If this does end up a series, you could include other crossovers too instead of just Mario. Zelda has a vast treasure trove of enemies to fill up with Pikmin whimsy. It even has a whole game that half takes place from the perspective of tiny forest people! Here's my thought on one potential enemy: the Gibdo. I call it the Rattleshell Gravemoth At rest they cover themselves with their wings with their long antenna stretching out and over, this is to lure in prey while it waits in ambush. What are it's prey? Other predators. How do you lure a predator in the world of Pikmin? Tempt them with Pikmin. The Gravemoths with regularly scavenge from sites where Pikmin have fallen or hunt them directly to drain the bodily fluids out of their corpses and dry them out to use as puppets on the ends of their antenna, dancing about until something draws too close. Once potential prey is near, they swiftly open their wings to reveal a frightening pattern while screeching a horrible noise, paralyzing unaware creatures before pouncing and skewering them with their proboscises to drain their fluids too. They key to fighting them is to either attack from behind if possible due to them focusing on their luring act or to strike from range so you don't get frightened by their scare attack and can whistle back your Pikmin before it leaps on them. After it's leap there is a window to strike, swarm it quickly but be prepared to call your Pikmin back before it flaps its wings to get them off. It can't use it's wings to fly however, their typical subterranean environment means they have largely grown out of that habit due to a lack of room. But studies show that these may in fact just be the larval stage, despite their bodily developments resembling an adult of their family, of a much more dangerous moth.
heres an idea i had for awhile: the foe-nion, basically its a fake onion, its a rare enemy and mostly relys on your ability to notice its tricks, when you discover a new pikmin type in the overworld a fake onion of the same color will appear near your ship tricking pikmin into bringing items to it instead of the real onion, the pikmin will be sucked up aswell as the item, then the foe-nion will frantically run away to a burrow where it will eat the pikmin if it successfully gets away, if its health is low enough it will start flying so high that only yellows can reach it, trying to draw pikmin from it will also damage you, its legs are like dead sticks, the pattern on its bulb looks wobbly and twisted and the flower on its top looks like it was ripped from another plant, and drool slowly and subtly drips from its mouth at the bottom
Old Pikmin 4 concept I made as a Kid: Fire arm home invader(a fire ant like creature whom lives in a sandy like area that moves around quickly while using its mandibles to grab sand to construct a big hot sand ball it can send hurling at Pikmin, but as it is capturing sand it gradually decreases its mobility allowing available Pikmin to attack the legs to lower its abdomen, if Pikmin are too close to its head it can shake the Pikmin off and turn around to swoop in and take a bite. Once it is defeated it will die… preferably I would imagine the creature to be in a sand box or playground (with sand) like area .
i adore the plasmatic vacoombra being partially based on a plasma globe i've loved those things ever since i was little even now i still have one in my room that i occasionally mess around with and i also adore that the bubbled caterbead has 2 phases that each give one of the pikmin types in it's cave a moment in the spotlight to show off their strengths. i wish more cave specific bosses would do that, especially if a given cave were the introduction to a certain type
Here's a new enemy idea I came up with, it's called the G.U.A.R.D. It would be a very unique enemy as it can't be killed by any means, so be careful when you come across it. Its shape is a circular ball with a color scheme similar to the white E.M.M.I. It would move by rolling around, and when its idle, it will bring it's singular eye that is attached to a long, thin piece of wire and look around the area, making sure no intruders are present in the area, and the 6 parts of the sphere will separate and will let them stand up right. If the G.U.A.R.D sees you, it will start firing from it eye with the same projectiles the Man-At-Legs uses until the you escape or fail to make it past. Luckily, the G.U.A.R.D only protects a certain area around where it was located. It is also easily distractible by Pik-Pik carrots, but not anything else. The enemy's design is based of the E.M.M.I from Metroid Dread and partly design from the Guardian form Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I have always wanted a undefeatable threat that you couldn't be defeated or easily avoided. I also wanted more robotic enemies than just the Man-At-Legs.
Kirby enemies next? Kirby and friends are actually just 6 inches tall (dedede being like 12 to 8 inches) so it would be fun and makes kind of sense (Kirby, being 5 inches taller than olimar is bonkers) I’m a throw some ideas out, “ smash Chuck” (sumo beetle) “ iron snarrow” (dyna blade) “skylix” (kracko) Great video as always.
I have a Pikmin enemy idea. The scrounging metal himer. It is a large scorpion like creature that's actually kind of a mixture of a whiptail spider and a scorpion. It has scrap metal armor and can only be hit by one Pikmin type until the armor breaks that type is ice Pikmin. It also has weapons all over itself kinda like the titan dweevil
Here's a cool idea I just came up with: The Bruising Rusher It is based off the chaincomp. It is a black sphere, with retractable legs, hard extirerior, large insect like eyes, and large mandible. It is related to the armored cannon beetle, it attacks your pikmin by retracting its legs and roll at you at a decent speed. In order to attack it you will need to make it run into a wall, or run in a circle so that it becomes dizzy. Once you are able to attack it a grat tounge will shoot out of its mouth (A reference to the chain) and its legs will show them selves again letting you attack them!
A Mario Enemy to Pikmin Enemy idea I had was based on the Boo species that would use camouflage/invisiblity to stalk the player and pikmin in caves or night levels. Since it would become invisible and intangible when looked at, the only way to be able to attack this creature is to wait until it strikes, where you'd have a few seconds to counterattack, with the duration being a bit more if they enemy failed to catch any pikmin.
Silly idea: Vacoombras can be somewhat-easily defeated in much the same way as Dwarf Bulborbs, though it doesn't work with non-Purple Pikmin; The easiest way to dispatch one is to throw a Captain onto its head while it's in phase 1 or 3.
Enemy idea: Plump Pugfish A mudskipper-pug hybrid that lurks in the water, getting too close will alert the Pugfish, making it lunge towards you, if it misses it puffs up its body and fires a jet of water, if you get too close it will try to inhale your pikmins
I really like the plasmatic Vacoombra. It's a nuanced, multifacted concept. If I were tasked with designing a version of Goombas adapted for Pikmin, I think I'd make a species of brown, eyestalkless bulborbs (Bulboombas, maybe?). This would kind of maintain the facial features while sacrificing the body shape, kind of the inverse of your approach. Both Goombas and Bulborbs have 2 legs, no arms, and are both the most fundamental enemy type in their series, so I think there's an appropriate thematic link. I'd give them a new mechanic, but I haven't come up with one at the moment.
Maybe make them charge at you faster than usual when they see you, kind of like how Goombas work in 3D Mario, but also make them topple over easier like in Galaxy when you spin at a Goomba
Pikmin (creepy) Boss idea: *The Shadow Sneaker* This creature only exists as a shadow that looks like a nightmarish Bulborb but can kill enemies and Pikmin (A bit of damage to Oatchi and the player) by interacting with their shadows (think The Princess and the Frog) and is invincible This creature like the Water Wraith would be a constant threat and be in it's own cave called "Luminescent Alcove" a cave that has a hotel Hallway like design and be brightly lit to the point that shadows are present and have dark hiding spots that it can't reach (hmmm) The boss floor is unique in that instead of a regular fight there would be a puzzle with its own health bar and you need to stop at times to hide from the creature in the dark hiding spots. Once you successfully drain the puzzle's heath the lights will flicker and then turn off stopping the Shadow Sneaker for good and leaving a treasure to collect.
Enemy idea for boo: it’s a night exclusive enemy that is mostly harmless. It is far away from the luminal, and it doesn’t come close to you. It would give x amount of glowseeds if you defeat it. It is kind a risk reward type thing because you would have to venture out away from where you’re supposed to be. Compare it to the honeywisp, except better.
If you double down on the Mario crossover idea, obviously the Koopa has a lot to work with. Some of what used to be variants kinda became their own thing, but the actual Koopa still has rather unique variations with fun gimmicks. The Electro Koopa from Mario Sunshine, for example, has an electrified shell. It has a variant that can climb on walls, but the primary iteration of it attacks on the ground by throwing its electric shell like a boomerang. It is, naturally, vulnerable during this time. It can be delt with by either directly jumping on them or stunning them so they hit themselves with their shell, the latter of which grants more coins. There are also Koopeleons from Partners In Time, which essentially grant a chameleon's abilities to a Koopa, such as camouflage and the long sticky tongue. As one of Mario's "big two" alongside the Goomba, there's a lot to work with beyond those two specific variants as well.
whomp but its a snailshell whose shell falls toward whichever side has the most pikmin on it because its too heavy crushing all of them in the process. defeated by throwing pikmin on it while its on the floor and its soft stomach is exposed.
I love how much thought you're putting into these! Not just the appearance but also the attack patterns and how you draw inspiration from both universes and things from our own. One thing I would like to see for fun is what their death drops will look like maybe with a brief desciption of a death animation.
This has been a really neat crossover concept for Pikmin and the Super Mario franchise. I do have a couple of suggestions I'd like to make, however. 1. Considering the fact that the Pyro Perennial is normally stationary inside its hibiscus, its stem should snap when defeated and allow the player's pikmin crew to bring its disconnected head back to the ship. 2. The Vacoombra's plasma-ball attack is electricity-based, right? If that's the case, yellow pikmin should be impossible for it to kill, and the Vacoombra instead harmlessly ejects them after electrocuting the rest of its prey.
How about this idea? The Exploding Rockrunner, based on the Bob-omb! It looks like a Bomb Rock, but when you get too close, it springs up and chases you! I know its like that one dweebil from Pikmin 2, however unlike the dweebil, it is much faster and will pursue you at high speeds, meaning you need to be cautious and ready to get away once it starts chasing you. But you can also bait it into an active flame to have it explode abruptly, or into some water to cool it down, exposing it for a counterattack!
This is the first video of yours I've watched, and it's a great first impression. You suceeded in making all these enemies both great adaptations of Mario enemies and great Pikmin enemies in your own right. My only suggestion would be to make the Blooper-Wiggler more recognizable as a Mario reference; the design is great, but it would've cool to have more Mario-ness in it beyond the body shape and ink abilities. BTW, what was the music used here?
Wow I love the pyro perennial it looks so cool. Also I have an idea for an original character for Pikmin. It's called the poisonous Belcher a cousin of the joust mite but unlike its cousin it doesn't have a helmet but expels poison clouds around its abdomen it has larger wings then the joust mite to compensate for its larger body and like the name it barfs out a lot of poison clouds and while the squad of Pikmin (besides white Pikmin) the poisonous Belcher will stick out it's two barbed tongue to Pierce Pikmin and sucks them up you would need to throw white Pikmin at it's large abdomen since it's covered in a poison clouds but since the white Pikmin are small, they can't drag down the poisonous Belcher.i would imagine the colors being purple as a reference to the joust mite have a blue shell and the flighty joust mite having a red shell and red and blue makes purple and also it would have teal colors as well. the would be very chunky and fat and i hope you like this idea and it's fine if you don't 😊
I have an enemy idea, and it's part of the breadbug family the Fairy Breadbug It can lift treasures in the air with a carrying strength of 20 pikmin It also has a slightly flat back with butter and sprinkles on it it would also have big wings resembling that of the dragonfly wings Only winged pikmin and yellow pikmin can carry the treasure. The winged pikmin will play a tug of war in the air while the yellow pikmin will slam the treasure on the ground, damaging it to half health If you fail to get the treasure the Fairy Breadbug will carry it to a high place where it's nest is you will have to find the nest and break it before the Fairy Breadbug inhibiting the nest comes back and knocks the pikmin off Also, unlike the two main Breadbugs, the fairy Breadbug will be in the open, just like the crumbug from Hey pikmin This will all go on until the Breadbug is defeated. I love the videos :)
Louie's Recipes: Plasmatic Vacoombra: Take this exceedingly extendable creature's stretchy head and roll with a pin. Pan-Sear on low heat until it looks crispy. Works well for an enchilada topping on Cinco de Mayo! Pyro Perennial: Remove its bulbous mouth-like center and remove the pistil. Cover in White cake Batter and bake at 400° Fahrenheit for half an hour. Once baked, cover your cake ball in strawberry frosting, a topping of your choice, then slice into eighths. Extreme Strawberry flavor inside and out! Bubbled Catterbead: Though its bubble segments are inedible, the head makes for a fine thanksgiving steak. Remove cartilage and cook over open fire until browned. The single antenna on is head is to be removed beforehand, chopped into equally sized pieces, and served as a side. The steak is good with gravy, and the antenna slices taste somewhat of blueberry.
Segmented Thorntower (Pokey) It's body is covered in sharp thorns, protecting it. It's segments are sometimes small spherical objects (like a bomb rock or small treasures).
Oh my gosh, this is awesome! Well, since we’re going with Mario enemies, I think you might know what the basis of my idea is: That’s right, Dry Bones! It’s the skeleton of some sort of turtle-like creature. (For the sake of example, let’s call this deceased creature a Trooper Toughback.) When you first come across this skeleton, it’s nothing but a pile of bones covered in cobwebs. Once you approach it, though, the bones assemble and stand up on two legs, with these spider webs actually holding it together and controlling it, similarly to puppet strings. What’s pulling these strings, however? Why, it’s a pair of small yellow glowing spider-like creatures inhabiting each of the Toughback’s eye sockets! This double-teaming arachnid-esque puppetmaster is what’s known as an Arid Socketeer! The webbing-possessed corpse constantly shambles toward the player’s party with its arms held out, and when it gets close enough, it suddenly shoots a big web from its mouth similarly to the tongue of a Toady Bloyster or Creeping Chrysanthemum, trapping and crunching any unfortunate Pikmin within its jaws once it pulls this web-tongue back in. There are two different ways to deal with this enemy. The first is to throw your Pikmin directly at the pair of little glowy spiders, though going for that is a bit risky when you have something so threatening rattling toward you. Luckily, there’s the second option: attacking the skeletal body itself. When the skeleton takes enough damage, it falls apart, making its skull tumble to the ground, which in turn leaves the spiders in its eye sockets much more vulnerable! You’d better be quick to take advantage of this disassembly period, though, because the pair of Arid Socketeers will soon pull those bones back together with their stringy webs and resume the chase. Once both of these little creepy crawlies are defeated, the bones fall apart for good, and the threat is eliminated!
That is so cool, I love how you translated the supernatural glory-eyed skeleton into something insane yet naturalistic that still resembles the original idea and fits right in with Pikmin! Honestly the best idea I‘ve read so far
I really loved the first design since it reminds me of when I was younger I had the theory that the Puffstool was a mutated version of the goomba or that it was a reference to Mario games
A cool idea I thought of for a pikmin boss is the candypop poser. The candypop poser would look like a normal candypop bud but once you put a pikmin inside the boss fight will activate revealing its 6 legs and giant eye on top. The bosses main gimmick is that it sucks up pikmin and changes them to what ever color the bosses flower is. The boss will also change the color of the flower throughout the battle. The way to damage the boss is to knock down its feet so that you can reach the glowing eye at the top of it.
Third times the charm, the boxer beetle, it’s like a box elder bug that loves punch out and got built like buzzwhole, he’s ether a boss or mini boss and flashes some colors before he attacks punch out style
Severely off-topic, but I was super shocked to hear Castlevania Order of Ecclesia music at 14:00. It's the only Castlevania game I've played, you pick really good music for these videos. Really good stuff, and amazing art as well.
Really good video! I love the pyro perennial design a lot!. One thing I would change is Yellow Pikmin should be immune to the Plasmatic Vacoombra, simply getting spat out.
This was a great video, I loved every second of it! I will 100 percent be getting the premium patreon as soon as I can. Also, I had an idea for a future Mario inspired enemy. Inspired by the Bobomb, the Bobbing Kernel Bomb is a seed like creature that runs around looking for the perfect place to nest it’s young. When confronted with hostile creatures it will panic and begin to run away. If cornered, it will pop like popcorn, bouncing into the air and past the Pikmin and Captain, knocking back the captain and Oatchi and killing some Pikmin in the process. Because if the erratic nature of the Bobbing Kernel Bomb, it is very distracting, and attracts Pikmin to it. Sometimes it even has some treasure hidden inside. You can only deal damage to it by hitting it with Rocks or Purples.
I have a idea of a series you could turn creatures from it into pikmin enemies, oddworld as the creatures in the games are so weird I think they could be translated into pikmin creatures quite well
Alright, so I don't know if it'd be best to submit enemy ideas here here or the pixel art post, so I'll just put it here. I had a hard time deciding what idea to go with, but I noticed that you seemed to like enemies with multiple states/phases, and enemies whose looks can be deceiving. So, I went with one of my more humble creations, the Fringed Skitterleaf. Scientific name Rus Psuedofrivolum for its appearance mimicking a Japanese Maple leaf, which we may all know as the real-life item that is the Arboreal Frippery treasure. It may be small and thin at first glance, but make no mistake, this is a strategic predator. It lies in wait pretending to be a leaf on the floor of sublevels with many such leaves scattered around, however, unlike your typical Skitterleaf, it doesn't react when pikmin get near, or even when stepped upon by a pikmin or captain. It will wait until an opportune moment, such as a captain with a small pikmin squad entering the room, or more likely, a treasure or body being carried. It will then raise up its body on four, spindly, multi-jointed limbs, each cleverly concealed beneath a point of the 5-pointed maple leaf. The fifth point conceals its weapon of choice: a long barbed stinger, which it will use to skewer pikmin one at a time, carefully, before returning to its concealed state once all pikmin nearby have been eaten. It is often found on fake rest sublevels, where the captain will most likely be introduced to this enemy by a sudden drop in their pikmin numbers on a seemingly safe sublevel. But what happens when your captains do encounter this creature with a substantial enough force? Well, the Fringed Skitterleaf will panic, twitching erratically and skewering much quicker. But, on every third skewer, its stinger gets stuck in the ground, giving an opportunity to strike the agile creature. And of course, you can crush it immediately if you know it's there with a well-placed Purple or Rock throw. But would you really do that to such a poor, defenseless, little Skitterleaf? Anyway, I'll definitely leave another comment next episode with more ideas. Especially if you give an idea of what sort of theme your next episode will be on.
An idea I had had on an enemy concept was very similar to Mario Sunshine's Cataquak, a small birdlike enemy that doesn't necessarily attack Mario, but flings him high into the air; the red ones do damage to him in the process, but the blue ones are harmless. So, similarly, the Catapulting Quaskoop is a small, birdlike enemy (think about the size of a Bulbmin captain, between the sizes of a Dwarf and adult Bulborb) with tiny eyes attached to a "stem" on its head, short squat legs with little suction cups on its toes, with a flat, shovel-shaped bill, similar to a Mockiwi, but bigger; about the size one of Beady Long Legs' feet. It's essentially harmless on its own, with its only attack being yeeting your Pikmin behind and above itself, potentially flinging them into danger or off a bottomless edge in caves. Its bigger (about the size of a Pikmin 2 Emperor Bulblax, with a bigger bill to go with it) cousin, the Crimson Catapulting Quaskoop, is significantly more dangerous; it will take a step backward after flinging Pikmin into the air to try and catch them in its beak, eating a maximum of 6 Pikmin at a time; you can interrupt this by stunning or freezing it, with Purples' slam, an Oatchi Rush, or simply using Ice Pikmin. However, if it's interrupted from catching its meal, or it's at low health, sometimes it can slam its bill straight down to squash Pikmin with, or charge directly at the captain to stun them and do a tiny bit of damage. However, worth noting is that it can't be stunned by an Oatchi Rush unless it's started walking backwards, thanks to its wide, suction cupped feet.
Wow!! I loved every single design! Gosh, your ideas are just so awesome!! Well, I'm going to give my own ideas! Here's the first, I will give more in the replies for this comment if I have any! The king progg (Inspired by king boo) and its tadproggs (Inspired by boos) This creature is a relative to the smoky progg, but he came out of the shell way too early, making his body have this really pale and ghostly white skin and really bright yellow core, similar to an egg white and its yolk, it would appear only on night mission after exploring its very own cave, the cave would be called: "Underground nightmare" a cavern that would have a daylight sensor attached onto it, which would only open the cave when the day is almost ending and the sun is going down, basically the last 10 seconds of the day, where all the floors would have these spectral enemies called tadproggs, they float around with almost no sense of direction, they would have this small orb shaped body with a small swimmer at the back, almost as if they are swimming in the air, to defeat the tadproggs you need to come close to them, as they will go above your squad and start to dispel this white gas that after a feel seconds will start to suck all of it back up if a pikmin is caught in the gas, their body would shrink in size depending on how much gas they expel, if they can't get pikmin, they will dispel even more, giving everything they have to get and suck a pikmin to their body so they can eat, but for them, It's too late, they spend all their energy to expel the gas and get something and become way too weak, at that point they become passive, as they have no way to attack anymore, but you could still try to throw pikmin at them, which will pop their bodies leaving behind their bright yellow core, I like to think that their own attack is almost like a fly trap, which if you don't know, when they capture prey they spend a lot of energy to close and eat it, so if they don't, their bodies wouldn't be able to do it again and slowly die as they can't eat anymore, and now, for the boss King progg itself will not appear at the cave, when reaching the final floor of the Underground Nightmare, the only thing to find is a giant banshee-like scream distancing itself from the arena and a single, giant broken egg leaking poison from the inside, the egg can be avoided and broken, but whatever it is that hatched, is long gone, now, when doing a night expedition there will be a new search to be made, Yonny will tell you that something is appearing at night in the area, making all nocturnal creatures hide and even glow pikmin wouldn't raise any luminknoll as they could also be scared of whatever it is that's haunting the area, "It's as if they saw a ghost!" Yonny would say, he asks you to have a ton of glow seeds as they would be the only was to get pikmin in the area, and so, you will do the night expedition "hunt for the king", when reaching the area the place would quiet, deathly quiet, no creature, no luminknoll, at the first few seconds there would nothing, giving you time to use the glow seeds and produce a small army of glow pikmin, until, you start to hear someone, or something crying, even Collin would say "Who's crying? And... Why is this sending shivers down my spine...?", following the crying sound you would find a wall, previously just scenery, now with a giant hole, bigger them even a jumbo bulborb, now, when following deeper there would be a really beautiful view, a giant field of pale white flowers with the full moon shining and glowing, and in front of you, this gigantic, pale ghostly beast with a shining, almost golden like, core a top of it's head, his body would be twice as big as a smoky progg, his eyes would have tears flowing down, and only his face would have a somewhat stable form, as the rest of his body constantly deforms and reforms, trying to keep itself together, the fight would begin, I just like to say that for a soundtrack it wouldn't have one, Its battle would just be his own constantly crying as the sound that follows him, his existence is pain, for him and for everything around. Phase 1: King progg would form two front legs and jumps in the air, starting to float around the area, leaving a trail of Its tear which would just slow you down when in contact and disappear after a few seconds, but, from his body falls cluster of eggs, which from them would start to spawn tadproggs, that in sync with their king, would be the ones to try suck and gobble up your pikmin, after a floating for a while he would descend and that's the time to strike, using your glow pikmin to do the "glowmob" attack and stun him, the giant ball of light would scare the King progg, and his body would become unstable, making his face melt and the core in his head to become exposed and now is your time to strike him, after a few seconds his body would stabilize and if any pikmin is still attacking its core, they would be sucked and eaten. Phase 2: Now after jumping his would start to do a quick and rapid descend, needing to be really quick to escape or Oatchi-rush out of the way, his body would splat against the ground dropping eggs and quickly reforming and staying still for a second before doing it again, you would need to blind and destabilize him again with your glow pikmin, but if he stays still for more time, he could be baiting the player into giving a full banshee scream, which would make every pikmin and oatchi disperse, now making them go randomly but just run away from the creature as fast as possible Phase 3: His body would become more and more unstable as the fight goes on, in a last ditch effort he would go to the middle of the arena and splat itself leaving the core in the middle and covering the whole arena with its goo, you would need to run as fast as possible to the middle of the arena, as the goo would produce waves that send you back and if hit pikmin, they would get stuck and get brought closer to the core, to be eaten when it reforms, so, you need to jump from the waves of goo and destroy the core once and for all, making the creature try to reform itself back as it keeps trying and crying, until its cries are silenced as they collapse and die, you are victorious and the creature found peace Gosh, for a simple concept I had in my head first the idea just became more and more kkkkk sorry if the text is too long, got too excited! But, if you wish I give more ideas, I would be pleased to!
I have recently started watching your Designing Pikmin Enemy series, and I think you are super underrated. I can't even imagine how long it takes to make all of these sketches back-to-back. So, I thought I'd share my unique enemy idea. The Angler GlowBuzz: The Angler Glowbuzz resembles an earth firefly, but overall resembles a shearwig. This is because the Shearwig is related to the Glowbuzz. It is called the "Angler" Glowbuzz because Pikmin are drawn in by its glow part. They jump onto the glowbuzz, and it EXPLODES its glow part. This doesn't kill the Pikmin, but knocks them back and stuns them. Just like when a Pikmin gets set on fire or electrocuted, you will need to whistle them back. The Glowbuzz lands itself on the ground, and then eats the stunned Pikmin. The glowbuzz regrows its glow part in a matter of seconds. (Don't question this is Pikmin.) Then the attack cycle will repeat once again. The only way to defeat this annoying pest is to weigh it down with 5 Pikmin. This creature is heavier as it is a larger member of the sheargrub family. This enemy is fine to tackle alone, but if there are many, you might face a quite troublesome task.
I think your enemies are incredible and awesome, but the thought of actually fighting puts such a feeling of fear in my heart that I don't know how to express it Also, they are all very pretty and sound really cool
I dont really care if the bosses are unfair or whatever i want fun and your mireclops boss would be so cool to fight with a cool story of how a juvenile mireclops looks and attacks without the massive body.
Enemy idea: serrated sawshriek A large bird like creature with two legs and a large long beak that looks like a chainsaw. It attacks by swinging this beak and can also charge towards you with its serrated beak forward.
You’re totally right, I meant to put that in the video description, thanks for the reminder! (I’ve saved lots of Pikmin 4 gameplay from various channels to use as b-roll, credit should’ve been and will be added in my video description!)
Mario enemies are such a good choice to turn into Pikmin enemies with them being plants or animals in the first place! It's really awesome to see you work!
I have an idea about a new frog pikmin enemy, it's called the anura lily it has long antenna with a lily on top, where an eye comes out, kind of like the creeping chrysanthemum, it's two eyes sticking out of lily pad, if it notices you and your squad it will hop out of the water and instantly use its elongated tounge to drag your pikmin in the water drowning them like the puckering blinnow unless they're blue but if they are blue they'll get eaten and I imagine you would find anura lily in the primordial thicket
I really love the pyro perennial! I'm of the personal opinion that there should be more plant-based enemies in pikmin! Whether they're actually eating pikmin, harming them through defense or just being a hazard alongside other enemies !
some really good games you could make things from them into Pikmin enemies are the battle cats, Terraria, plants vs zombies, the mushroom garden series of games by beeworks, and monster hunter just to name a few with a ton of potential on that, I have really enjoyed your videos and I cant wait to see more.
Thought on Plasmatic Vacoombra: Maybe don't make it completely transparent, because it would be difficult to explain why exactly this thing is what it is. And during its vacuuming phase, the feet should not be flat like __ , but instead on their toes like /\ in good old goomba fashion. Thought on the Pyro Perennial: Could have more elemental variations and a non elemental variation, maybe one without and one with a tounge-like vine. Thought on the Bubbled Caterbead: The pikmin shouldn't teleport into the bubbles but pass through the bubbles depending on the speed they got sucked in (random). Overall everything, especially the bossfight, is a really cool concept. It just wouldn't fit into the pikmin games as they are right now, at least not as casual enemies but each as at least in this "difficult enemy" category because they all are not fun to deal with on a regular basis, like for example having to kill 4 Pyro Perennial just to clear the way for pikmin to carry treasure. And I wish I could draw that well too. Maybe I#ll learn it one day.
I love how you were able to incorporate these Mario enemies into the Pikmin world without just dropping them in there with some slight visual tweaks (which could have easily been done with the piranha plant). They're still recognizable at their core but they have a really unique twist on it! Just curious, has anyone taken your designs and made d&d or ttrpg statblocks for them?
I have a idea a mimic boss the bosses name should be "the mimicking snap dragon" the boss looks like a dragon and what it does is turn into a pikmin and to find the difference between a real pikmin and the fake pikmin is the fake would have little frills and when you find out which is the fake the fake would transform back to its boss form[it's attacks] it's first attack is a poison spit. the second attack is slamming it's spikey tail on the ground if the player isn't fast enough there pikmin would be crushed. it's final attack is shooting iit's spikey frills at the player and there pikmin and it's weak spot is itit's head[without it's frills] and it's music should be fragment of hope [from "hey! pikmin"] [it's colors[pink and green][the frill tips,snout, arms, legs,tail tip are pink[and I almost forgot that it has kinda small wings and that's my pikmin boss
If you do Splatoon you could do the Octarians and the Salmónids and even the Jellitons but I also wonder what if the Inklings and Octolings were also Pikmin enemy’s.
This is a bit of a joke, but what about famous historical figures? Walt Disney would be the Life-Bringing Animatwerp, a bird that summons mickey mouse-like characters
Enemy idea! I want the next video to be about pikmin type ideas so heres an interesting type! Name:rubber pikmin. Ability:Launch pikmin to way to high ledges. Amune to: being stabbed. Color: orange. Description: an orange pikmin with the ability to change its limb length and body shape! It changes its shape into a doughnut to avoid being impaled.
I have another enemy idea! Name:glove of the earths core. Idea:boss. Location:the sand fortress. Description: a wierd wraith like creature in the form of a hand made of sand. Weakness:water. Form of attack : grabbing pikmin and forming a hole like mouth underneath. Will sprinkle them into the mouth like salt.
i wanna see a Kirby version (as it's own series ofc) ...i _don't_ have any suggestions for that, but if any of you lovely other viewers do, put it in the reply section of this comment!
Here is my original enemy. The Rainbow Scum Sucker. A large slug like enemy, the same size as a Snagret, with colorful stripes running down it's back; one for each pikmin color. This rare creature lives burrows close to the campsite. About five minutes after arriving, the creature will emerge from it's home, and make it's way toward the Onion. Once there, it will climb up a leg, latch it's sucker-like mouth onto the bottom of the onion, an turn a random pikmin color: while taking on that Pikmin elemental hazard. Once attached, the player can't move base, call or put back pikmin and every minute the creature will eat ten pikmin in the onion. The way to beat it is to have fifteen pikmin or Oachi grab it's tail and pull it off (It it's purple it will take 100) once off, it will flee back to it's burrow, or fly if it turned pink. Once beat it will not respawn, and it worth 100 pikmin. It's design is based off the Navanax sea slug, and I wanted an enemy that can hurt you your pikmin where you think there safest.
Vacoombra is awesome, but I wonder if it would look good with some gooma-teeth radiating around the base, just above the feet, for it to clamp down with
When you said you were redesigning Mario Enemies to fit into a more naturalistic Pikmin style, I was expecting you to turn an unnatural enemy like a Thwomp, Mechakoopa, or a Boo into a Pikmin enemy at the end as a curveball. It’s kinda a shame you didn’t do that. Would’ve been a cool design challenge. But the enemies you actually chose were sick and took some great deviations while still definitely feeling like those enemies. Maybe you could do one of those in that part 2 (if it happens)?
i already suggested this but I cant think of anything more so I think I'll just post it until it gets picked or never gets picked. Boss idea: Name: congealed crushblo Description: larger version of the calcified crushblat however the shell is rockier looking, and its legs are thick and short, and its head is smaller phase 1: once entering sublevel 7 of decrepit caverns in blossoming arcadia (suggested pikmin: purple, rock, yellow) the player finds a huge looking rock in the middle of the room when walked up to it will grow thick legs short in length and then the battle begins. (side note there will be red, blue, white and ice candypop buds to the right two of each and the battlefield is dome shaped) [10 of each type of total] phase 2: the congealed crushblo will start violently jumping around the room not knowing where it's going. once out of breath it will stop in place and start stomping until it regains its breath. the best time to attack would be when its stomping by throwing the large and heavy purples on the rock it will start to crack and with 20 purple hits its cracked (you may also use rock however it would take 50 throws in which you can only get in about 10 throws every stomp time.) phase 3: once the rock is exposed it will be revealed but this time it looks just like a round reddish ball that is before its roles its eyes forward and opens its huge mouth. it is now squishy meaning pikmin will not be crushed however it does have a colored hue to it which indicates an element it has on it (40% chance for electric, 15% fire 15% ice 15% poison, 15% water) if a pikmin of the wrong element is thrown on they will get the status effect. when it is yellow it has electric and when it bounces and hits the ground electric sparks will randomly shock in the arena like the titan dweevil from pikmin 2. if on fire when crushing a multitude of fire geysers will appear and start doing what they do best until destroyed. if water occasionally it will spit out water filling the arena with water, and it will suck it back in after time. if icy then it will blow out cold air making the room chilly and will make pikmin chiver icicles will also fall from the ceiling both of these things have the same mechanics from subzero sauna and they will stop when he goes to the next phase or if he switches to fire. if poison when it bounces it will expel poison gas in the arena. while all this is happening the congealed crushblo will also try to lick up pikmin by bending down and slamming its Toung into the ground (kind of like the creeping chrysanthemum) phase 4: once hit enough the congealed crushblo will turn off all elements. and start running occasionally release every element at once indicated by a glow if every color. and then a deep breath once attacked a bit more it will seemingly die however there has been no health bar so far. phase 5: the congealed crushblo will borrow into the ground and pop its feet out and start crushing in nearby areas from here its simple kill him with rocks once the health bar reaches none, he will finally die spitting out a castaway.
These must take so much effort. One idea for a crossover enemy that immediately came to my mind is the scutelbug from mario 64. They already look a bit like a pikmin enemy and I like them so here is the idea in detail. Their name would be beady longling (Google says that a baby spider is called a spiderling). This suggests that this enemy is a baby version of the all known beady longlegs although they don't HAVE to be related and could have a bulbourb situation going on. Their design would be very similar to a scutelbugs design in shape although it would loose the eyes. Its texture would be similar to that of a beady longlegs. They would attack by charging at the pikmin they see and overrunning them just like how they do in Mario 64 The idea isn't too complicated but it doesn't have to be. I hope you like this idea.
I know this is supposed to be Mario themed but, how about the Yeek from Rain World? Ingame, they are just harmless little prey animals that jump around and catch small fruit and insects. The Hydroseeks. A small creature that lives in or around bodies of water, but prefer to walk on land. They walk around via their 2 short but thick legs, galloping in a similar way to Oatchi. They will make a blast of water where they are standing, nocking off all pikmin and causing all non-blue pikmin to panic. They will use this blast to launch themselves towards the player, damaging them and crushing the pikmin it lands on. They will then have to find a pond to stock up on water before they are able to do their launch again. If they are attacked before their blast is charged, they can swing their two tails to flail pikmin off, but barely causing any damage to them. This is basically a last-ditch effort in order to defend itself. I do not know why I decided to type all of this, as there is no way this will be made, especially since yeeks are not from Mario.
Surprised that there was no loops style enemy. Probably a small bug that attacks by retreating into its shell before bouncing off of walls, trying to crush Pikmin before it gets dizzy and shows its weak spot. I think it would be cool if their corpse (shell) could be picked up or swallowed by Oatchi, allowing you to then launch the shell as your own projectile against enemies. The shell will bounce around so be careful not to hit your own squad with it!
3 ideas 1 the rotten shroom makes rottonmush clump the boss of moldy areaswhen attacked it'll start charging up pheromones and posionous stink when the stink is released it'll posion non white pikmin also it can make an undead mold army that follows the creature of moldy dwarf bublorbs moldy slooches
Glow onion: in Nighttime theme cave you can find a dominant green onion but once you come close to it. It will sprout out of the ground and will start grabbing a bunch of mud and starts part one of the boss. Part one bullblax: a Sovereign bullblax with a lumiknoll on its back and bright neon green eyes and a green glow in its mouth with mud like skin. It attacks like a Sovereign bullblax but it leaves glow sap when it attacks Which kills Any pikmin it touches and when it does the jump attack it creates tricknolls. The tricknolls can summons 5 to 9 glow pikmin to help the Lumiknoll emperor in battle. The tricknolls can be destroyed but leaves glow sap when destroyed. Part two long legs: a raging long legs twice the size of a normal raging long legs with groove long leg like Head with green eyes and muddy head with stone legs. it stomps really fast but every twelve stomps it stops to lower its head and after five seconds it smashes it head in to the ground and starts to shake its head and releases a bunch of glow sap everywhere from the top of its head Final part tower: the onion desperately tries to create a tall tower you must destroy. with glowing Windows and mud/stone walls with vines. The tower is stationary but can launch glow sap balls that explode at you and shoots mud projectiles in five lines that spin in a clockwise or counterclockwise directions And shoots giant boulders at you that can roll or drop down from the sky And can shoot ten missiles into the sky and will drop on you (And it can use two attacks at once) And once you finally destroy the tower you get the green onion
Enemy idea: Treasure-hermit. The Treasure-hermit hides i ball like treasures (golf ball,billard ball…). The ball is flipped to the side where you can’t see the hole, but as soon as your pikmin trie to get the treasure, it will release a poisonous explosion knocking all pikmin away and giving them a poison effect(except whites of course). The treasure-hermit itself is a big insect with mantis like claws. It only shows its upper body and hides the rest in the ball. It’s mostly black but it also has some cyan spots (because it’s a poison enemy). After you kill it, the ball will flip to the side and all of its babies come out of the hole. The babies are similar to the male sheergrub but they’re faster and eat slower. There will also be another poisonous cloud released, wich was stored in the ball to protect the babies. If you attack it with the Oachi rush, it’ll fall out of the ball and the babies with the poisonous cloud will be released. It will then try to crawl back into the ball and take the kids in (It’s helpless while crawling back so use that as your chance). Sorry if my english is bad. it’s it ok to repost enemie ideas? sorry if it’s not.
love your content bro! just like you i grew up playing pikmin games, just with my first pikmin game being pikmin 3 on the wii u! i actually really like the complexity of your boss designs because they remind me of the bosses from pikmin 3 which is my favorite game in the series due to its bosse. when i first played pikmin 4 i was disappointed to see that the bosses were no where near as cool as the ones from pikmin 3, so it’s refreshing watching your videos and seeing awesome bosses again! anyways i’ll stop yapping, i love your content and wish i could support you!
Your goomba is a really neat idea. I'm imagining the behavior of the vacoombra sitting with it's feet buried disguised among mushrooms like it and when your army approaches, it jumps out of the ground for a brief moment and rushes in a straight line at your group of Pikmin nabbing a few as it passes (kinda like a goomba in Mario would behave, rushing at its opponent with reckless abandon). It continues until I runs into a grouping of the mushrooms or a wall and then starts prepping the incineration attack.
Honestly the way you handled the designs here, I honestly felt like they could of been completely original ideas, so I don't see why you should have to limit yourself if you had fun with it. Besides with just the Mario series, there is a lot of ground you could tap into, some naturally occurring version of space dogs based off yoshis if you are looking for something cute, or if you are looking for that deep sense of dread you like to invoke for your bossfights, you could even base something of Unagi (( The eel from mario 64 )) with a weakpoint on its tail, like how it had the star you needed to collect dangling from it in the game.
If this does end up a series, you could include other crossovers too instead of just Mario. Zelda has a vast treasure trove of enemies to fill up with Pikmin whimsy. It even has a whole game that half takes place from the perspective of tiny forest people!
Here's my thought on one potential enemy: the Gibdo. I call it the Rattleshell Gravemoth
At rest they cover themselves with their wings with their long antenna stretching out and over, this is to lure in prey while it waits in ambush. What are it's prey? Other predators. How do you lure a predator in the world of Pikmin? Tempt them with Pikmin. The Gravemoths with regularly scavenge from sites where Pikmin have fallen or hunt them directly to drain the bodily fluids out of their corpses and dry them out to use as puppets on the ends of their antenna, dancing about until something draws too close.
Once potential prey is near, they swiftly open their wings to reveal a frightening pattern while screeching a horrible noise, paralyzing unaware creatures before pouncing and skewering them with their proboscises to drain their fluids too.
They key to fighting them is to either attack from behind if possible due to them focusing on their luring act or to strike from range so you don't get frightened by their scare attack and can whistle back your Pikmin before it leaps on them. After it's leap there is a window to strike, swarm it quickly but be prepared to call your Pikmin back before it flaps its wings to get them off.
It can't use it's wings to fly however, their typical subterranean environment means they have largely grown out of that habit due to a lack of room. But studies show that these may in fact just be the larval stage, despite their bodily developments resembling an adult of their family, of a much more dangerous moth.
I'm sorry, but I do not have enough time to read this big of a comment. It seems like a good design, though being a red ant
heres an idea i had for awhile: the foe-nion, basically its a fake onion, its a rare enemy and mostly relys on your ability to notice its tricks, when you discover a new pikmin type in the overworld a fake onion of the same color will appear near your ship tricking pikmin into bringing items to it instead of the real onion, the pikmin will be sucked up aswell as the item, then the foe-nion will frantically run away to a burrow where it will eat the pikmin if it successfully gets away, if its health is low enough it will start flying so high that only yellows can reach it, trying to draw pikmin from it will also damage you, its legs are like dead sticks, the pattern on its bulb looks wobbly and twisted and the flower on its top looks like it was ripped from another plant, and drool slowly and subtly drips from its mouth at the bottom
Everyone wants a fake onion man. (Everyone also wants to make their their own man at legs or long legs, for some reason also)
Old Pikmin 4 concept I made as a Kid: Fire arm home invader(a fire ant like creature whom lives in a sandy like area that moves around quickly while using its mandibles to grab sand to construct a big hot sand ball it can send hurling at Pikmin, but as it is capturing sand it gradually decreases its mobility allowing available Pikmin to attack the legs to lower its abdomen, if Pikmin are too close to its head it can shake the Pikmin off and turn around to swoop in and take a bite. Once it is defeated it will die… preferably I would imagine the creature to be in a sand box or playground (with sand) like area .
I know pikmin are just ants but why are there no ant enemy's?
@@treecotreeco4898never thought of that.. ngl pikmin should have more actual buglike enemies
Ah yes fire ant dies when it’s killed
Yes indeed
"once defeated it dies" how original.
i adore the plasmatic vacoombra being partially based on a plasma globe
i've loved those things ever since i was little
even now i still have one in my room that i occasionally mess around with
and i also adore that the bubbled caterbead has 2 phases that each give one of the pikmin types in it's cave a moment in the spotlight to show off their strengths. i wish more cave specific bosses would do that, especially if a given cave were the introduction to a certain type
How do you even pronounce that (i forgot and don't want to repeatedly watch it to remember)
waitwaitwait DO BOO
Here's a new enemy idea I came up with, it's called the G.U.A.R.D. It would be a very unique enemy as it can't be killed by any means, so be careful when you come across it. Its shape is a circular ball with a color scheme similar to the white E.M.M.I. It would move by rolling around, and when its idle, it will bring it's singular eye that is attached to a long, thin piece of wire and look around the area, making sure no intruders are present in the area, and the 6 parts of the sphere will separate and will let them stand up right. If the G.U.A.R.D sees you, it will start firing from it eye with the same projectiles the Man-At-Legs uses until the you escape or fail to make it past. Luckily, the G.U.A.R.D only protects a certain area around where it was located. It is also easily distractible by Pik-Pik carrots, but not anything else.
The enemy's design is based of the E.M.M.I from Metroid Dread and partly design from the Guardian form Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I have always wanted a undefeatable threat that you couldn't be defeated or easily avoided. I also wanted more robotic enemies than just the Man-At-Legs.
Nice crossover idea
Kirby enemies next? Kirby and friends are actually just 6 inches tall (dedede being like 12 to 8 inches) so it would be fun and makes kind of sense (Kirby, being 5 inches taller than olimar is bonkers)
I’m a throw some ideas out, “ smash Chuck” (sumo beetle) “ iron snarrow” (dyna blade) “skylix” (kracko)
Great video as always.
I have a Pikmin enemy idea. The scrounging metal himer. It is a large scorpion like creature that's actually kind of a mixture of a whiptail spider and a scorpion. It has scrap metal armor and can only be hit by one Pikmin type until the armor breaks that type is ice Pikmin. It also has weapons all over itself kinda like the titan dweevil
we need Skuttlebugs from Super Mario 64.These fellas are so strange and I genuine love them.
Here's a cool idea I just came up with:
The Bruising Rusher
It is based off the chaincomp. It is a black sphere, with retractable legs, hard extirerior, large insect like eyes, and large mandible.
It is related to the armored cannon beetle, it attacks your pikmin by retracting its legs and roll at you at a decent speed. In order to attack it you will need to make it run into a wall, or run in a circle so that it becomes dizzy.
Once you are able to attack it a grat tounge will shoot out of its mouth (A reference to the chain) and its legs will show them selves again letting you attack them!
Neat
Good one.
@@Manny4Life948 Were you on the Raggins stream on Sunday? Your profile looks familiar
@@AnAveragePurplePikmin I am everywhere my guy
@@Manny4Life948 Cool, just checking.
A Mario Enemy to Pikmin Enemy idea I had was based on the Boo species that would use camouflage/invisiblity to stalk the player and pikmin in caves or night levels.
Since it would become invisible and intangible when looked at, the only way to be able to attack this creature is to wait until it strikes, where you'd have a few seconds to counterattack, with the duration being a bit more if they enemy failed to catch any pikmin.
Silly idea: Vacoombras can be somewhat-easily defeated in much the same way as Dwarf Bulborbs, though it doesn't work with non-Purple Pikmin; The easiest way to dispatch one is to throw a Captain onto its head while it's in phase 1 or 3.
Enemy idea: Plump Pugfish
A mudskipper-pug hybrid that lurks in the water, getting too close will alert the Pugfish, making it lunge towards you, if it misses it puffs up its body and fires a jet of water, if you get too close it will try to inhale your pikmins
I really like the plasmatic Vacoombra. It's a nuanced, multifacted concept.
If I were tasked with designing a version of Goombas adapted for Pikmin, I think I'd make a species of brown, eyestalkless bulborbs (Bulboombas, maybe?). This would kind of maintain the facial features while sacrificing the body shape, kind of the inverse of your approach. Both Goombas and Bulborbs have 2 legs, no arms, and are both the most fundamental enemy type in their series, so I think there's an appropriate thematic link. I'd give them a new mechanic, but I haven't come up with one at the moment.
Maybe make them charge at you faster than usual when they see you, kind of like how Goombas work in 3D Mario, but also make them topple over easier like in Galaxy when you spin at a Goomba
Pikmin (creepy) Boss idea:
*The Shadow Sneaker*
This creature only exists as a shadow that looks like a nightmarish Bulborb but can kill enemies and Pikmin (A bit of damage to Oatchi and the player) by interacting with their shadows (think The Princess and the Frog) and is invincible
This creature like the Water Wraith would be a constant threat and be in it's own cave called "Luminescent Alcove" a cave that has a hotel Hallway like design and be brightly lit to the point that shadows are present and have dark hiding spots that it can't reach (hmmm)
The boss floor is unique in that instead of a regular fight there would be a puzzle with its own health bar and you need to stop at times to hide from the creature in the dark hiding spots. Once you successfully drain the puzzle's heath the lights will flicker and then turn off stopping the Shadow Sneaker for good and leaving a treasure to collect.
Enemy idea for boo: it’s a night exclusive enemy that is mostly harmless. It is far away from the luminal, and it doesn’t come close to you. It would give x amount of glowseeds if you defeat it. It is kind a risk reward type thing because you would have to venture out away from where you’re supposed to be. Compare it to the honeywisp, except better.
If you double down on the Mario crossover idea, obviously the Koopa has a lot to work with. Some of what used to be variants kinda became their own thing, but the actual Koopa still has rather unique variations with fun gimmicks. The Electro Koopa from Mario Sunshine, for example, has an electrified shell. It has a variant that can climb on walls, but the primary iteration of it attacks on the ground by throwing its electric shell like a boomerang. It is, naturally, vulnerable during this time. It can be delt with by either directly jumping on them or stunning them so they hit themselves with their shell, the latter of which grants more coins. There are also Koopeleons from Partners In Time, which essentially grant a chameleon's abilities to a Koopa, such as camouflage and the long sticky tongue. As one of Mario's "big two" alongside the Goomba, there's a lot to work with beyond those two specific variants as well.
whomp but its a snailshell whose shell falls toward whichever side has the most pikmin on it because its too heavy crushing all of them in the process. defeated by throwing pikmin on it while its on the floor and its soft stomach is exposed.
I think that the Broozer/Boozer/Boxer from the New Super Mario Bros series would be a fun enmities to redesign and imagine more complex attacks.
I love how much thought you're putting into these! Not just the appearance but also the attack patterns and how you draw inspiration from both universes and things from our own.
One thing I would like to see for fun is what their death drops will look like maybe with a brief desciption of a death animation.
This has been a really neat crossover concept for Pikmin and the Super Mario franchise. I do have a couple of suggestions I'd like to make, however.
1. Considering the fact that the Pyro Perennial is normally stationary inside its hibiscus, its stem should snap when defeated and allow the player's pikmin crew to bring its disconnected head back to the ship.
2. The Vacoombra's plasma-ball attack is electricity-based, right? If that's the case, yellow pikmin should be impossible for it to kill, and the Vacoombra instead harmlessly ejects them after electrocuting the rest of its prey.
How about this idea? The Exploding Rockrunner, based on the Bob-omb! It looks like a Bomb Rock, but when you get too close, it springs up and chases you! I know its like that one dweebil from Pikmin 2, however unlike the dweebil, it is much faster and will pursue you at high speeds, meaning you need to be cautious and ready to get away once it starts chasing you. But you can also bait it into an active flame to have it explode abruptly, or into some water to cool it down, exposing it for a counterattack!
This is the first video of yours I've watched, and it's a great first impression. You suceeded in making all these enemies both great adaptations of Mario enemies and great Pikmin enemies in your own right. My only suggestion would be to make the Blooper-Wiggler more recognizable as a Mario reference; the design is great, but it would've cool to have more Mario-ness in it beyond the body shape and ink abilities. BTW, what was the music used here?
Zelda enemies into Pikmin enemies
I can see octoroks or tektites being a fun choice! Or you could turn Bokoblins into little pig guys!
Wow I love the pyro perennial it looks so cool. Also I have an idea for an original character for Pikmin. It's called the poisonous Belcher a cousin of the joust mite but unlike its cousin it doesn't have a helmet but expels poison clouds around its abdomen it has larger wings then the joust mite to compensate for its larger body and like the name it barfs out a lot of poison clouds and while the squad of Pikmin (besides white Pikmin) the poisonous Belcher will stick out it's two barbed tongue to Pierce Pikmin and sucks them up you would need to throw white Pikmin at it's large abdomen since it's covered in a poison clouds but since the white Pikmin are small, they can't drag down the poisonous Belcher.i would imagine the colors being purple as a reference to the joust mite have a blue shell and the flighty joust mite having a red shell and red and blue makes purple and also it would have teal colors as well. the would be very chunky and fat and i hope you like this idea and it's fine if you don't 😊
Collab idea: Subnautica there are so many creatures you can use! Pls❤❤❤
I have an enemy idea, and it's part of the breadbug family
the Fairy Breadbug
It can lift treasures in the air with a carrying strength of 20 pikmin
It also has a slightly flat back with butter and sprinkles on it it would also have big wings resembling that of the dragonfly wings
Only winged pikmin and yellow pikmin can carry the treasure. The winged pikmin will play a tug of war in the air while the yellow pikmin will slam the treasure on the ground, damaging it to half health
If you fail to get the treasure the Fairy Breadbug will carry it to a high place where it's nest is you will have to find the nest and break it before the Fairy Breadbug inhibiting the nest comes back and knocks the pikmin off
Also, unlike the two main Breadbugs, the fairy Breadbug will be in the open, just like the crumbug from Hey pikmin
This will all go on until the Breadbug is defeated. I love the videos :)
better be buttered and have sprinkles
@@itsumikorokoexactly what it is
Louie's Recipes:
Plasmatic Vacoombra: Take this exceedingly extendable creature's stretchy head and roll with a pin. Pan-Sear on low heat until it looks crispy. Works well for an enchilada topping on Cinco de Mayo!
Pyro Perennial: Remove its bulbous mouth-like center and remove the pistil. Cover in White cake Batter and bake at 400° Fahrenheit for half an hour. Once baked, cover your cake ball in strawberry frosting, a topping of your choice, then slice into eighths. Extreme Strawberry flavor inside and out!
Bubbled Catterbead: Though its bubble segments are inedible, the head makes for a fine thanksgiving steak. Remove cartilage and cook over open fire until browned. The single antenna on is head is to be removed beforehand, chopped into equally sized pieces, and served as a side. The steak is good with gravy, and the antenna slices taste somewhat of blueberry.
Segmented Thorntower (Pokey)
It's body is covered in sharp thorns, protecting it. It's segments are sometimes small spherical objects (like a bomb rock or small treasures).
Oh my gosh, this is awesome! Well, since we’re going with Mario enemies, I think you might know what the basis of my idea is:
That’s right, Dry Bones!
It’s the skeleton of some sort of turtle-like creature. (For the sake of example, let’s call this deceased creature a Trooper Toughback.)
When you first come across this skeleton, it’s nothing but a pile of bones covered in cobwebs. Once you approach it, though, the bones assemble and stand up on two legs, with these spider webs actually holding it together and controlling it, similarly to puppet strings. What’s pulling these strings, however? Why, it’s a pair of small yellow glowing spider-like creatures inhabiting each of the Toughback’s eye sockets! This double-teaming arachnid-esque puppetmaster is what’s known as an Arid Socketeer! The webbing-possessed corpse constantly shambles toward the player’s party with its arms held out, and when it gets close enough, it suddenly shoots a big web from its mouth similarly to the tongue of a Toady Bloyster or Creeping Chrysanthemum, trapping and crunching any unfortunate Pikmin within its jaws once it pulls this web-tongue back in. There are two different ways to deal with this enemy. The first is to throw your Pikmin directly at the pair of little glowy spiders, though going for that is a bit risky when you have something so threatening rattling toward you. Luckily, there’s the second option: attacking the skeletal body itself. When the skeleton takes enough damage, it falls apart, making its skull tumble to the ground, which in turn leaves the spiders in its eye sockets much more vulnerable! You’d better be quick to take advantage of this disassembly period, though, because the pair of Arid Socketeers will soon pull those bones back together with their stringy webs and resume the chase. Once both of these little creepy crawlies are defeated, the bones fall apart for good, and the threat is eliminated!
That is so cool, I love how you translated the supernatural glory-eyed skeleton into something insane yet naturalistic that still resembles the original idea and fits right in with Pikmin! Honestly the best idea I‘ve read so far
Ayyy, thank you! I really appreciate that!
@@BazTheDryBonesFan You’re welcome! The whole puppeteering through spiderwebs is just so creative
Aw, gosh, you flatter me! I’m really glad you like it so much!
I really loved the first design since it reminds me of when I was younger I had the theory that the Puffstool was a mutated version of the goomba or that it was a reference to Mario games
A cool idea I thought of for a pikmin boss is the candypop poser. The candypop poser would look like a normal candypop bud but once you put a pikmin inside the boss fight will activate revealing its 6 legs and giant eye on top. The bosses main gimmick is that it sucks up pikmin and changes them to what ever color the bosses flower is. The boss will also change the color of the flower throughout the battle. The way to damage the boss is to knock down its feet so that you can reach the glowing eye at the top of it.
Third times the charm, the boxer beetle, it’s like a box elder bug that loves punch out and got built like buzzwhole, he’s ether a boss or mini boss and flashes some colors before he attacks punch out style
Severely off-topic, but I was super shocked to hear Castlevania Order of Ecclesia music at 14:00. It's the only Castlevania game I've played, you pick really good music for these videos. Really good stuff, and amazing art as well.
Your drawings look amazing!! I'd love to see these enemy's in game 😍😍plus Nintendo needs to hire you lol 🤣🤣
Metroid enemies as Pikmin enemies.
Absolute horror.
Also, cute little Piktroids.
What about splatoon enemies for th next one?
Love the complex enemies! Super fun and interesting to talk about the mechanics of all the really cool designs, so glad I found this channel!
Really good video! I love the pyro perennial design a lot!. One thing I would change is Yellow Pikmin should be immune to the Plasmatic Vacoombra, simply getting spat out.
This was a great video, I loved every second of it! I will 100 percent be getting the premium patreon as soon as I can.
Also, I had an idea for a future Mario inspired enemy. Inspired by the Bobomb, the Bobbing Kernel Bomb is a seed like creature that runs around looking for the perfect place to nest it’s young. When confronted with hostile creatures it will panic and begin to run away. If cornered, it will pop like popcorn, bouncing into the air and past the Pikmin and Captain, knocking back the captain and Oatchi and killing some Pikmin in the process. Because if the erratic nature of the Bobbing Kernel Bomb, it is very distracting, and attracts Pikmin to it. Sometimes it even has some treasure hidden inside. You can only deal damage to it by hitting it with Rocks or Purples.
I have a idea of a series you could turn creatures from it into pikmin enemies, oddworld as the creatures in the games are so weird I think they could be translated into pikmin creatures quite well
Can’t wait :)
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Alright, so I don't know if it'd be best to submit enemy ideas here here or the pixel art post, so I'll just put it here. I had a hard time deciding what idea to go with, but I noticed that you seemed to like enemies with multiple states/phases, and enemies whose looks can be deceiving. So, I went with one of my more humble creations, the Fringed Skitterleaf. Scientific name Rus Psuedofrivolum for its appearance mimicking a Japanese Maple leaf, which we may all know as the real-life item that is the Arboreal Frippery treasure. It may be small and thin at first glance, but make no mistake, this is a strategic predator. It lies in wait pretending to be a leaf on the floor of sublevels with many such leaves scattered around, however, unlike your typical Skitterleaf, it doesn't react when pikmin get near, or even when stepped upon by a pikmin or captain. It will wait until an opportune moment, such as a captain with a small pikmin squad entering the room, or more likely, a treasure or body being carried. It will then raise up its body on four, spindly, multi-jointed limbs, each cleverly concealed beneath a point of the 5-pointed maple leaf. The fifth point conceals its weapon of choice: a long barbed stinger, which it will use to skewer pikmin one at a time, carefully, before returning to its concealed state once all pikmin nearby have been eaten. It is often found on fake rest sublevels, where the captain will most likely be introduced to this enemy by a sudden drop in their pikmin numbers on a seemingly safe sublevel. But what happens when your captains do encounter this creature with a substantial enough force? Well, the Fringed Skitterleaf will panic, twitching erratically and skewering much quicker. But, on every third skewer, its stinger gets stuck in the ground, giving an opportunity to strike the agile creature. And of course, you can crush it immediately if you know it's there with a well-placed Purple or Rock throw. But would you really do that to such a poor, defenseless, little Skitterleaf?
Anyway, I'll definitely leave another comment next episode with more ideas. Especially if you give an idea of what sort of theme your next episode will be on.
An idea I had had on an enemy concept was very similar to Mario Sunshine's Cataquak, a small birdlike enemy that doesn't necessarily attack Mario, but flings him high into the air; the red ones do damage to him in the process, but the blue ones are harmless.
So, similarly, the Catapulting Quaskoop is a small, birdlike enemy (think about the size of a Bulbmin captain, between the sizes of a Dwarf and adult Bulborb) with tiny eyes attached to a "stem" on its head, short squat legs with little suction cups on its toes, with a flat, shovel-shaped bill, similar to a Mockiwi, but bigger; about the size one of Beady Long Legs' feet. It's essentially harmless on its own, with its only attack being yeeting your Pikmin behind and above itself, potentially flinging them into danger or off a bottomless edge in caves.
Its bigger (about the size of a Pikmin 2 Emperor Bulblax, with a bigger bill to go with it) cousin, the Crimson Catapulting Quaskoop, is significantly more dangerous; it will take a step backward after flinging Pikmin into the air to try and catch them in its beak, eating a maximum of 6 Pikmin at a time; you can interrupt this by stunning or freezing it, with Purples' slam, an Oatchi Rush, or simply using Ice Pikmin. However, if it's interrupted from catching its meal, or it's at low health, sometimes it can slam its bill straight down to squash Pikmin with, or charge directly at the captain to stun them and do a tiny bit of damage. However, worth noting is that it can't be stunned by an Oatchi Rush unless it's started walking backwards, thanks to its wide, suction cupped feet.
Wow!! I loved every single design! Gosh, your ideas are just so awesome!! Well, I'm going to give my own ideas! Here's the first, I will give more in the replies for this comment if I have any!
The king progg (Inspired by king boo) and its tadproggs (Inspired by boos)
This creature is a relative to the smoky progg, but he came out of the shell way too early, making his body have this really pale and ghostly white skin and really bright yellow core, similar to an egg white and its yolk, it would appear only on night mission after exploring its very own cave, the cave would be called: "Underground nightmare" a cavern that would have a daylight sensor attached onto it, which would only open the cave when the day is almost ending and the sun is going down, basically the last 10 seconds of the day, where all the floors would have these spectral enemies called tadproggs, they float around with almost no sense of direction, they would have this small orb shaped body with a small swimmer at the back, almost as if they are swimming in the air, to defeat the tadproggs you need to come close to them, as they will go above your squad and start to dispel this white gas that after a feel seconds will start to suck all of it back up if a pikmin is caught in the gas, their body would shrink in size depending on how much gas they expel, if they can't get pikmin, they will dispel even more, giving everything they have to get and suck a pikmin to their body so they can eat, but for them, It's too late, they spend all their energy to expel the gas and get something and become way too weak, at that point they become passive, as they have no way to attack anymore, but you could still try to throw pikmin at them, which will pop their bodies leaving behind their bright yellow core, I like to think that their own attack is almost like a fly trap, which if you don't know, when they capture prey they spend a lot of energy to close and eat it, so if they don't, their bodies wouldn't be able to do it again and slowly die as they can't eat anymore, and now, for the boss
King progg itself will not appear at the cave, when reaching the final floor of the Underground Nightmare, the only thing to find is a giant banshee-like scream distancing itself from the arena and a single, giant broken egg leaking poison from the inside, the egg can be avoided and broken, but whatever it is that hatched, is long gone, now, when doing a night expedition there will be a new search to be made, Yonny will tell you that something is appearing at night in the area, making all nocturnal creatures hide and even glow pikmin wouldn't raise any luminknoll as they could also be scared of whatever it is that's haunting the area, "It's as if they saw a ghost!" Yonny would say, he asks you to have a ton of glow seeds as they would be the only was to get pikmin in the area, and so, you will do the night expedition "hunt for the king", when reaching the area the place would quiet, deathly quiet, no creature, no luminknoll, at the first few seconds there would nothing, giving you time to use the glow seeds and produce a small army of glow pikmin, until, you start to hear someone, or something crying, even Collin would say "Who's crying? And... Why is this sending shivers down my spine...?", following the crying sound you would find a wall, previously just scenery, now with a giant hole, bigger them even a jumbo bulborb, now, when following deeper there would be a really beautiful view, a giant field of pale white flowers with the full moon shining and glowing, and in front of you, this gigantic, pale ghostly beast with a shining, almost golden like, core a top of it's head, his body would be twice as big as a smoky progg, his eyes would have tears flowing down, and only his face would have a somewhat stable form, as the rest of his body constantly deforms and reforms, trying to keep itself together, the fight would begin, I just like to say that for a soundtrack it wouldn't have one, Its battle would just be his own constantly crying as the sound that follows him, his existence is pain, for him and for everything around.
Phase 1: King progg would form two front legs and jumps in the air, starting to float around the area, leaving a trail of Its tear which would just slow you down when in contact and disappear after a few seconds, but, from his body falls cluster of eggs, which from them would start to spawn tadproggs, that in sync with their king, would be the ones to try suck and gobble up your pikmin, after a floating for a while he would descend and that's the time to strike, using your glow pikmin to do the "glowmob" attack and stun him, the giant ball of light would scare the King progg, and his body would become unstable, making his face melt and the core in his head to become exposed and now is your time to strike him, after a few seconds his body would stabilize and if any pikmin is still attacking its core, they would be sucked and eaten.
Phase 2: Now after jumping his would start to do a quick and rapid descend, needing to be really quick to escape or Oatchi-rush out of the way, his body would splat against the ground dropping eggs and quickly reforming and staying still for a second before doing it again, you would need to blind and destabilize him again with your glow pikmin, but if he stays still for more time, he could be baiting the player into giving a full banshee scream, which would make every pikmin and oatchi disperse, now making them go randomly but just run away from the creature as fast as possible
Phase 3: His body would become more and more unstable as the fight goes on, in a last ditch effort he would go to the middle of the arena and splat itself leaving the core in the middle and covering the whole arena with its goo, you would need to run as fast as possible to the middle of the arena, as the goo would produce waves that send you back and if hit pikmin, they would get stuck and get brought closer to the core, to be eaten when it reforms, so, you need to jump from the waves of goo and destroy the core once and for all, making the creature try to reform itself back as it keeps trying and crying, until its cries are silenced as they collapse and die, you are victorious and the creature found peace
Gosh, for a simple concept I had in my head first the idea just became more and more kkkkk sorry if the text is too long, got too excited! But, if you wish I give more ideas, I would be pleased to!
Kirby enemies crossover seems like a nice idea.
I have recently started watching your Designing Pikmin Enemy series, and I think you are super underrated. I can't even imagine how long it takes to make all of these sketches back-to-back. So, I thought I'd share my unique enemy idea.
The Angler GlowBuzz:
The Angler Glowbuzz resembles an earth firefly, but overall resembles a shearwig. This is because the Shearwig is related to the Glowbuzz. It is called the "Angler" Glowbuzz because Pikmin are drawn in by its glow part. They jump onto the glowbuzz, and it EXPLODES its glow part. This doesn't kill the Pikmin, but knocks them back and stuns them. Just like when a Pikmin gets set on fire or electrocuted, you will need to whistle them back. The Glowbuzz lands itself on the ground, and then eats the stunned Pikmin. The glowbuzz regrows its glow part in a matter of seconds. (Don't question this is Pikmin.) Then the attack cycle will repeat once again. The only way to defeat this annoying pest is to weigh it down with 5 Pikmin. This creature is heavier as it is a larger member of the sheargrub family.
This enemy is fine to tackle alone, but if there are many, you might face a quite troublesome task.
While he was making the first enemy and introduced his attack the omori ost- 103 gator gambol was playing
Olimario
I think your enemies are incredible and awesome, but the thought of actually fighting puts such a feeling of fear in my heart that I don't know how to express it
Also, they are all very pretty and sound really cool
You could have a lakitu like enemy that throws down dwarf bolborbs and stuff like the careening dirigibug
I dont really care if the bosses are unfair or whatever i want fun and your mireclops boss would be so cool to fight with a cool story of how a juvenile mireclops looks and attacks without the massive body.
Enemy idea: serrated sawshriek
A large bird like creature with two legs and a large long beak that looks like a chainsaw. It attacks by swinging this beak and can also charge towards you with its serrated beak forward.
Piranha plant one kind of looks like quagaled mireclops, that intentional?
15:37 hang on a dang minute, that’s dunkey’s video in the back! Love that guy
You’re totally right, I meant to put that in the video description, thanks for the reminder! (I’ve saved lots of Pikmin 4 gameplay from various channels to use as b-roll, credit should’ve been and will be added in my video description!)
@@paracosmparty haha no worries!
😂Gerome the yellow pikmin prankster😂: 😢😅why am I showing dying for the first enemy???😅😢
😂Gerome the yellow pikmin prankster😂: and my dad to!!!
I would love to see an enemy based on the bob omb or the mecha koopa
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for the goomba you could make different versions for different biomes (grass=brown, cave=blue, house=gray)
make sense because
brown=overworld blue=undeground grey=castle
I HAD to pick up a 4k Man of the Hour pic from Patreon! It's my home screen now❤❤
Wow thank you so much! I appreciate it dearly! ✨💕
I love the first one. I honestly didn’t think that someone could turn mario enemies into pikmin enemies… but you did it! And they‘re really good!
Boo blah from yoshi’s island is funny
what software do you use to draw art?????
WHY IS THE KITTY CREEPY
Mario enemies are such a good choice to turn into Pikmin enemies with them being plants or animals in the first place!
It's really awesome to see you work!
Thank you!! & I agree a lot of Mario enemies have potential for Pikmin! 😁✨
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I have an idea about a new frog pikmin enemy, it's called the anura lily it has long antenna with a lily on top, where an eye comes out, kind of like the creeping chrysanthemum, it's two eyes sticking out of lily pad, if it notices you and your squad it will hop out of the water and instantly use its elongated tounge to drag your pikmin in the water drowning them like the puckering blinnow unless they're blue but if they are blue they'll get eaten and I imagine you would find anura lily in the primordial thicket
I really love the pyro perennial! I'm of the personal opinion that there should be more plant-based enemies in pikmin! Whether they're actually eating pikmin, harming them through defense or just being a hazard alongside other enemies !
some really good games you could make things from them into Pikmin enemies are the battle cats, Terraria, plants vs zombies, the mushroom garden series of games by beeworks, and monster hunter just to name a few with a ton of potential on that, I have really enjoyed your videos and I cant wait to see more.
Vacroombra: I Have Like 100 Fucking Trucks Up My Nonexistent Selve!!!1!!11!
Thought on Plasmatic Vacoombra:
Maybe don't make it completely transparent, because it would be difficult to explain why exactly this thing is what it is.
And during its vacuuming phase, the feet should not be flat like __ , but instead on their toes like /\ in good old goomba fashion.
Thought on the Pyro Perennial:
Could have more elemental variations and a non elemental variation, maybe one without and one with a tounge-like vine.
Thought on the Bubbled Caterbead:
The pikmin shouldn't teleport into the bubbles but pass through the bubbles depending on the speed they got sucked in (random).
Overall everything, especially the bossfight, is a really cool concept. It just wouldn't fit into the pikmin games as they are right now, at least not as casual enemies but each as at least in this "difficult enemy" category because they all are not fun to deal with on a regular basis, like for example having to kill 4 Pyro Perennial just to clear the way for pikmin to carry treasure.
And I wish I could draw that well too. Maybe I#ll learn it one day.
I love how you were able to incorporate these Mario enemies into the Pikmin world without just dropping them in there with some slight visual tweaks (which could have easily been done with the piranha plant). They're still recognizable at their core but they have a really unique twist on it!
Just curious, has anyone taken your designs and made d&d or ttrpg statblocks for them?
I can’t believe it’s been an hour… HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS IMMEDIATELY!!! You are one of my fav piktubers…
I have a idea a mimic boss the bosses name should be "the mimicking snap dragon" the boss looks like a dragon and what it does is turn into a pikmin and to find the difference between a real pikmin and the fake pikmin is the fake would have little frills and when you find out which is the fake the fake would transform back to its boss form[it's attacks] it's first attack is a poison spit. the second attack is slamming it's spikey tail on the ground if the player isn't fast enough there pikmin would be crushed. it's final attack is shooting iit's spikey frills at the player and there pikmin and it's weak spot is itit's head[without it's frills] and it's music should be fragment of hope [from "hey! pikmin"] [it's colors[pink and green][the frill tips,snout, arms, legs,tail tip are pink[and I almost forgot that it has kinda small wings and that's my pikmin boss
But... Red Pikmin are immune to fire. This would mean that they are also immune to being incinerated, right?
If you do Splatoon you could do the Octarians and the Salmónids and even the Jellitons but I also wonder what if the Inklings and Octolings were also Pikmin enemy’s.
This is a bit of a joke, but what about famous historical figures? Walt Disney would be the Life-Bringing Animatwerp, a bird that summons mickey mouse-like characters
Heres a mario based enemy! The slippery coldagud. Based on the penguins from new soup for the... wii? Wii U? I don't know.
Enemy idea! I want the next video to be about pikmin type ideas so heres an interesting type!
Name:rubber pikmin.
Ability:Launch pikmin to way to high ledges.
Amune to: being stabbed.
Color: orange.
Description: an orange pikmin with the ability to change its limb length and body shape! It changes its shape into a doughnut to avoid being impaled.
I have another enemy idea!
Name:glove of the earths core.
Idea:boss.
Location:the sand fortress.
Description: a wierd wraith like creature in the form of a hand made of sand.
Weakness:water.
Form of attack : grabbing pikmin and forming a hole like mouth underneath. Will sprinkle them into the mouth like salt.
i wanna see a Kirby version (as it's own series ofc)
...i _don't_ have any suggestions for that, but if any of you lovely other viewers do, put it in the reply section of this comment!
Here is my original enemy. The Rainbow Scum Sucker. A large slug like enemy, the same size as a Snagret, with colorful stripes running down it's back; one for each pikmin color. This rare creature lives burrows close to the campsite. About five minutes after arriving, the creature will emerge from it's home, and make it's way toward the Onion. Once there, it will climb up a leg, latch it's sucker-like mouth onto the bottom of the onion, an turn a random pikmin color: while taking on that Pikmin elemental hazard. Once attached, the player can't move base, call or put back pikmin and every minute the creature will eat ten pikmin in the onion. The way to beat it is to have fifteen pikmin or Oachi grab it's tail and pull it off (It it's purple it will take 100) once off, it will flee back to it's burrow, or fly if it turned pink. Once beat it will not respawn, and it worth 100 pikmin.
It's design is based off the Navanax sea slug, and I wanted an enemy that can hurt you your pikmin where you think there safest.
Every Mario enemy should have a counterpart, since every enemy has a different variant. Blue goombas, blue koopas, blue piranha plants, so on…
Vacoombra is awesome, but I wonder if it would look good with some gooma-teeth radiating around the base, just above the feet, for it to clamp down with
Can you turn Sonic enemies into Pikmin enemies? I'd like to see the video focus on the Moto Bug, Buzz Bomber, and Chopper if they were Pikmin-ified.
When you said you were redesigning Mario Enemies to fit into a more naturalistic Pikmin style, I was expecting you to turn an unnatural enemy like a Thwomp, Mechakoopa, or a Boo into a Pikmin enemy at the end as a curveball. It’s kinda a shame you didn’t do that. Would’ve been a cool design challenge. But the enemies you actually chose were sick and took some great deviations while still definitely feeling like those enemies. Maybe you could do one of those in that part 2 (if it happens)?
I really like the idea of needing to divide up your squad and switch captains mid-fight. It reminds me of the Ranging Bloyster from Pikmin 2.
Hold up, hear me out cheep cheep enemy. Think about it, we don't have that many water enemies, and this will make blue pic min a lot more useful.
i already suggested this but I cant think of anything more so I think I'll just post it until it gets picked or never gets picked.
Boss idea:
Name: congealed crushblo
Description: larger version of the calcified crushblat however the shell is rockier looking, and its legs are thick and short, and its head is smaller
phase 1: once entering sublevel 7 of decrepit caverns in blossoming arcadia (suggested pikmin: purple, rock, yellow) the player finds a huge looking rock in the middle of the room when walked up to it will grow thick legs short in length and then the battle begins. (side note there will be red, blue, white and ice candypop buds to the right two of each and the battlefield is dome shaped) [10 of each type of total]
phase 2: the congealed crushblo will start violently jumping around the room not knowing where it's going. once out of breath it will stop in place and start stomping until it regains its breath. the best time to attack would be when its stomping by throwing the large and heavy purples on the rock it will start to crack and with 20 purple hits its cracked (you may also use rock however it would take 50 throws in which you can only get in about 10 throws every stomp time.)
phase 3: once the rock is exposed it will be revealed but this time it looks just like a round reddish ball that is before its roles its eyes forward and opens its huge mouth. it is now squishy meaning pikmin will not be crushed however it does have a colored hue to it which indicates an element it has on it (40% chance for electric, 15% fire 15% ice 15% poison, 15% water)
if a pikmin of the wrong element is thrown on they will get the status effect. when it is yellow it has electric and when it bounces and hits the ground electric sparks will randomly shock in the arena like the titan dweevil from pikmin 2. if on fire when crushing a multitude of fire geysers will appear and start doing what they do best until destroyed. if water occasionally it will spit out water filling the arena with water, and it will suck it back in after time. if icy then it will blow out cold air making the room chilly and will make pikmin chiver icicles will also fall from the ceiling both of these things have the same mechanics from subzero sauna and they will stop when he goes to the next phase or if he switches to fire. if poison when it bounces it will expel poison gas in the arena. while all this is happening the congealed crushblo will also try to lick up pikmin by bending down and slamming its Toung into the ground (kind of like the creeping chrysanthemum)
phase 4: once hit enough the congealed crushblo will turn off all elements. and start running occasionally release every element at once indicated by a glow if every color. and then a deep breath once attacked a bit more it will seemingly die however there has been no health bar so far.
phase 5: the congealed crushblo will borrow into the ground and pop its feet out and start crushing in nearby areas from here its simple kill him with rocks once the health bar reaches none, he will finally die spitting out a castaway.
These must take so much effort.
One idea for a crossover enemy that immediately came to my mind is the scutelbug from mario 64. They already look a bit like a pikmin enemy and I like them so here is the idea in detail.
Their name would be beady longling (Google says that a baby spider is called a spiderling). This suggests that this enemy is a baby version of the all known beady longlegs although they don't HAVE to be related and could have a bulbourb situation going on.
Their design would be very similar to a scutelbugs design in shape although it would loose the eyes. Its texture would be similar to that of a beady longlegs.
They would attack by charging at the pikmin they see and overrunning them just like how they do in Mario 64
The idea isn't too complicated but it doesn't have to be. I hope you like this idea.
I know this is supposed to be Mario themed but, how about the Yeek from Rain World? Ingame, they are just harmless little prey animals that jump around and catch small fruit and insects.
The Hydroseeks. A small creature that lives in or around bodies of water, but prefer to walk on land. They walk around via their 2 short but thick legs, galloping in a similar way to Oatchi. They will make a blast of water where they are standing, nocking off all pikmin and causing all non-blue pikmin to panic. They will use this blast to launch themselves towards the player, damaging them and crushing the pikmin it lands on. They will then have to find a pond to stock up on water before they are able to do their launch again. If they are attacked before their blast is charged, they can swing their two tails to flail pikmin off, but barely causing any damage to them. This is basically a last-ditch effort in order to defend itself. I do not know why I decided to type all of this, as there is no way this will be made, especially since yeeks are not from Mario.
Surprised that there was no loops style enemy. Probably a small bug that attacks by retreating into its shell before bouncing off of walls, trying to crush Pikmin before it gets dizzy and shows its weak spot. I think it would be cool if their corpse (shell) could be picked up or swallowed by Oatchi, allowing you to then launch the shell as your own projectile against enemies. The shell will bounce around so be careful not to hit your own squad with it!
3 ideas 1 the rotten shroom makes rottonmush clump the boss of moldy areaswhen attacked it'll start charging up pheromones and posionous stink when the stink is released it'll posion non white pikmin also it can make an undead mold army that follows the creature of moldy dwarf bublorbs moldy slooches
Glow onion: in Nighttime theme cave you can find a dominant green onion but once you come close to it.
It will sprout out of the ground and will start grabbing a bunch of mud and starts part one of the boss.
Part one bullblax: a Sovereign bullblax with a lumiknoll on its back and bright neon green eyes and a green glow in its mouth with mud like skin.
It attacks like a Sovereign bullblax but it leaves glow sap when it attacks
Which kills Any pikmin it touches and when it does the jump attack it creates tricknolls.
The tricknolls can summons 5 to 9 glow pikmin to help the Lumiknoll emperor in battle.
The tricknolls can be destroyed but leaves glow sap when destroyed.
Part two long legs: a raging long legs twice the size of a normal raging long legs with groove long leg like Head with green eyes and muddy head with stone legs.
it stomps really fast but every twelve stomps it stops to lower its head and after five seconds it smashes it head in to the ground and starts to shake its head and releases a bunch of glow sap everywhere from the top of its head
Final part tower: the onion desperately tries to create a tall tower you must destroy.
with glowing Windows and mud/stone walls with vines.
The tower is stationary but can launch glow sap balls that explode at you
and shoots mud projectiles in five lines that spin in a clockwise or counterclockwise directions
And shoots giant boulders at you that can roll or drop down from the sky
And can shoot ten missiles into the sky and will drop on you
(And it can use two attacks at once)
And once you finally destroy the tower you get the green onion
Enemy idea: Treasure-hermit.
The Treasure-hermit hides i ball like treasures (golf ball,billard ball…). The ball is flipped to the side where you can’t see the hole, but as soon as your pikmin trie to get the treasure, it will release a poisonous explosion knocking all pikmin away and giving them a poison effect(except whites of course). The treasure-hermit itself is a big insect with mantis like claws. It only shows its upper body and hides the rest in the ball. It’s mostly black but it also has some cyan spots (because it’s a poison enemy). After you kill it, the ball will flip to the side and all of its babies come out of the hole. The babies are similar to the male sheergrub but they’re faster and eat slower. There will also be another poisonous cloud released, wich was stored in the ball to protect the babies. If you attack it with the Oachi rush, it’ll fall out of the ball and the babies with the poisonous cloud will be released. It will then try to crawl back into the ball and take the kids in (It’s helpless while crawling back so use that as your chance).
Sorry if my english is bad.
it’s it ok to repost enemie ideas? sorry if it’s not.
Huh these redesigns looks great and hopefully there's a part 2 because I would love to see a Koopa, Fire Bro, Lakitu, and Bowser as a boss.
Tbh I think the last enemy would’ve looked much better without the awkwardly placed paws
love your content bro! just like you i grew up playing pikmin games, just with my first pikmin game being pikmin 3 on the wii u! i actually really like the complexity of your boss designs because they remind me of the bosses from pikmin 3 which is my favorite game in the series due to its bosse. when i first played pikmin 4 i was disappointed to see that the bosses were no where near as cool as the ones from pikmin 3, so it’s refreshing watching your videos and seeing awesome bosses again! anyways i’ll stop yapping, i love your content and wish i could support you!
Your goomba is a really neat idea. I'm imagining the behavior of the vacoombra sitting with it's feet buried disguised among mushrooms like it and when your army approaches, it jumps out of the ground for a brief moment and rushes in a straight line at your group of Pikmin nabbing a few as it passes (kinda like a goomba in Mario would behave, rushing at its opponent with reckless abandon). It continues until I runs into a grouping of the mushrooms or a wall and then starts prepping the incineration attack.
Honestly the way you handled the designs here, I honestly felt like they could of been completely original ideas, so I don't see why you should have to limit yourself if you had fun with it. Besides with just the Mario series, there is a lot of ground you could tap into, some naturally occurring version of space dogs based off yoshis if you are looking for something cute, or if you are looking for that deep sense of dread you like to invoke for your bossfights, you could even base something of Unagi (( The eel from mario 64 )) with a weakpoint on its tail, like how it had the star you needed to collect dangling from it in the game.
Could you do Plants VS Zombies plants next? I think Snap Pea could have some cool potential.