Credits to Pikipedia and The Cutting Room Floor for providing most of this information!

As an American, I can confirm that the best way to describe how YooHoo tastes is “Chocolate juice”

"Inedible; tastes like chicken" to me always came off as Louie's various affronts to all things godly and good by attempting to eat something he knows as an objective fact cannot be eaten, and between trying to destroy the natural order; realized it tasted like chicken.

In the German version Louie says that the Mamuta "tastes like it was already eaten once before"

The cog being a “model employee” in japan is just soo perfect and hilarious😂

I didn't realize that it was ACTUALLY intended to be a weed leaf... I thought it was a normal leaf that happened to look like a weed plant, and everyone said it was as a joke. Based on the japanese name and the treasure hoard, seems I was incorrect in my assumption.

olimar has canonically hit a blunt

"Lesser Green Fart Death" I'd hate to see what the _Greater_ Green Fart Death is like

The french name for perplexing spring is a pun on a french expression, sailing on troubled waters, meaning "to go forward without knowing where it will lead you"

13:16 My theory is that the Koppaites are descended from the Hocotatians, or vice versa. My guess is that it all used to be a single race that colonized several planets, and as a result, they began to evolve into separate species that are still similar but have slightly different dietary preferences. It would explain why Koppaites are relatively similar to Hocotatians despite being from a different planet.

This feels like a video from 2012 that was uploaded in 2023.

I watched this with no idea what a PIKMIN game was about. Safe to say I’m now obsessed Update: I got PIKMIN 4, I do not regret my description

There's a couple of other changes here too: The Japanese version includes an option to enable or disable katakana and hiragana above some kanji text (thus making it easier for Japanese children to read properly). Also on the map screen, it normally shows the location name and the caves in that area, for Above Ground though, since the text is short in Japanese they also included bubbles to fill the gap. The file select also has the buttons in bubbles too in the Japanese version, but not in other versions. In fact, US and Japanese GameCube versions also have an option to choose Progressive Scan mode (if the game detects the expensive component cables or if played on a Wii via HDMI with a converter), but European GameCube versions don't have this and instead have an option to choose between 50HZ and 60HZ. These latter changes are mostly common though, along with the Nintendo logo color.

Great video! But I'd just like to point out that アメボウズ ( amebouzu, the water wraith) technically does mean candy-bald, but it's most commonly seen as a combination of the Japanese words for amoeba ( アメーバ) and the Japanese yokai umibozu. (海坊主, literally sea-preist). As another commenter pointed out, ame can also mean rain (雨) instead of candy (飴). And bouzu (坊主) can mean baldness/crew cut, but usually refers to a buddhist priest. It is also sometimes used in fishing to refer to not catching anything.

As a Spanish bilingual watcher. The man-At-Legs name being "Arañator" in Spanish is the funniest shit I have ever seen and I hope it stays in Pikmin 4.

I find it crazy how many of the Pal brands are specifically german companies. Great video! This is very well made and I hope this gets the views it deserves!

About the Wollywog, it's name is also one letter away from being the exact same as an extremely popular character in the UK and Australia that many consider very racist, the Gollywog. It's based off of a blackface design and even to this day it's still popular and you can still find him. He was never copyrighted properly so throughout history people kept taking the character and using him for their own toys and merch. It is still heavily debated if the character is a racist symbol or not.

For anyone curious, the ICC of the Permanent Container seems to be a brand name of tinned Mackerel Pike. Based of free translation of the texture.

Final Level is a good change. It means the same thing as "floor", as in levels of a building. It also leans into the fact its a videogame, and "final level" has connotations of the hardest challenge in a videogame.

4:28 "Galette" doesn't really mean pancake, it's more like a biscuit, cookie or something pancake-shaped. I do appreciate the inclusion of the QC flag when mentionning french canadian changes, that's cool :)

I owned the Pal versions of the games, and I always wondered how the developers got away with calling the frog and tadpole creatures, Wollywogs and Wogpoles. As even I was aware of the racial slur in England, as the company "Robbinsons", who made breakfast/ sandwich jams used the Gollywog black face character as their mascot, all the way up until the year 2000, before they changed their mascot to "Paddingon Bear". A much fitting mascot, since he loved Marmalade sandwiches.

FYI, Polliwog is another name for tadpole. Hence why it's called the frog enemy in Pikmin is called the Wollywog. I don't know how true the slur thing is, but I don't think it was what the name was actually intended to be.

Thank you for documenting this, as i'm not a fan of digging through The Cutting Room Floor, etc for information like this. I also had no idea that the Silencer's Poko Value was 666, absolutely beautiful. I also think the Wistful Wild's audio being messed up, may be due to how weirdly Pikmin 2 processes music. I watched a video on it a long time ago. I can't be sure though, as I don't fully remember. This game truly does have alot of regional and cultural differences with its treasures, and text-strings though, truly interesting though! Thank you for compiling it all!

Apparently the switch version replaced a number of the textures on the licensed objects, which makes sense because the licenses probably ran out years ago

Great video! I kinda hope to see Pikmin 4 bring back brand names like Pikmin 2 did because it was a lot of fun recognizing certain items that we know in the real world!

I really hope pikmin 4 has branded treasures, it added a lot of charm to pikmin 2.

That weed joke is something that would go over kids heads. But Adults can get a chuckle out of it.

Tbh, I prefer the Hocotate Ship to be called just that over Dolphin 1 or the like, because it’s ironically less confusing, and it’s easier to tell the ships apart that way And it’s kinda misleading that the Hocotate Ship is called “Dolphin 1”, because well, we were first introduced the SS Dolphin in Pikmin 1, while the Hocotate Ship comes from Pikmin 2, and it’s seemingly more technologically advance with how it’s practically sentient and can send its head for underground exploration, and that one's more notoriously owned by Hocotate Freights because of how the President is much more fond of it and how much it promotes the company itself, it literally screams Hocotate Freight and often kisses the President's feet, while "S. S. Dolphin" also sounds like a nickname Olimar gave to his beloved ship from the first game, that he also desperately wants back after the president sold it to pay some of the company's debt, he made that ship his own, and even some parts are only important to collect because they have sentimental value to Olimar, as they were presents from his children Sooo it’s not surprising localization teams thought Dolphin 1 was the SS Dolphin instead of the other one xd It’s kind of like what happens in Street Fighter with Vega, M. Bison, and Balrog, the international order just make much more sense for the characters than the original one

Local French man reporting for duty, I can confirm that "Source Troublante" in fact DOES mean "Perplexing Spring" instead of "Disturbing Spring", however both are valid translations of Perplexing in French

The "no intelligent life" could potentially be saying olimar believes the other species out there aren't as smart as his species are. He'd probably think space pirates are pretty stupid.

Maybe Koppaites, space pirates, and the customers of Hocotate Freight are actually ethnicities descended from the same spacefaring species that colonized the galaxy

Damn this is a very good video. You are clearly well informed, and your translation work is amazing. Keep up the good work!!

BRO CANONICALLY SMOKED WEED WHAT!?

Very quality content, you deserve way more subs! Also you really do sound like early chuggaaconroy mixed with a modern one. You definitely earned my sub.

It’s worth noting that “ame (アメ)” can also mean rain depending on the pronunciation. Seeing how the water wraith has water in its name, I feel like this is more appropriate than “candy”

16:30 that’s actually pretty clever. Honey never goes bad so it’d still be good long after the apocalypse.

i heard the sound of the ship talking and got flashbacks to hotel luigi, great vid so far

Shigeru Miyamoto, famous creator of The Legend of Zelda and nothing else.

The “weed leaf” resembles a cannabis leaf, but I think what it actually is is a green Japanese maple leaf (Acer palmatum). A lot of Japanese would probably recognize it, but to North Americans many of us would see it as a weed leaf.

Ok, the globe rotating for the versions is a cute touch!

Your pronunciation of "repugnant" truly represents the meaning of the word.

This was super fascinating! I had no idea there were so many regional differences 😂 Congrats on such a successful video! It is clear that so much work went into this, and your channel is bound to blow up!!

Clicked on this from my recommended expecting some big youtuber with 500k+ subscribers. Keep up the good work, you have a great energy to your videos and I can see you getting huge one day!

I love the idea of the Japanese devs looking at the Jellyfloat and just saying... "Pussy?" "Yeah... Pussy..."

Olimar smiling is cursed

When I was young and looking up walkthroughs for this game, I followed a guy playing the US localisation, and would freak out when I saw that there was a different name/look for some of the treasures, the first one I noticed was the Pschitt bottlecap in place of the Carmex tub, I panicked and thought I couldn't complete the game because it wasn't the exact same💀💀💀 I learned a lot with this video, thanks for making and sharing🖤🖤

Fun fact: my first time playing pikmin 2 was with the Japanese GameCube version because it was actually cheaper to get a Japanese copy of the game, an action replay for GameCube, and a new memory card rather than I get a single American copy and I still had a blast playing the game in a language I couldn’t understand (although technically it’s cheating because I grew up watching chuggaconroys play through ever since I was like 6)

This entire video gives me such Cuggaconroy vibes and I’m 100% here for it

I NEVER noticed that creepy bulborb behind the pikmins in the PAL box art and now I can't unsee it Edit: Now that I hit play again on the video I realized that I must have only seen the box art from Canada

Love how strict and family friendly Nintendo can be but here's Olimar wanting to roll a blunt lmao.

bro I missed that 2012 mic quality and unshakeable enthusiasm

The YooHoo chocolate milk bottle cap gave me nostalgia, I used to drink that shit all the time when I was younger.

22:10 I am German and Blatt-o-Kopter has always been my favorite treasure name xD 22:54 and Katzi Tatzi as well, of course! Certified classic of cuteness!

Is nobody gonna talk about how cursed Olimar and Louie look on the thumbnail?

2:18 You can still see the bulborp, but since the boldness of color is higher, it's less noticeable. You really gotta look hard to see it.

I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned it yet, but at 29:32, the translation isn’t particularly wrong, but probably not the most common way of reading it. アメ(ame) means both candy 「飴」 and rain 「雨」. In this case, it’s probably rain. For ボウズ (bouzu), that’s a little more complicated. It means bald or shaved head 「坊主」 and also sometimes Buddhist monk 「坊主」which use the same kanji. This is probably where the ‘wraith’ comes from in English. Both include the kanji 主, which is maybe where wraith comes from? Either way, the main point is that アメ probably refers to rain.

I have seen that PAL box art so many time browsing forums about the game I was enamored with it and yet I never saw the Bulborb in the background of it until just now.

“It’s not a lid with a m, but a w for wombo- I mean Wilson” 14:58

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So happy someone would cover the regional differences.

I'm with you I don't like hoko-tat-tay I like hockotate because "hockotate freight" just rolls of the tounge better anyway lol

I cannot get over the fact that there's literal weed in pikmin

2:08 that's odd, for the Wii rerelease for Pikmin 2 up here in Canada, they stuck with the US design. Not complaining, I love that design.

I wonder how Nintendo got the rights to have so many product placements in Pikmin 2 omg...

What a lovely video! I actually found this really delightful, a nice compilation of all the little tidbits and regional differences in all the Pikmin 2 releases. I learned a lot of stuff I wouldn't have known about otherwise! ⭐

Thanks for covering this! I've been waiting for a while to see a compiled list of these

There's probably some kid out there who looked up how to get certain treasures and was confused as to why they couldn't get them

French guy here - at 6:10, "La source troublante" is actually a play on words. "troublante" means "disturbing", but also "cloudy" (while talking about water). Which makes sense for the region :')

I feel like Amebōzu is supposed to be based off of the Umibōzu, a Japanese yokai said to appear to sailors before calm seas turn harsh. So in this case, Ame is prooobably supposed to mean rain (雨) and not candy (飴), both being pronounced as Ame.

i've played pikmin 2 for the first time around 12 years ago and i've never noticed the bulborb on the PAL box case

This is really well edited. This guy deserves more subs tbh

6:10 Well, the translation is very much correct here. "Troublant" means "disturbing", but also "To perplex". Also, that's a play on words with the idiom: "Naviguer en eaux troubles" (having no idea where you are going). Basically, the translator saw that the skybox was foggy, decided that it was "Trouble" (which means foggy or cloudy here) and thought: "Yeah, I'm going to call it La Source Troublante."

0:37 Didn't expect to see Tomodachi life referenced in a pikmin video but I'm here for it because that game is so incredibly based Manifesting it on switch!

Had to stop 4 minutes in to say, this is already a very well done video. Feels like classic youtube.

Everybody's playing Tears of the Kingdom, and I'm sat here just hyped AF for Pikmin 4.

I dont know where all these new channels are coming from, but hey i aint complaining, good vid 👌

It's kind of insane how many different advertisements are in this game

The Permanent Container is a tin of grilled fish. source: i'm a weeb and can read hiragana. idk what the kanji says but it's likely related to the specific kind of fish or preparation. Under ICC (it's actually the brand, still couldn't find anything on it though) it says 'sanma', which is pike/mackeral/saury apparently. i don't know any more than that but i am shocked that there is NOTHING on this treasure. almost makes me wanna go painstakingly translate all the treasures with japanese text on them... haha, almost. also, waterwraith's JP name is "amebouzu" - this is a reference to the umibozu, a sea yokai that appears as a giant humanoid that tries to capture or kill the captains of ships as they're on voyages. in this context, 'ame' is definitely meant to be 'rain'. it can mean candy, but the kanji is different - since it was in katakana, though, there's no way to tell the difference, so the translator just picked one and spat that out lol.

So cool! You did your research for sure, this was a treat

I love the fact that the Japanese name for the brute knuckles is Iron Man's Fist. And where you find it is named Iron Man's Hole.

I refuse to believe hocotate is pronounced in a way that doesn't make it rhyme with freight...

You, Sir are a treasure beyond measure. I’ll allow others to translate this to their own commercial/preferred version.

4:39 As a kid, I always called it "Sphere". I don't know why.

You... You've never had a Yoo-Hoo? Well, uh, its like if you had a pint of whole milk, and two chocolate pudding cups, and you mix them together, then somehow get it shelf stable and let it reach room temperature. Pretty much that. It's okay, I prefer just making some Nesquik choccy milk myself. Yoo-Hoo slurps better though.

I love regional differences so much, i dont know why but theyre so fascinating to me, i love this video so much, automatically one of my favorites

Everytime he says “thum” instead of them, my soul dies a little bit.

Im very glad these things are documented. Thanks for making it easy to comprehend!

With all this product placement, I feel disappointed Pikmin 4 doesn’t have a “PRIME HYDRATION Bottle” treasure called “Beam to Hoarders”

When suggesting that hocotatians haven't found any other intelligent life despite the existance of koppaites and space pirates, my theory is that hocotatians and koppaites are from the same species, and are named differently depending on their planet of origin (just like real life nations, I am mexican and you are american despite both being human). Maybe this species inhabits multiple planets, thus creating the need for a space shipping company. At least that's my head canon

for a second i was confused how orima is mario flipped but then figured in japanese each letter is like MA RI O so the backwards actually is O RI MA

Man I was thinking about watching this video and KZfaq recommended it to me, also I can’t believe that the regional differences extend to the content of the game box, they give you cards in the Japanese release for the japan exclusive E-Reader mode

Even though theyre both beautiful, I really wish they went for a clay aesthetic with Pikmin 3 and 4

"To the French, the tortured artist series is... The Artist Series." This sounds very "To the joker, crazy bread is just normal bread"

First Played this game 15 years ago and I’m just now learning that there’s more treasures. Great video

you got me youtube. after shoving this video and this cursed thumbnail into my reccomended for weeks, ill watch it.

Great video surprised your channel is this small 100% deserves to have more subs

Haha I really liked thay you added some of the monster's spanish names. Normally, in spanish, we add the term tor to some name to refer to a monster/machine. For this reason araña-tor sounds scary, some examples like this can be robotneitor, terreneitor, etc.

finally someone who pronounces hocotate how i do

I love this thumbnail, Louie’s so pissed cuz Olimar stole his weed

Very concise video, I love it! Pikmin 2 was a huge deal to me as a kid, and inspired my interest in xenobiology. I'm in Europe so I got the PAL version. I always wondered how they managed to get so many brand deals. Would it even be considered brand deals? It did make me want a jar of Skippy peanut butter...