Pikmin - Day 02 - The Forest of Hope
0We're back in the wonderful world of Pikmin! Sadly, one of my Pikmin die in this video... Alas, it's unavoidable it seems. But we'll still remember its valiant effort.
This video takes us through 'Day 02' and explores a bit of the second area, the 'Forest of Hope'. It's important to take note that while I do everything in one day, there's some wiggle room in our schedule. So if you need a second day, it's fine. Day 03 is fairly light, so you can feel free to combine the leftovers.
DAY 02 - THE FOREST OF HOPE
As soon as you land, you’ll want to call your Red Pikmin out of the Onion. Throw most of them at the fence that looks like it’s made of brambles or tree roots, and have the rest get to work on returning Pellets to the Onion for more Pikmin. Once you’ve cleared the area and the fence, you can encounter your first enemy, the tiny but deadly Dwarf Bulborb.
They can be defeated by dropping a Pikmin right on top of them, but if you’re having trouble aiming you should just keep throwing Pikmin until they’re defeated. If they do start to eat a Pikmin, you can save it if you defeat the Dwarf Bulborb quick enough.
Repeat this process until this large area is cleared out, then gather all the enemies’ bodies and the Pellets to grow more Pikmin (don’t forget the 5 Pellet on the ledge on the left side of the clearing.) Once you’ve grown several more Pikmin, you can take on the larger, sleeping Spotty Bulborb.
The best way to handle this is to circle around behind it while keeping your distance. Then line up your cursor so it’s directly on the creature’s back, and start flinging Pikmin as fast as you can. It will wake up, stand up and shake off the Pikmin, but if you keep throwing them, it’ll need to shake them off again before it has a chance to bite down.
This may take practice to master, but the Pikmin are fairly expendable (although it may be worth it to restart the day if you lose too many.) Once you’ve defeated the large monster, return its body to your Red Onion and have the rest of your Pikmin return the Eternal Fuel Dynamo lying beside the lake.
It will take at least 40 Pikmin, so you may need to wait until you harvest the Spotty Bulborb if you suffered losses in battle. Once these are dealt with, you can set your followers on the bramble wall near where the large Bulborb was sleeping. It’s recommended you let a few Pikmin work on this while the rest are carrying items back to the ship or the Onion, to maximize your efficiency.
When your army regroups and the new wall is destroyed, head through the now open gate and defeat the enemies within, but this time don’t harvest the bodies. Head to the back of this area for a familiar site, it’s another Onion!
This time it’s the Yellow Onion, and as such will produce Yellow Pikmin, whose large ears allow them to be thrown higher or farther than the other varieties. They are also the only type that can wield the glowing explosive rocks you may have noticed around the area.
It’s time to grow more Yellow Pikmin, so start harvesting the Pellets and enemies to increase your numbers. If you have multiple colors of Pikmin carrying a harvestable item, whatever color makes up the majority dictates which Onion it will be returned to.
For instance, 3 Yellow Pikmin and 2 Red Pikmin carrying a 5 Pellet will return it to the Yellow Onion. If the numbers are evenly split, then it will be returned to a random Onion, indicated by the color of the numbers above the item/Pikmin.
You may be running out of time at this point, but if not you can throw your Yellow Pikmin at the stone wall with the bomb rocks sitting in front. They’ll pick one up and return to you, ready to blow up a wall or enemy. Be very careful with these Pikmin, if you call them back with your whistle, they will likely activate and drop their bomb, making it very dangerous to anyone around, including Olimar.
Taking great precautions, use your bomb-wielding Pikmin to destroy the stone wall, then head through to defeat a couple of Dwarf Bulborbs and burrowing Sheargrubs and discover a new part, the Whimsical Radar! This part requires at least 20 Pikmin to carry and up to 40 Pikmin can help to speed up the return process.
The Whimsical Radar is one of the most useful parts in the game, because it gives you access to maps of each area, like the one at the top of this page, and it even shows you where various stray Pikmin could be lost.
Welp, that should about take us through Day 02. Join us next time for 'Day 03 - The Forest of Hope (pt. 2)'.