Pikmin - Emperor Bulblax
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Pikmin - Emperor Bulblax
Day 1 - found the poundy pistony thing
Day 2 - batteries for me
Day 3 - found the radar
Day 4 - bolting away fast enough to shatter stars
Day 5 - the mysterious floaty tube mystery
Day 6 - the spinning gears of time
Day 7 - a decorative slice of mushroom makes my ship feel better
Days 8 - analogue computer day
Day 9 - springtime of youth
Day 10 - clam emoji
Day 11 - misinterpreting walls and feeding the blues
Day 12 - gem and violence
Day 13 - beeps and screams
Day 14 - a day of bloodshed
Day 15 - leave nothing but bodies behind
Day 16 - when you wake up a hundred times
Day 17 - empty and hollow
Day 18 - it's the olimar beach episode!!
Day 19 - destruction of a wall and of a life
Day 20 - olimar doesn't look yummy enough I guess
Day 21 - drowning around a puzzle
Day 22 - three pieces for a rocket ship
Day 23 - a nightmare kind of day
Day 24 - final day - and this little piggy went home
pikmin is nintendo's answer to the RTS genre. launch title for the gamecube, it's really good and has amazing character design, and the entire series is a cult classic and has the respect of both casual audiences and technical players alike. this is the first game, and it's fairly janky, but this won't stop us from enjoying it regardless! Behold, The Carrots™!
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on an unrelated note, olimar's model looks grimy as shit here, ew
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for two tho: welcome to Piked Min 1! we're admittedly much more knowledgable on 2 (it's only One Of Our Favorite Games Of All Time) and 3, but for pikmin 1, we'll do our best in terms of infodumping.
it's honestly fairly interesting to see raocow totally surprised at a game like this. maybe it's bc our first exposure to the pikmin series was chuggaaconroy's Pikmin 1 lp back when that was new (that should date us Tremendously, we were fans of chuggaaconroy pre-Steve), but like pikmin felt fairly Intuitive to us? like even proton jon's blind LP for therunawayguys (aka: "PLEASE JUST PLAY THE GAMECUBE VERSION IF FAT-FINGERING THE DPAD IS SUCH A BAD THING I BEG OF THEE" the LP /lh) got the gist pretty easily. and also his total amusement at Throwing the pikmin. that's just a Thing to most fans of the series, you don't really think of that much, but yeah, the idea of olimar looking at these alien species that are being incredibly nice and just being like "What If, Yeet". something we've definitely not thought of before. olimar is just a dude and we kinda love him for that.
&: At the risk of "spoiling"(? It's the opening cutscene to the game) Pikmin 2:
raocow jokes about capitalism, but.
Also tbh, "I'm a little lost, but that's okay!" is a good summary of Pikmin 1 from our experience. Especially if you aren't used to the controls just yet... ;Pyour engines don't move on their own? that seems kinda baffling tbh. also Johnny is the new Steve i'm sorry I'm Sorry.
&: What do you mean by the computer? (Spoilers for things Mr. Rao "Bubsy 2" Cow has not encountered and since he wants to try doing this blind, Mr. Rao "Bubsy 2" Cow, don't read!!!)Rixithechao wrote: ↑2 years ago Looking forward to raocow somehow managing to beat this game without ever (deliberately) using the C-stick or checking the computer despite the inevitable 5-12 spotzone posts and comments each video from people trying to help him learn these things
If it's the Whimsical Radar on the pause menu specifically, I think the game gives a tutorial for that, ya??? ...If you somehow meant the Terminal at the Dolphin for healing you and a rudimentary radar before the radar, we genuinely can't name anyone who used that.
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It's been an age since I've played Pikmin 1 also, but there's an R prompt on the map screen. I don't recall exactly what's over there. Honestly, I wasn't aware you couldn't use it on Day 1 until this first video, so maybe tomorrow?Rixithechao wrote: ↑2 years ago I'm talking about the computer the game mentioned in this first episode. It's honestly been forever since I played Pikmin 1 so idk exactly what it's referring to specifically -- I'm guessing it's just a menu for reviewing tutorial messages, given the context -- but raocow did try to find it and then he just kinda gave up, so I figured there'll be some backseating about it.
Either way, I have... a history with the Pikmin series, so I'm fairly excited for this one.
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i hope this turns into all the pikmins because i wanna see rao in
submerged castle
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And it's from 2001! I always forget that the GameCube/GBA generation stretches back a year or two farther than my mind wants to remember. It really does look great for being such an old game; it might have sold me on the GameCube had I been old enough to be savvy on gaming back in those days. It was like nothing Nintendo had put out before*.
*"actually catabo there was a weird obscure Japan-only Famicom Disk System RTS that was made by Nintendo only in Japan and was broadcast on the Satellaview exactly between the hours of 01:00 and 04:00 on the second Tuesday of each month in Aomori prefecture which was a dead ringer for Pikmin, and really there's no excuse to have missed it since it was re-released on the N64DD" aside
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do those really count if even the japanese would forget about themCatabo wrote: ↑2 years ago *"actually catabo there was a weird obscure Japan-only Famicom Disk System RTS that was made by Nintendo only in Japan and was broadcast on the Satellaview exactly between the hours of 01:00 and 04:00 on the second Tuesday of each month in Aomori prefecture which was a dead ringer for Pikmin, and really there's no excuse to have missed it since it was re-released on the N64DD" aside
mario artist basically helped birth warioware with a few minigames but it's not even that much of a back of the box feature iirc
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(still hoping we actually get a Pikmin 4 at some point)
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i know this isn't Doshin the Giant since to our knowledge he was not on the satellaview and his re-release was for GameCube, but i am nonetheless terrified at the 0.01% chance you are talking about Doshin the Giant.Catabo wrote: ↑2 years ago *"actually catabo there was a weird obscure Japan-only Famicom Disk System RTS that was made by Nintendo only in Japan and was broadcast on the Satellaview exactly between the hours of 01:00 and 04:00 on the second Tuesday of each month in Aomori prefecture which was a dead ringer for Pikmin, and really there's no excuse to have missed it since it was re-released on the N64DD" aside
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the merged onion is a thing in that game
, also the lack of thecolored fractions to tell you which onion an item is going to
from Pikmin 2 onwards, that much at least KINDA makes sense.&: Also raocow's excitement at the bulborb body turning into a ton of Pikmin!!! That totally just feels like second nature???
tbh i feel like even though i know what i'm doing in terms of pikmin, my day 2 on a pikmin 1 playthrough would only be... marginally better than this. this is mostly bc we are either Way Too Safe or Way Too Reckless and there's no in-between whatsoever.
raocow doesn't know how to break bramble gates until it's his only option, swarms things until otherwise forced, gets exactly 1 (One) yellow pikmin, and still makes it work with literally a net gain on every front. honestly yeah this tracks for "raocow's day 2 of a pikmin 1 blind lp" ;P
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the time management stuff is good, even if you're new
also he's been learning stuff at a fine pace, stuff like the walls having no immediate indication that they're taking damage isn't that intuitive. the next hurdle will be "get more yellows" (for which the answer is
dismiss pikmin with X to split them into color groups, then just get the yellow guy to feed his onion
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it stresses me out and that's what mattersShard1697 wrote: ↑2 years agothe time management stuff is good, even if you're new
also he's been learning stuff at a fine pace, stuff like the walls having no immediate indication that they're taking damage isn't that intuitive. the next hurdle will be "get more yellows" (for which the answer isdismiss pikmin with X to split them into color groups, then just get the yellow guy to feed his onion
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it's an american kirby sorta thing. for reference the japanese box-art is this:EllenHouraisan wrote: ↑2 years ago I have literally just looked at the game's cover in the OP, and man, that gives me some real threatening vibes. That thing is about to kill everyone.
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(Still, something about their eyes bothers me...)
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Anyway, it looks like raocow's having a good time despite struggling a bit with some of the mechanics. I've been playing the Pikmin games long enough that I don't remember a time where I wasn't super experienced with them, so watching raocow not do things that seem obvious to me is certainly something. And that's not in a 'yell at the screen' type of way; I'm just fascinated watching raocow slowly learn things that just seem instinctive to me.
Incidentally, I don't think I ever actually beat this game. (I believe I couldn't figure out how to get one of the ship parts and I just haven't touched the game since then). Watching raocow play this is kind of giving me the urge to play some Pikmin myself, so maybe I might actually go back and beat it.