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The start of this video feels like an April Fools video, a prank, and the fact that it isn’t makes it 1000 times better.

"Puffmin are still counted as enemies, so any idle Pikmin will attack them" ah yes, Pikmin racism. Pikracism, if you would

Original purple pikmin

This whole run is "Can I clip myself through various surfaces in Pikmin 1 without going insane?" And it's fun to watch, lmao. Dude's rubbing frog butts for our entertainment

A good thing about this series is that you always make it like a question. Instead of "i beat the game with only puffmin" it's "can you beat the game with only puffmin?" and this gives you endless space to validly change the rules to complete the challenge. By changing the rules you're validly answering "no, but we can do it with only puffmin and 1 blue pikmin for the puffy blowhog" and that's fine and still interesting

Heya, developer here. A possible reason your pikmin were dying off-screen to the lava spouts when you weren't looking could be due to how the game is optimized. My theory is that the game saves on resources by not running the AI of entities that aren't visible on screen, which explains why you aren't being attacked by off-screen enemies: their AI is disabled. I suspect that the game still keeps their collision and hit boxes in memory however, allowing them to be interactible. This includes objects being carried back to the onion/spaceship, and your pikmin. Since environmental objects do not have an AI state, that optimization might not include them, either as a side-effect or deliberately, meaning the lava spouts continue to spew fire and burn your very much still-intractible pikmin when you aren't looking. Or I could be wrong entirely, I'm not familiar with the code behind the Pikmin games, merely a theory. Excellent video as always, much love!

Ah, the true pain and suffering challenge, finally!

This guy is going mad with power. He will not stop at anything to finish the game in weird ways 😂.

Fun fact that pikmin getting stuck on the onions legs can happen in the actual game in the challenge mode in the distant spring

When I was a kid I accidentally found this glitch but I didn't know what caused it. I spent hours trying to replicate it but i could never figure it out. All my friends thought I was lying and I almost thought that i just completely imagined it. It's good to finally know I was right after almost 14 years

Regular pikmin POV: "Father why are you turning us into zombies even though we are better as a pikmin" Press A!: BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO GET ADDICTED TO THE PUFFSTOOL SPORES

now on to beating pikmin 2 with only pik pik carrots

Grabbing Steve by the neck and telling him to play nice with the fungi.

I had no idea there was a "proper" way to kill the Armored Cannonbeetle until today. I always just spammed bomb rocks.

you can hear cat/kid on the background, it's quite wholesome

You should totally play through the entirety of challenge mode in pikmin 2 with pikpik carrots as your pikmin

Still waiting on the final episode; Can You Beat Pikmin 1 With Olimar-Pikmin from the bad ending lol

Press A Explanations be like: "When the weird thing happens, the game doesn't like it"

13:30 The pellet doesn't slide when it's close to the wall. It slides because it's on a slope and you're touching it with olimar. If you walk away it wouldn't slide. 17:12 Fire geysers, like other enemies off screen aren't just unloaded magically because they're off screen. When pikmin walk past enemies or fire geysers, they load again. So technically it's wrong to say off screening ACB to collect Radiation Canopy just works. It doesn't. It can fail even if off screen because pikmin reload stuff when nearby.

I smell Pikmin 2 with only Pikpik carrots arriving soon then.

Is... Is that a baby crying in the background!?!? Press A parenthood!?!?!?!?!?!?!

This is a fascinating idea! I knew about the puffmen, but I didn’t know about the glitch to control them.

I’ve never seen anyone else do this! Way to think out of the box! Keep up the amazing work!!! Finding your channel was truly a blessing!! Thank you for keeping my childhood game alive!

Bro, I discover you 1 month ago and you save my summer from boring

Excuse me… Puffmin?!!

Yo, I got a great idea, what if you do olimar only???………………I’m kidding! I’m kidding! I’m kidding! You have already gone through enough torture Dan.

I’m so happy you are doing the challenge I asked for back when you did only reds. :) you rock Man!

I remember my first time playing Pikmin 1 on the Wii and not knowing about the mushroom guy but knowing that he had a part in him and attempting to take it down and then having all 100 of my Pikmin immediately die and then attempt to kill me, one of my favorite memories I've ever had in a game

Speedrunning has taught me that enemies that are off screen can still get loaded back in if pikmin are too close to them (i think) if you lure them away from the pikmins path they will be too far to be loaded back in

"i think i've gotten this part with this trick, than i have the normal way" me literally every time i play a new game of fallout new vegas 😂😂😂😂😂😂. hate the foreplay of the main quest, so i play with good springs, then start my journey from there. picking the quest back up hours later when i've made it to the strip and i just go into benny's casino and look at him till i get the exp and the quest updates. then i leave and continue on

My cat loved this video. She was sitting politely and thoroughly engaged for an entire five minutes! Great vid btw!

Your channel is the stuff dreams are made of, keep being amazing 👍

17:17 My guess is that puffmin and traps are always loaded; the former because they'd still count against your pikmin total since they can easily revert to normal, and the latter because they're part of the map (not moving and lacking a health bar) instead of the enemy count.

I legitimately didn't have any idea puffmin could be controlled, that blew my mind and I've literally played Pikmin for as long as I can remember! Also just want to say, I love how much effort goes into your videos. Genuinely a pleasure to watch, informative and entertaining both. Thanks for the quality content button man :)

Sadly Nintendo didn't bring back puffmin in later games 😞

My immediate thought in response to this title: Sir, are you insane? You JUST did red only-

I haven't watched the video yet but I have to ask. Are you okay? All your Pikmin videos lately have been self torture...

I really liked this video. I've been watching your videos for some time now and really liked the series and am glad you continued it. Anyways, I really like your videos.😊

*gets my ass kicked* Finally, a task checked off my to-do list!

When I was a wee babby I was convinced that there was some way to unlock purple pikmin (puffmin) as aa super secret op pikmin. I tried beating the game as fast as possible, exploring for easter eggs, etc but never got anything. Really wished I knew all you had to do was whistle... huh.

btw, the English version of Zelda Minish Cap perhaps has a Pikmin 1 reference. The mushroom-like enemies that spread dust when they attack, in the English version of Minish Cap, they are named Puffstool, possibly a reference to the Puffstools in Pikmin 1. From what I've read long long ago from commenters online, the JP version of Minish Cap does not have this reference to Pikmin 1 with that enemy. I know the enemy is also named Puffstool, because me when I was much younger, if I remember right, 100%'d the figurine collection in Minish Cap. I went out of my way to grind Mysterious Shells to pull the figurine gatcha in that game to get them all

It's a shame puffin weren't brought back in 4 :,(

this could've been a good Halloween special

This is the peakmin content why I love your channel.

Yay! Suffering!

press a does the impossible not matter what

Geyser theory: maybe the reason the fire geysers weren't safe when derendered is because they were derendered in the 'on' state, and thus just active while invis, rather than just being truly off, and in fact in such a state likely never TURNING off because they're not rendered to update that state?

No way! I had no idea you could control puffmin! I will try this glich if I play Pikmin again

To get past the rock wall, you tricked a Bulborb... into eating a Pikmin with a bomb rock next to it. I feel like you'd be able to lockpick my front door with an egg or something if I told you I was holding onto the Gluon Drive.

Awesome stuff, a challenge i really didnt expect to see!!! i will say, now that you did a challenge with a not real pikmin type for Pikmin 1, i kinda wanna see you tackle Pikmin 2 as the pikpik carrots (yes thats a real pikmin type that you can spawn in the game)

With all this brainwashing I'm pretty sure the Pikmin are having an identity crisis! 🤣

When I saw the title I seriously thought this was a joke video lol! But I was pleasantly surprised, great job as always!!! Also shout out to Minty Meeo he’s done some incredible Pikmin projects!

Yes... YES! Someone else who knows about the puffmin whistle glitch! I never hear anyone talk about it! Though I'm a little confused. I remember them just kinda dying after a set amount of time, which was frustrating cause I had a theory the puffmin were immune to all elements since they counted as enemies, but they kept perishing before I could get to multiple element hazards. Though maybe I just don't remember right since I was quite young back then.

My theory on the fire geysers is that the game needs a way to have enemies be able to attack pikmin on their way back if the return trip isnt safe. Maybe the presence of enemies causes things to stay rendered around them for this purpose, and since Puffmin are technically enemies, they render the fire. The reason this works normally is because, in all other circumstances, there *are* no enemies there. Of course, Im a newer player, so I'm only going on preexisting game design knowledge.

Assuming you mod it so each pikmin has infinite carring capacity, I wonder if it's possible to beat the game with one pikmin

I can’t wait for puffmin 2! Wait there’s no puffstool-

The Council is pleased with this one, Press A. You are lifted from the punishment to be sent to you for your prior crimes against Pikmanity.

THIS MAN HAS A CHILD I HEARD IT

I didn't even know about pikmin and now I am binging all of the challenge videos

babe wake up new press a pikmin challenge video just dropped

23:45 When dealing with these and other sherwigs near water I bait them into just crawling right into it. They start to drown and will take off to survive. However, you can have Olimar start slapping them as soon as they get in the water. This will stack the two kinds of damage and they won't manage to avoid becoming blue pikmin snacks.

My educated guess as to why the fire geysers weren't unloaded perhaps has to do with them being treated as environmental obstacles, thus are always globally-loaded instead of locally-loaded like the enemies and plants. I don't know for sure without looking into the files, but that's my best guess.

Maybe the fire geysers need to be off when they are off camera ? Maybe it doesn't change "states" if you can't see them. Idk, it's just a theory

17:25 If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say that that one time you got it to work you just so happened to time it perfectly for your Pikmin to walk through without being burned.

This would’ve taken me an entire school year to attempt

Ohhh yeah, this is gonna be good!

"No you cant- wait....WHY IS THIS VIDEO SO LONG????"

New video idea red puffmin only

Puffmins under Olimar's control are like gliched invinsible pikmin in pikmin 3

39:11 *video stops as a low quality image of luffy slowly fades in its 5am and i had 0 sleep

Puffmin is just a state that pikmin can be. Kind of like burning pikmin. Puffmin still have obillity of the original pikmin.

Next video: Can I beat Pikmin with only Breadbugs?

Bro that was the best video I ever watched

If you want to try a challenge that focuses more on the routing side of things than on raw execution, I think it would be interesting if you tried to grow the absolute maximum amount of Pikmin possible (and still escaping the planet) within the 30 day limit. That isn't to say that the execution will be easy, since you'll basically have to collect every pellet and corpse on the map every single day for maximum Pikmin yield, in addition to the usual ship parts, but if you have a good enough route it ought to be possible. It'd also be really insightful when it comes to learning the ins and outs of the game's enemy spawning and respawning mechanics, building the best possible route based on what day certain enemies first show up, and how many days it takes for certain enemies come back to life once killed, if ever. Edit: Though you'll probably want to use savestates, otherwise pellet RNG might screw you over at a bad time.

Dude finally found sample's video

I’m early, I really want to play pikman now, because of you and your challenge videos

Back to the logs of press a hehe just here to enjoy

This is actually pretty interesting for their possible purpose in Pikmin 5

I'm pretty sure enemies,treasures,etc dont despawn since of something in the code,but pikmin do for some reason,and since puffmin are considered enemies (since they're normally hostile) they wont despawn.

17:46 relateable 💀

new press a pikmin video im sat

Kinda funny to think the one pikmin type that's the most useless also makes you pull out your dandori skills more

Technically the final number could be 4 pikmin and 2 throws, instead of using 10 blues to push the box you don’t push it at all. Throw a single pikmin on top of the ledge then clip out of bounds and walk up to the pikmin. Swarm the snagret every time his head gets stuck until that one pikmin kills him. Then push the part into the water and carry it back with your puffmin, would save 10 throws and 9 pikmin, regardless though great video always, keep it up:)

Me who gets the the spring the regular intended way... as well as every other part.

congrats on the baby lol

Speaking of the whole unloaded enemies trick- do Bulbears not count for this? I remember a while back replaying the game and since I was across the map getting a piece, I figured if I didnt follow my pikmins, the bulbears wouldnt eat them all- but unfortunately it wasnt until the very end of the day that I spotted all the pieces I had picked (2-3) close to the base with zero pikmins around so it seems they were all eaten without me realizing it. Does that mean it only works if I never spawned them to begin with with the camera? The most I could think of is that since they were already loaded in from when I walked past them earlier in the day, they just stuck around the entire time?

Can’t wait for Pikmin 2 with only Pikpik carrots ;)

I don't know, if this will be interesting or possible, but how about a sorta "enemy-nuzlocke"? If you defeat an enemy-species once, you aren't allowed to beat it a second time. Making you decide, when to kill a bulborb, when to ignore it or when to distract it.

I would have just worked with a mod that made your pikmin puffmin and then add the restrictions to them, minus the "turn back into normal pikmin upon finishing a task" since that just means returning to base and wasting time there is just to turn them back into puffmin. If you need that to still be sorta a thing, just make the mod have it so that when a task is completed, the pikmin return to the onion/the ship and you gotta round them up.

NEW VIDEO FROM PIKMIN 1 LET'S GOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!

I wonder if the puffmin dying to the fire has something to do with them being marked as enemies and pikmin as the same time. Not sure why the fires are still active tho. My other guess is that the geysers are always active and regular pikmin are unaffected by them while off screen but for some reason puffmin are affected by it even offscreen.

My cat was screaming at the EXACT same time yours was at around 24:20, I thought I was having a stroke hearing double for a second 😂 Excellent video as always!

Even more pain than Reds Only.

17:10 @PressA the only thing that makes sense to me is that the geysers are on a global timer while the enemies are not. A global timer would help them stay in sync so it would make sense for them to implement that into the game. This is how it works in Mario Maker 2 with the fire bars :)

Funnily when I first played Pikmin 1 I never encountered Puffmin as Puffstool never did their…well “Puff Smoke attack” attack when I first fought her so it was funny to watch someone else get attacked by them for the First Time

W sample coming in clutch

17:10 Off screen enemies are loaded back in when pikmin are close enough to them. I assume what happened in the previous video is that the fire geysers loaded in and out with perfect timing.

Is the water dumple the only enemy that can be flinged? Maybe the flying blowhog could be flinged towards an area with higher altitude, from where puffmin coukd attack it.

Ah, yes, because Red Only wasn't painful enough...