes you camera view every time you press the button to use it, meaning you need to reorient where you want to point your Pikmin after starting. To add onto that, the camera moves while you turn your character and walk around. These both make it impossible to just... hold where you want your Pikmin to go, like in the first two games. With how late you get this too, and how Oatchi and Moss don't need it, it just feels so useless? I hope the next Pikmin game refines the line whistle, gives it to you immediately, and doesn't have a dog partner who can carry Pikmin. -Oatchi can't bite enemies manually if you have glow Pikmin with you. Sounds minor but in scenarios where I wanted to safely kill an enemy with Oatchi without using Pikmin, this was annoying. -It doesn't let you view treasures upon bringing them to your base? In Pikmin 2, this made the reveal of each name all the more noticeable, and made the satisfaction more immediate. Now you have to slog through entire batches of treasure at once when you beat a day after talking to an NPC to view everything. -Speaking of, Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard are tied to NPC's. It just feels clunky and slow. -Caves are no longer randomized. Not that big a deal but, hey, these are nitpicks lol. I just feel it's an element of replayability that's gone as a result.

lock on disable, respawning surface enemies, and RAIN are the things i want the most i want to fuck around on the surface of the planet and explore, grow pikmin for fun, see harder enemies spawn after like 30 days or something, something secret like ujadani, and i wanna explore the areas and take pictures when its raining or storming or snowing... i spent SO much time in pikmin 2 just fucking about after i finished getting all the treasures, i grew thousands of pikmin just for fun ........ also its prime or dee uhl thickit ............................ ALSO also, you can blow up the pots with bomb rocks, so you DONT need to get moss to complete sun speckled terrace, the speedrun is 4 days long as under 30 minutes

My biggest desire is for the game to shut the fuck up. The best part of Pikmin is feeling like you're exploring a strange, but goofy and fun alien world. A place that is both cartoonish but also realistic and believable. But having some NPC interjecting constantly (and it is CONSTANTLY) ruins the atmosphere. And they never have anything good to say. Either they point out the painfully obvious, give you the answer to puzzles or they give you information that was useful 5 minutes ago. I really wish they could just axe all dialogue from the missions themselves. If they want cutscenes or dialogue before/after missions, fine. But not during. Edit: A PC release would also fix most of the games other tiny problems. Using sticks to aim often results in throwing Pikmin at the wrong enemy when in a hectic situation, but mouse/keyboard would fix that. The reflections and lighting would be massively improved with RTX, and it could run at 60 FPS. Draw distances would be greatly improved too, and loading times reduced. Online multiplayer would be easy too for Dandori Battles. Nintendo would NEVER do it, I know. But Pikmin 4 would be amazing on PC. Edit 2: Also, allowing players to select more than 1 Pikmin type in Dandori battles would be nice as well. Increase the strategy of it. I'd also like the Dandori maps to be less of the toybox aesthetic and more naturalistic environments that Pikmin are known for. The maps don't need to be maps from the campaign (I'd prefer it if they weren't) but the toybox look just doesn't work in Pikmin. Edit 3: A new idea: instead of killing enemies, what if we had to capture some of them? It could be like Monster Hunter meets Pokemon, where you set a trap and lure the enemy into it, but you'd have to lower it's health or else it'd just break free. But if you kill the enemy, you lose and have to restart. You could add in tons of different types of traps. Like maybe Winged Pikmin could hold up a net that serves as a trap for airborne enemies. Or Rock Pikmin could serve as a stumbling block for big enemies that you have to trip. That sorta thing.

I just wish that enemies would respawn, I love making lot of Pikmin and it's so frustrating to only have Pellet Posies to make more of them when you already killed everything else

Personally, I wish there was a "new game +" option to reset the save, but keep your unlocks, gear, pikmin, and oatchi unlocks just to see how fast the game can be cleared

Yeah I was expecting some bosses from pikmin 3 because they had some cool stuff

pikmin enemies getting flashbacks of their entire life when they see the color purple:

It feels like the whole game has been lobotomized to make it more new player friendly, which isn’t inherently a bash at the game because I had no problem playing because I used every single item like it was made specifically for this game and this game only and it helped a lot. I never had problems with the auto targeting but generally the game feels very barren and empty when it comes to ideas seems like it’s just a collage of everything that made the previous games good

15:24 it is actually used in the hero’s hideaway at the middle cluster of shutterchucks

One of my most GREATEST of all nitpicks I have for Pikmin 4, is that there’s no “new game+” option. Once you’ve 100% the game, and unlocked all skills for Oatchi, including the ability to use infinite rush, there’s no other use for this at all once you finish the game. The only time I get to use all of Oatchi’s skills, including some unlocks for the captain, like the lineup trumpet, and extra hand, is when I go through the Sage Leaf trials, after finishing the main game, and have nothing else to do, but that one last. Even if you were to progress through the game normally, by rescuing all the castaways, and curing all the leaflings, before battling the Ancient Sirehound, and Louie, you have no use for everything you have, up until that point, until you unlock Oatchi’s infinite rush, and the extra hand ability. With new game+, you’re able to load into a new save file, with everything you have unlocked from the past file you selected for a new game+, which includes all the upgrades, and Oatchi skills, and allows you to use the most out of them throughout the entire game, in which you normally can’t, unless if you’re doing reruns on the Dandori battles, and challenges, or night missions, or just to free roam on the surface, while farming for ultra spicy sprays for almost completely nothing. It infuriates me the most not being able to utilize my new, fully upgraded skills, to their fullest. I hope Nintendo adds this as a free update into the game, especially if they’re planning to do DLC later in the near, or distant future.

Biggest crime is groovy long legs was seen once.

My biggest nitpick is that I want “FINAL FLOOR!” to pop up in caves

I wish some Hey Pikmin enemies were in Pikmin 4 like the Shearblug, the Crammed Wraith, the Elongated Crushblat, the Flatterchuck, the Puffy Blubbug could be really good for snow levels. Finaly the Mockiwi. I say this because if you know what they look like, then you know just how cute they are! And of course more enemies form the other Pikmin games should also be in the game as well. But I really like Hey Pikmin a lot (because it was my first Pikmin game) and I would like to see some love for that game. And that concludes my rant.

I think beady being a unique yellow/pink pikmin fight could serve as a really neat cavern, could be one of those underground floating platform ones to have both an electric edge and a flying edge, like the white onion sage challenge (aka pink pikmin are actually programmed to take shortcuts), could also introduce ropes non flying pikmin can't follow you on (balancing minigame maybe?), and said ropes can be tied to the opposite side (or plugged in if they're flavored as cables!) by pinks. maybe even splitting up the beady fight between two officers like pik3 (as oatchi can't walk across the rope, but beady can step between platforms separated by one). obviously I'm not a game dev but I think this could be cool

Late game really is just fire starter simulator lol

most of these nitpicks are understandable, i personally wish that some enemies had be reused more. cuz like. encountering only one of various things feels kinda sad (also there should have been a snowy area where the ice pikmin could have really shined, and all the ice enemies could have been there)

bruh they added a mushroom chrysanthemum and not a blue glow mushroom version. it would've been so cool and fit so well with the dark caves

Plaster the wall of buzz lightyears over my face right now but i really do wish there was a new game+ option where you got to carry gear and the completed onion over into a fresh game considering how much stuff gets unlocked right as you're probably wrapping up your playtime It would be so fun to be able to do challenge runs with certain pieces of gear banned or only ever using 1 pikmin type Only other nitpick I really have is the 3 type limit It's annoying being told by the game that it doesn't think I can handle more than 3 types at once, if I can manage a squad with 10 of each type except wings get 30, I should be allowed to use the squad I want to

Even if they weren’t gonna allow you to turn off the auto lock-on, they should’ve at least made it so it will prioritize the nearest enemy/mushroom/hazard over the treasures or dead enemies

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE POINTS OUT THE DECLINE IN SOUND DESIGN WITH THE ENEMY VOICES

I also wish that you could just get a little note (similar to when you complete a task) for when a castaway is rescued, the cutscenes are so annoying. Not to mention the sheer amount of dialog and cutscenes in the introduction 😵‍💫

Winged Pikmin pathing got nerfed super hard, almost never taking obvious shortcuts

My only major complaint is the lack of dynamic music, like how the first two had.

Anode beetles got screwed by not being in more than one cave

The best part of pikmin is going through areas, and then returning later once you have more pikmin

I think not having co-op horde mode/night missions is a missed opportunity.

Ngl didnt notice the enemies freezing until i was 60 hours in 😭

Things I hope get addressed in DLC or Updates. New Game + This is pretty easy to add, let you start the game new, with all of the upgrades/onions you've unlocked from the previous game. Some upgrades are so late into the game they don't matter. Even if you know to get them ahead of time. They still don't have a ton of impact. I'll also add that the tutorial seems to go on forever. I wanna skip all of that and just start at day 1 with all of my upgrades and abilities. Respawning Enemies would've really added another layer to each area too. Each area is so barren after you 100% it. In Pik3 I used to return to old areas to farm up spicy spray and enemies for whatever pikmin type was lacking in population. Other ideas or QOL Features.... 1. The menu speed is weirdly delayed, it isn't 100% responsive when navigating. This needs adjusted to be snappier. 2. Let me turn off the dialog from the companions. It displays at such an awkward position on the screen that it can block your view at what you are looking at. I don't need to know I have pikmin sitting idle in a dandori, flower man; I have an idler alert for that. 3. Remove the split screen in vs Dandori batttles against the AI. Why do I need to squish my perspective in story mode to fight olimar/louie? 4. Disable Auto Lock-on. Let me free aim without using motion controls. 5. True coop mode after you rescue Dingo would have been cool. It could work somehow with Oatchi being the unique captain to manage. 6. Let me turn off the cheat options -- Dingo auto resolving things missions for you, or rewinding time. I only used Dingo once because I didn't know what he would do. Rewinding time removes a huge layer of difficulty and risk/reward the original series had.

The waterwraith sounded incorrect when i went through the engulfed castle

for the crystal hazards it would have been cool to use it more often in the overworld but something for me that felt unrealistic in pikmin 3 was the fact that things were stuck inside the crystals, like how does a fruit gets inside of a crystal

Derigibugs weren't in pikmin 4 because the game is supposed to bring in new players and NOT nuke half of their army, that's for when the new players buy pikmin 2

It's weird how much I would change/add to this game knowing how much I enjoyed it. It just has so much potential. I think my list would go: 1. Real multiplayer (1P: captain, 2P: Oachi, 3P + 4P: Pebble Tosser) Maybe each added player adds 10% dmg and HP to enemies. 2. Challenge (let me select difficulties, maybe a crazy hard one with a bunch of cool limitations) 3. NG+ 4. A big challenging boss for each map 5. Utilize the 3 pikmin type cap better. (I feel like I'm being limited without reason) 6. Stop shoving "dandori" down my throat, it's a fun mini-game, but I want more caves and more core gameplay. I want more dandori to be optional Oh, and nerf Oachi. He's a battering ram, he's a nuke, he's a tank. he's a ship. He's everything you've ever wanted to be AND MORE. This isn't Pikmin 4, it's Oachi 1.

I do agree that you get a lot of spicy spray but that could just be an illusion since i have used 0 spicy sprays in my entire playthrough of pikmin 4

wingman you can choose to put on lock feature on or off if you go to options then setting then switch of motion control and boom you have the lock feature in Pikmin 4

one of my nitpicks in Pikmin 4 are the amount of Pikmin that carry an object because only double the base amount of Pikmin carry objects when some things can support more than double the amount and my motto in Pikmin is "if theirs space help pick it up" and how the auto lock on feature stops after the base amount of pikmin and idle Pikmin wont help carry it when every other Pikmin game had idle Pikmin help carry objects on the way.

Yeah the spicy spray was just too much. I actually realized that the 1 missing entry in my piklopedia was the plant they grow on. I never felt the need to interact with them.

My nitpicks Autolock No mention of the ‘thing that makes the shipwreck’s happen’ Olimars some of Ship parts are duped New Game + and a harder mode we’re absolutely needed No Pikmin 2 picklopedia music option No proper camera control in the piklopedia Bubble text gone The sovereign Bulblax and the man at legs bosses in shipwreck tale should’ve been swapped so the Bulblax is the final boss like in Pikmin 1 Koppaites should’ve been the Pikmin 3 protags No mission mode No proper 2 player No weather