The Guard Satellite actually did go off in response to the asteroid. Olimar was asleep when he got hit.

I always love to think olimar refuses to leave the planet without the gifts his kids gave him

It's DEFINITELY not Olimar's fault for all the ship crashes, considering that literally almost EVERY person who flies to that planet crash lands. It's highly implied to be something doing it on purpose- nearly every game in the series gives hints at this.

2:16 In fairness, a Geiger Counter will tick a every now and again even when not near a dangerous amount of radiation. So Olimar noting that the thing ticks every once in a while is not necessarily a cause for concern. What's probably a bigger cause for concern is that he seemingly doesn't know what it is or how to use it in general.

one part i must disagree on, as no one else online seems to have noticed either: a pilot's seat is absolutely necessary for leaving the planet. olimar flies, shakily, within lower orbit during the game, but rockets have seats for a reason: withstandsing the g forces without getting knocked around the cockpit and ruining the controls. the jump to faster-than-lightspeed would be lethal if he couldnt buckle himself into the ship, because he would fly out through the glass the very instant he stopped.

I don't agree with the radio, communications are an important part of navigation, you CAN fly without it, but communicating with other ships and control towers makes it safer and easier. I'd say C rank

I saw a comment recently that talked about how the pilot's seat is probably necessary for going at high speeds, like the kind he needs to get home, as it would safely strap him in to a cushion that prevents him from getting flattened by the several Gs of force he would be experiencing. Also, Pikmin 4 reveals that there are multiple versions of both bolts and the gear in the ship, so I choose to believe that these are structural parts that would probably cause the ship to fall apart if they were missing.

Olimar would do amazingly well in the Fallout universe. I ignore my geiger counter in that all the time and if you ignore the upset tummy, glowing blood, spider cancer, 3rd arm, and tinnitus, I'm doing just fine. Banger video 💖

A big thing you're forgetting, these ship parts interact with each other, olimar doesn't have to read the geigar counter information because the ship's systems automatically use it for calculations

I wanna say that the Positron Generator and the Eternal Dynamo are probably both on the ship as a redundancy thing. In case the dynamo goes down, he’s still got a backup to generate electricity. Great vid by the way!

For those wondering, the Main Engine being the first part wasn’t sheer luck. Realistically it would be one of the first parts found since it would be attached right up until the point of impact, where it would pop off.

The Zirconium Rotor does not make spaceship parts. Its made of Zirconium, which does not rust, which is good for spaceships parts.

I think a big thing to consider is if olimar personally values the object enough to go back. In 4 he kinda did just that for the dog. Made him crash again.

I always believed Sparklium was radiation, which may hint at Olimar and other similar planetary explorers are resistant to the harmful effects to extent, considering the piece that tracks radiation is off the charts while on the planet, but still I think there is only so much they can take without the canopy.

love how olimar finds a part that can generate a ton of electricity but his first thought is to use it to microwave food.

5:37 Objection! Olimar would literally be dead without this thing in Pikmin 4! So personally, I would put it in C. Not necessary for the ship to go up, but it did save his life.

In this alternative universe, Olimar does the bare minimum of work and dies Also I think having the cushion and massage machine should be higher. Olimars bones would probably be aching a lot at that point

The zirconium rotor doesn't make space ship parts. The description is explaining that the part ITSELF is made from zirconium and that zirconium is a good material due to its rust-proof properties.

I don't think the constant swaying and shaking of an airborne spacecraft would do well with its structural integrity. The whole dam ship could fall apart! so I reason that the Shock Absorber is probably pretty vital.

I always assumed the secret safe was like his gas money. Not necessary but maybe risky to be without.

5:35 this part is the cause of the pikmin 4 events, which end up saving his life in that timeline, so I would give it a S tier

I think the nova blaster should go in doubt these are important because it can shoot meteors if he has to go off track

I swear Pikmin 1 just never gets old, I can replay this game until the day I die

Guess Olimar needed that pilot's seat after all... In all seriousness, I mostly agree with you, except I would've moved the Extraordinary Bolt up to A because even if it's just a regular bolt with a fancy name, it probably held something important in place. I also would've moved the shock absorber to A, the analog computer to B and the interstellar radio to C. Maybe move the Automatic Gear to A since I doubt that ship has a stick shift.

The gluon drive just lets the ship play la cucaracha when he honks the horn

The Gluon Drive's unknown purpose put it so high on the list... even though the next tier down seems specifically tailored to that sort of ambiguity. My little nitpick aside, good video.

The massage machine is the most important item. Olimar’s back is destroyed and will probably get a cramp while flying.

The two jewel-like gifts naturally make people think they're purely decorative, but remember that a gift is merely something given by someone, and that it's possible for that thing to also have a function. Perhaps his son and daughter helped buy the two parts to build their dad's ship, and the functions of those parts were just not explained.

In my playthrough of Pikmin 1 I found the Gluon Drive funny, because I thought of it as something that Olimar got scammed out of like the Extraordinary Bolt, between the fact it's probably actually glued together (glue-on drive) and the roar that the Dolphin gets on takeoff probably either being from the part being cheaply made or it being a selling point to warrant the piece being expensive

Wait, wouldn’t he need to have the uv lamp to produce vitamin d? Or would his alien nature not require that?

Its realizations like this that make me contemplate even more why this game has only 5 ship parts that aren't required when there are tons of ship parts that realistically wouldn't be required either. Including parts that are seemingly not important for lifting off, parts that should help him avoid the asteroid at the beginning but he didn't use because he was drinking tea (even though he was clearly looking ahead during the opening??), astrological signs of his children that do not affect his ability to lift off, and parts that he literally has no idea how to use or ones that he literally says do NOTHING. Honestly I wished it was more of a % based system where if you were forced to lift off you would have a certain chance to get the normal or bad ending depending on how many required parts you have (with all required parts being 100% chance). But with how the game handles the endings you could have 28/30 ship parts and you'll get the bad ending just because you forgot the Extraordinary Bolt or the Libra/Sagittarius and fail to lift off completely??? Maybe he really would not be able to show his face to his family again once they realize that he brought back his son's sign but not his daughter's. Pikmin 1 is truly a video game.

Having many things that do the same thing is not "Poor ship design." It is actually good ship design. If one of them break then the other can work as a backup until you fix the issue. Real life space ships have these.

I think the Whimsical Radar is important, Olimar would need to find his way home, and since he is in an uncharted planet and probably doesn’t know where he was the exact moment he got hit by the meteorite, he probably wouldn’t know which way to go without the radar

But did you test using several fiery blowhogs to replace the ionium jets? It could help minimize parts

DON’T YOU EVER DISS MY BOI HOCOTATE SHIP EVER AGAIN!!!!

Bro literally can’t launch out of the atmosphere without his seat cushion

Interstellar radio is definitely S tier cus it makes pikmin 4 happen

Finally someone else called Olimar out on his gullibility

To be fair, the safe isn’t important to get out of the planet: But losing all of your life savings, in a world where your yearly salary is under 100 pokos, that’s something you wouldn’t want to lose

The Massage Machine sounds important to me. Back support and spinal care can be everything sometimes.

Yeah it really makes no sense why some of the Parts are necessary to lift off, either Olimar simply cannot bear the fact to replace these, or the Dolphin is overly cautions and refuses to lift off properly without set parts. Who knows...

As a kid, when I collected the Geiger Counter, I was like: “okay cool, got it what ever.” But as a grown adult man who stills plays this game, when I read Olimar’s description on the Geiger Counter now, it’s reacting to radiation ☢️! It’s crazy that Olimar has no idea what radiation is. But then again, he was never hurt by it or affected by it. Pikmin takes place on Earth long after humanity has disappeared or faded away. We don’t understand why humanity is gone, Pikmin 1 is one of my favorite games of all time.

Olimar was making a cup of tea when the meteor hit the ship so he’s not a bad driver

I absolutely love this video. The S.S. Dolphin is my favorite ship in the series and i love seeing all the pieces come together to complete the ship. This is a level of detail i kind of missed in pikmin 4 since the S.S. Dolphin model is no where near as detailed as it was in the first game. And they left out alot of the ship parts. They only really put in the ones that show up externally. Anyways one part i could never wrap my head around as a kid and now is the zirconium rotor. I know olimar says a mechanic installed it and it was expensive but thats it. Like why is it required and what does it do for the ship to have a better chance of escaping the planets atmosphere?

I want to believe that there are forces at play outside of the captains control on the pikmin planet as shown by how 99% of travelers to it get shipwrecked. I find it odd everyone says bad piloting when its said that hes never had this happen until now and suddenly through pikmin 1 2 and 3 and even 4 suddenly everyones a bad pilot? Something on that planet probably related to the waterwraith is causing this through manipulating the forces of fate itself! My running theory (spoilers for pikmin 3.) The Plasm wraith has some strange effect on the atmosphere and is trying to capture people! It never even left after defeating it in pikmin 3, if you notice IT LIVED ON IN THE ENDING TAKEOFF SEQUENCE! It's free to keep doing this!

I did a quick run through of this in my 'in defense of pikmin 2' video but you counted even less pieces than I did! Infact you've convinced me the number might be just 13 lol

I've thought about this concept before but never really looked through and counted before

3:28 According to the manual (I think), he was making tea or something when he hit the rock, so he literally wasn't paying attention to the area in front of his ship. 6:10 This thing doesn't make parts, he's talking about the material it's made out of.

i think you could've included the radio as important i mean, it's kind of part of why Pikmin 4's plot exists

well, the interstelar radio might not be necesary to take off, but is what saved his life in pikmin 4, so idk xd

I believe why most parts are needed is because they change the appearance of the ship. The two gem parts from his children are needed because they attach themselves to the ship. The 5 optional parts aren’t needed because they don’t change the ship’s appearance.

I’d say the interstellar radio, nova blaster, and the Geiger counter are very important as the radio can be used to call for help, the nova blaster can shoot through meteorites, and the Geiger counter may be used to tell how much radiation there is in an area, which is why it sparks and buzzes on PNF-404 because the planet may be radioactive as in Pikmin 2 when Olimar landed on Hocotate, the counter turns off

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My guess is the Eternal Fuel Dynamo generates rocket fuel, not electricity, while the Positron Generator generates actual electricity. So it's like the gas tank and the battery on a car. They're both needed to make the engine run.

I think the Extraordinary screw is absolutely necessary, believe it or not.

I just realized that half of the pieces have basically the same functions

i think that with the positron and eternal fuel dynamo one is meant to be a back up in case the other fails for one reason or another, which can be quite useful if you're regularly going into the abyss of space

The Massage Machine is an easy A-tier. C'mon, Pikmin aren't going to do it.

“For some reason my Geiger counter freaks out every time I come back from making noodles. Wonder why?” -Olimar probably

pretty nifty video! also i didnt know the gravity jumper made a funny noise when you drop it and that made me giggle the first time i saw it

The Extraordinary Bolt is too important to leave behind.

Louie is dead. End of statement

I'd say the Pilot's Seat is a bit more important than people give it credit for. It's not just a cushion, it's the whole seat. Without it, Olimar has to presumably sit on exposed metal parts. That may be fine for flying a couple dozen meters into the air each night, but that's only a short flight, at which point I'm assuming he turns on autopilot to stay in the air so he can sleep. However, flying all the way to Hocotate might take days, during which OIimar needs to pay attention not to fly into any more asteroids. Imagine you had to drive halfway across the country after someone removed the entire driver's seat from your car. What if Olimar encounters any turbulences during his trip? He could be sliding all around his cockpit, holding on to the steering wheel for dear life. I mean, we don't even know if Olimar can buckle up without the seat. Also, he's gonna sit much lower than usual, meaning he might not even be able to see where he's flying very well.

I think the repair type bolt shouldn’t be recquired because the ship is already repairing itself when you bring parts to it so and item that does that seems a bit pointless.

The main engine is REALLY Important. He needs it to fly the ship

Shock absorber should be A tier, you notice how much the ship rattles, and jostles, especially during take off? That's what it's here to prevent, and that's important because it keeps things in place, constant taking is likely to knock things out of place, and most things need to be where they are supposed to be if they are going to work, this is doubly true if the ship is missing a bunch of other pieces, as that leaves a lot of empty space, and slack for pieces to fall into

5:42 when you realize this is the plot of pikmin4

Something tells me he doesn't need the radiation canopy if the geiger counter gose of constantly.

Gonna update this comment as i go but. I think the reason it has 2 generators could possibly be either 1: Different systems use different types of power/have different needs, or 2: Possibly using one as a backup generator incase the opposite one fails.

I can’t imagine going warp speed without the right chair is a good idea but I’ll take your word for it lol

I say you need all 30 pieces. Olimar needs his life savings from the secret bank and to reach that you need the other 29 parts.

The zirconium rotor is never mentioned to have the ability to create parts, the line is "zirconium, which is particularly suited to making spaceship parts" meaning that zirconium, the material, is well suited for being used as the primary material for parts. This rotor does basically nothing, I'd give it C or D

The rock hit his ship because of the wraiths

Olimar: OH NOES I FORGOR MY PILOT SEAT BUT I GOT EVERYTHING ELSE AND NOW MY SHIP CRASHED! (I think he would die from this by massaging his butt from the pain taking his hands off the wheel causing him to crash)

If Olimar’s Secret Safe has his money in it i think he would maybe need it seeing as he has a family to feed

yeah the only reason half this junk is "necessary" is the way the Dolphin will repair itself to a certain degree from mere *number* of parts returned. without getting enough parts to do most of the secondary repairs, he's lifting off with all the parts he has, still being cracked/bent/etc., and the repair devices might be able to fully repair his ship across the span of a several-week trip, but not within the remainder of his 30-day limit, and certainly within the mere *seconds* it takes him to escape the atmosphere.

he needs the libra and sagittarius, his soul is stored inside them

You wouldn't want to travel long distances without a comfortable seat... Never would olimar

Olimar would become broke and homeless without the piggy bank though!!! Also the bowsprit is probably important so Olimar doesn't burn up and disintegrate when he enters Hocotates atmosphere.

Olimar isn't saying that the Zirconium Rotor makes parts, but that Zirconium is a particularly good material to make parts out of. Still probably a vital piece though

that thumbnail is sooo pleasant to look at 😌

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This would work... if the ship parts didn't all enhance the ship with each one installed and helped make it actually air tight, fit for flight, and probably connect a few wires.

i mean, obviously you gotta have that pilot's seat, it's so important that he even put it in a vault just to make sure he wouldn't lose it

Redundancy is important so the dolphin needs 2 energy sources

3:56 Hey!!! Do NOT talk shit about this godlike entity. It is very valuable.

I believe a good number of the parts (gigar counter, analog computer, etc.) that you put in the low tiers are detectors for or pieces of the autopilot that olimar mentions at the beginning of the game. You put most of these in c or d tier but I think anything related to autopilot should be in b at the lowest. You talk about how olimar is asleep at the beginning of the game but forget that his job is basically just a space trucker. And he spends weeks in space at a time.

Awesome video keep it up my dude 🎉

Bro the interstellar radio is f their in pikmin one, but if your talking about pikmin 4, you know it’s gonna. Be a tier. He uses it and the rescue corps comes

Well I Pikmin 4 he does only need 15 parts....

unless he built the hull around those gems in a way it literally can't fly without them, the need for the libra and sagittarius are such sentimental foolishness. the ship doesn't need those parts more than those kids need their daddy.

i'm kind of alright on the safe, if only because hocotatians literally use treasure as a fuel source, thanks to sparklium.

They should make it so that the ending can differ if you have most which catergory. If you are missing: Top: Instant bad ending 2nd Top: Possible bad ending 2nd bottom: Possible normal ending Bottom: Normal ending

Apparently a seat.

2:19 poor olicar

Libra and Sagittarius are A-tier!

Spoilers for Pikmin 4: . . . . . . . And then Olimar's Shipwreck Tale replaces most of these with bolts and gears

then in pikmin 2 they just took away the ships without olimar's consent, all the gifts from his children, and his saving gone with his ships! why they still keep louis after he put them into centuries of debts ?

and then some idiot at Nintendo decided to make Olimar's life support in Pikmin 4 last 15 days instead of 30. What was the point in doing that? it should have been 30!

The massage machine chair is by far the most important part to collect.