Kinda impressive that a game series with only 4 mainline games still managed to get its own Federation Force, just a poorly timed mid spinoff that would’ve faired at least a little bit better if we didn’t have to wait a decade for another mainline game.
I recently made friends with a very new Pikmin fan. He said he enjoyed hey Pikmin and didn’t understand why it didn’t have a good reputation. I had to explain the decade wait us veterans had to endure. I think now that we live in a world where Pikmin 4 is out and Pikmin has a brighter future than ever, I imagine more and more “hey! Pikmin is underrated” videos.
I think the dumbest part for me is that for god-knows-what reason, the game takes place on a different Planet... Supposedly? It's not meant to be PNF-404, even though it has all the same flora, fauna and even human artifacts as PNF. And as far as I know, they just don't explain it. They just put a gigantic elephant into the room and then refuse to adress it. I guess Arzest must simply love pulling random plot threads with HUGE implications out of their rear ends without ever once thinking it through, because they've been doing that for their Yoshi games too.
Also, every returning creature on the planet except Pikmin seem to be way bigger than they were in the mainline games, as well as the environment itself. There’s one level where you’re dodging rain drops like they’re bullets but in Pikmin 3 rain is no issue. Olimar got the S.S Dolphin back and flew off to a random planet that had the exact same creatures and objects but supersized… yeah you’re right it’s just bizarre plot elements for no reason. I was fine as just brushing this game off as non-canon but then Nintendo went and reused the sparklium concept in Pikmin 4 so I don’t even know anymore
I mean it's eerily (and unfortunately) p realistic if you consider for example the 3ds' decently high battery life vs the switch's battery that runs out in like a few hours ...or my switch just hates me
Hey! Pikmin has this really weird balance of being incredibly easy but also incredibly easy to lose pikmin since you cant swarm them or finely maneuver them at all, leading to clips like you showed at 13:36 where you're literally all the way to the right and you still lose a pikmin outside of your control. The cutscenes also dragggg, 3 15+ second cutscenes in a
I feel like Hey! Pikmin wouldn't be so hated if the whole "Pikmin 4 is nearly completed!" Crap in 2017 didn't happen. The game is fine, it's kinda fun, but most of the new enemies are either very repetitive (there are like 5 different enemies that are just the Tiktiks from Hollow Knight) or just redesigns (Mockiwis are just the enemy equivalent to bulborbs) And the last world is very boring and bad; it's like the lilypad segment from Twilight River stretched to infinity mixed with the poisonous liquid from the rainforest levels in Mario. I say it's like a 7 out of 10, the last world really made the game crap its pants, but i feel like if they made a Hey! Pikmin 2 it would be more accepted as we wouldn't have the fear of "Oohh it'll replace the mainline saga!" With a few fixes of course...
I've said it before, I'll say it again. I grew up playing Pikmin 2 but never finished it, Hey Pikmin was the first Pikmin game I finished and was the reason I went back and played through the rest of the series. It's not a perfect game, but I think it is way better than many make it out to be. I wish it had a more accessible version available.
hey pikmin has the most balanced pikmin in the whole series TBH, each pikmin gets its time to shine also I have a theory that the reason that olimar's voice is so high pitched in this game is because we are hearing him from our perspective, when we hear him in the other games we are hearing him from the perspective of the other captains (louie, the koppaiates, and the rescue corps)
honestly, i like the pink flowers in p2 challenge mode. it makes you strategize for that dungeon how best to use the limited resources you have available and while a few levels suck most are fine.
I am one of the persons that likes Hey! Pikmin, and I pretty much agree with you. It's just okay to play and has a couple of cool things, but thats's it. Not a bad game, also not a good game, but not so horrible as people make it to be. One thing I like is seeing how people absolutely hate it without knowing that sparklium, finding wild pikmin, and having a main hub separated from the maps, are all ideas from Hey! Pikmin that carried onto the main series.
it's really funny both the timing and release period and even console this game and a certain Metroid game have in common. it's like nintendo was trying to use the 3ds to piss off fans that year.
Honestly, even as someone who adores the game, your critiques are entirely fair and justified. Personally, I’d love to see Nintendo take another crack at 2D Pikmin because I think it can be done extremely well.
I remember having a dream a few months before Hey!Pikmin was announced about a 3DS traditional pikmin game..... It had button controls and took place at a shallow little pond with tall grass in the water and rocks and female shear grubs around the shoreline. It also had a few cans without bomb rocks. I remember that vivid dream stuck with me..... When I first saw the trailer of Hey!Pikmin, I cried......
Calling it an adventure platformer is so generous, it's closer to a relaxation game like Animal Crossing with how slow it is. Though I DO like it's open-ended nature, even though it's got a clear start and finish, it's collectibles are hidden pretty well for its genre. I am sad its Pikmin Park and Amiibo functionality weren't in Pikmin 4, the former would've been a great incentive to build up your numbers when you already have more than you need. I think this game is a goldmine for potential modded content, the Pikmin modding community is insane enough I could easily see them adapting enemies and treasures from here. Fun fact - you can skip the cutscenes if you're maxed out on Pikmin, and you can max out on Pikmin by starting the levels with immediately using your Amiibo.
As someone who grinded the deathless medals, that rising platform level gives me PTSD. I swear the Crumbug's K/D ratio is way higher than it should be, outclassing every other enemy in the game. Crumbug should go commit Pikmin extinction on itself
I always felt like Kirby Mass Attack works better as a side scrolling Pikmin game, at least a better version of Hey Pikmin. Though, getting 100% in that game may be worse than in this one.
As someone who originally started with Hey Pikmin as a kid (played all 4 mainline games by now) in retrospect, I think I still enjoyed it, but I can barely remember anything from my playthrough Which probably says a lot about the game tbh
This was my first Pikmin game playing the real Pikmin games decades later on switch my opinion has not changed This is a Good game,Pikmin related or not and I'll die on that hill Also it has the best finalo boss in the series and the best ost unironically
Hey pikmin has some really good ideas in there like it makes me really want the next main pikmin game to have super deep underwear sections like hey does that would be rad
As one of the 7 or 8 Hey! Pikmin fans on the planet, I can definitely agree with a lot of what was said in this video. This game was ultimately a victim of bad timing which forvever ruined any chance it might have had, but at the end of the day, it's really just a harmless spinoff with a few surprisingly neat elements. I also enjoyed it more than Pikmin 4 and the original Wii U version of 3, so take that as you will. (Seriously, when even the 2D side-scroller spinoff has a Piklopedia/Treasure Hoard but not the third mainline entry, something's wrong there.) Oh, and by the way, I actually got all of the deathless medals because I always challenge myself to beat a Pikmin game with zero Pikmin deaths. I'm proud of it, but I wouldn't recommend it.
I know it's supposed to be a different planet and therefore wouldn't *technically* be canon to Pikmin taxonomy but I had to draw out an entire phylogenetic tree to explain the existence of the Fireflap Bulborb in my head. WHY did they have to randomly put a flying enemy in the Breadbug family it makes me wants to cry Anyways they're phosbats to me now. We love making highly significant traits monophyletic in this house
Before anyone accuses me of being a new Pikmin fan--no, trust me. I've been one since before Pikmin 3 even came out. I've seen the hype cycles for 3, I've seen the hate for Hey, and I've seen the dry longing wait, and the grand return for 4 as well. However, I've always felt like the hate for this game is way too overblown. I agree with the video the Crumbugs are by far the worst part of the actual game and the 100% being tedious (still did it), but a special mention to some of the lag and bad framerate in a couple stages (notably the rain drop stage). But I've never felt like the game was deserving of this "it RUINED pikmin" energy and damning outlook. It's a spinoff that takes a couple of the core elements of the series (exploration in the sense of the "wow!" factor, the typical Pikmin and throwing them/calling them back) and tries it out in a vastly different gameplay style, a 2D sidescroller. It isn't meant to be this grandiose game. It isn't meant to be the main series, so of course not every element you find in a traditional Pikmin game is going to translate to it such as a focus on the strategy/management aspect. It's a cute game more on the Pikmin meant to be more of an "experience." That's why the cutscenes are like that and frequent. I'd say it succeeds on that front. It's just, not an offensive game. I think people expected far too much out of a late 3DS spinoff due to the legendary status of the first three games, and then wrote the game off immediately for being different, or for looking kinda mediocre before it even got a chance. I wouldn't say Hey Pikmin is really anything worse than "decent" but I also wouldn't really call it too much better than that. It's about a solid 6.5/10. A decent time with some solid ideas held back by some issues and a lack of a drive to go above and beyond much. But people treat it like a 2-3/10.
To be fair, 100% completion doesn't unlock anything substantial like a cutscene or a different ending so yeah... I was kinda hated that but that's maybe a blessing in disguise because it means I don't have to 100% it every time I replay it.
During the buildup to pikmin 4s release and after pikmin 1 and 2 being put on switch I decided to go and play/replay every pikmin game leading up to pikmin 4, which included nintendo land's pikmin adventure, bloom, and of course, Hey Pikmin and yeah this sums it up pretty well, the most inoffensive, nothingburger platformer there ever was
Yeah, you would have to be insane to get all the Deathless medals in Hey Pikmin Awkwardly glances at my all deathless medals save file. Genuinely the crumbugs were not the worst part, the worst part is that your Pikmin have a chance to trip in certain areas of the game and when they trip they become unwhistleable and unthrowable for a few seconds, meaning you have no way to defend them from enemies.
I got hey pikmin as my first pikmin game. It put me off the franchise for a few years. I finally gave the franchise a second shot when pikmin 4 came out and I am glad I did.
I was about to argue that this is in fact a bad game, but you covered it at the end. Going for 100% was awful. The awful hitboxes really brought down the whole experience for me. And the unskippable cutscenes just brought it down even more. Also doesn’t help that I felt like I had already played this game before and it was called Kirby Mass Attack.
11:31 The "wierd rock" is a concrete/cinder block with a few missing bits. I don't know if you called it a weird rock on purpose, but if you didn't know what it was now you do
Honestly I know this game isn’t good but I’ll still love it simply because when I was younger I played this game in the long car rides. And its boring and dumb gameplay satisfied me. lol Yeah I know I need help
I want to remember Hey! Pikmin, but my brain has blocked all memories of it. All I remember is that I beat the game and did everything except for the deathless medals.
"it's just a spin off who care that it's bad" mfs when we were waitin' years for the next pikmin game "lol what hey! pikmin ?" expert jonklers when games like mg:r exist
I admit this was the first pikmin game I ever played, and I have to say, it was pretty decent, it actually is what made me interested in playing all main titles. It was pretty short but enjoyed it, even tho I got it for free, not sure I'd say the same if I paid money for it... It also has some bangers in it's soundtrack, and some neat creatures and area designs that I wish were used in a mainline game
I've cracked the code, pikmin + pokemon fans... PIKMIN = EEVEE Blue = Vaporeon Red = Flareon Yellow = Jolteon Pretty obvious, right? Purples = Espeon Not only are they porpor, but if Espeon were in the previous games, and if you pik 3 Purples were in the previous game, THEY'D BE THE STRONGEST. White = Umbreon In the beta, Umbreon was a POISON TYPE Rocks = Glaceon As Vsauce explained, ICE IS A MINERAL! LIKE ROCKS! Pinks = Leafeon Where do you find the pinks in 3? SURROUNDED BY LEAVES! Ice = Sylveon FAIRY IS THE COOLEST TYPE! So what does this mean? Well, the Glow pikmin is a *green ghost* , yknow what else is green? LEGENDS Z-A!!! GHOST TYPE EEVEELUTION FOR Z-A AAGAHAGGAHAVAGAHAGHA
"Well Arlo didn't single-handedly cause the downfall of Hey Pikmin" I don't know... Arlo is pretty damn influential, kind of like Scott the Woz is. You know how many Amazon reviews of Chibi-Robo Zip Lash mentions "Scott the Woz hates this so you should too!"
First of all, the game dont take place on PNF-404, its a different, unnamed planet. Second: Good take on the game. Yes, it is quite easy, until you try to beat it deathless. It is sometimes funny how people give a game a stamp of being "boring" or "easy" while avoiding the harder stuff. Its like "The Witcher 3 is too easy" ... " Have you played on Death March difficulty?" ... "No, i am not a masochist"... And yeah, you could see it as padding, but for me, the Deathless Medals are one of the things that connect "Hey! Pikmin!" the most with the main titles for me besides collecting stuff, since i always try to beat mainline pikmin titles without or as few deaths as possible. Levels are usually pretty short and your amount of pikmin is quite low, so beating it deathless is way less tedious than beating any mainline pikmin deathless. Sure, the game is kinda brutal at some points, but it took me like an additional hour or two to complete it deathless, its like nothing copared to other "padding" like the monster medals in Tears of the Kingdom, the search for grubs in Hollow Knight or the different "find 100 things" in Rockstar Games titles. So in the end, yes, i am pretty sure Azest Games made the game and after someone at nintendo saw the concept, they gave them permission to use pikmin as theme. Still, its a nice and relaxed puzzle platformer that doesnt deserve all the hate it gets, especially from people who never gave it a honest chance in the first place.
Everyone always says
Hey Pikmin
But never
How's Pikmin
Probably dead
I'll do you one better. When's Pikmin
Why is Pikmin?
@@unusuariodinternet which guy is pikmin?
Hey, pikmin, how you doing today
terrible. the enemy treasure didn't make it to the ship before sundown and now we have to go through the process again
Even more terrible, most Pikmin died because of electricity and some died because of being crushed and eaten
I got ti eat nectar :D
I HAVEN'T SLEPT IN 72 HOURS
Even more terrible most of thr pikmin carrying the treasuer died at night
The love for hey pikmin is lost media
screams
Found it.
It’s hilarious how the Crumbugs are able to kill more pikmin than the Breadbug and Giant breadbug
What's even funnier as both were made effectively harmless in 4
@@SwimShady-e9d As opposed to their deadliness in Pikmin 1 and 2? Can they not even get a kill if they drag a Pikmin back anymore?
@@hoodedman6579 Not, they just bury the trasure in Pikmin 4. And the Pikmin carrying just start digging. Absolutely bulls*** if you ask me
Crumbug is just hungry
I swear, I lost so many pikmin to those stupid things when I played it
(Also hey same pfp wow)
Kinda impressive that a game series with only 4 mainline games still managed to get its own Federation Force, just a poorly timed mid spinoff that would’ve faired at least a little bit better if we didn’t have to wait a decade for another mainline game.
How to get Pikmin in the Pikmin games:
Pikmin 1, 2, 3, and 4: Collect the bodies of enemies and bring them back to the onion
Hey Pikmin: “Hey… 💅”
I think Im the only person on the planet that has all 3 save files 100% completed
I respect the grind
You underestimate my spare time
Who hurt you?
@@maxhay9098 no pikmin 4 for too long
I would have 100% my save file if it werent for how hard it is to keep all the pikmin alive in the last sector. Youre a madlad thats for sure! 👏
I recently made friends with a very new Pikmin fan. He said he enjoyed hey Pikmin and didn’t understand why it didn’t have a good reputation. I had to explain the decade wait us veterans had to endure. I think now that we live in a world where Pikmin 4 is out and Pikmin has a brighter future than ever, I imagine more and more “hey! Pikmin is underrated” videos.
I think the dumbest part for me is that for god-knows-what reason, the game takes place on a different Planet... Supposedly?
It's not meant to be PNF-404, even though it has all the same flora, fauna and even human artifacts as PNF.
And as far as I know, they just don't explain it. They just put a gigantic elephant into the room and then refuse to adress it.
I guess Arzest must simply love pulling random plot threads with HUGE implications out of their rear ends without ever once thinking it through, because they've been doing that for their Yoshi games too.
Also, every returning creature on the planet except Pikmin seem to be way bigger than they were in the mainline games, as well as the environment itself. There’s one level where you’re dodging rain drops like they’re bullets but in Pikmin 3 rain is no issue. Olimar got the S.S Dolphin back and flew off to a random planet that had the exact same creatures and objects but supersized… yeah you’re right it’s just bizarre plot elements for no reason. I was fine as just brushing this game off as non-canon but then Nintendo went and reused the sparklium concept in Pikmin 4 so I don’t even know anymore
0:33 Where is the blue pikmins mouth? Please god don't tell me its lost medi-
Was just about to comment on that
i like how his old ship had a eternal fuel dynamo but somhow the new and improved ship needs sparklium.
I mean it's eerily (and unfortunately) p realistic if you consider for example the 3ds' decently high battery life vs the switch's battery that runs out in like a few hours
...or my switch just hates me
I'm half convinced that half the parts on his ship were total bullshit.
@@grammarraythat’s due to the fact the switch is so much more powerful than the 3DS it drains them faster like the game gear vs game boy
@@hoodedman6579 I mean, one of the 'parts' was just Olimar's piggybank, so you're not wrong
Hey! Pikmin has this really weird balance of being incredibly easy but also incredibly easy to lose pikmin since you cant swarm them or finely maneuver them at all, leading to clips like you showed at 13:36 where you're literally all the way to the right and you still lose a pikmin outside of your control.
The cutscenes also dragggg, 3 15+ second cutscenes in a
Oh, hi heff
You actually can, spamming the whistle makes the pikmin tuck in much closer to olimar than normal.
@@superlagbro192 oh my b im garbage at hey! pikmin
THANK YOU FOR COVERING THE DEATHLESS MEDALS! I HAVE BEEN VINDICATED! (I hate the crumbugs)
When’s the Pikmin Adventure video? It’s so good I pee white at the sight of it
Soon(ish)
You pee out white pikmin?
@@allstaraussie3629it is a tragic hereditary condition
built in pest control spiders die trying to eat them
hey (with pikmin aura)
Hey Pikmin gave us such classic Pikmin enemies such as the Fiery Young Yellow Wollyhop and the unused HoleBlocker.
I have a hole blocker in me rn
@@allstaraussie3629 Ayo?
I feel like Hey! Pikmin wouldn't be so hated if the whole "Pikmin 4 is nearly completed!" Crap in 2017 didn't happen.
The game is fine, it's kinda fun, but most of the new enemies are either very repetitive (there are like 5 different enemies that are just the Tiktiks from Hollow Knight) or just redesigns (Mockiwis are just the enemy equivalent to bulborbs)
And the last world is very boring and bad; it's like the lilypad segment from Twilight River stretched to infinity mixed with the poisonous liquid from the rainforest levels in Mario.
I say it's like a 7 out of 10, the last world really made the game crap its pants, but i feel like if they made a Hey! Pikmin 2 it would be more accepted as we wouldn't have the fear of "Oohh it'll replace the mainline saga!"
With a few fixes of course...
I've said it before, I'll say it again. I grew up playing Pikmin 2 but never finished it, Hey Pikmin was the first Pikmin game I finished and was the reason I went back and played through the rest of the series. It's not a perfect game, but I think it is way better than many make it out to be. I wish it had a more accessible version available.
It feels like Arzest just had no familiarity with the pikmin franchise with how many little inconsistencies there are.
(Hey!) Pikmin
heeeey pikmin, where you goin with that bomb rock of yours...
The guy sounds like hes reading a bed time story to the kids LMAO
hey pikmin has the most balanced pikmin in the whole series TBH, each pikmin gets its time to shine
also I have a theory that the reason that olimar's voice is so high pitched in this game is because we are hearing him from our perspective, when we hear him in the other games we are hearing him from the perspective of the other captains (louie, the koppaiates, and the rescue corps)
One thing I will give Hey pikmin is its final boss. I don’t care what anyone says, it’s still the best final boss in the franchise (fight me)
Anytime your free next week? I’d love to fight you with my friend the Titan Dweevil!
honestly, i like the pink flowers in p2 challenge mode. it makes you strategize for that dungeon how best to use the limited resources you have available and while a few levels suck most are fine.
I am one of the persons that likes Hey! Pikmin, and I pretty much agree with you. It's just okay to play and has a couple of cool things, but thats's it. Not a bad game, also not a good game, but not so horrible as people make it to be.
One thing I like is seeing how people absolutely hate it without knowing that sparklium, finding wild pikmin, and having a main hub separated from the maps, are all ideas from Hey! Pikmin that carried onto the main series.
it's really funny both the timing and release period and even console this game and a certain Metroid game have in common. it's like nintendo was trying to use the 3ds to piss off fans that year.
Honestly, even as someone who adores the game, your critiques are entirely fair and justified. Personally, I’d love to see Nintendo take another crack at 2D Pikmin because I think it can be done extremely well.
I will defend this games ost til the day I die. Banger af ost
Still better than pikmin bloom
You wish
@@miiticguest686 anything is better than a trash mobile "game"
“The game immediately asks if the glowies can watch everything you do.”
I was honestly not expecting that line.
the game most pikmin fan wishes was corrupted correspondence
Ah yes, my favorite Pikmin enemy: Yellow Thanksgiving Turkey doing Goatse
I remember having a dream a few months before Hey!Pikmin was announced about a 3DS traditional pikmin game..... It had button controls and took place at a shallow little pond with tall grass in the water and rocks and female shear grubs around the shoreline. It also had a few cans without bomb rocks. I remember that vivid dream stuck with me..... When I first saw the trailer of Hey!Pikmin, I cried......
Its actually Balan Wonder-WORLD
mandela effect.
As someone who exclusively does no death runs, I'm glad learning the one pikmin game i refuse to play has the worst no death expectations
Calling it an adventure platformer is so generous, it's closer to a relaxation game like Animal Crossing with how slow it is. Though I DO like it's open-ended nature, even though it's got a clear start and finish, it's collectibles are hidden pretty well for its genre.
I am sad its Pikmin Park and Amiibo functionality weren't in Pikmin 4, the former would've been a great incentive to build up your numbers when you already have more than you need.
I think this game is a goldmine for potential modded content, the Pikmin modding community is insane enough I could easily see them adapting enemies and treasures from here.
Fun fact - you can skip the cutscenes if you're maxed out on Pikmin, and you can max out on Pikmin by starting the levels with immediately using your Amiibo.
As someone who grinded the deathless medals, that rising platform level gives me PTSD. I swear the Crumbug's K/D ratio is way higher than it should be, outclassing every other enemy in the game. Crumbug should go commit Pikmin extinction on itself
i 1cced touhou 6 today :)
Cool. I've been trying to for a while now
@@imonlyhereforpikmin gl
5:13 Kazumi Totaka really said: "I'm above being in HET Pikmin"
I think hey pikmin is the one that’s low key a chill guy and doesn’t give a freak
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONS THE CRUMBUG PROBLEM
I WAS NOT CRAZY
I always felt like Kirby Mass Attack works better as a side scrolling Pikmin game, at least a better version of Hey Pikmin. Though, getting 100% in that game may be worse than in this one.
As someone who originally started with Hey Pikmin as a kid (played all 4 mainline games by now) in retrospect, I think I still enjoyed it, but I can barely remember anything from my playthrough
Which probably says a lot about the game tbh
The Glowies?! But the Glow Pikmin are my friends :[
I’m pretty sure the “weird rock” at 11:34 is meant to be a cement brick or whatever they’re called.
A man has fallen into the river in Lego City
Seeing red pikmin holding bomb rocks looks super cursed
Pikmin 3 bomb rocks
13:06 yeah, i get more nervous when one of these appears than when some enemies that are meant to be tough appear (i played hey pikmin)
This was my first Pikmin game
playing the real Pikmin games decades later on switch my opinion has not changed
This is a Good game,Pikmin related or not and I'll die on that hill
Also it has the best finalo boss in the series and the best ost unironically
I knew it. That specail pikimn 3 community post 😂. Excellent job skirting around the forbidden name/phrase in pikmin.
Hey pikmin has some really good ideas in there like it makes me really want the next main pikmin game to have super deep underwear sections like hey does that would be rad
Hey Pikmin is just aggressively adequate
Ah, yes, the horrors of the Pikmin series. Water Wraith, Smoky Progg, Crumbug
Hey Pikmin gave us Lifelush Murch so it is worthy of existing
As one of the 7 or 8 Hey! Pikmin fans on the planet, I can definitely agree with a lot of what was said in this video. This game was ultimately a victim of bad timing which forvever ruined any chance it might have had, but at the end of the day, it's really just a harmless spinoff with a few surprisingly neat elements. I also enjoyed it more than Pikmin 4 and the original Wii U version of 3, so take that as you will. (Seriously, when even the 2D side-scroller spinoff has a Piklopedia/Treasure Hoard but not the third mainline entry, something's wrong there.)
Oh, and by the way, I actually got all of the deathless medals because I always challenge myself to beat a Pikmin game with zero Pikmin deaths. I'm proud of it, but I wouldn't recommend it.
I'm kind of reminded of Starfox Adventures, where the biggest problem is the game not really feeling like it belongs to the series it's pulling from.
I know it's supposed to be a different planet and therefore wouldn't *technically* be canon to Pikmin taxonomy but I had to draw out an entire phylogenetic tree to explain the existence of the Fireflap Bulborb in my head. WHY did they have to randomly put a flying enemy in the Breadbug family it makes me wants to cry
Anyways they're phosbats to me now. We love making highly significant traits monophyletic in this house
It’s mid. There’s no bad game in this franchise.
Before anyone accuses me of being a new Pikmin fan--no, trust me. I've been one since before Pikmin 3 even came out. I've seen the hype cycles for 3, I've seen the hate for Hey, and I've seen the dry longing wait, and the grand return for 4 as well.
However, I've always felt like the hate for this game is way too overblown. I agree with the video the Crumbugs are by far the worst part of the actual game and the 100% being tedious (still did it), but a special mention to some of the lag and bad framerate in a couple stages (notably the rain drop stage). But I've never felt like the game was deserving of this "it RUINED pikmin" energy and damning outlook.
It's a spinoff that takes a couple of the core elements of the series (exploration in the sense of the "wow!" factor, the typical Pikmin and throwing them/calling them back) and tries it out in a vastly different gameplay style, a 2D sidescroller. It isn't meant to be this grandiose game. It isn't meant to be the main series, so of course not every element you find in a traditional Pikmin game is going to translate to it such as a focus on the strategy/management aspect. It's a cute game more on the Pikmin meant to be more of an "experience." That's why the cutscenes are like that and frequent. I'd say it succeeds on that front.
It's just, not an offensive game. I think people expected far too much out of a late 3DS spinoff due to the legendary status of the first three games, and then wrote the game off immediately for being different, or for looking kinda mediocre before it even got a chance.
I wouldn't say Hey Pikmin is really anything worse than "decent" but I also wouldn't really call it too much better than that. It's about a solid 6.5/10. A decent time with some solid ideas held back by some issues and a lack of a drive to go above and beyond much. But people treat it like a 2-3/10.
I flew btw
I actually realy like hey pikmin its really cute and fun
My life without you is pointless
there we go, thanks
To be fair, 100% completion doesn't unlock anything substantial like a cutscene or a different ending so yeah... I was kinda hated that but that's maybe a blessing in disguise because it means I don't have to 100% it every time I replay it.
hey pikmin
hi pikmin
hello pikmin
During the buildup to pikmin 4s release and after pikmin 1 and 2 being put on switch I decided to go and play/replay every pikmin game leading up to pikmin 4, which included nintendo land's pikmin adventure, bloom, and of course, Hey Pikmin
and yeah this sums it up pretty well, the most inoffensive, nothingburger platformer there ever was
I… liked it.
MY MAN. LET'S GO W GAN
The best part of it is the music.
HE WON A CEILING FAN!!
Yeah, you would have to be insane to get all the Deathless medals in Hey Pikmin
Awkwardly glances at my all deathless medals save file.
Genuinely the crumbugs were not the worst part, the worst part is that your Pikmin have a chance to trip in certain areas of the game and when they trip they become unwhistleable and unthrowable for a few seconds, meaning you have no way to defend them from enemies.
Hey pikmin
Who pikmin
Hi pikmin
Where pikmin
the music is the best part
Im not a pikmin player, but i keep watching your videos because god damn you are funny as hell.
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As a 2000s Pikmin addict I can say Hey Pikmin is fine. It's not the worst thing ever.
Hey pikmin makes Pikmin 4 so much worse than it could have been
I got hey pikmin as my first pikmin game. It put me off the franchise for a few years. I finally gave the franchise a second shot when pikmin 4 came out and I am glad I did.
soundtrack hits harder than 4 by far
my only issue with this game is how HORRIBLY it runs on the old 3ds models
It would've been more fitting as a free iphone game like Run Mario or Flappy Bird.
Hey! Pikmin was freaking epic! I wish some Enemies will return from the Game, because many of them have such a cool concept
I was about to argue that this is in fact a bad game, but you covered it at the end. Going for 100% was awful. The awful hitboxes really brought down the whole experience for me. And the unskippable cutscenes just brought it down even more. Also doesn’t help that I felt like I had already played this game before and it was called Kirby Mass Attack.
11:31 The "wierd rock" is a concrete/cinder block with a few missing bits. I don't know if you called it a weird rock on purpose, but if you didn't know what it was now you do
Honestly I know this game isn’t good but I’ll still love it simply because when I was younger I played this game in the long car rides. And its boring and dumb gameplay satisfied me. lol
Yeah I know I need help
"we're making pikmin video" and it's a hey pikmin video
3:03 It was called Balan Wonderworld but Wonderland sounds way better
when people try to get my attention on discord
Hey Pikmin reminds me of the Zelda CDI games without the memes and better music
I want to remember Hey! Pikmin, but my brain has blocked all memories of it. All I remember is that I beat the game and did everything except for the deathless medals.
"imneverhereforheypikmin" - The Pikmin fanbase.
"it's just a spin off who care that it's bad" mfs when we were waitin' years for the next pikmin game
"lol what hey! pikmin ?" expert jonklers when games like mg:r exist
this was my first pikmin game lmao
I admit this was the first pikmin game I ever played, and I have to say, it was pretty decent, it actually is what made me interested in playing all main titles. It was pretty short but enjoyed it, even tho I got it for free, not sure I'd say the same if I paid money for it... It also has some bangers in it's soundtrack, and some neat creatures and area designs that I wish were used in a mainline game
The fiery young yellow wollyhop, elongated crushblat and berserk leech hydroe where the best things that ever came out of this game
I know bros only here for pikmin but hes right i love earthbound and i have never played it an vice versa for hey pokman
I've cracked the code, pikmin + pokemon fans...
PIKMIN = EEVEE
Blue = Vaporeon
Red = Flareon
Yellow = Jolteon
Pretty obvious, right?
Purples = Espeon
Not only are they porpor, but if Espeon were in the previous games, and if you pik 3 Purples were in the previous game, THEY'D BE THE STRONGEST.
White = Umbreon
In the beta, Umbreon was a POISON TYPE
Rocks = Glaceon
As Vsauce explained, ICE IS A MINERAL! LIKE ROCKS!
Pinks = Leafeon
Where do you find the pinks in 3? SURROUNDED BY LEAVES!
Ice = Sylveon
FAIRY IS THE COOLEST TYPE!
So what does this mean?
Well, the Glow pikmin is a *green ghost* , yknow what else is green?
LEGENDS Z-A!!!
GHOST TYPE EEVEELUTION FOR Z-A AAGAHAGGAHAVAGAHAGHA
"Well Arlo didn't single-handedly cause the downfall of Hey Pikmin"
I don't know... Arlo is pretty damn influential, kind of like Scott the Woz is. You know how many Amazon reviews of Chibi-Robo Zip Lash mentions "Scott the Woz hates this so you should too!"
Damn I guess you took my suggestion to heart
First of all, the game dont take place on PNF-404, its a different, unnamed planet.
Second: Good take on the game. Yes, it is quite easy, until you try to beat it deathless. It is sometimes funny how people give a game a stamp of being "boring" or "easy" while avoiding the harder stuff. Its like "The Witcher 3 is too easy" ... " Have you played on Death March difficulty?" ... "No, i am not a masochist"...
And yeah, you could see it as padding, but for me, the Deathless Medals are one of the things that connect "Hey! Pikmin!" the most with the main titles for me besides collecting stuff, since i always try to beat mainline pikmin titles without or as few deaths as possible.
Levels are usually pretty short and your amount of pikmin is quite low, so beating it deathless is way less tedious than beating any mainline pikmin deathless.
Sure, the game is kinda brutal at some points, but it took me like an additional hour or two to complete it deathless, its like nothing copared to other "padding" like the monster medals in Tears of the Kingdom, the search for grubs in Hollow Knight or the different "find 100 things" in Rockstar Games titles.
So in the end, yes, i am pretty sure Azest Games made the game and after someone at nintendo saw the concept, they gave them permission to use pikmin as theme. Still, its a nice and relaxed puzzle platformer that doesnt deserve all the hate it gets, especially from people who never gave it a honest chance in the first place.