Hello, I'm the mod developer and I just wanted to say thank you so much for your video. It's exceptionally well made and I greatly appreciate the analysis. Recently, I updated the mod to include Purple Pikmin although they are heavily nerfed (There's a brief trailer discussing the changes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/grunkrCrvtCbeGg.html ). These pikmin are optional on the installer, and it's still recommended not to choose them on the installer. Regarding the debt repayment, I was unsure whether to repay debt after half of total payment or 100% for the first 3 areas, but the issue with the other option is that you don't get to use the president much and the player has pretty much no choice other than to finish Wistful Wild at the end. But you're absoluetly correct, if the players decide to mix and match between each of the first 3 areas then the debt repayment will happen out of nowhere and potentially waste a day. If it's any better, I'd recommend 100%ing Valley of Repose and Awakening Wood without touching Perplexing Pool since that's exactly 10,000 pokos. With regards to bosses, I really wanted to include more variety than just Snagrets, Long Legs and Bulblax, but a lot of bosses do not work well on the overworld and are built for a specific cave arena (Ranging Bloyster can move around freely and can eat through walls, Man at Legs could gun from almost half way across the map, Emperess Bulblax's children can roam free not to mention her size and rolling, Titan Dweevil has a long attack range and as far as I know is practically impossible to get working on the overworld, Waterwraith can roam free plus needs Purples to kill, Segmented Crawbster can roll all over the place and finally Giant Breadbug's treasure carrying capabilities can potentially cause softlocks). Additionally, there are only so many enemies that the overworld can manage due to memory limitations with most areas in the mod being very full, however, Valley of Repose actually has some memory to spare so I might be able to add a small miniboss to the area where the Rocket Fist is right now (maybe a Mamuta or something). You are very correct though, the mod does feel quite limited on enemy and boss variety. Last note, I was very aware of how broken unlimited White Pikmin are. I did signficantly reduce White Poison damage but it's still not enough. I eventually just settled on the idea that if an inexperienced player wants, they can sacrifice a decent amount white pikmin army to win a boss fight, but they'll have to be happy with repeatedly killing pikmin. Thank you so much for reviewing this mod and for all of the feedback.

I personally love Pikmin 2! it's my favorite Pikmin game but a lot of people understandably think caves ruin the game. That's why the video is titled this way

Now time for someone to fix hey pikmin

I personally love the caves.

ngl i loved the caves

does that mean no more waterwraith? nooooo

I love pikmin 2 man,its my fav

Fixed ? The caves are like the whole game 😭

The only things left are: The Emperor bublax being buffed to actually be a threat, and the chrysanthemum having a good disguise

Watching this makes me wonder if it's feasible to turn cave segments into an Overworld. It wouldn't work for most of them due to the maze-like structure rather than the organized ordered structure, but then there's the occasional Cave layout that's not randomized no matter what.

I’d love a patch or fix to add more bosses and add Purple Pikmin in Candypop buds in the final level or something. Other than that, great video. :)

when asked about the damaged enemy variety, the developer mentioned that the hightened focus in the overworld in terms of treasure amounts and stuff caused problems when it came to the games memory.

Pikmin 2 was my first Pikmin game and I loved it at the time. But after a while, I had the opportunity to play the first Pikmin game, and I was so engaged with the time mechanic, but man I suffered so much to adjust myself to the lack of QOL improvements and unique from Pikmin 2. I am really happy to know about this mod, and really excited to give it a shot

breadbug should've replaced purples with rocks

Pikmin 2 is my favorite!!! This is an awesome mod!!! I think Reducing the amount of caves and making the game both exploring the overworld and the caves

Huh? Dude I would take a whole game that is literally just the caves.

Am i going to blast through 40% in one average day? If so, this would probably not be my cup of tea if not, I'd probably have a good time

Pikmin 2 still has a strategic element but it focuses on the micro instead of the macro. The challenge comes from the enemies being tougher to fight and sometimes having them in inconvenient places or bunched together. The challenge mode is criminally underrated as it has a propper focus on the macro and forces you to not use purple pikmin most of the time. I still dont know why pikmin 2 has become so unpopular in recent years. When it came out, it was the perfect sequel.

Why must we suffer?..

"Fixed" yeah so... Hey, did you know? I loved the cave system? That's why I despised Pikmin 3. Besides that crap time limit they re added back.

hmm you have me interested to playing Pikmin 2 but with no caves I'll try it out

⁷i like all aspect of pikmin . In pikmin 2 are more like combat orientaded with caves tbe problem is they get too long=tediuos and just rehused all ovrr the place

I haven't even bought and played Pikmin 2 for Nintendo GameCube, yet.

ITS BUGABREAD GET IT RIGHT please

classic bowborb banger

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Gonna be honest, it’s a pretty lame mod, you cut out the biggest part of the game and replaced it with nothing. Pretty disappointed