Pikmin 2 was Emile's 15th LP. The playlists consists of 52 videos and is 13 hours, 50 minutes, and 51 seconds long. This LP was played alongside Luigi's Mansion. In addition to the main LP, Emile also did two bonus episodes featuring him playing Challenge Mode and 2-Player Battle with Stephen Georg (StephenPlays/StephenVlog).
The game takes place directly after the events of Pikmin, and sees Captain Olimar returning to the planet of the Pikmin with Louie to collect treasure to pay off a large debt. Elements new to the series include a 2-Player Battle mode, underground caves, and three new types of Pikmin (Purple Pikmin, White Pikmin, and Bulbmin).
Here's the problem: We were in Threed with only two people! Now that we've addressed this glaring flaw in our strategy, we set out to rid the city of zombies!
This world has many odds and ends that just didn't fit in anywhere else, then just as many unsolved mysteries at that! Let's talk about them!
Quotes/Moments
In general:
Whenever he does an impersonation of the President.
Chugga's catchphrase in this LP being "YOU SUCK GAME!"
Whenever a boss drops a special treasure, the cutscene upon discovering it will cause the boss's corpse to disappear. As Chugga will often have his pikmin already swarming and carrying the boss's body, this leads to a quite a few unintentionally funny moments where the pikmin look like they're holding hands and dancing in place instead. Pikmin world peace!
Episode 2:
His opening: Hey everybody it's Chuggaconroy, and welcome back to more Pikmin 2! In the last episode we returned to our home planet only to be told that our company went bankrupt and they sold our ship without our permission to pay off their own debt. While telling us we must go back to working full-time immediately before even spending time with our own family whom we never thought we'd see again, because we spent last month marooned on a distant planet with only 30 days worth of breathable air, and had to go back to this forsaken planet to do our job for god knows how long. It's just like America!
Episode 13:
While exploring the Bulblax Kingdom, he starts moving treasure after killing all the enemies on that floor but hears a Pikmin die. He asks "...What was that? What was tha-", turns around, and then screams "WOLLYWOG!!!" at the top of his lungs.
Episode 14:
While in the Bulblax Kingdom, he frequently encounters orange Bulborbs (which he hates) and at one point, getting Jump Scared by a Wollywog trap. The true moment of funny came on the sixth sublevel, when a Fiery Dweevil picked up a dead orange Bulborb and carried it around. Chugga cracked up and started speaking in a high-pitched mocking voice, the way he imagined the Dweevil would. "I have no idea why I used that voice for a Dweevil impersonating a Bulborb, but okay..."
Episode 16:
While in the Snagret Hole, Chugga fights an Armored Cannon Larva and an Orange Bulborb right beside each other. Then an Armored Cannon Larva trap activates. Only the larva remains FLOATING in the air because of it landing on the Orange Bulborb corpse. Hilarity Ensued.
Chugga comes across a treasure behind a poison generator. As he starts destroying it, a Burrowing Snagret appears and attacks, forcing him to stop and fight it. After he finally defeats it and recovers from the shock, he starts on the poison generator again...only to find another Burrowing Snagret. It's especially funny because he completely failed to notice that the boss theme was still playing when he continued working on the poison generator. "OH YOU SUCK, GAME!"
Episode 17:
His reaction to a single red leaf pikmin dying from NOTHING and attempting to explain it.
Episode 20:
After a prolonged period of trouble with some Swooping and Bumbling Snitchbugs, one swoops down picking up both Captains at the same time. "WOULD YOU STOP DOING THAT!"
Episode 22:
He promises us that he will do the Submerged Castle next, DANG IT! Chuggaaconroy: That was me smashing my controller. Sorry controller...*Beat*...My mouth was on it like kissing it! I like Nintendo, but not THAT much.
Episode 25:
He admits it's pathetic that he lost more Pikmin to the Giant Breadbug than any other boss.
Episode 26:
Chugga, in the Submerged Castle at this point, completely flips out when the Water Wraith appears. One second after he says that he hasn't triggered it. Cue...: "I JUST HAD TO OPEN MY MOUTH!!! I JUST HAD TO SAY IT!!! AS SOON!!! AS I FINISH SAYING IT!!! YOU!!! SUCK!!! YOU!!! SUCK!!! GAME!!!"
When he's trying to carry back a treasure while avoiding the Waterwraith: Chugga: Uh, where is he... *Waterwraith suddenly sneaks up behind him and starts killing Pikmin* Chugga: ...OH MY GOD NO!
Quite possibly the funniest moment was when he scares away the Waterwraith with just his SCREAMING. Chugga: *groaning excessively due to being incredibly fed up* *And then… SURPRISE!!!* Chugga: WHOAAAAA NOOOOOO!!! HOOHOO! OH MY GOD, HOW DID I HAVE NO DEATHS?! Oh my god!!
Episode 27:
Chugga constantly being interrupted while doing his usual intro.
Chugga takes a moment to look away at some stuff, and while he's not looking, a Volatile Dweevil creeps up on him and self-destructs, taking out all but 22 of his 84 Pikmin. He looked back to his screen just in time to yell in shock and spent the next two minutes making squeaks and speaking in a very high voice. Chugga: *about 2 octaves higher than normal* "If you're wondering what happened to my voice... I think the shock of that... made me undergo... instantaneous sex-change surgery… from internally!"
Regarding a treasure called "Pale Passion": "You know what? That'd be a really good name for like a really nerdy romantic comedy."
Episode 29:
During an outtake; Chugga's still getting his Pikmin ready for the day, when the roaming Gatling Groink finds its way to base camp and takes out quite a few Pikmin before he even has time to react to it.
Episode 30:
Chugga failing to notice a rock trap's shadow (despite normally fleeing if he sees one) and losing twelve Pikmin. Chugga: OH NO!!!
Episode 33:
The end of the Cavern of Chaos, where he collects the treasure dropped by the Segmented Crawbster. The boss' corpse hides it, and at first, all he sees of it is a smooth, white, rounded surface. So, he goes around to the other side to check: "BLUH!" *audible alarm*
Episode 34:
Chugga says that the game should try to be a little nicer to him and tells the game to not drop a bomb rock on him if it agrees. Which it precedes to do about half a second later.
Episode 36:
He comes across a Munge Dweevil carting around a dead Fiery Dweevil, and after loudly shouting "NECROPHILIA" due to the way the alive Dweevil was holding its dead comrade, it walks straight off the edge and kills itself.
It gets even better when, on the next floor, a Gatling Groink ends up killing itself in the same way, much to Chugga's delight. "I have never been so happy about suicide in all my life! That was a great sentence, there."
Episode 37:
When he (as Olimar) goes to sleep and comments on how the countdown numbers cover Olimar's body: "I'm gonna lay down in the middle of the O (10)! Ah, dang it, the O moved. Oh cool, my face is in the 9! The 8 is crossing me out so now I'm an X! My nose is lucky (7). Middle of the 6! 5, you suck. 4, you're holding me up. 3, you're crossing me out. 2's making me look all squishy. I am 1 captain! I work for no (0) man! Except my boss. Who is right beside me."
Episode 49:
Chugga is once again surprised by a Wollywog Jump Scare. The noise he makes is indescribable.
Finale:
When the final boss battle begins to drag on a tad too long for his tastes, he begins making short Jump Cuts to what he hopes is the final barrage before the next phase... only for each successive barrage to fall a biiiiiit short. Resulting in a lot of "RRAAAAAAAA—*deflated sigh*".
Co-Op with StephenPlays:
Stephen has never played Pikmin 2 and only played the first Pikmin years ago. Hilarity Ensues. Bonus points for Stephen forgetting which kind of Pikmin does what.
Stephen's freakout with two Waterwraiths!
When they defeat an Empress Bulblax, Stephen claims that he defeated her by crawling inside her from behind and exploded her from within (he didn't, obviously). Chugga is quick to point out that she fights by giving birth. Chugga: You went in through her vag!?
Trivia
Emile stated in episode 48 that after this particular Let's Play, he actually started to like the game less than usual due to the fact that of the randomized dungeons having sometimes impossible layouts, the difficulty being easy to really hard, and the enemies and bosses of Pikmin 2 having low difficulty.
Emile didn't reference Steve due to feeling that the joke was overrated (for example: Jon annoying him with Steve in random videos of The Runaway Guys).
Emile managed to prevent a pikmin from getting hit with a water projectile until the final battle, so you could say he's a good protector of them.