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Stranded on a distant planet with only a small hope for survival...

Pikmin was Emile's 12th LP. This LP has 18 videos and has a total length of 4 hours, 33 minutes, and 39 seconds. It was released in tandem with Super Luigi Galaxy, but fans seemed to prefer it between the two. It was released from August to October 2010. The LP remains one of Emile's most memorable, and introduced the character of Steve, who was frequently featured and alluded to in the LP.

The game's story focuses on an alien pilot, Captain Olimar, who crash lands on a mysterious planet and must make use of a native species called "Pikmin" to find his ship's missing parts in order to escape within 30 days. Players take control of Olimar and in directing the different varieties of Pikmin to exploring the game's various levels, overcoming obstacles and hostile creatures, in order to find and recover the missing ship parts.

Plot

An exhausted pilot Captain Olimar, who is seeking rest from his everyday labor as a worker for Hocotate Freight, flies his spacecraft, the S.S. Dolphin, into outer space as an interstellar vacation. Suddenly, a meteor hurdles toward his direction and hits the Dolphin, resulting in the ship plummeting toward an Earth-like planet. During the fall, the Dolphin ignites, and its parts are released from the hull and scattered across the planet.

The next morning, Olimar regains consciousness on The Impact Site and turns around to find the hull of the Dolphin badly damaged, and lacking all of its parts. He notes that the oxygen on the planet, a harmful chemical element that inhabits it, is deadly to his body, and that his life-support systems can only function for 30 days. Upon realizing this, he decides to locate the missing parts of the Dolphin, hoping he can rebuild his ship and return to his home planet of Hocotate.

After exploring a bit, Olimar finds a dormant Onion. Upon approaching it, it springs to life, and out comes a seed. Upon plucking it and experimenting with the creature by throwing it, dismissing it, etc., he learns about the Pikmin and their abilities. With the help of the Red Pikmin he raises, Olimar recovers the Main Engine, which allows him to at least hover above the surface during the night, which he later learns is too dangerous.

Olimar and the Pikmin then discover a new area, The Forest of Hope and the Onion within: the Yellow Pikmin's Onion. In addition, he gradually learns more about the various enemies and quirks of the planet, and how to use each Pikmin type's abilities to their full potential. As he gathers more parts, he eventually manages to discover The Forest Navel, the Blue Pikmin, The Distant Spring, and The Final Trial. After defeating the Emperor Bulblax and recovering the final ship part, Olimar sails back to Hocotate.

Endings

There are three possible ways for Olimar's adventure to end, which depend on the ship parts the player can gather before the days run out.

The canon ending is the best one; this is when all thirty ship parts are recovered within the thirty day time limit. After the Secret Safe is gathered, the camera zooms into the Dolphin and Captain Olimar jumps with joy. Then the scene darkens, becoming night, Olimar walks to his ship and stops to look at the Pikmin one last time. The Pikmin tilt their heads in curiosity. Olimar gives the Pikmin a short wave good-bye, to which the Pikmin tilt their heads in the opposite direction. With a sigh, Olimar looks down and shakes his head. He then boards the Dolphin and lifts off successfully, and the Pikmin attack a nearby Spotty Bulborb on their own. Next, the ship is seen flying away, with Onions of many, unseen colors following him. After the credits, the enemy reel is shown.

The average ending is when the time runs out, but Olimar manages to escape with the ship parts he collected. Out of the 30 parts, only 25 specific ones are necessary for the captain to return to Hocotate. The five optional parts are the Nova Blaster, the Space Float, the Massage Machine, the UV Lamp and the Secret Safe. With this ending, at the night of the final day, Captain Olimar walks towards the Dolphin and takes a quick glance back before entering the cockpit of his ship and attempting to blast off. He successfully flies off while three Pikmin (one red, one yellow, and one blue) look up into the sky with curiosity.

The bad ending takes place when Olimar does not manage to retrieve the 25 mandatory parts. On his last day, he realizes that time is up and attempts to lift off. Immediately after taking off, the engine explodes and his ship crashes back onto the planet. The Pikmin carry his unconscious body to an Onion, making Olimar pop out as a Pikmin-like creature, having his normal head, but the sprout of a Pikmin with a black stem, and without his spacesuit helmet.

It is known that the best ending is the canon one, seeing as in Pikmin 2, Olimar has brought a souvenir home for his son, and the best ending is the only one where he would have time to pick one up. In addition, it's revealed that Olimar's wife eventually finds the Secret Safe during his absence, and that ship part can only be retrieved after all other 29 were. Naturally, the worst ending is not canon, as Olimar is known to return safely to Hocotate at the start of the second game.

Episodes

Day Log

Day 1

After crash landing on a distant planet, Olimar finds his ship destroyed with 30 parts missing! So then he starts looking about his surroundings, when he finds a strange object that resembled an "onion" to him. Olimar was too curious, so he approached the onion when all the sudden the onion jumped up and sprouted a seed. Olimar didn't know what this "thing" was, so he pulled the seed and a Red Pikmin pops out looking a tad confused. The Pikmin appeared to enjoy carrying things to and fro from base, so Olimar had thought about keeping it, not as a pet, but as a helping tool to help obtain the ship parts. So he sprouted some more Pikmin and recovered the first ship part of the game. Can they get all 30?

Day 2

Olimar and the Pikmin find a new area called "The Forest Of Hope," filled with life forms. They have much hassle trying to kill off the new enemy, the Spotty Bulborbs. After the battle Olimar is very annoyed to find he is one Pikmin away from getting the ship part. Later in the day, Olimar and Steve find the new Yellow Pikmin, named Bob. Olimar will later recall Bob as the most useless Pikmin.

Day 3

Olimar gets three more ship parts in The Forest of Hope.

Day 4

The Pikmin and Olimar go to a new world called "The Forest Navel," where Olimar finds a new type of Pikmin that seems to be immune to drowning.

Day 5

Olimar and the Pikmin go back to The Impact Site to get one more ship part. After that, they attempt to sprout as many Pikmin as possible.

Day 6

Rather than going to The Forest of Hope, Olimar goes to The Forest Navel one more time.

Day 7

Everyone goes back to The Forest of Hope to get the last three ship parts that they couldn't get before.

Day 8

Steve proves himself worthy of Olimar by risking his life, trying to carry back a Fiery Blowhog. This episode had more deaths than any other episode.

Day 9

Olimar collects the last ship part of the Forest Navel.

Day 10

Olimar goes to a new area (The Distant Spring) and tries to fight off his worst nightmare, Yellow Wollywogs. After a day of lost battles, Olimar tries to build a bridge leading to base. When the clock hit "0," none of the 98 Pikmin working on the bridge appeared. Olimar was furious. He then noticed that all but two must have crawled in at the last second.

Day 11

Olimar and the Pikmin come back to the Distant Spring and obtain a few more ship parts.

Day 12

Fights the Armored Cannon Beetle.

Day 13

Gets the last ship parts in the Distant Spring..

Day Days 14, 15, and 16

Olimar attempts to fight all the unnecessary bosses, such as the Smoky Progg.

Day 17 (Finale)

Olimar has only one more part, guarded by the final boss, Emperor Bulblax. Olimar has a plan to make the Yellow Pikmin useful at the final battle by luring the boss, like bait. After three deaths, Olimar finally gets the final ship part, and returns home.

Memorable Moments

  • Episode 1:
    • "He [Olimar] is compelled to approach and press "A"! Because that is what video game protagonists do, they approach things and press "A"!"
    • Chugga contemplates whether Pikmin get sexual pleasure out of carrying objects.
    • After pushing the first cardboard box Chugga proclaims that with the the power of teamwork they have destroyed Man’s mortal enemy CARDBOARD!
    • Chugga tries to get the ship’s engine back with the power of SLAVERY only to find that he doesn’t have enough Pikmin.
  • Episode 2:
    • Chugga tries to fend off a Spotty Bulborb by screaming "Go Away!" at it. It works.
  • Episode 3:
    • He shows a cut he made where a group of sheargrubs set off a chain reaction of bomb rocks, killing most of his yellow Pikmin.
  • Episode 5:
    • Chugga spends the last few seconds of the day trying to punch a bomb-rock, then killing several pellet posies using Olimar's punch. Chugga: "Hah! I killed two more! Just try to stop m- *day ends* -aw dang it, it stopped me.
  • Episode 6:
    • "... So B.R- GET UP!!" The way he says is just makes it even funnier.
    • Chugga dismisses a group of yellow Pikmin next to a propped-up branch. The Pikmin proceed to climb the branch and drop themselves into a pool of water. Later on, they do it again. Chugga: *angrily grunting* PIKMIN AI!!!
    • After leaving the Red Pikmin to fight some Fiery Blowhogs (who can't hurt them), Chugga comes back to find one Red idly laying around, being shot at by a blowhog. Chugga: Wow, a red's just laying there while it blows fire at him like "Would you just die! God!"
  • Episode 8:
    • Chugga has a group of yellows carry the recently-collected Libra towards his ship and walks off to do something else. Seconds later, he remembers that he already did that something else, then comes back to find about two-thirds of his yellow Pikmin on fire (he completely forgot about the fire geysers). Cue Oh, Crap! reaction and frantic whistling.
    • Chugga finding Steve proving his worth.
  • Episode 10:
    • Him thinking he had lost 98 blue Pikmin. Even better was the nonchalant "Oh." that followed.
  • Episode 14:
    • "You just gotta squash his brain, squash his brain...that sounds like a really bad rap song..."
  • Finale:
    • After getting the Secret Safe, when Olimar mentions having no regrets, Chuggaaconroy is like "No regrets! Right..." (cue flashback of every battle where he lost a few/a lot of Pikmin, including a cut where a shearwig caused an explosion that killed his whole battalion) "...right! No regrets at all!"
    • His speech to the yellow Pikmin telling them to all commit suicide with the bomb rocks so they can have their souls teleported to an intergalactic-traveling spaceship.

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